On 04/14/2012 03:55 AM, Cindy Jones Lantier wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William F. Maddock [mailto:billsey at earthlink.net] > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 12:16 AM > To: Scribus User Mailing List > Subject: Re: [scribus] Graphics to PDF Question > > 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. > > Hey William! > > I've sent her an email asking her to do as you suggested ... I hope the fix > is this simple! >
There is a program called pdftk which will allow you to combine PDFs. http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk/ Greg
