[scribus] Why does Preflight Check complain about images having transparencies?

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

Craig,
I'm assuming that when you said:

> Nice idea.. we just need the text

You meant that you need the appropriate companion text that explains the
warnings displayed in the preflight checker ?
/Kunda

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus
<scribus.user at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I have an .eps file that I set up as a background for a Master Page.
>> > In the preflight check it shows up as a warning.
>> > Why?
>> > Is this is Printing issue?
>>
>> Its a warning for some types of export where the output type does not
>> support transparencies. Eg it
>> should be showing for PDF 1.3 but not for 1.4. That's why there's a
>> selector at the top of the
>> window to choose the output type.
>
>
> Thanks Craig :)
> Ah-hah!..now I understand better. Interesting is that my eyes didn't even
> pay attention to that 'selector' dropdown.
> I wonder how it would be possible to make that more intuitive (i'm
> assuming that I'm not the only one who doesn't fully grok the 'preflight
> check' function).
>
> For example:
> Is it possible to run several preflight checks at once using different
> export profiles and then offer a side-by-side column comparison of
> different issues? If that's not a good idea, because it sounds pretty
> inefficient (especially with large documents), then how can the user
> interface can be more educational with as few words as possible that the
> preflight check is checking the export using a specific pdf output version?
>
>
> >
>> > Also it would be nice if there could be a hover/popup link or text
>> > explanation that an educate the user about the different warnings/errors
>> > that show up....
>>
>> Nice idea.. we just need the text :)
>>
>
> Great! Where is there a list of errors/warnings that we can organize in a
> table on the wiki with a more detailed explanation companion text? I'd be
> happy to organize that.
>
> Cheers,
> /Kunda
>
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