On Friday 18 April 2008 11:08:29 am D. R. Evans wrote: > Gregory Pittman said the following at 04/18/2008 08:48 AM : > > John Culleton wrote: > >> Apparently Scribus does not (yet) have a flatten layers > >> function. If I export in pdf 1.3 format does that flatten the > >> output pdf? > > > > There are layers and there are layers. > > Layers in the sense of collections of objects of all sorts on > > different levels on that layer are all flattened in the PDF. > > > > Layers in graphic images is a different kind of layer, which > > Scribus is beginning to be able to work with. These too will be > > flattened in the PDF. > > > > Then there are layers in PDFs, as in PDF 1.5, which is just > > beginning to be implemented in development versions, not in > > 1.3.3.x. > > Somebody probably needs to write this up in a bit more detail. > > Your explanation confused me (for one). > > I do know, for example, that when I export to PDF 1.4 and then view > the resulting file with acroread, I can see the reader putting the > layers up on the screen one at a time (and these layers appear to > be the same as the layers in Scribus); so at least in some sense > the file isn't flattened. I believe that that is what the OP is > talking about. > > Exporting to PDF 1.3 instead of PDF 1.4 causes the reader to put > the information on the screen all at once (i.e., I can't see > individual layers being displayed to build up the resultant image). > > So in some sense it seems to be true that PDF 1.3 is flattened, but > PDF 1.4 is not. Which I think is what the OP was after. Maybe. > > Doc > > Exactly so. Some POD printers (e.g. LSI) want everything set to PDF X/1:2001 which is more or less pdf 1.3. They can't handle layers and they can't handle transparency. But with Scribus it seems that we can handle them :<)
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