03-27-2025, 08:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2025, 08:08 AM by rich2005.
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There is the occasional question about KTP Their template has dimensions to 3 decimals which does not always coincide with pixel sizes. One of the common issues is text layers, A Gimp PDF does not embed the font only the font name. The solution - flatten the image - the PDF is then a pure raster graphic. As far as I know the PDF produced was acceptable for printing.
It looks to me that the transparency found by your Adobe software comes from the cairo library used by Gimp. This is not under the control of the Gimp developers, they just use the library. In Gimp 3.0 you get a PDF-1.7 The ImageMagick convert I mentioned, just wraps up the image presented in a PDF wrapper. That makes a PDF-1.3 version.
There used to be in the distant past a Gimp plugin that spooled out an image to ImageMagick to make a PDF. No longer works.
The best (free) tool for making anything for printing is Scribus. which can render PDF in various formats. You might still need Gimp. It can convert your RGB image to CMYK for use in Scribus.
It looks to me that the transparency found by your Adobe software comes from the cairo library used by Gimp. This is not under the control of the Gimp developers, they just use the library. In Gimp 3.0 you get a PDF-1.7 The ImageMagick convert I mentioned, just wraps up the image presented in a PDF wrapper. That makes a PDF-1.3 version.
There used to be in the distant past a Gimp plugin that spooled out an image to ImageMagick to make a PDF. No longer works.
The best (free) tool for making anything for printing is Scribus. which can render PDF in various formats. You might still need Gimp. It can convert your RGB image to CMYK for use in Scribus.