Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:59:06AM +0000, Julian Robbins wrote: > >> However, when I came across a PDF created in Scribus with transparent >> images (PNGs or TIFFS), saved in PDF 1.4 format, the script makes nice >> small PDF's still, but the transparency in the images is removed and I >> just get a large black areas where the transparency should be. >> >> Is there any way to shrink the PDF's and maintain transparency? I think >> the problem is with the pdftops function in the script. >> > > Yes, pdftops cannot handle transparency correctly. In fact, Poscript > cannot handle it and this is used as an intermediate format. > Hi
Thanks for that. I was coming round to thinking that PS couldnt support transparency. OK. If I wanted to take this Scribus file and 'flatten the images', to get rid of the transparency, is there a way to do it without having to alter each image individually? IE a method in Scribus directly or another tool? Cheers Julian > Bye, > > Tino. > >
