Henry Hartley said the following at 03/19/2008 03:24 PM : > It's clear from their forums that customer experiences vary pretty > wildly. >
I finally reached their "PDF expert" and chatted with him. So the real scoop is that problems are caused if you use transparency anywhere in a PDF. "OK so the issue there is that transparencies simply are not supported in a high speed commercial digital print environment. they need to be resolved to the final pixel--ie flattened" So my experience is that if you make use of transparency anywhere, it might or might not work with scribus "out of the box". Their first recommendation for Linux users is to use GIMP :-) but otherwise if you use transparency anywhere then you MUST flatten the output if you want it to work reliably. (Incidentally, one of the other tech support people there also mentioned that one should use PDF 1.4 or earlier.) Doc
