On Monday 04 July 2005 14:42, Richard Hammerl wrote: > Hi to all, > Please see my comments in-line. > I am reading the mailing list since some weeks and I'm impressed > of it. Working with Scribus is fun. There is only old CorelDraw > that brings me back sometimes from Linux to Windows, but now I hope > I can sort out my old Windows machine soon. :-) > But, I' m experiencing a problem with a PDF file exported by > scribus. The file contains a color gradient from red to white and > this seems to be a problem for my printing shop. They work with > Quark Express for Mac. Are there any known issues?
Yep, to be completely blunt. Quark Express PDF import support is not so good and using Quark exclusively in a print shop is kinda old fashioned. There are others on the list who provoked, might rant longer and louder ;) As a professional DTP consultant, I do not recommend this workflow - *ever*. Importing Scribus PDF into Quark, should only be used as a last resort. Quark PDF import cannot handle embedded or sub-set fonts correctly, nor does it handle transparency well in my experience. Modern print shop should be able to handle PDF directly with Acrobat directly. The reply might be " > The pdf file looks fine in Acrobat Reader (versions 7 and 5), Good. >I can > see it without problems in gv. Lucky, I consider gv obsolete and imo should be banished from distros. GSview is far superior and is actively maintained. See: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=exportingtopdf&page=pdfexport1 bottom of page > Even Preview on Mac shows it > correctly. Xpdf has problems and does not show the pdf file > correctly. There are two logos displayed as black boxes. The color > gradient looks ok.... > Xpdf cannot display some types of transparency correct. Known issue. > The pdf format is 1.3, it's a very simple label for a CD, two > colors black and red. Fonts are embedded.... > Has anybody an idea what I could do or try else? Thanks in advance. If your printer is unable to handle PDF natively, then I would look elsewhere. Depending on where you are, there are printers we can recommend. Please have a look at: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=printing&page=prepress You could even print it out and take to your printer. With that, if there are remaining issues, get back to the list or join us on IRC. Peter
