On Saturday 29 November 2008 09:53:02 am Pedrie Roberts wrote: > Riku wrote: > > I agree. PDF export should be the number 1 target and it should > > always be reliable. After all pdf is what most people send to > > print shops. I don't need printing from Scribus. What comes to > > using the program with this issue, I don't quite see how this > > would affect your layout work. > > The problem is that PDFs are printed as images not as fonts, which > means that quality is much poorer than printing straight from > Scibus (if only it was possible).
Well the printers I submit work to handle the fonts in pdf just fine. My local printer is a Ricoh with PostScript capability so I can either save as postscript or else use Ghostscript pdf2ps routine and I still get real fonts. In general PDFs are not printed as images. From Acrobat Reader for example if you print to a file it saves the file as Postscript. Convert it back to pdf and the fonts are still there. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
