[scribus] Flattening pdf1.4 with transparency.

[John Culleton]

Scribus does not flatten pdf 1.4 output which is required by some 
printers, such as LSI.  After much conversation and some 
experimentation I came up with this scheme. 
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1. Export file as pdf 1.4
2. View file in recent Acrobat Reader.
3. Print to PostScript file, first adjusting the papersize to actual 
document dimensions.
4.  run ps2pdf13 filename.ps newname.pdf
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This makes the pdf 1.3 with transparency preserved. Whether LSI will 
accept it without modification is a question, since it doesn't say 
PDFx1/a:2001 or Distiller in the file. But at least it is flattened. 

-- 
John Culleton
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