Rozenn, Please see my comments in-line.
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 08:49, Rozenn Lucas wrote: > Hi > > I am new to Scribus and I usually work on Mac on an old version of > Quark. > To avoid spending lots of money on a Quark update, I?ve switched to > Scribus on Linux for now and hopefully, I?ll use the Mac version when > it is ready for OSX. In the interim, you can get Scribus on OSX via fink. I've used it breifly on a Mac and it seems to work very well. We have a good active maintainer for the fink packages. On a dual G-4 it works very well. > My problem is I?ve provided the printing house with a pdf file which > colors come out lighter than my usual file made with Quark (I have > printed the same document but this time recomposed with Scribus). > I?ve generated the Scribus file using the File/Export/SaveAsPDF menu > item (and not the pdf tool icon in the tool bar) and have not checked > the ?Compress the text and vectorial graphics? box. The button and the menu item are the same. Compress text and vector graphic is just that - it does not affect image or output quality at all. > The image settings were set to Automatic for the method, Maximum for > the Quality and under the Color tab, I had selected the Printer > option. > Good. > Now maybe the problem comes from the fact that with a PDF file, you > don?t quite get the same image quality (the images that I had imported > were CMJK color mode saved under eps or tif format) than with a Quark > file but since Scribus took the images the way they were and has > apparently not done any conversion of some sort that could explain the > result, I really don?t know what to think. There should be zero difference in the image quality. > Would I be luckier exporting as an eps file ? > Possibly, but that is the automatic reaction of Quark users when faced with PDF issues :) It would be difficult to tell without looking at the files to compare. If you have irc, look for me (mrdocs) on at #scribus on irc.freenode.net I have Quark 4 and 5 on a Mac here, along with Scribus. > > I?m not a graphic nor a color specialist but I can take technical > explanations since I have sound people around me ! So, just throw your > ideas. > > Thank you > I would ask your printer if they can accept PDF/X-3. Scribus will faithfully produce fully compliant PDF/X-3 files. This ensures the icc profiles are properly applied in the files. See: http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/pre-press.html#ss4.9 and http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/pdfx3.html Hope that helps, Peter > > ______________________________________________________________________
