On Friday 02 July 2004 07:33, Tobias Stumpf wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about scribus and ghostview. I had a telephone call > with my printing house and they said me that I should use Aladin 8.14 > instead of the ghostscript version for exporting my scribus document > to PDF. They said that ghostscript have some problems about pictures. > > Have anybody problems whith exporting into PDF? Up to now I don't have > any problems with exporting? The file also have a good quality. > > Have anybody expirience with both and can say me if Aladin make better > PDF documents. > > Thank's for your help! > > Tobias
Hi, As Craig pointed out, a newer GS will improve some parts of import/export and highly recommeded. The only time GS is involved in PDF export, is if you have imported another PDF into a Scribus doc as an image. During the export phase, Scribus uses GS to rasterize the embedded PDFs. That said, Scribus PDF export is extremely robust and all of the pre-press pre flight tools I have used for testing gives them very good reports on a par with other commercial DTP applications. E.g. Enfocus Pit Stop, Callas' PDFInspektor, Markzware Flight Check Pro and Acrobat 6 Pro Preflight tools. I have written a doc on these kinds of questions here: http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/pre-press.html#ss4.9 Hope that helps, Peter
