>>Thinking the difference between screen/web and printer is in quality >>seems to be a common mistake people make. Perhaps Scribus should look at >>renaming these options? > >Seems to be a good idea :-) > >>The difference between screen/web and printer, is not in quality, but in >>colour model. screen/web will produce an RGB colour based PDF, while >>printer will produce a CMYK colour based PDF.
I guess we can look at this in various ways. 1. Web/Screen -> understated, RGB (can't be anything else) 2. Print -> CMYK would seem obvious From that point of view, why change these options, hmmm?! But the actual naming also reminds of preset settings in Acrobat where you can decide for what use your PDF is. And these settings are based on various choice of images compression that really affect the output. The same names are offered to users, as choice. Also, the Web/Screen vs Print rings a bell about "quality" for some of us. Some users seem not to realize they are in the "color" tab. I guess that's because we are all concerned by quality! So in the doubt, we pick the option that seems to be the top quality. Which, in that case, is not at stake. All this to say I am more on the side of asking for a change in these menu name options, although I understand perfectly the choice that has been made so far. If the names are changed, then the tooltip could be changed too and give the "basic" explanation. Menu -> Tooltip RGB -> PDF will be in RGB color space, perfect for Web/Screen display. [We could even add something like] (Warning, if you use this PDF for print, color will be affected.) CMYK -> PDF will be in CMYK color spalce, perfect for print usage Or something like that. Can this help clarify the case? Louis
