[scribus] New to publishing, Scribus, and this list

Mike Breiding mike at WildWonderfulWV.us
Tue Oct 14 01:56:52 CEST 2008



Helge Hielscher wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:50:07 -0400, Mike Breiding wrote:
> 
>>> Find out what your printer requires -- type of PDF, any particulars.
>> VioVio is pretty specific:
>> http://www.viovio.com/wiki/index.php?structure_id=418
> 
> Does not sound as if they like Scribus:
> Quote from http://www.viovio.com/wiki/Scribus
> |Please use extreme care when using this program for photo book creation.
> |We have found that this program can create extremely large PDFs which
> |don't rasterize well for printing. Typically, PDFs should not be more
> |than about 5 megs per page.
> |
> |The pdf generation process in Scribus appears to be extremely unreliable
> |if you are concerned with image quality
> 
> Regards,  Helge

Bummer. I missed that.
I wonder if it would make a differnce if I used  a printer driver based 
PDFer like PDF Creator.-Mike




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