[Scribus] problems to convert a pdf

[Plinnell]

On Sunday 21 November 2004 12:35, Marcel Spitau wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am using Scribus 1.2 on Suse 9.2 and I want to print some stuff by
> flyerwire.de. The problem is, that flyerwire like to have cmyk-jpegs in 300
> DPI to print them (do not aks me why?!) My Problem is scribus us not able
> to make good jpgs from my scribus file. The export function makes a bad jpg
> with a realy bad display of the fonts. Can I configure somewhere something,
> that this jpeg look god? Or is it just producing a preview?!
>
> Than I tried to use convert to make a jpeg, if the PDF has got NO fonts it
> works fine, but does the PDF do have fonts, I doesn't work at all. I think
> it has something to do with my ghostscript (ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1
> (2003-07-12))

> Current allocation mode is local
> ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> convert: Postscript delegate failed `vorderseite.pdf'.
> convert: missing an image filename `vorderseite.jpg'.
>
> Unfortunately I do not understand one single word word of that crap, but
> may be one of you can help me...
>
> Thanks for your efforts and sorry for my bad english
> See you
> Marcel


I have to say choice of cmyk jpeg is an especially poor one. 1) Only Adobe 
Photoshop creates them natively 2) The format itself is prone to not playing 
nice with other applicatins. Littlecms and Ghostscript have workarounds for 
the "features" of this format.

Let's hope they can accept PDF, a much saner choice.

Peter