[scribus] Flattening layers?

Owen rcook at pcug.org.au
Sat Sep 20 04:31:49 CEST 2008


> I use Scribus 1.3.3.11 in Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy Gibbon) on a computer
> with a  AMD Athlon 64 processor.
> I composed my first newsletter in Scribus following the examples in
> the tutorial, using two layers for the constant and variable contents.
>
> When I exported the final product (8 pages) to PDF I received error
> warnings. They referred to missing images and such, none of which
> seemed to be the case. I chose to ignore the warning and the document
> exported correctly to pdf format. I made sure the images were being
> reduced to 72 dpi and the output intended for Web/Screen purposes.
> The file size of the pdf document was about 2.8 MB which seemed to be
> excessive. I thought it might help to flatten the original document to
> a single layer before exporting to pdf. That might also resolve the
> error warnings.
> QUESTION: How do you flatten multiple layers to a single one? I can't
> find any ways to do that. If it can't be done I'll lay out the next
> newsletter issue in a single layer and see if that helps.
> Willem Borman (wilborm at yahoo.com)



You don't flatten AFAICT. That's a image prcessing concept

Did you try outling all your fonts to reduce the pdf size?


Owen





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