hi lars, >> What is your workflow? What are you comparing, screen images >> or paper output? >> > > I have to set up templates for scientific posters, the originals where > provided for CorelDraw and OO. There are a few conventions that have to be > fulfilled e.g. font sizes. > > So I take the eps-export of a CorlDraw file and put it in the background of > my scribus file then just put text boxes and background color fields where > they have to be. No big thing. > > Any text block in the originating template is written like "Normal text > here (black, Arial Regular, 32pt)", "Headline here, (50% black, Arial Bold, > 40pt) and so on, so I have quite a good comparism of how font size should be > and how Scribus' font size has to be set up to match the required size. > > I also did the same thing in Illustrator, sizes there exactly matched the > specifications. And to be sure to exclude any Xorg-specific stuff I tried it > with Scribus in Windows, same result: What is 32pt in other applications is > 24.5 pt in Scribus (63.4 pt for 80 pt and so on) > > I'm using Scribus-Version 1.3.5.1 in SUSE 11.2 >
can you upload some files (png, eps, .sla, fonts) to the bug tracker (http://bugs.scribus.net) to let us better see where the problem is? you can mark the bug as private if you only want the devs to see it. greetings a.l.e
