hi lindy,
we have already solved many times, that one only thing making scribus hard to use and we did it alrady for so many people...
and still people come up and say that there is only one thing missing... : - )
now some facts...
ghostscript has nothing (or should have nothing) to do with the fact that you can or not embed a font in a pdf, when exporting from scribus.
there has been a bug in 1.5.5svn that would inflate the size of the .sla file... which version exactly have you being using in september and now?
also, yes, we know that smaller pdf are a good thing, but keep in mind that:
- scribus is made for a print workflow (but, of course, it can also be used for creating online pdf)
- it's hard to optimize the pdf size without risking to break the quality of the output.
this having been said, if you have a 10x increase in the size of the pdf there must be a reason. and you can probably solve it.
but it's hard to say how you can solve your issue, without seeing your computer, the .sla or at least the pdf!
ciao
a.l.e