Thanks for the tips, Andreas. Perhaps Helvetica is the solution. I'll give it a go.
heathenx avox wrote the following on 4/3/2007 9:32 AM: > > > heathenx-2 wrote: >> I'm working on a big project with Scribus. I am converting an instruction >> manual from Adobe InDesign >> to Scribus. We have used the Arial font exclusively in InDesign and pretty >> much used this font as >> our company standard (wasn't my decision). Anyway, I'm able to use this >> font in Scribus with no >> problems until I send the document out as a pdf file. When I open the pdf >> all of the letter "i's" >> look bold and blocky. I had this same problem a while back and my solution >> was to avoid this font >> all together. Times New Roman seems to work really well. However, it looks >> nothing like Arial. >> >> My question: Have any of you experienced this? What is a recommended font >> to use. I would like to >> use something that worked on Windows, Linux, and Mac and then standardize >> on that font. I want to >> use just one font for the whole manual, only changing style like bold, >> italic, and underlined where >> I need to. >> > > Yes, we know about this. It seems to be a combination of Scribus turning off > hinting in PDFs and bad antialiasing in Acrobat Reader which causes this. > Three suggestions: > > * use a Type1 or TTF font which can be embedded, not outlined in Scribus > * Helvetica looks very much like Arial and is a standard PS/PDF font, so it > need not be embedded > * Myriad Pro comes with Acrobat Reader 7 and later. It's a very good font, > you just need to make sure people use AR 7 or AR 8 or install this font on > their system. > > HTH > /Andreas
