It’s one of those apps that has been flying under the radar since the first release in 2003, and it keeps getting better. You probably know about quite a few of the desktop-publishing (DTP) applications that have been evolving (or popping up) over the years, but do you know about Scribus. It can be used for many purposes, such as creating newsletters, posters, interactive PDF presentations, forms, business cards, brochures, books, or even comic strips. I don't know if the two problems are related, of if there is anything I can do when I save the 1.4 file to make it work better in 1.5 (I 'save as' under another file name so as to preserve my 1.4 file).Scribus is a free, cross-platform, and open-source DTP (Desktop publishing) application. Secondarily, when I open my Scribus 1.4 sla file in 1.5, I find some image and text boxes overlapping (which they weren't in 1.4). Does this mean my installation of Scribus 1.5 is incorrect? but I don't have this tab and nowhere can I find this information. this is in your case: '1.3 (acrobat 4.x)'.Īnother tab (something like: 'user defined' – i don't have an english version handy.) should give you for: 'GTS_PDFXConformance 'the value: 'PDF/X-1a:2001' if you find this entry, the pdf is ok – if not, there is something wrong with your installation.

Quoteif you check your pdf file with the adobe reader, the first tab of the document properties window will always tell you the compatible pdf version.

In the thread I mentioned, it was suggested. Adobe's document properties tell me the PDF version is 1.3. I am able to select PDF/X-1a in Scribus to export the file, and I'm using Adobe Reader 9 to try and verify the PDF version of the file. But under Preflight Viewer, I do not have an option for PDF/X-1a. I have color management activated in document settings and PDF/X-1a file compatibility set in PDF export. QuoteFile > Preferences > Color Mgmt -> Tick Activate color managementįile > Preferences > PDF Export > File options > Compatibility -> set PDF/X-1aįile > Preferences > Preflight Verification -> Output profile to PDF/X-1a I've searched the forum and found a good information on this threadīut I can't seem to apply it all. The biggest one is that the document does not export as PDF/X-1a.

I'm designing a book in 1.4 and wanting to use 1.5 to create a PDF/X-1a, but I'm having a couple of problems.