> Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Dezember 2013 um 16:04 Uhr > Von: "Andreas Winkler" <and.win82 at gmail.com> > An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > Betreff: Re: [scribus] embedding fonts in pdf fails with Windows 8 > > Hi Chrisoph, > > thanks for your answer. I'm aware of the limitation that huge modern > TTF and OTF fonts can not be embedded. > However, in Windows 8 certain fonts (e.g. Arial) can't be embedded at > all even if 'Subset' is unchecked. They will always be converted to > outlines even though they appear in the 'Fonts to embed:' field in the > 'Fonts' tab of the pdf export settings. > The very same fonts can be embedded when using Scribus 1.4.3 on > Windows 7. So I suspect this to be an issue of Scribus in combination > with Windows 8. > I consider this to be a serious limitation and I would like to issue a > bug report on Mantis. Unfortunately, the registration for the bug > tracker seems to be closed. > > Best regards > Andreas > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:22 AM, "Christoph Sch?fer" > <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > >> Gesendet: Montag, 02. Dezember 2013 um 20:11 Uhr > >> Von: "Andreas Winkler" <and.win82 at gmail.com> > >> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net > >> Betreff: [scribus] embedding fonts in pdf fails with Windows 8 > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm a new user of Scribus and I'm quite impressed by its capabilities > >> so far. I plan to move away from Indesign. > >> I run Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 8.1 64 bit. It seems not to be possible > >> to embed certain system fonts into pdf when exporting, regardless > >> whether 'subset' is checked or not. The affected fonts are those which > >> appear grouped in the Windows Explorer in C:\Windows\Fonts (for > >> example Arial or Times New Roman), for all other fonts embedding works > >> as expected. > >> I've tried to export the same sla file with Scribus 1.4.3 running on > >> Windows 7 and there it was possible to embed all fonts as expected. So > >> I think that this issue is related to Windows 8. I'd be interested in > >> whether this is a known issue and whether there exists a workaround > >> (except for changing the OS :-)). Has anybody else experienced this > >> problem when running Scribus on Windows 8? > >> > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > You cannot embed certain fonts because embedding is disabled by default due > > to their size (modern TTF and OTF font files can be quite huge). Instead, > > Scribus will convert these fonts to outlines. You can, however, override > > the default settings. > > > > Go to File -> Document Setup -> Fonts for the current document or to File > > -> Preferences -> Fonts for every new file. There you can uncheck the fonts > > marked for "Subset" in the respective column. Unchecking means they can be > > embedded now, but be aware that exported PDF files can become *really* huge. > > > > HTH, > > > > Christoph > >
Hi Andreas, Please file a bug report and choose "Win32" as the bug Category, your 64-Bit version notwithstanding. This needs to be investigated ... Christoph
