2007/7/18, Conal <conal at southsidemedia.org>: > > > > Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007 12:13 schrieb Conal: > > Hi > > > > Working on the August edition of G41 Newspaper here in Glasgow. We have > > just started creating the adverts to go in the paper as PDF files > instead > > of JPEGs. We do this with Scribus. We then import these PDF files into > > Scribus as we are putting together the paper > > >Should I PDF the individual adverts with the "use icc profile" boxes > marked, or > > will this confuse the final PDF'ing process? > > >Hi Conal, > > >the icc profiles shouldn't work at all with placed PDFs (this is fixed in > >1.3.3.10svn), so the answer is no. > > >May I ask why you skipped JPEG in favour of PDF? Why don't you use TIFF > >instead (there's a chapter about image formats in the docs)? > > >HTH > > >Christoph > > Why PDFs? I recently discovered that importing the adverts as pdf's using > File>Import>Import EPS/PS seemed to add them as vector graphics with > vectorised fonts, rather than bitmaps, so the print quality is much > sharper. > However I made a big mistake this time: I thought importing PDF's into > image > frames would also place them with vector data. The paper is back from the > printers now and I see that this is not the case, the adverts are > obviously > bitmaps. > > Next time I will import the PDF'd adverts using File>Import>Import EPS/PS, > then import the relevant photo's for the adverts separately. Or maybe I > should just create the averts hi-res tiffs using Gimp?
Hi, Keeping vectors as vectors until the end of the process is imo always a better solution. It's resolution independant and keeps the files' weight low. Louis Conal > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Exporting-a-pdf-to-import-into-scribus%3A-icc-colour-pofiles-tf4061031.html#a11665397 > Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20070718/b423eaec/attachment.html
