[scribus] Graphics to PDF Question

[William F. Maddock]

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
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