Riku Leino wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > When I actually printed my document I used colored paper. Is it possible > > to specify a background for the pdf document so that it looks like the > > actual print output? > > You can pick the paper color in file>doc setup>display for the current > document. In file>prefs>display you can set the default color for all the > future docs.
And here's the correct answer now after i've actually read your question. The solution above doesn't make any difference to a pdf since the paper color is the color that is not printed. It will only allow you to see in Scribus how the final output on colored paper will look. To make it work like you want you'll need to create two PDFs one for print and one for screen viewing. Here's one possible way of doing it. In Scribus I would create a new bottom layer and create a master page where I would add a single polygon of desired color to the new layer. Then I'd apply the master page to all pages in the doc. For the print version one then needs to switch off printing of the background layer. This can be easily done in the layer palette. For the screen/web pdf printing of the layer must be enabled.
