William Hammack said the following at 11/07/2009 04:19 PM : > 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.
I second John's suggestion that it's probably not a good idea to use real Helvetica. (I'm not even sure that it's legal to embed it, but that might just be me being paranoid or misremembering the Adobe license from the early days of PS; I am all-but-certain, though, that it was originally prohibited by the Adobe license.) > > 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" I'm surprised that's still on their site. (Well, maybe not; they seem to leave cruft all over the place.) It was wrong even when I started using Lulu, and that's a couple of years ago or more. I remember reading that statement and being briefly quite worried about its emphatic wording, until I checked around in their fora and discovered that plenty of people were using PDFs that had never been near an Acrobat product. I think that the only problem I've ever had with regard to Scribus and Lulu is that it took me a couple of attempts to figure out how to do transparency on the cover in a manner that worked properly. I can't recall any other problems. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20091107/0b75b4b0/attachment.pgp>
