My pleasure, Cindy. Sometimes the answer is simpler than we imagine (I just wish that was true more often than just in a desktop publishing application). :-)
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 22:02 -0700, Cindy Jones Lantier wrote: > 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:patrick at aroaustralia.com] > 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 > > > ___ > 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
