On 1/23/21 4:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > For many years, I've been using Scribus to create a weekly newsletter, for an > APA I'm a involved with. Until recently, I embedded the fonts I was using > when creating the .pdf, because I use Linux, and the person printing them out > and collating the APA uses Windows. A few months ago, this stopped working > and I had to switch to outlining the fonts instead, which not only works > fine, it creates a much smaller file. > > However, the official collator has been arguing that outlining a font means > that each letter is hollow and that it can't possibly have the effect that it > clearly does have. (He's more than a tad narrow minded in general, so for > him this isn't unusual.) I'd appreciate it if somebody could explain just > what the term means in this context so that I can 'splain things to him and > everybody else in the APA. Thanx in advance for any useful information you > can get to me.
Hi Joe, My sense of this is that this represents a defect in the printer's software. There should be no downside with outlining fonts (this of course depending on how good a job Scribus does, and this seems to be no problem), except that, as far as I know, you give up the possibility of exporting the content of a PDF as text, since what is in the PDF file is just a graphical representation of the text of the document. Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
