[scribus] Using Scribus 1.3.5svn Productively

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 28 September 2008 10:43:15 am Benjamin Dumke wrote:


> I was not referring to preflight checking, but to producing. This
> has a lot to do with trust: When I have a PDF that is messed-up in
> one way or the other, and I give it to the Adobe Reader (which is
> quite relaxed when it comes to standards conformance), have the AR
> convert the PDF to a PostScript file, I trust that I have a "good"
> PS. When I then use ghostscript to do a PS->PDF conversion, I trust
> that I have a "good" PDF (and, for that matter, I also have a
> transparency-flattened PDF, which might or might not not prevent
> some problems with your print service). Since I do trust AR and GS
> to do the right things (when given the right parameters), this is
> enough preflighting for me. I have yet to be disappointed :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Ben
>
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One gotcha with Ghostscript. It has problems with anything newer than 
pdf 1.4. This has something to do with object compression.  Caveat 
utilitor.

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