On 01/11/2011 09:44 PM, John Culleton wrote: > I need to import a pdf file created on an LSI template. The software > used may have been Power Point. It was then passed through Distiller I > believe. In any case there is a preflight report from somewhere that > gives it a clean bill of health for PDF X/1a:2001. It looks ok in > Acrobat Reader but at high mags the bar code gets a bit blurry and > some of the text like the OCRA has stair steps. > > I created a blank Scribus file the same dimensions of the incoming > document. I imported the pdf. The text is all over the place and much > of it is missing. So on to plan two. > > I erased the pdf import and instead created a full dimension graphic > frame. I input the pdf into the frame. Now the text is a bit fuzzy and > the bar code, which was a bit marginal before is now blurred enough to > be unacceptable. > > All I want to do is overlay the existing bar code with true vector > barcode. I may try Gimp at high resolution or inkscape. I just wanted > to alert the Powers That Be that there are PDF files out there that go > funky when brought in to Scribus by either the import method or the > image frame method. > > Stay tuned. >
Hi John, Can you provide a link or mail me that Pdf directly? I am curious to poke inside it with Acrobat Pro + Pitstop. Thanks, Peter
