On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:32, Phil Hughes wrote: > I brought this issue up before but there seemed to be "no concern". I > would like to re-raise it. > > The issue is that plain text strings are put out in PostScript by a > series of move to commands. Thus, output of 100 characters can easily > end up with thousands of characters in the PDF. Besides this, it > means that the PDF reader will have to deal with placement of the > individual characters rather than just outputting a string. > > The explanation for this is that there are cases where text must be > output like this. If you change kerning at a character level or if > characters change in color. No argument here. The ability to do this > is one of the reasons PDFs are so very flexible. > > The issue, for me, is that most (probably meaning 99%) of the text I > want to output is nothing more than lines of text in a single color. > Specifically, I want to output the text of TUX Magazine soon and, if > all goes well, Linux Journal. Thus, one where the PDF must be emailed > or downloaded and the other where it is sent to a printer. > > My feeling (helped along by talking to Mitch Frazier) is that it > doesn't seem like it would be that hard to offer an automatic choice. > That is, when Scribus is creating a PDF, if there are text > modifications the current method is used but, for ordinary text, a > more efficient output system would be used. > > This post is really about who might also be concerned about this > apparant inefficiency and, beyond that, who might be interested in > helping with a solution. Concern, at this point, is more important > that help. If there is no concern than maybe I have missed > something--that is, maybe this isn't really a problem.
To take it to its most simplest point: Its a known issue. We might try to change it sooner, but I very much doubt that any work on this will even be attempted, or worthwhile, before our new styles and text system arrive. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051019/66f4ae9d/attachment.pgp
