[Scribus] PDF seperation in Illistrator

Peter Linnell scribusdocs
Wed Feb 25 03:18:06 CET 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:36, Matt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am currently in the process of generating a brochure for final printing at a local printer in cmyk 4/4.
> 
> The problem is that he has asked for the brochure as two seperated layers. Apparently he can't import the text and the imagery into illistrator 10 for whatever reason. My pdf's are being generated as an acrobat 5 compatible format.
> 
> His reason for seperating the layers is so that he can import the vector data(type) into illistrator and the raster material into photoshop.
> 
> Can someone with illistrator 10 please see if it will read the the pdfs generated by scribus on linux.
> 
> If you need pdfs, I can generate them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt 
> 
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Some hints:

http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/pre-press.html

This details my testing of Scribus PDF's with professional pre-press
software and other DTP applications.

I have tested Scribus PDF's extensively in Illustrator 10. Unless recent
changes has affected something, I have always been able to work open and
*lightly* edit Scribus PDFs - mostly for testing compatibility. Example:
I have opened a Scribus created PDF of the Scribus logo in Illustrator
and saved it as an AI (Illy native) file. Printing and on-screen
appearance are exactly the same.

That said, for pre-press, I would not want a printer messing around with
Scribus PDF's *except* with Pit Stop Professional IMNSHO. In my
professional opinion, any printer or service handling PDF is very remiss
in not having Pit Stop and/or Callas' PDF Inspektor. There are no other
comparably powerful (and efficient) ways of pre-flighting PDF. I could
not imagine working with PDF in pre-press without these tools.

My .02 USD
Peter


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