On Sunday 02 January 2011 10:40:02 Tom wrote: > When you say that you "print to Adobe Acrobat" it's not clear to me > what you mean. You mean that export to PDF from Scribus, then open > up in Acrobat? > > Also, do you mean Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader (formerly known as > Adobe Acrobat Reader)? > > Greg > > What I meant was that when I click on the File menu, then click on > the Print command on the file menu, select Adobe PDF as the printer > (Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro is installed on my Windows machine), and > choose the PDF/X-1a:2001 profile as an option, the PDF that is > produced contains washed out images. > > When I click on the File menu, select Export command, and the Save > AS PDF option, the images in the PDF that is produced are sharp > and clear. When I open one of the images that was placed in the > Scribus document with GIMP and print it to a PDF using Adobe > Acrobat 9 Pro, the PDF that is created is sharp and clear. > > I purchase Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro because I didn't think Adobe Acrobat > was able to create PDFs, just read them. If I was wrong, I may have > wasted some money. > > The need to create output in PDF/X-1a:2001 format is the reason I > use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. Because the Windows version of Scribus > does not yet Export PSFs to this standard, I need to get Scribus > and Adobe Acrobat to work together properly. > > Tom Benjey > 717-258-9733 voice > 717-243-0074 fax > Twitter: @TomBenjey > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
The only version of Scribus to offer the PDF X/1-a:2001 output is the experimental version 1.5.0. The only way for me and thee to get this version is to download the sources and compile it. Windows is a less friendly environment for this process than Linux, in particular Slackware Linux, but it can be done. You need to establish a compiler, linker and the necessary libraries. You can as an alternative set up a Linux partition and use that for creating and using 1.6.0. The latter is probably less work. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
