On Sunday 28 September 2008 10:43:15 am Benjamin Dumke wrote:
> I was not referring to preflight checking, but to producing. This > has a lot to do with trust: When I have a PDF that is messed-up in > one way or the other, and I give it to the Adobe Reader (which is > quite relaxed when it comes to standards conformance), have the AR > convert the PDF to a PostScript file, I trust that I have a "good" > PS. When I then use ghostscript to do a PS->PDF conversion, I trust > that I have a "good" PDF (and, for that matter, I also have a > transparency-flattened PDF, which might or might not not prevent > some problems with your print service). Since I do trust AR and GS > to do the right things (when given the right parameters), this is > enough preflighting for me. I have yet to be disappointed :-) > > Greetings, > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus One gotcha with Ghostscript. It has problems with anything newer than pdf 1.4. This has something to do with object compression. Caveat utilitor. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
