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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0005491 | Scribus | public | 2007-03-28 00:55 | 2007-04-03 20:40 | |
| Reporter | gustavohomem | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Mandriva Linux | OS Version | 2006 |
| Product Version | 1.3.3.8 | ||||
| Summary | 0005491: importing PDFs into document results on problematic final PDF | ||||
| Description | I generated this PDF with Scribus: http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/problem.pdf and although it opens fine on Adobe Reader, whenever I try to print it the result is half a page of pixelated content, along with a perfect half: http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/print_result.png Additional info: - the PS output from Adobe Reader (print to file) displays well on GV - using ghostscript or ps2pdf on such PS output, results on a PDF with no problems http://downloads.angulosolido.pt/imprensa/2007/exame-informatica.pdf - the PDF also does not print from Kghostview (reports a GS error) - the original Scribus document includes 3 PDF pages: http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/exame-informatica2.sla http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x1.pdf http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x2.pdf http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x3.pdf | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Produce a PDF from: http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/exame-informatica2.sla http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x1.pdf http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x2.pdf http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/Exame_informatica-x3.pdf Print it from Acrobat 7 on Linux | ||||
| Additional Information | This may or may not be a Scribus issue. However the problem was reproduced using 2 different printers on Linux: Laser and Inkjet, so the resulting PDF is "problematic". Interestingly it displays fine on screen and was reported to print correctly on Windows. | ||||
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Interestingly, unlike when printing to a file with Acrobat, running pdf2ps on the PDF made with Scribus, takes a loooonggg time and generates a 1GB postscript file! No sign of resolution loss, as seen on gv. There must be something about this PDF. |
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pdf2ps has a very simplistic approach of producing ps, especially if you use PS level 2. My new theory is that Scribus uses an image format for the imported PDF that is not handled well by ESP-Ghostscript. What was your compression setting for images during PDF export? |
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This happened with Scribus default settings for image compression: Method -> Automatic Compression -> Maximum |
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Try Compression -> Lossless You dont want lossy compression for images containing text. |
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pdf2ps when writing to PS level 2 basically transform pdf to an image and writes it to ps using 1 or 2 row subimages, which produces logically quite heavy postscript files. Not astonishingly printers which are not equipped with a fair amount of memory will often fail to print such files. On Windows, ps level 2 printers have real ps2 drivers, which will produce much smaller files. Windows applications or drivers can also provide mecanism such as banding which will allow to handle complex files quite efficiently. On Linux, native ps2 output was implemented by ghostscript relatively recently (gs 8.53 or 8.54 as far as i remember). |
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Seems to be a printer driver problem under Linux as the both "Images" on the first page are displayed fine on every PDF viewer i have. So the image data it correctly exported to the PDF. There's absolutly no logical reason why the left image is pixelated. |
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This I agree is a driver issue beyond Scribus. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2007-03-28 00:55 | gustavohomem | New Issue | |
| 2007-03-28 01:51 | gustavohomem | Note Added: 0015640 | |
| 2007-03-28 14:30 | avox | Note Added: 0015647 | |
| 2007-03-28 14:43 | gustavohomem | Note Added: 0015648 | |
| 2007-03-28 14:59 | avox | Note Added: 0015649 | |
| 2007-03-28 18:29 | jghali | Note Added: 0015651 | |
| 2007-03-28 20:24 | fschmid | Note Added: 0015654 | |
| 2007-04-02 22:38 |
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Status | new => resolved |
| 2007-04-02 22:38 |
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Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2007-04-02 22:38 |
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Assigned To | => plinnell |
| 2007-04-02 22:38 |
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Note Added: 0015714 | |
| 2007-04-03 20:39 | cbradney | Status | resolved => closed |
