> > book which will be initially > > offered on lulu.com, I would like to opt for global > > distribution through Lightning Source Inc > > > Will LSI really be able to tell the difference between > > my Scribus PDF and Distiller generated PDFs? > > > I asked explicitly in July Don Campbell, who maintains some extra pages > for Lulu.com, because I thought Lulu.com, a company founded by a > prominent RedHat Linux representative, would offer some Open Source > alternative. But no, the requirement for Adobe Distiller is strict as > far as you go for global distribution. > > Redistilling your Open Source PDF was the solution provided. However, > this might have implications on what you can do technically.
I use scribus to generate my book cover published by Lulu. And I used "pdfeTeX-1.21a" as the producer for the book itself. It worked good at Lulu. One I had a problem with Kinko's Online with a ghostscript generated document, but I upgraded my version of ghostscript and it was accepted and printed well. (Kinko's 24 hour service saved me when my printer died late at night and I had fifteen course books to hand out to students in the morning.) I haven't tried the Lightning Source yet, but I was hoping too.
