[scribus] eps transparency

guerrier guerrier at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 15:18:49 CET 2009


>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:44:16 -0400
> From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
> Subject: Re: [scribus] eps transparency
> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Message-ID: <200910301644.16777.john at wexfordpress.com>
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> On Friday 30 October 2009 16:06:52 Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009 20:22:17 schrieb guerrier:
> > > Hello
> > > I am working on a simple layout that features eps files with
> > > transparencies created with inkscape.  As I work in with
> scribus-ng
> > > 1.3.5-svn (installed via synaptic on debian lenny/squeeze), I
> can see the
> > > transparent part of the eps file. But when I export pdfs, the
> > > transparencies are filled.  I have tried exporting pdfs
> compatible with
> > > pdf 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.  I have also layout my design in layers.  I
> am
> > > still can keep the transparencies. Here is a screen capture,
> > >
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/4058370005_ebc3d24e12_o.png.
> > > Am I missing something?  I know I scribus can do this.
> >
> > How does the file display in Adobe Reader?
> >
> > Christoph
>
> My kludge: export as pdf 1.4 preserving the transparencies, then
> print to file from Acrobat Reader thus flattening everything, then
> do ps2pdf13 on the resulting Postcript print file.  Or if the printer
> insists on pdf X/1-a:2001 use Pstill (shareware) with an
> improbably long set of switches.
> --
> John Culleton
> "Create Book Covers with Scribus"
> http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
>

I tried what  John Cullerton suggested and there is no visible difference.
I am going to investigate the eps file itself.
guerrier
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