[scribus] Print while preserving transparent overlay.

[Gregory Pittman]

John Culleton wrote:
> The way I use to flatten a semi-transparent overlay in a Scribus 
> generated file is to: export to pdf 1.4, load into Acrobat Reader, 
> print to file from Acrobat Reader, and then use the ghostscript 
> script ps2pdf13 to produce a flattened pdf.
>
> I tried saving the same file by printing to file from Scribus but no 
> matter what settings I use the semi-transparent graphic becomes 
> solid.  Similarly when I save as eps the transparency becomes solid.
>   
I checked this out with 1.3.3.13svn and it works well.

What also doesn't work well is to use pdf2ps, then ps2pdf13. For one 
thing, this turned a 40K PDF into a 9.6MB PS, then a 1.5MB PDF, and took 
an inordinate amount of time. Besides that the resulting PDF1.3 file was 
of poor quality -- the transparency was flattened, but the text looked 
very bad (this was a font that was outlined).

Okular doesn't seem to have a method to save as a PS file, or print to file.

Greg