Hi,
With functions like overprint, and character styles, I'm thinking of using 1.3.5. What quality PDF's does it produce? Or should I just soldier on with 1.3.3.12? Also, 1.3.5 doesn't open a 1.3.3.12 document exactly as it was created in 1.3.3.12. It seems to use a certain amount of Manual Tracking, changing the layout of the text. Not a huge problem but it's there. Stewart > Today's Topics: > > 1. Schedule for next major release. (John Culleton) > 2. Re: Still the cut-off (John Culleton) > 3. Re: Schedule for next major release. (Jeffrey Silverman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:55:01 -0500 > From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > Subject: [scribus] Schedule for next major release. > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Message-ID: <200812011755.01626.john at wexfordpress.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I am putting together an e-book on using Scribus for book covers. My > question is, should I base it on 1.3.5 or 1.3.3.12? 1.3.5 has some > distinct advantages for book cover work. But the sla files have a > newer format. > > Will 1.3.5 or its successor (4.0?) be released as stable by June 2009? > If not I will write the e-book based on 1.3.3.12. > > I recognize that the only things certain in life are death and taxes, > but perhaps the developers can drop a hint. Are we getting close? > -- > John Culleton > Resources for every author and publisher: > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf > http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm > http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:05:39 -0500 > From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Still the cut-off > To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Message-ID: <200812011805.39622.john at wexfordpress.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Saturday 29 November 2008 09:53:02 am Pedrie Roberts wrote: >> Riku wrote: >> > I agree. PDF export should be the number 1 target and it should >> > always be reliable. After all pdf is what most people send to >> > print shops. I don't need printing from Scribus. What comes to >> > using the program with this issue, I don't quite see how this >> > would affect your layout work. >> >> The problem is that PDFs are printed as images not as fonts, which >> means that quality is much poorer than printing straight from >> Scibus (if only it was possible). > > Well the printers I submit work to handle the fonts in pdf just fine. > My local printer is a Ricoh with PostScript capability so I can > either save as postscript or else use Ghostscript pdf2ps routine and > I still get real fonts. > > In general PDFs are not printed as images. From Acrobat Reader for > example if you print to a file it saves the file as Postscript. > Convert it back to pdf and the fonts are still there. > > -- > John Culleton > Resources for every author and publisher: > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf > http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm > http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:42:48 -0500 > From: "Jeffrey Silverman" <jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Schedule for next major release. > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Message-ID: > <fb0c92310812011542u53be91dcg20c2d82be1114b3d at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > If nothing else, the .sla file format used by 1.3.5 will still likely be > readable by whatever is the next stable release. So from that POV -- being > able to open the file in the next Scribus version -- you should be okay. > > I have used 1.3.5. and 1.3.3.X and I far prefer to use 1.3.5. BUT it > definitely has problems, so save your work OFTEN. But it *is* usable. > > Let us hear a story on how it turns out. Even if it is a boring story. > Throw > in some references to Angelina Jolie or something to spice it up. > > later... > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:55 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > wrote: > >> I am putting together an e-book on using Scribus for book covers. My >> question is, should I base it on 1.3.5 or 1.3.3.12? 1.3.5 has some >> distinct advantages for book cover work. But the sla files have a >> newer format. >> >> Will 1.3.5 or its successor (4.0?) be released as stable by June 2009? >> If not I will write the e-book based on 1.3.3.12. >> >> I recognize that the only things certain in life are death and taxes, >> but perhaps the developers can drop a hint. Are we getting close? >> -- >> John Culleton >> Resources for every author and publisher: >> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf >> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf >> http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm >> http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > > > > -- > Jeff Silverman > jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20081201/19508496/attachment.htm> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > End of scribus Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2 > *************************************
