[scribus] flatten info in pdf

[Nicola Griffin]

Why thank you. What a kind offer.

To be honest I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle in that I'm not sure how to download XPDF, or even if it is available for OS X. I'm rather too used to a simple Download button. 

Regards

Nicki




On 14 Nov 2012, at 13:15, Staffan Melin (Oscillator) wrote:

> If it's too complicated (and no one else has a good idea), send the
> PDFs to me and I will have a go at it! I'm curious about the method
> anyway.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Staffan
> SWEDEN
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Nicola Griffin <nickigriffin at mac.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Staffan. I'll have a look at that.
>> 
>> Hmm. Though looking at the site it may be a little beyond me. I have a lot of experience of using packages but have no real 'computer' knowledge.
>> 
>> However I will persevere and see where I get to.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Nicki
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 Nov 2012, at 12:23, Staffan Melin (Oscillator) wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> A quick reply:
>>> 
>>> http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2007/11/09/flattening-transperancies-in-pdf-with-free-tools/
>>> 
>>> which says:
>>> 
>>> "An interesting issue has come up recently with my publishing company
>>> - one of our printing suppliers flagged incoming PDFs as being
>>> not-printable due to transparencies. After looking around for
>>> solutions, I came up with a way to resolve the issue without resorting
>>> to Acrobat (which we don’t use). The solution is two fold:
>>> 
>>> 1. First convert the incoming PDF to PostScript using XPDF‘s pdftops.
>>> This will flatten the transparencies. GhostScript’s pdf2ps tool DOES
>>> NOT do that.
>>> 
>>> 2. Then convert the PostScript back to PDF using GhostScript‘s ps2pdf tool.
>>> 
>>> Both tools are open source and free (although watch out for
>>> GhostScript’s GPL license). One important point – pdftops requires a
>>> paper width and height unless you want to end up with 8×11 paper for
>>> everything. The width/height is specified in PostScript points which
>>> are 72 per inch."
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Staffan
>>> SWEDEN
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nicola Griffin <nickigriffin at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear list
>>>> 
>>>> This is my first posting.
>>>> 
>>>> I've been using Scribus for the last couple of months to create a 28-page magazine. I'm now sending it for a trial print, but have a problem with transparencies. I need to be able to flatten the information in the pdf to ensure the transparencies print as expected. My printer recommends exporting the file as a PDFx1a but this choice is not available when I export to PDF. I've been exporting as PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5). The transparencies show up ok when I view the document in Adobe Reader.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using a Mac with Scribus 1.4.1. I've tried the suggestion in the Scribus Wiki to use Adobe Reader to create a flattened PostScript file via the Print dialog but Reader does not allow this. The newer version of Reader doesn't seem to have this option at all.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm at the stage of abandoning transparencies altogether as being too unpredictable so this is a last shot.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>>>> 
>>>> Nicki
>>>> 
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