On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom@tuxedo-press.com">Tom@tuxedo-press.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Images in PDFs created by printing to Adobe Acrobat 9 are noticeably<br>
different than those created by exporting to PDF in that the images are<br>
washed out in those created by printing to Adobe. Both types of files have<br>
been submitted to CreateSpace for printing with predictable results. The<br>
images come out brighter on books that are printed from PDFs created by<br>
exporting from Scribus. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a way to<br>
eliminate this problem with Adobe?<br>
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Tom Benjey<br></blockquote><div><br> </div></div><br>I cannot imagine why one would print to Adobe Acrobat rather than direct to a pdf. Ideally, the result should be the same EXCEPT for potentially the size of the pdf file. Scribus sets each letter's position in the document, whereas Adobe sets each line's position, which, to the best of my knowledge, results in a smaller pdf file. (My pre-press folks cannot imagine why I use Scribus since it creates such big files. Of course, they only know Macs and In Design. I doubt they know their OS is a Unix variant.) But the difference in output quality might be related to the way Acrobat formats their pdf files vs. how Scribus does it. Just a guess, but still cannot figure why you need to add the extra step.<br>
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