[scribus] flatten info in pdf

[Staffan Melin (Oscillator)]

If it's too complicated (and no one else has a good idea), send the
PDFs to me and I will have a go at it! I'm curious about the method
anyway.

Kind regards,

Staffan
SWEDEN

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Nicola Griffin <nickigriffin at mac.com> wrote:
> Thank you Staffan. I'll have a look at that.
>
> Hmm. Though looking at the site it may be a little beyond me. I have a lot of experience of using packages but have no real 'computer' knowledge.
>
> However I will persevere and see where I get to.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Nicki
>
>
> On 14 Nov 2012, at 12:23, Staffan Melin (Oscillator) wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> A quick reply:
>>
>> http://www.shaftek.org/blog/2007/11/09/flattening-transperancies-in-pdf-with-free-tools/
>>
>> which says:
>>
>> "An interesting issue has come up recently with my publishing company
>> - one of our printing suppliers flagged incoming PDFs as being
>> not-printable due to transparencies. After looking around for
>> solutions, I came up with a way to resolve the issue without resorting
>> to Acrobat (which we don’t use). The solution is two fold:
>>
>> 1. First convert the incoming PDF to PostScript using XPDF‘s pdftops.
>> This will flatten the transparencies. GhostScript’s pdf2ps tool DOES
>> NOT do that.
>>
>> 2. Then convert the PostScript back to PDF using GhostScript‘s ps2pdf tool.
>>
>> Both tools are open source and free (although watch out for
>> GhostScript’s GPL license). One important point – pdftops requires a
>> paper width and height unless you want to end up with 8×11 paper for
>> everything. The width/height is specified in PostScript points which
>> are 72 per inch."
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Staffan
>> SWEDEN
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nicola Griffin <nickigriffin at mac.com> wrote:
>>> Dear list
>>>
>>> This is my first posting.
>>>
>>> I've been using Scribus for the last couple of months to create a 28-page magazine. I'm now sending it for a trial print, but have a problem with transparencies. I need to be able to flatten the information in the pdf to ensure the transparencies print as expected. My printer recommends exporting the file as a PDFx1a but this choice is not available when I export to PDF. I've been exporting as PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5). The transparencies show up ok when I view the document in Adobe Reader.
>>>
>>> I'm using a Mac with Scribus 1.4.1. I've tried the suggestion in the Scribus Wiki to use Adobe Reader to create a flattened PostScript file via the Print dialog but Reader does not allow this. The newer version of Reader doesn't seem to have this option at all.
>>>
>>> I'm at the stage of abandoning transparencies altogether as being too unpredictable so this is a last shot.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>>>
>>> Nicki
>>>
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