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confirmed with scribus 1.3.3.1 |
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For me fonts do not work for select boxes and lists of forms as well. Using Scribus 1.3.3.1. |
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it needs yet some refinement. See the attached pdf 1.4 forms with embedded TTF and Type1 fonts -- I've used them for text fields and buttons, but they don't look good yet. |
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2006-04-22 20:44
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2006-05-04 19:27
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messed_up_kerning_in_form_fields.png (50,350 bytes) |
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Have made some more fixes now. But there seems to exist a bug with Acrobat Reader 7. With Acrobat Reader 5 text fields use the provided fonts but i can't urge AR 7 to use the fonts, whatever i try. |
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2006-05-21 20:48
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hmm, this one seems to be quite a tough issue. I've just played with creating forms in today's 1.3.4cvs, it's unusable for the time being -- Scribus keeps creating blank PDF files instead of forms, although every now and then a form will be created. The font issue has worsened in Acroread 7.0.1: now the kerning is messed up _and_ the font face is ignored. I've uploaded a sample pdf form, will have a look at it in various acroread versions and see if it can be fixed with Acrobat. Franz, if you need any specific help and tests, please just let me know. |
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> I've just played with creating forms in today's 1.3.4cvs, it's unusable for > the time being -- Scribus keeps creating blank PDF files instead of forms, > although every now and then a form will be created. This should be fixed now with current CVS, but i don't think that i can fix the main issue easily. |
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2006-05-23 15:43
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Franz, I opened the last test form (20060521_form.pdf) in Acrobat Pro 6.0 and had a look at the 3 problematic fields. The font face of all three fields was TimesNewRomanPSMT, although I clearly remember having assigned to them 3 different font faces. It looks as if Scribus would override font faces chosen by the user. I corrected those font faces in Acrobat Pro, saved the form, and everything works as expected in Acroread 7 (see the uploaded 20060523_form_corrected.pdf): kerning and font faces are fine. |
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Have downloaded the corrected pdf and looked how Acrobat Pro does the fields. Surprise, its exactly the same code in the PDF as Scribus does. The only difference is that you have used TrueType fonts. After that i've made some more tests, results: 1) Avox seems to have broken the Font setting code in the moment. 2) With a pdf i've adjusted by hand with an Hex Editor i noticed that the setting of Fonts for Textfields works only with TrueType Fonts, Type1 aren't working. |
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fschmid, thanks for your investigation, good to know the issue has become somewhat clearer. As soon as the font setting code works and kerning in form fields looks normally, we will have no trouble telling users they should use TTF only. |
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Remaining Issues should be fixed now. |
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Tested with PS und TTF fonts in form fields, works fine, congratulations, closing |
- Anonymous
