03-27-2025, 01:47 AM
These things are funny, so I tried making a "New from visible" layer, then exporting to PDF. No luck. I still get transparency.
I do design and formatting books, most of my clients use KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing, part of Amazon) for printing. I am looking for how I can advise people, who are using GIMP to make their own covers, about making a good print-ready PDF. Having transparency isn't good. As it stands, despite all the features in GIMP, I would have to recommend 100% against using it: which I'm trying not to do.
I've tried Print > Print to > doPDF, primoPDF, cutPDF, AdobePDF . . . these all produce PDF with no transparency, but, I cannot get them to output the correct page size (yes I made a custom size). Print to > did work Affinity Photo, but with some tweaking like have to select Portrait despite the images being landscape.
Walton
I do design and formatting books, most of my clients use KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing, part of Amazon) for printing. I am looking for how I can advise people, who are using GIMP to make their own covers, about making a good print-ready PDF. Having transparency isn't good. As it stands, despite all the features in GIMP, I would have to recommend 100% against using it: which I'm trying not to do.
I've tried Print > Print to > doPDF, primoPDF, cutPDF, AdobePDF . . . these all produce PDF with no transparency, but, I cannot get them to output the correct page size (yes I made a custom size). Print to > did work Affinity Photo, but with some tweaking like have to select Portrait despite the images being landscape.
Walton