On 14/04/12 21:58, Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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 If you like a simple graphical interface, PDFShuffler is a very handy tool for combining PDFs adn shuffling pages around.
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