Importing Scribus generated pdf files into Scribus

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FrederickYocum

In an effort to create four-up artwork for printing, I generated a PDF from a Scribus document which had drop shadows on a number of the text objects and placed it in a Scribus document. The transparency failed with whatever combination of PDF setting I tried. Is there a way to do this?

In the end, I copied the objects from the Layers in the original Scribus document and pasted them into the four-up one. Cumbersome and not as elegant, it would require any changes to be made four times.

Or is there a better way to do this? Newby question.

TIA

a.l.e

Tested with a simple text: in the current code there is a bug.

Would you mind opening a ticket in https://bugs.scribus.net ?

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Nermander

Transparency in PDF is a bit problematic, it is only supported by later PDF versions, and then for printing it depends on that the PDF viewer supports it.

Scribus does not have a "transparency flattener", which I assume means that Scribus cannot handle transparency in placed PDFs. You could look at flattening the PDF for example with Ghostscript first (I have no idea how to do it).

AdmFubar

Quote from: FrederickYocum on December 04, 2025, 01:57:31 PMIn an effort to create four-up artwork for printing, I generated a PDF from a Scribus document which had drop shadows on a number of the text objects and placed it in a Scribus document. The transparency failed with whatever combination of PDF setting I tried. Is there a way to do this?

In the end, I copied the objects from the Layers in the original Scribus document and pasted them into the four-up one. Cumbersome and not as elegant, it would require any changes to be made four times.

Or is there a better way to do this? Newby question.

TIA
There is a way to do this. I imported the pdf into an image frame and it it imported just fine shadows and all.
I used 1.7.0 for this test. What version are you using? 
Using Scribus1.6.1, 1.7.0 openSUSE 15.6
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FrederickYocum

The document looks fine in Scribus, but printing or PDF generation results in the transparent areas turning black eg. not being treated as an alpha channel. Using version 1.6.3.

Quote from: AdmFubar on December 04, 2025, 10:40:39 PMI imported the pdf into an image frame and it imported just fine shadows and all.
I used 1.7.0 for this test. What version are you using?