John Culleton wrote: > The way I use to flatten a semi-transparent overlay in a Scribus > generated file is to: export to pdf 1.4, load into Acrobat Reader, > print to file from Acrobat Reader, and then use the ghostscript > script ps2pdf13 to produce a flattened pdf. > > I tried saving the same file by printing to file from Scribus but no > matter what settings I use the semi-transparent graphic becomes > solid. Similarly when I save as eps the transparency becomes solid. > I checked this out with 1.3.3.13svn and it works well.
What also doesn't work well is to use pdf2ps, then ps2pdf13. For one thing, this turned a 40K PDF into a 9.6MB PS, then a 1.5MB PDF, and took an inordinate amount of time. Besides that the resulting PDF1.3 file was of poor quality -- the transparency was flattened, but the text looked very bad (this was a font that was outlined). Okular doesn't seem to have a method to save as a PS file, or print to file. Greg
