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[Tethys]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> You may find this interesting, then.  PDF files created by Scribus are
> considerably larger than those created by Adobe.  This is because Adobe sets
> the position for a line, then inserts a string of characters for that line.
> Scribus sets the position for each character as it goes. That makes very
> precise positioning of specific elements possible, far more than in Adobe.

If you create a PDF from a given input source, then it goes without
saying that it will only be able to position the characters in the
same position as they are in the input. If the input supports
per-character positioning (as most Adobe products do, FWIW), then that
will be reflected in the PDF. If they don't, it won't.

Tet

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