Am Montag, 14. April 2008 21:26:04 schrieb Wayne: > I run ads in two of our daily newspapers for our > production and I use Scribus to create the pdf files. > I've been doing this for the past several years. > Recently, I submitted 2 ads, one in black & white to > one newspaper and a spot color ad to another paper. The > black & white ad printed fine but the one with spot > color shifted two of the letter "A"s in the ad. This > shift was enough to cause one word to be illegible. > > The production person said that the pdf file looked > good before the print but came out mangled after the > print and that there was no way that they could fix it. > I asked if his software was the current version and he > said it was. He tried to find out what was causing it > but could not do it. > His suggestion was that I use InDesign or Quark. I > previewed the files on Acrobat Reader and they both > looked fine. > > My question is this: Is the problem on my side (Scribus > 1.3.3.10cvs) or his? Has anyone else experienced this > kind of problem? > > The black and white ad, which was virtually identical > (except without the spot color) to the color one > printed fine at a different newspaper. I embedded all > fonts in the pdf files. > > Wayne Maeda > Scribus 1.3.3.10cvs > Mandriva 2008 > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Wayne, 2 guesses: 1) what font did you use? Did you use it before and did it give you problems? I know that Arial and Helvetica sometimes make trouble (at least I had trouble with printing). 2) Try outline the fonts Cheers, Martin
