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Scribus => PDF Generation => Topic started by: hannaconner on July 15, 2025, 03:52:46 AM

Title: Can Scribus create a SEARCHABLE PDF
Post by: hannaconner on July 15, 2025, 03:52:46 AM
I'm a DTP newbie as well as a Scribus newbie, but an old hand in IT
(60 years since - honest!)

I'm trying to help the new editor of our Village Magazine
- imaginative, very enthusiastic, but hasn't a clue about how PCs & software work
Title: Re: Can Scribus create a SEARCHABLE PDF
Post by: prcek on July 15, 2025, 05:44:55 PM
I'm newbie as well. What do you mean by "searchable"?

PDF I've generated from Scribus can be opened in a PDF reader (qpdfview in mycase) and I can use the "Find" function to search for text. And it works.
But the text was inserted into a text frame and export was done with embedding fonts not outlining them. I'm just describing my process not sure if the outlining will nor won't work.
Title: Re: Can Scribus create a SEARCHABLE PDF
Post by: utnik on July 15, 2025, 06:05:36 PM
hi hanna

as prcek suspected, if you embed the fonts (full fonts or subsets) the .pdf file will contain searchable text while outlined text just looks like text but is (technically spoken) just a vector graphic.

utnik
Title: Re: Can Scribus create a SEARCHABLE PDF
Post by: MGD4me on July 15, 2025, 09:09:03 PM
While viewing the PDF, enter 'CTRL' + 'f' to open a popup 'find' window.

Standard Windows shortcut.