On Sunday 09 January 2005 18:55, Henry Hartley wrote: > I've created a few documents in Scribus and am very happy with it > overall. Sure, it takes a bit of getting used to but that's true with > any sophisticated piece of software. My question has to do with image > quality in pdf documents created by scribus. What happens is this: I > have images that I've edited (either in GIMP on Linux or Photoshop on > Windows). The images look go both on-screen and when printed directly > from GIMP or Photoshop. Next, I create a document in scribus and place > the photograph in that document. I create a PDF document from that > scribus document and take it to be printed. The photograph, however, is > seriously washed out. It appears washed out in the pdf when viewed > on-screen, also. > > I'm not sure if this happens during the inclusion of the image into the > scribus document or at the point where the PDF is created. I haven't > found any way to control the images other than going back into the image > in GIMP and darkening them (much darker than seems reasonable). Is that > what I should be doing or is there something else going on that I can > control? Thanks for any advice you can provide.
As for Kobus, dont use Printer destination which will convert to CMYK. Let the images stay as RGB by using Screen/Web and give them an RGB PDF. Having said that, giving them a CMYK document should be perfectly ok if they know what they are doing. Craig Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050109/c00b598e/attachment.pgp
