On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:37 +0200, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: > * Craig Bradney schrieb: > > > Except that postscript doesnt support transparency. Try exporting to PDF > > and > > print from Adobe Reader. > > Postscript? Sure not!
To print images that look transparent, PostScript doesn't actually need to support transparency. It just means that it's the responsibility of the application generating the PostScript to "flatten" the transparent sections into combined non-transparent data that PostScript /can/ understand. The only way I know of to print transparency directly is to use a printer with a RIP that natively understands PDF 1.4 . That's not common. The issue is that Scribus is, AFAIK, currently not all that good at flattening transparency when generating PostScript. Printing from Adobe Acrobat is a workaround for this, as Acrobat will do an excellent job of the required flattening during PostScript generation. -- Craig Ringer
