On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 8:00 PM Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/24/21 12:57 PM, Eric Hanuise wrote: > > I was under the impression that when you render an outlined fonts pdf the > > text was also exported. > > > > Isn't it the case ? And if no, is this a technical limitation or simply > > something not (yet) implemented ? > > I just did a little experiment, and the answer is no, you cannot export the > text from a PDF where the fonts are outlined. > When a PDF contains embedded fonts, the rendering information is included in > the file, along with the text (as text), and the PDF viewer renders the text > using the font info. > When the fonts are outlined, there is only the vector graphic information of > the text as displayed in the text frames -- it's as if the text frame content > was an image. > > This is not a defect in implementation, it's how PDFs work.
Well, yes and no. If an OCR application is able to insert a text layer below a graphics layer for searching in PDF, then Scribus could in theory do the same when outlining. As we say in the Open Source community, "we're taking patches". It's just a SMOP [viz. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/SMOP.html]. Incidentally, having a text layer underneath the graphics will have a side effect: during search, the PDF viewer will render the match in a different font (usually Helvetica). So for searchable documents, having them remain true to the design during searching means you have to embed the fonts anyway. With kind regards, Bert ___ 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
