On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:41:20 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=exportingtopdf&page=pdfexport1 > > I am keeping my opinion in this case: a tool which touts its > interoperability between systems and whatnot, and which produces output > which doesn't even show up in the latest GPL version of ghostscript, is > a pile of turd. >
see below, perhaps it is the tool that boasts interoperability with pdf and ps standards, but hasn't kept up with the latest stuff, which is a pile of whoopsee. > > Either of which will give you a very full explanation of what's going on > > with > > Scribus' pdf exporting. > > In short: all your other tools are f***ed, go away and get knotted, but > don't bother us. Wow, what an attitude. Hold on, I disagree. Heres the essence of what the page says: <quote>One of the challenges with PDF and EPS viewers on Linux, is that Scribus creates high end PS level 3 and PDF 1.4, with capabilities beyond most of the open source viewers. Some of these features are only supported in commercial pre-press or DTP tools. Two plus years of working with Scribus has led me to the current conclusion that the following three viewers are the most reliable at displaying PS/EPS/PDF created by Scribus:</quote> Its saying, hey we are using the latest versions of the open standards, some open source products have not kept up. Personally I do not think that a package such as scribus which is actually trying to make a commercial grade open source product should be held back by the fact that some open source software cannot handle later versions and/or the high end features of the ps and pdf formats. You cannot go to a professional print house and say "sorry no we cannot produce pdf version 1.4 or 1.5 because we want to maintain compatibility with some old version open source tools" Scribus does allow you to control the output to pdf, including the pdf version used and a whole lot of other variables, so the user has the choice of how far up the standards ladder he wishes to go when outputting to pdf. Chris has created it with pdf version 1.4, but he didn't have to (I assume its not designed to be printed as the page size is a rather odd 352x265 mm, which is close to 4:3 for a screen presentation, but not much use for printing to any ISO standard Ax paper size which have a ration of SQRT(2):1 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html) So in the end perhaps its Chris is saying "screw your older open source pdf software", not scribus! > > Volker > > -- -- Nick Rout
