Hi I'm new to this list, and a newbie to DTP in general and Scribus in particular. I'm using Scribus to make a booklet for a/my first music CD.
I've had some success on-screen with pictures, layering, shapes, and text boxes ( combining them, and getting the text to be the background image..... ) looks real pretty, however I struck a problem when exporting. I'm exporting to PDF ( expecting to produce a .PDF to print the finished product ), and when I do this , it flattens the levels, and I lose the transparent content. Adobe have some documents that describe the problem,but I haven't seen a single clear solution, I read on the Scribus site, "select PDF 1.4 to support transparency..." which I have done. I'm running Scribus 1.3.3.12 on Windows XP and Adobe Reader. The PC I created the .PDF has Adobe 7 installed, and the PC ( at work ) I tried to print the file from has Adobe 8.1. ( I don't have a printer on my home PC ). I believe the problem is with Adobe 7 ( on the home machine ) as exporting to .PDF stripped the transparent objects out, so that I was left with text and no background image, which had been there earlier... ). Scribus pre-flight complained about "objects have transparency" , so I clicked the ignore button not realising the impact. How do I fix it, it seems non-trivial..... Thanks for any advice. Pat Higgins
