On Wednesday 13 September 2006 21:41, Femke Snelting wrote: > Dear list, > > I used Scribus for a contribution to an art magazine all done in > Adobe In-Design and everything went well up until the last point: > > The printer requested EPS files and now we find out, that on some > pages (of course those we did not test in advance...) images went > missing. > > The trouble is, that I am working on Linux Ubuntu, and the designer > of the magazine on Mac. He needs to open the files in Adobe > Illustrator (which I don't have), but it seems that those pages > with images running over two pages, create trouble. > Strange: we can convert the EPS on both platforms (Mac/Linux) to > PDF and end up with a correct lay-out. >
Here is the question I have: Why is the designer needing to open EPS files if you are capable providing print ready PDF files ? <rant mode on> I personally would seriously question *anyone* laying out a complete magazine in an illustration tool. While you can do one off ads and single pages for print with Illustrator - it is *not* the preferred tool for this. This is where an application like Indesign or Scribus should be used. I've seen more than one occasion where a 'designer' used to the web or doing graphic design move towards print not knowing all the subtleties of print. In one case, I remember pulling an all nighter to help a client meet a hard print deadline where we needed at the last moment to redo an entire magazine done in freehand.. <rant mode off> Indesign can import any properly exported PDF from Scribus. I have yet to see it fail. Why? Indesign's PDF importer is superb and Scribus PDF's are highly conformant to PDF specs. That said I downloaded all the files you linked and those EPS files are perfectly conforming to EPS specs as best as I can tell. GSview displays them with no errors displayed. I'll test them later in Indesign and Illustrator myself. > Following bug report 0003371 I tried to re-import page1.eps and > page2.eps back into Scribus, and it gives this error message: > > Fatal Error > Importing File: > /home/fsnelting/... etc. > failed! > I just took those two eps files and imported them into image frames and then rexported a PDF without issues. EPS/PDF import with Scribus is highly dependent on the GS version you have installed. > Maybe one of you recognises the problem? Is it true that pictures > should not run over 2 pages? Not an issue the way they are exported from Scribus. >Are there any settings to be done for > EPS export? Not in this case. >Can you export multiple pages for example? > Yes one EPS file per page. By definition an EPS file is only one page. > I would much appreciate your ideas about what could be going on. > > > Femke <snipped> More useful would be File > Collect for Output then upload that. Scribus files do not embed the images - by design they are linked to the file. More info would be helpful and you can feel free to join IRC if you want to discuss this in detail. See: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=irc Hope that helps, Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060913/357bddc0/attachment-0001.pgp
