hi jjj > The bad news is that all my rectangles with 10% > gray fill appear on screen in Adobe Reader and Okular as solid black, > and also print as solid black.
well, you may use (solid) 10% gray instead of making a solid black rectangle 90% transparent... > There were some other oddities as well - > lines placed in two text fames did not make it, but lines placed in > three other text frames did appear and print fine. They were the same > lines created in Scribus. > are you sure that there is no transparency in there? are the lines behind the text? but, for now, try the hint to create a ps file from yor pdf 1.4... it may work! ciao a.l.e
