Thanks very much Christoph, that's a big help. Problem solved! Julian
> -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Sch?fer [mailto:christoph-schaefer at gmx.de] > Sent: 18 June 2010 04:05 > To: Scribus User Mailing List > Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with pdf, characters l - . only! > > Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2010 01:50:58 schrieb Julian Haines: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've just completed a newsletter for publication with > Scribus. It looks > > great on the screen and if I print pages directly from > Scribus to my inkjet > > printer, they look good. However, when I view the generated > pdf on-screen, > > all of the letter l characters are disproportionately wide, > to the point > > where ll often displays as a single wide block! Many of the > full-stop and > > dash characters have the same problem, but strangely no > others appear to be > > affected. > > If I zoom in to 800% on-screen in acrobat reader the problem is much > > reduced, but is still present to a degree. If I print the > pdf'd output to > > my inkjet, again the problem is reduced but is still present to a > > noticeable degree. > > I'm using Scribus 1.3.3.13 with gs8.71 on a WinXP platform. > I have Acrobat > > Reader 9.3.1. I'm using only default Arial fonts as > supplied with WinXP. > > Actually, I've also tried the A030 fonts, but saw no change > in behaviour. > > > > Please, could anyone point me in the right direction to get > this fixed? > > > > Thanks, > > Julian > > You just stumbled across an issue that's related to forced > font outlining: > When a font is converted to outlines, all so-called hinting > information (see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting) is lost. I assume you > are using an > OpenType font, and I posted a solution that allows for > embedding an OTF font > a few days ago. This should resolve your issue: > http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-June/038503.html > > HTH > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
