I have spent som ten hours now trying to make Scribus handle fonts properly when importing postscript, without success. This is my situation:
1. I have generated a postscript file containing (among other things) text (using abcm2ps). (The file can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/ ~mgunnar/music.ps.) 2. The font used for the text is not embedded in the postscript file. I have not found any way to do that. 3. When opening the file in gv, the text looks good, and continues to look good even if I zoom 400%. Same thing if I open the file in Preview (converting it to pdf). 4. When importing the file into Scribus, the text looks weird (screenshot can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/~mgunnar/music- scribus-import.tiff). 5. When I make a document in Scribus, export it as eps, and import it again, the fonts are preserved. (Although I think that the fonts are embedded in that file. I am not sure, though; I do not understand much Postscript.) 6. I have tried several different fonts, I have tried Scribus 1.2.3 from the command line and 1.3.2 Aqua. I have tried embedding the fonts in the postscript file, without success. I have read every web page that Google has indexed. Has anybody got any idea of what I can do? Is there a way to get some kind of error log from Scribus, to see what is going wrong? Anything? Desperately, MagnusG! P.S. I am running Mac OS X 10.4.5. Ghostscript 8.00 (8.53 would not compile).
