Nice idea with a shell script, but I guess that wasn't the problem here. It was about the main font used, and I checked for it right now, so no indication I forgot.
Am 13.01.2015 12:54, schrieb JLuc: > As for me i regularly have about the same issue, > but that is allways my fault : i forgot to embed all used fonts. > Most of the time, i've done it once, while preparing the output, > but then i add some more text using a new font > and then i forgot to do it *once more* before exporting to PDF > the upgraded version of the document. > > My guess is that this is the most common reason > why printers have a bad opinion of scribus. > :-( > > As for now, so as to avoid this, i use a shell script > that checks whether all used fonts are embeded : > https://github.com/JLuc/scribus-project-manager/blob/master/slacheckfonts > But then i must not forgot to use it allways before each pdf export ! > It'd be much better when scribus would include this check in the > preflight checker. > > So, true, scribus could do better : > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10770 > Preflight checker could provide an option that would go > "check that all used fonts are either embeded or outlined in the PDF > export". > > JLuc > > > Le 13/01/2015 11:13, Rolf-Werner Eilert a ?crit : >> Hi folks, >> >> Now for the first time I had a problem with a PDF made by Scribus, and >> I am not sure if the problem really is mine. >> >> I had a flyer and a poster to be printed by an online printing >> service. I have known them for about 2 years now, and up >> to now I had only good results there, no problem at all with relation >> to Scribus. >> >> Now on the flyer, there were Umlauts and special letters from other >> languages defect, French C-cedile, Spanish Nje and >> "f " instead of "...". This happened at many places in the documents, >> but not everywhere. There is only one font used, >> but different weight and colors, but I can see no coincidence here. >> The same font weight and color is good on the >> poster, but defect on the flyer. The same font with different color >> and weight produces defect and normal letters on the >> flyer. >> >> The first guy I had on the phone yesterday told me this would happen >> sometimes when converting the document for the >> workflow. Although preview was good, there could still be a problem >> with the RIP. >> >> Today, another guy said "oh, Scribus, that's typical, we have much >> trouble like this with Scribus PDFs. Better try >> another program". >> >> His other advice was to convert all fonts into paths. >> >> The documents were the same like last year, only some texts changed >> and a slightly different layout, some different >> colors. Same preprint setup, PDF version etc. and same version of >> Scribus on the same machine. >> >> What do you think about it? Couldn't it simply be an upload problem? >> >> At least I would like to go sure in future, as I will certainly stay >> with Scribus. So thanks for any input! >> >> Regards >> Rolf >> >> ___ >> 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 >> > > > > ___ > 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 >
