[Scribus] 1.1.7 - PS Level 2 - why not PStill to simplify ?

[Celio Santos]

Hi Peter and ALL at Scribus,

I have been using  PStill ( very succesfully even with other DTP 
software and  some weird files from {urgh...}Corel )  to simplify the PS 
Level 3 to PS Level 2 for use in laser printers and old imagesetters 
that have severe llimitation on Virtual Memory.

I think that it is not a fault from Scribus but a fault from the 
manufacturers that use outdated interpreters.

Regards and Cheers for the V1.1.7

Celio Santos
celio at electronic.srv.br
www.electronic.srv.br

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>Message: 9
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:31:58 -0400
>From: Peter Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com>
>Subject: Re: [Scribus] 1.1.7
>Hi,
>On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 06:54, Malte Cornils wrote:
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>>On Monday 07 June 2004 04:41, Peter Linnell wrote:
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>>>>I compiled the version 1.1.7 on a stock Mandrake 10 Official box
>>>>with no problems except that I can't print to my HPLJ1300 anymore.
>>>>The printer labors a while and nothing comes out.
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>>>The reason is Scribus is generating PS3 level objects which the PS
>>>interpreter is unable to understand.
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>>It would be way cool if there would be an option in the prefs to not generate 
>>Lvl 3 objects even when the PPD says they're allowed.
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>This is an issue we are looking at:  a "flattener" for PDF 1.4/PS3
>objects, like blends, transparency etc. It is less a simple option to
>put %PS-2 in the postscript stream, it involves a lot of complex image
>conversion in some cases.
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>>>This is a frequent issue with Black and White laser jets when printing from
>>>Desktop Publishing Apps - I've seen this with LJ4 and 5, as well as newer
>>>HP 2xxx printers with Pagemaker, Quark Xpress and Indesign.
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>>Yes, and it's ugly - the printers don't show any specific reason why they stop 
>>working...
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>/me nods..
>
>Cheers,
>Peter
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