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
This could have been corrupted on upload. I get a damaged error in Acro 6. > 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 > Good. > Tick box checked: Compress text and vector graphics > Compression method: JPG (Why was this changed from the defaults ? ) - Auto is really best > Compression quality: High (Why was this changed from the defaults ? ) - Should be 'maximum' > Tick box unchecked: Resample images to (all photos saved as JPGs > at 150 dpi) > > Fonts: > Tick box checked: Embed all fonts Good. One thing I noticed in the file was the use of double-byte CJK fonts, which can trip up RIPS which cannot use them easily - not all can. Was there any reason to use these in place of normal Latin fonts ? Some of these fonts, I have not seen before and are a bit skeptical of their print worthiness. The docs have extensive warnings and notes about freeware 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 As advised by the tool tip, do not change these unless you have specific instructions from your printer. > > Thanks folks, > > David Hi, More info needed too: Which distro ? Version of Scribus ? Cheers, Peter
