On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:36:16 -0800 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>>The Junicode can't be embedded because it contains too much glyphs, >>there is a hardcoded limit of 2048 glyhps. Above that limit the font >>is always outlined to prevent the resulting PDF being too large. > >Thanks for the clarification. However, it renders Scribus unusable for >me. In fact, it renders Scribus seriously impaired for anyone using >Asian languages or scientific work where we need lots of special >glyphs. Wasn't the whole purpose of creating the Unicode standard so >that we would not be limited by the few glyphs we could get into >fonts? > >It reminds me of "640K ought to be enough for anyone." > >Couldn't we at least offer the user the choice of subsetting the font? >OpenOffice.org automatically subsets the Junicode fonts. Better yet, >let the user embed the font, but give the user a warning about file >size. > >I left Windows and Adobe because I was tired of software that decided >things for me. A feature request has been entered: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9510
