On Tuesday 06 December 2005 14:59, David Eyre wrote: > Dear All: > > Big problem. > My community newspaper is due to start publication a week on Friday. > I have sent previous Scribus-produced PDFs to my commercial printers > before and he told me that they were to his specs and that they would print > no problem. Last week I uploaded all 16 PDF pages and today was meant to go > and look at the printed proofs. He's now telling me that - while they can > open the PDFs without any difficulties - when the try to place them on > their RIP the processor won't read them. He's trying to figure out what the > problem is. Any of you guys any thoughts? Here are links to a colour PDF > page: > http://www.southsidemedia.org/page1proof.pdf > and a mono PDF page: > http://www.southsidemedia.org/page2proof.pdf > > When exporting the PDFs from Scribus I used the following options: > > General: > Export range: All pages > Compatibility: PDF 1.3 > Binding: Left margin > Tick boxes unchecked: Generate Thumbnails; Save linked text frames as PDF > articles; include bookmarks; include layers. Resolution for EPS Graphics: > 300 dpi > > Tick box checked: Compress text and vector graphics > Compression method: JPG > Compression quality: High > Tick box unchecked: Resample images to (all photos saved as JPGs at 150 > dpi) > > Fonts: > Tick box checked: Embed all fonts > > Colour: > Output intended for : Greyscale (for mono pages) > Output intended for: Printer (for colour pages) > > (For colour pages) > Tick box checked: Convert spot colours to process colours > Tick box checked: Use Custom Rendering Settings > Black: Frequency 75: Angle 45: Spot function Round > Cyan: Frequency 75: Angle 15: Spot function Round > Magenta: Frequency 75: Angle 75: Spot function Round > Yellow: Frequency 75: Angle 0: Spot function Round > > Thanks folks, > > David
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