Greetings lovely scribus community,
I am an amateur at graphics design and started my involutary career with the task of making a wedding magazine for a friend of mine. After weeks of sweat and tears I finally got a 24 page magazine, made in scribus with the settings the print office suggested (ICC profile, margins, cutting, CMYK).
I made the whole magazine on my ubuntu system and scribus 1.4.x (stable branch) and exported the PDF in PDF 1.3 as requested by the office, resulting in a pdf with 250MB size.
They replied to me that the pdf is corrupted, giving them parsing errors due to not correctly embedded pictures. To verify that I installed the trial version of Adobe Illustrator, and got indeed a warning when opening my PDF file - but the PDF opened nevertheless.
After some research I found out that scribus in version 1.4.x does not include the whole pictures, just the paths to it. So I installed the dev version 1.5.x which should embed the pictures correctly. I did so and got a 1.5 GB big PDF file with the same export settings as in scribus version 1.4.x - so I thought its correct this time, but after opening the 1.5 GB PDF in Adobe Illustrator again I got the same warning as before.
So my question is: How can I verify if my PDF is correct this time, or if its just a random warning that can be ignored. Is there a way for me to check if the images are embedded correctly and with good quality in my PDF? How comes the images are not embedded correctly after all - even with version 1.4.x - since scribus is supposed to make print ready PDFs. I can't really relate to the complaints of the printing office, but I also don't know which software they are using.
Can You help me please? Thanks alot
