Thanks so much for all this information! Using a TIFF instead of a JPG solved the problem, so both my graphic artist and I learned something new!
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ernst [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 8:50 PM To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Subject: Re: [scribus] Graphics to PDF Question 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. Patrick > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or > unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -- Patrick Ernst ARO Australia Pty Ltd Mob: 0404 883 145 Fax: 08 8219 0124 iNet: www.aroaustralia.com ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
