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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 05, 2025, 07:46:42 PM
The first example was from the Scribus file opened in Adobe Acrobat. It did have an error message " An error exists on this page (in was on the cover). Adobe Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem." The cover page was created in Photoshop text & image. The second example is the same Scribus file opened in a PDF reader called Skim. It opened perfectly.
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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by Nermander - February 05, 2025, 04:44:25 PM
Does Acrobat not manage to open the file at all, or are there error messages? Or does the PDF just look weird in Acrobat?
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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 05, 2025, 03:09:30 PM
I'm not sure if the last page was an imported PDF. It was a complicated page for me to produce so I would cut and paste instead of trying to reproduce it. It could been a PDF. As far as the text elements appearing as jpegs. The cover was done in Photoshop with text and image and then brought in as a jpeg. On page two there was a scanned image with text I brought in. There are weirdnesses, I had no background in Scribus or graphic design before being called on to do this project, which I've been doing for 3 years. On page one there were many double images. I'm just trying to get a PDF that can be read by Adobe Acrobat so my printer people will except it.
Thank you for your input, much appreciated.
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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by AdmFubar - February 05, 2025, 05:20:48 AM
A point of interest I caught right away. The elements on the last page appear to have come from an imported pdf. Is that the case for most of the document? Was a pdf imported into scribus to be used as a template?

Looked closely at other pages, and noticed that there are text elements that appear jpeg'ed.

Lots of weirdness in your file. Many of the text boxes are doubles. Grab one and move it, there is another identical/nearly identical one underneath it.
#5
PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 04, 2025, 08:29:08 PM
utnik, you asked about how I export..
#6
PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 04, 2025, 08:15:30 PM
Thanks for your help. The people at my printer have to have a file that works with Adobe. They didn't even know about Scribus.
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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by utnik - February 04, 2025, 07:37:14 PM
hi cdjr398

how do you export your .pdf files?
when i open my files in acrobat reader and look at the file properties (ctrl + d), it says that the file was produced by 'scribus pdf library 1.6.3' or something like that. your file doesn't contain any information of the application.

if you could share the .sla file as well, i would export it here to see if things work different...

utnik
#8
PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 04, 2025, 06:36:53 PM
When I open up the original non-compressed file in Brave Browser the PDF opens perfectly with on deletions.
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PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 04, 2025, 06:32:13 PM
Funny thing, I was trying to compress the PDF file because it was too big. When I dragged the file to attach it, it opened in my Brave Browser. Surprisingly it looked not bad with only one small item and the bad page not coming through. This is much better than the file I attached below.
#10
PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by a.l.e - February 04, 2025, 05:09:49 PM
it would probably help, if you could share a pdf file created by scribus and that does not open correctly in acrobat....