On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 23:17 -0700, Cindy Jones Lantier wrote: > Hi! I am very much an amateur when it comes to desk top publishing. A few > months ago I worked through the Scribus tutorial, so I thought I had enough > skills to put together a small 'zine. I am, however, running up against one > problem related to graphics that I don't know what to do with. My graphics > girl designed a nice title page for me. When I dropped the graphic into the > title page of my document, it looked different than it does when I look at > the it in Photoshop. Some of the black text had turned white and there were > opacity issues; I think she used transparency in some of the layers. She's > not familiar with Scribus, so the only thing she really knew how to do was > to save it as a PDF on her end (and it looks great!) and she told me that > with Adobe Reader, I should be able to combine the two PDFs (her graphic > title page and the rest of my document). I think I can do that, but here's > the thing - I'm wanting to export it to print as a booklet. So, how do I > combine the two PDFs in such a way that they will still have the pages in > the correct order? Or is there some other way I should approach this?
Cindy, Have your graphic artist save the cover art as a TIFF. You can then import that into an image frame in Scribus. > Thanks so much for any guidance you can give me! No problem.
