On Friday 22 July 2005 03:40, robert wrote: > On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:27, Owen wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:11:55 -0500 > > > > robert <robert at spotswood-computer.net> wrote: > > > I've just starting using 1.3.0 (July 14, 2005 build) and I can > > > export just fine. The problem is the pictures look very dark in > > > Reader (7.0). I've got the export set for screen/web and I > > > didn't find anything in archives. Just out of curiousity, I > > > also loaded the pdf up in xpdf, and while the fonts look bad, > > > the pictures are fine. Can anyone explain what's going on? > > > > I just saw your next message but will ask the questions here > > > > What sort of pictures are they, tiff,png etc. > > > > Under what circumstances do they look 'right'. For example, I > > take it they look allright in native scribus, but what about Gimp > > or some other image viewing program > > > > Have you made a monitor profile with lprof? (That might be a red > > herring) > > > > What does it look line in Acrobat-5.0.8, (I ask that because I > > get different colors from different Acrobats) > > > > All this colour stuff is a black art! > > Too dark...black art. Very punny of you :) > > Anyway, the pictures are png's. They look fine in the GIMP (where I > edited them), and gqview, and in Scribus. Ironically, they also > look fine in xpdf and Reader on Windows. It's only Reader for Linux > that displays the problem. > > I haven't done a monitor profile since I've never needed it. I did > set my color temp to 6500K though. > > I don't have 5.08 anymore, so I can't check it on that. But xpdf > displays the pictures correctly...
Can you mail me the file with the png in question to mrdocs at scribus.info ? I will take a look, but I suspect you hit the transparency w/ RGB bug we have found in Acro 7 Reader. It exists to an extent on Win32, but it is not so pronounced for some reason. Peter
