On 05/22/2012 08:56 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > To this point, I have been creating plates by printing to a colour-separated > ps > file, then doing an imposition from that into four pdf files (one for each > colour) then printing each pdf file to the appropriate series of plates. > Unfortunately, ghostscript blows up once in a while using that output due to, > I > think, poor quality fonts being used in the original document. > (10,000 Fonts for $1.49!) Unfortunately, I can't persuade the folks who > create > this thing to stick to using good quality fonts (I've tried several times) so > I'm stuck with the consequences. > > I am now considering the idea of starting from a pdf file instead of a ps file > (not knowing if the output will be any different or better or not) but have > discovered that there is no obvious way to create a colour separated pdf file > in Scribus. Export to PDF has several options, none of which appear to do > what > I can do by printing to a ps file. > > So my question is, how can I get a set of colour separated pdf files out of a > Scribus-generated PDF file? I see that ghostscript now supports a tiffsep > device, but that will give me a series of tiffs. Should I go with that and > use > tiff2pdf to create my pdf files for the plates? Or is there a better way? > > Or am I wasting my effort here and won't gain anything different by starting > my > imposition and colour separation from a PDF instead of a ps file? > Something I tried and can't really say I succeeded at was printing separations to a PS file, then importing this to Scribus as a vector file. I just created a very simple document with a single photograph. The hitch I got into was that there seems to be something wrong with the importation of the PS files, since they're clipped -- i.e., the entire image did not show. Something of a workaround was to ungroup the PS, which gives you 2 overlapping boundary boxes, and they seemed a bit out of line, which was apparently the source of clipping. One ungrouped box was labeled Image2 and the other Group1. If I enlarged Group1 I could then see all the image. (Incidentally, if you then try to ungroup the box labeled Group1, Scribus crashes with Signal 11*) If you fiddle with the Image2 box you may mess up the proportions.
That file could then be exported as a color separated PDF. The trick would be coming up with a method to make sure the separations are lined up properly on the various separated PDFs. Not sure if this addresses your question since I wasn't sure about the workflow you had done, but guessed you were using an external utility. Greg * don't know if this is a bug, since it seems a rather unorthodox workflow. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120522/f32cefd0/attachment.html>
