[scribus] Drop Shadow

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 17 15:22:05 UTC 2012


On 01/17/2012 10:11 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 09:59 AM, Stefan wrote:
>>>
>>> Only the newest PDF versions support transparency.
>>>
>>
>> And many commercial printers forbid transparency in PDF
>>
>>
> It's important to note that one can flatten transparency. One way to do
> this is to print from Scribus to a file, which creates a PS file, which
> can then be converted to PDF 1.3 with the appearance of having the
> transparency.
>

Oops! not this way.

Instead export to pdf1.4 in Scribus, then pdftops, then ps2pdf13.

Greg




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