D.R. Evans raises some interesting points, indicating that my post was unclear at best:
1. I would LOVE to just load up the cover pdf from scribus to Lulu: Lulu objected, rejecting the file because Helvetica was not embedded. So. I was trying to make a ps which I would distill with Adobe's Distiller on a windows machine. 2. In regards to Lulu LOVING Adobe distiller - perhaps that's a bit strong, but here a quote from their web site that indicates at least strong affection: " You must upload a PDF version between Acrobat 1.3 and 1.5. If you plan to purchase a Distribution Service, your PDF must [note: must is italics on the web page!] be distilled by Adobe. More info) Acrobat can be purchased from Adobe Systems or any software retailer" See http://www.lulu.com/en/help/pdf_creator Bill On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:22 -0700 "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote: > Real-To: "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> > > William Hammack said the following at 11/07/2009 01:16 PM : > > > but to no avail. Lulu LOVES Adobe Distiller - in fact requires it, I > > think for electronic distribution - so I thought I just pump out a > > ps > > That deduction is incorrect. I've done electronic distribution using > books that were created with Scribus (for the cover) and TeX (for the > contents). > > In fact, all my books are done that way, whether for electronic or > print distribution. > > I confess to being confused as to why you have any step in your > process where you are trying to print anything generated by Scribus, > and even more so why you're going through a PS step. If you must > print for some reason, as John says, you should do it via an > intermediate PDF... but that PDF is what you'll be sending to Scribus > anyway and I don't see what you're gaining by trying to print it. But > maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're doing. > > Doc > -- William S. Hammack Professor Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Box C-3, 600 S. Mathews Avenue University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 217-244-4146 hammack at netbox.com www.engineerguy.com ProfHammack on any IM system
