In my limited experience, what I find is that printers prefer files in CorelDraw or Pagemaker because they want to meddle with it before printing. I have given pdf files with and without graphics and got them printed without any problem. These were often documents created using LaTeX and I didn't have any other files I could give them to edit. One was the annual report of my institute which was a rather big document that contained colour and black-and-white images and it came out without any problem. I just had to ensure that everything was okay and the printer didn't have anything to do before they printed it. I guess, from Scribus also you could export as pdf and give that to the press, though I am not sure how you could give image files, perhaps, that too you could try giving in pdf format.
Best, Sasi On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 18:41 +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Pravin Dhayfule <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi, > > Does any one know any FOSS compatible Printing Press that > accepts graphic files made out of FOSS Apps such as Scribus, > GIMP, InkScape, etc. > > The major hurdle in converting DTP studios to FOSS is the > incompatibility of Printing Press with FOSS Applications. As > per the designers whom I met and explained the importance and > benefits of FOSS, claim that the Printing Press only accept > files designed using Adobe and Corel products. When asked > about providing them the free software, along with the files, > the reply was that they wont accept. > > > What are those files and there extensions , afaik Printing press are > in the business of printing they will print no matter what you give > them to printing of course they get paid by doing so . So the argument > they do not accept is something which we need to investigate more , > like asking them the question like what is the format they accept > etc.. > > > > Here I see two options: > 1. Find the Printing Press that accepts files based on FOSS > Apps > 2. If not make the Printing Press adapt to FOSS. > > > none of them is practical ... > > > -Satya > fossevents.in > > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
