Thank you for the info, it helped me to understand better. Jean-Luc
> Sub-setting is very common, especially with modern fonts containing many > glyphs. A single font can be 15-20 MB in size, if you only use 1/10th of > the glyphs in the font, why embed the whole font? Ten fonts of that size > would make the PDF 150 MB larger. > > Also a PDF can not contain all types of fonts, I think for example OTF is > one exception (there is a page on the wiki about this). In that case > Scribus will have to convert the font, and I think this may look just like > a subset font. > > So subsetting does not prevent the PDF from printing correctly, it may > however affect the possibilities to do edits to the PDF. > > In "the old days" the printer used to do "last minute edits" of the PDF > before printing (because the PDF was delivered on a CD-ROM or zip-disk by > regular mail, so it could take a day or two to send a new PDF), but today > it's generally better if you do the edit yourself (because you can send a > new PDF to the printer in minutes). > > /Peter > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150421/c9e9fce6/attachment.html> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
