I am creating a 100+ page (6x9 greyscale cover and black text interior) book which will be initially offered on lulu.com, I would like to opt for global distribution through Lightning Source Inc.
Lulu's FAQs and forums state that I can only output PDFs for global distribution by using Acrobat Distiller. This is a rule put in place by Lightning Source Inc. I have never had a problem outputting an Acrobat 5 compatible pdf with Scribus, printers have never noticed the difference. Will LSI really be able to tell the difference between my Scribus PDF and Distiller generated PDFs? I could boot into Windows (ugh!) and distill the Scribus postscript in Distiller or use Distiller to convert my Scribus PDF into .ps and then back to PDF in Distiller. I am using strictly postscript fonts, no subsetting, simple layout without overlays or transparencies. Nothing terribly complicated. Has anyone successfully "fooled" the LSI Acrobat Distiller mandatory requirements for global distribution with a Scribus PDF(this is a recent new rule of theirs)? I need to have the book to the printer fairly quickly in order to meet the goals of my collaborative project. I would love to have a strictly open source solution to this. Any work-arounds or success stories you can relate to me? Thanks so much, Raquel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
