On Thursday 03 September 2009 18:11:10 Craig wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:11:09 -0700 > > > > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo: > >> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:20:00 +0200 > >> > >> "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> dijo: > >>> scribus can import eps as vectors since a long time... > >>> > >>> what you can do starting from 1.3.5, is to put eps (and pdfs) in image > >>> frames and have them included as is. indeed, going that way may be > >>> worth a try, if you want to reduce the size of your pdfs! > >>> > >>> but: don't forget that 1.3.5 is not a stable version and that it may > >>> kill all your kitten! > >> > >> First, when I started trying to print the document there was only one > >> small EPS graphic in it. I have since imported it as a vector file and > >> deleted the EPS. Extras > Manage Images is now grayed out. There are no > >> images in the file at all other than the graphics that were imported as > >> vectors and some native Scribus objects. Still, when I export as PDF > >> the resulting file is 201 MB. > >> > >> The problem is that there are six pages containing about 20 rectangles > >> created in Scribus. Each rectangle has rounded corners and a 10% gray > >> fill. If I print from Scribus I get reasonable print speed, but all > >> these rectangles print solid black. This is to various printers using > >> their PCL and PostScript drivers. If I export to PDF the rectangles > >> appear and print correctly. But then I have to put up with unbearably > >> slow printing - 10 minutes per page from Okular and over 20 minutes per > >> page from Adobe Reader 9.1. I tried Evince but it errored out when I > >> tried to print. > >> > >> I tried printing to CUPS-PDF instead of exporting as PDF from Scribus. > >> That resulted in a PDF file of only 25 MB, but the rectangles were all > >> solid black. Furthermore, the page size was messed up. > >> > >> I also printed to file from Scribus and I will try sending the file > >> directly to the printer with lpr. However, I don't hold out much hope > >> that it will solve the problem because it was created with Scribus' > >> print engine, not its export to PDF engine. > >> > >> I think there is a bug in the way Scribus prints, but I need to poke > >> around with this some more before I can be sure. In the meantime the > >> printers I am printing to are older Laserjets with PostScript Level 2, > >> so if someone has similar printers you can try creating a rectangle > >> with a 10% fill and see what kind of results you get. > > > > I just discovered something else. I had originally exported as PDF 1.5. > > Later I exported as 1.4. Both were huge and impossible to print from. > > Since then I exported as 1.3. The file size is only 69 MB compared to > > 200+ MB with 1.4 and 1.5. The file opened quickly in Adobe Reader and > > the whole thing spooled off to the printer in less than a minute. > > > > That's the good news. The bad news is that all my rectangles with 10% > > gray fill appear on screen in Adobe Reader and Okular as solid black, > > and also print as solid black. There were some other oddities as well - > > lines placed in two text fames did not make it, but lines placed in > > three other text frames did appear and print fine. They were the same > > lines created in Scribus. > > Well, of course,... PDF 1.3 does not support transparencies... > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Here is my solution: 1. Export the document as pdf 1.4 or pdf 1.5 2. View the pdf in Acrobat reader. 3. Print to file from Acrobat Reader, creating a postscript file. 4. Convert that file to pdf using Ghostscript script ps2pdf13. Now you should have a smaller file with all the transparencies preserved. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
