On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:29 +0000, Calum Polwart wrote:
> > The result is a bitty illustration... And this gets more and more bizarre... I went to play here's what I got: If I opened the original PDF that was printing bitty from KPDF in Acroread7 - it appears completely blank! (No real surprise since Acroread7 seems to have more bugs in it than something Mr Gates wrote!) If I opened it in XPDF then XPDF closes! (Unusual as XPDF is usually stable for me) Then I exported a new PDF with the resample box unchecked. This produces a BLACK rectangle for the image area in KPDF, but opens with the correct image in Acroread7 and XPDF (and seems to zoom in well so is at least 300dpi) Then I also exported a new PDF with the resample box checked and 'Automatic' 300dpi selected - it produced an identical output to above (black box KPDF, opens OK in Acroread7 and XPDF). Now for the tricky bit - it doesn't print! The original file which displays only in KPDF prints but the resolution is poor (?72dpi) and the transparent background has a faint shade of grey. From Acroread7 and XPDF if I print through kprinter which is my normal method I get an unexplained error message that the job aborted. (Acroread4 - my fall back option - but which I know is not exaclty respected produces 'fail to load' for the original, and black boxes for the other two...) So I guess someone may want to play with these and tell me that they work fine for them! I've uploaded them here: http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/scribus-debug/SingleDiagram.pdf - the pdf that sparked the initial post (File Size 78kb) http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/scribus- debug/SingleDiagramNoResample.pdf - the pdf produced with resample unchecked (size 81k) http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/scribus- debug/SingleDiagram300Resample.pdf - the pdf produced with resample set to 300dpi (size 81k -- so presumably identical to NoResample) http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/scribus-debug/Variant1.svg - the Inkscape svg (size 22k - Nice and small... just a shame scribus doesn't like text in SVGs) http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/scribus-debug/Variant1.eps - the EPS file imported into the scribus document (a huge 980k - so either there is good lossless compression in the pdfs, or there is something being lost...) http://wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/SingleDiagram.sla - the scribus file. (53k) Here's my responses to the usual questions: Scribus Version - 1.3.2 cvs date is showing as 3rd Dec 05 although it should be 24th December as that's what I compiled yesterday - so I guess something went wrong there... or does the date not change in the 'about' menu? Inkscape 0.39 (yes I know there is a new version - just haven't had a minute to download and compile it) Ghostscript - I was about to type 8.5.1 and went to check -- running 'ghostscript' at command prompt gives 7.07!! But 'gs' which is in the scribus preferences says AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18) OK so someone will say that I need to update the CVS and Inkscape. Someone else will suggest that I need to ditch the 'ghostscript' command. (Will do that tommorrow - I just need to replace /usr/bin/ghostscript with a symbolic link to usr/bin/gs - right??) Will probably download updates tomorrow for the other bits as well. Now for a possibly dumb question (I like dumb questions!) - I don't actually have a proper Post Script Printer on my machine (or network or anywhere) -- I have a HP InkJet which uses some translation process I read about ages ago to accept PS files but it doesn't understand PS itsself. I also have a Samsung SCX4100 laser printer - it uses a samsung hybrid of PS, but if you actually send raw PS to it - it falls over... ...So the question really is - does GS or Scribus require a 'proper' postscript print driver? Coudl this be the downfall I've been having all along with documents refusing to print/open in pdf? (I can see a delete all printers and start a fresh suggestion...) Calum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060107/c46c7f07/attachment.html
