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#1

PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...

Last post by dmk - Today at 09:08:07 AM

Do you still have the PDF you have sent to Blurb?

Thanks for the interest. Yes, though not right now. The project is split into two PDF's, content and cover. The content PDF is a large file as it is a 40 page photo book but only has text on the final page shown above. I could create a new pdf with just the last page for simplicity, though obviously this won't then be the exact file blurb received.

#2

PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...

Last post by AdmFubar - October 25, 2026, 08:57:53 PM

I will never understand why people use TT fonts for print.

Because that is all they have.

#3

PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...

Last post by Aleks100 - October 25, 2026, 02:48:19 PM

I will never understand why people use TT fonts for print.

#4

PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...

Last post by a.l.e - October 25, 2026, 08:27:00 AM

Do you still have the PDF you have sent to Blurb?

#5

PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...

Last post by dmk - October 24, 2026, 12:49:37 PM

I've just hit this issue for the first time. I have successfully printed with blurb in the past, but the last time was way back in August 2016, so I appreciate a lot has changed since then. I wanted to post here to hopefully add another context that might narrow down the issue as testing is unlikely given I've just spent £40 on a book with printing errors.
After uploading I saw the warning:

It appears that this PDF was created with the Scribus Application. We have found that Scribus does not reliably embed fonts properly. Your file may not pass preflight. If you experience problems, please outline the fonts and upload again.

Annoyingly the file passed preflight and previewed on the website perfectly, so after some worry (and web searching for answers), I went ahead and printed.
Unfortunately This is what I received through the post:

The text that has been messed up is either in bold - rendered as boxes, or italics - not printed at all. However the cover (in a separate pdf) has italics that printed correctly. That cover was exported as PDF/X-4 because I needed transparency for a logo with a glow effect and a drop shadow I added in Scribus. The content I exported as PDF/X-1a:2001 though in the past I think I used PDF/X-3:2002 successfully, I just panicked after the warning and thought the oldest standard must be the most basic and most widely supported.
So, I checked the PDF's in Document Viewer (Evince). The content has:

• Producer: Scribus PDF Library 1.6.1
• Format: PDF-1.3
• Font: LiberationSans-Bold
•       TrueType
•       Encoding Custom
•       Embeded
• Font: LiberationSans-Italic
•       TrueType
•       Encoding Custom
•       Embeded
• Font: LiberationSans
•       TrueType(CID)
•       Encoding: Identity-H
•       Embeded subset

(There are 12 entries each for the bold and italic fonts).
The cover has:

• Producer: Scribus PDF Library 1.6.1
• Format: PDF-1.6
• Font: CharterBT-BoldItalic
•       Type 1
•       Encoding Custom
•       Embeded

(There are two entries for the bold font).
Next I checked the scribus settings, content:

• Compatibility: PDF/X-1a:2001
• Embedding Mode: Embed or Subset
• Fonts to embed: TTF Liberation Sans Bold
•                 TTF Liberation Sans Italic
• Fonts to subset: TTF Liberation Sans Regular

and cover:

• Compatibility: PDF/X-4
• Embedding Mode: Embed or Subset
• Fonts to embed: 1PS Bitstream Charter Bold Italic
• Fonts to subset: TTF Liberation Sans Regular

So, the cover has one line of text running down the spine which has printed correctly in italics. The content was produced with one text box which wraps around an image and contains all the text with different sizes and fonts. The italics and bold have not printed and the regular has.

It appears that my PDF does not contain correctly embedded TTF Liberation Sans Bold or TTF Liberation Sans Italic.

#6

Beginner Talk / Re: Plantage scribus

Last post by a.l.e - October 24, 2026, 10:47:06 AM

Pourrais-tu ajouter le fichier .sla sur https://bugs.scribus.net ?

Si tu marques le ticket "privé", il sera uniquement visible pour les développeurs.

#7

Beginner Talk / Plantage scribus

Last post by micpid - October 24, 2026, 10:14:07 AM

Bonjour à tous
Ma configuration scribus 1.6.6
J'ai un soucis avec l'exportation en pdf j'ai ce message plantage de scribus mais avec un autre document l'export ce fait
merci de m'aider

#8

General Discussion / Re: Scribus screws up my pages

Last post by a.l.e - October 22, 2026, 06:52:26 PM

Good Evening N00bie

First, something completely different: the size of your document are a bit strange... if you want A4 + bleed, you should add the bleed, instead of using a custom page size...

Now back to your problem.

Would it be possible, that you did some more steps that are not listed in your post?

I'm not aware that resizing pages or master pages can make your images fly around all over the place...

You might have hit a really bad bug... but it's a bit strange that nobody else has reported that editing master pages randomizes the position of the frames in the pages...

Anyway, you probably have a master page that has not the same size as the pages you created.
You applied the master page to the pages.
And now the pages have been resized.

What you can do now?
If the pages were of the right size and the master page not, resize the master page (and maybe reapply it to the pages).

If it's the other round, then you placed the images at the wrong position and you will have to move them to the right one.
But from what you wrote, that should not be the case.

All this if you did not hit a bug, but your images are simply not any more at the same distance from the right / bottom margin.

#9

General Discussion / Scribus screws up my pages

Last post by N00bie - October 22, 2026, 05:48:55 PM

Hey!
I am completely new to the scribus program, I'm running 1.6.6 on Mac.

I created a new document with
215,900 mm width
279,400 mm height

I added different images to the pages.

I then went to master pages and created a frame on a masterpage, that frame (polygon) was supposed to apply to every odd page.

I clicked ok, then come back and see that all my document pages have been resized
all my carefully placed images are all over the place, over and under the pages

I can't get it back to how it was.

Please help me get it back to how it was and not have this problem.
Thanks!

#10

Announcements and Forum Rules / Re: How to use this forum

Last post by Aleks100 - October 20, 2026, 04:23:43 PM

https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,7011.0.html

Bonjour, nouvelle sur ce forum, je me présente. Je vais utiliser scribus pour la mise en page de mon deuxième livre. Pour le premier ce n'est pas moi qui est fait la mise en page donc l'utilisation de scribus est nouvelle pour moi. Je me lance un nouveau défi. Faire parti d'une communauté est donc important . Merci pour la création de ce logiciel et l'existence de ce forum.