Louis Desjardins a ?crit : > pat.higgins a ?crit : >> 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. > > Hi Pat, > > AFAIK, it should work. > > Now, if you get a warning from the preflight verifier that some objects > on your page have transparency, then it means that you haven?t used PDF > 1.4 but have selected PDF 1.3 or PDF/X-3. > > Otherwise this is an issue that have to be investigated. I am testing > here on a Mac with 1.3.3.10 and everything works fine. > > In Acrobat, you also should make sure that in the Preferences you check > the option Display overprint (I am translating from French so it might > not be exactly that wording). > > There is lots to read on PDF formats. You can start there: > http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1220
More here: http://www.pdfx3.org/ > > HTH > > Louis >> How do I fix it, it seems non-trivial..... >> >> Thanks for any advice. >> Pat Higgins
