On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:52, Peter Haraldson wrote: > >> About subsetting: > >> I did read about it in Scribus manual or homepage, of course I > >> can't find it now... > >> But it did say something like: "You can use subsetting reliably > >> except if you send to commercial printer". > > > >If that's stated on the Scribus webpage it needs corrected. > > Andreas, I found the infopage: > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=setup&page=fonts1 > quote: > > "Other notes about fonts and font management: > > * Sub-Setting fonts is including all the glyphs in the font in > the PostScript stream or a PDF. This allows smaller PDFs, at the > expense of making it difficult to make minor edits in pre-press > tools like Pit Stop. Unless you are sending PDF to commerical > printer, you can sub-set fonts fairly reliably. This is important > when you are trying to keep a downloadable PDF to the smallest > size." > > Tobias (my printer) says: "Subsetting means only the letters > actually used are embedded in the document. You shall _not_ use it > when sending to us!" > > But Peter & Andreas, you both say it might be quite a good idea to > use subsetting? Don't really know what to believe, > confusionconfusion...
> :-) > > As for the rest, since it's now researched in a bug-report I guess > we can close this issue? > -- > Peter Haraldson > peterharaldson at ml1.net That part of the docs needs some updates given it was written when the way font embedding worked was a bit different and Open Type fonts were not supported. Will update and post online soon. That said, you *can* sub-set fonts reliably for commercial print work - though there are some minor advantages depending what kind of workflow the printer uses. Bottom line is usually what your printer wants is what you should give them within reason. I do not think if you were using CJK fonts your printer would want 100MB of fonts in a PDF of 2 pages ;-) Peter
