I need to import a pdf file created on an LSI template. The software used may have been Power Point. It was then passed through Distiller I believe. In any case there is a preflight report from somewhere that gives it a clean bill of health for PDF X/1a:2001. It looks ok in Acrobat Reader but at high mags the bar code gets a bit blurry and some of the text like the OCRA has stair steps.
I created a blank Scribus file the same dimensions of the incoming document. I imported the pdf. The text is all over the place and much of it is missing. So on to plan two. I erased the pdf import and instead created a full dimension graphic frame. I input the pdf into the frame. Now the text is a bit fuzzy and the bar code, which was a bit marginal before is now blurred enough to be unacceptable. All I want to do is overlay the existing bar code with true vector barcode. I may try Gimp at high resolution or inkscape. I just wanted to alert the Powers That Be that there are PDF files out there that go funky when brought in to Scribus by either the import method or the image frame method. Stay tuned. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
