Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 15:23 schrieb Sebastian R?der: > Yesterday, I asked my printer-office for a ICC-profile of its > printer, because I want to use pdf/X3.
Hello, I think it's sufficient to use the recommended profiles of the Euoropean Color Initiative. There are new profiles for offset-printing arrived last week, shipped with the www.altonatestsuite.com . You can download the older ones at www.eci.org . Recommended work color space for RGB is ECI-RGBv10.icc http://www.eci.org/files/profiles/ECI-RGBv10.sit [32kB] Recommended work color space for CMYK is ISO-coated-sb part of this Archive: http://www.eci.org/eng/pages/profiles_e.html#fogra Somewhere on the web I found also zip archives. Also you can get much Informations about pdf/x-3, if you are a german reader, at http://www.eci.org/eng/pages/pdfx3_e.html and www.pdfx.de. Your printer should be able to get good prints if you use the recommended ISO CMYK profile. If he got a specific profile of the used output device the better are the circumstances. *.joboptions are only used by Adobe Acrobat. They are option sets for the destilling process to create an PDF similar to the options You can adjust in the scribus export dialog. Be shure, that you choosed the following options: o create in /usr/local/share/scribus a folder profiles o copy your profiles into that folder, at least one RGB (e.g. ECI-RGB.icc and Your monitor profile created by l-prof, or downloaded from the manufacturer) and one CMYK profile (A measured Output profile or e.g. ISO-coated-sb) o Enable colormanagement (edit > preferences > colormanagement ) o Disable PDF transparencies (edit > preferences > general) o Export dialog: General > fileformat > pdf/X-3 (That disables all PDF features that are not allowed by the PDF/X-3 standards, such like "kryptography" o Export dialog: Fonts > embed all fonts o Export dialog: select the profiles under "color" o Export dialog: Use the PDF/X-3 dialog to define the trim box bye Gerhard
