On Thursday 08 March 2007, John Beale wrote: > I'm using Scribus 1.3.3.8 on WinXP SP2. It is very functional and I > really appreciate this software being available. I've noticed a > few things as listed below. I'm not sure if some are bugs or > intended behavior. > > 1) If I have just one item selected on the page in the Scribus > editor and then print to PDF (Print -> Adobe PDF device, using > Acrobat Pro 7.0), only that single item appears and the rest of the > page is blank. If no object is selected, then everything on the > page appears as expected. >
I justed this on Linux and cannot replicate. I will test on Win2k later. For an EPS or SVG export this is expected behavior. I am curious why you are using distiller instead of directly exporting ? > 2) Printing to PDF as above, image colors become quite washed out > in the PDF viewer compared to what appears inside Scribus. This > does not happen with any other application printing to PDF that > I've tried. Is Scribus applying some dot-gain compensation, gamma > or other profile? (I haven't intentionally set any such control, > that I know about.) > Scribus probably detects the Adobe PSD driver correctly as a true postscript device, so it is sending CMYK. There are some fixes coming in 1.3.3.9 which will help this. > 3) When trying to import EPS or PS files into Scribus, I see my > bitmaps get offset and mirrored. I filed a bug against 1.3.3.6 on > this with examples http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4824 > The problem still happens with 1.3.3.8. Does anyone know of a > workaround? > > Thanks for any tips! I can confirm the bug, but have not seen that before. Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070308/2c178235/attachment.pgp
