Hello Greg, ps2pdf13 is my friend! That is the opensource equivalent of distiller. BTW, did you know Linux was started in 1971 solely to help AT&T publish their documents! Of course Linux has the right tools... just knowing what to use! ps2pdf13 -dPDFX does the trick.
Thanks for the feedback, TimJowers On 10/14/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > > Tim Jowers wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for some help with creating a PDF. Trying to publish via > > LuLu. They need an Adobe-compatible PDF. Tried with 50 page dummy PDF > > from Scribus. 1.4 PDF. Good. Works. Tried with PDF from OO Writer. > > Bad. Fonts are not embedded. Also .ps from OO writer failed processing > > at LuLu. > > So I hoped to go OpenOffice.org Writer -> Scribus -> PDF -> LuLu. > > No joy. Can anyone tell me how I might could "Get Text" (right click > > option) for a 412 page file? Right now my option seems to be to create > > 412 smaller files and do one at a time. And then re-place the 70 or so > > images and the charts. > > > > The book is at http://www.serviza.com/bizbook/SoftwareIsFree59.odt or > > http://www.serviza.com/SoftwareIsFree-ForBusiness.pdf > > > The short answer is that you're talking about a mountain of work to > import into Scribus after already creating a 412 page book, though it's > doable. > > Check this thread: > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-September/019962.html > > which talks about using Distiller to make your project acceptable by Lulu. > > Also, at some point check out the tutorial on the Wiki: > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Get_Started_with_Scribus > > which may in the future help you organize the task of using oowriter and > Scribus. Organization from the get-go is going to be the key to > simplifying the process. > > BTW, I scanned through your PDF, not so much for content, but I like the > nice, clean look. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20061015/ce8601b0/attachment.html
