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Very impressive!
by regeya on Saturday 09/Oct/2004, @14:59

I'm hoping someday to find a way to get it to work with my workplace's current workflow, and convince my company that this is viable, in that order. I've almost convinced myself to try doing some prepress work through Scribus at work in this coming week (wish me luck!) I've been very impressed by Scribus, particularly its PDF support. I've been using Scribus to set up templates for printing digital photos on my Linux machine, then printing the prints out either here at home on a decent Winprinter or for taking the PDFs to work to print prints on an Epson 1280 Photo. Rock on.

The thing is, the way things are set up now we have a specific list of settings for one particular version of QuarkXPress (4.11, sadly), a particular version of Acrobat (5, sadly) and have gone as far as having a Quark template to use to prepare pages for a particular Konica imagesetter. The main obstacle is that this was all set up by some of our corporate guys, and I have no idea how hard it will be to set this up. Here's the difficulty:

Apparently when we prepare individual pages, it's enough to use EPS. However, then we'll pull two pages into art frames in Quark, then print PostScript to a file using a particular PPD. We then use Distiller to convert this to a PDF using settings mandated by our corporate techies.

Now, I tried a little experiment a while back: I used a PPD intended for a LaserWriter 16/600 instead of the PPD intended for a Konica EV-jetsetter 9xxx-series (I don't work with it, so I don't know the actual model number) imagesetter, and everything went fine and dandy. Not sure if that's enough, but I'm certainly hoping. I just hate to waste (allegedly tight) company resources on an experiment on actual content.

Anyone out there have any experiences working with Scribus in real print shops?

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