perhaps someone who has a contact in adobe can find out for sure?
(that's the problem with propritary code - even if the standard is open) ultimately i guess what will matter is what the prining bureaus do. tariq -----Original Message----- From: francesco fantoni [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 March 2005 14:12 To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de Subject: Re: [Scribus] Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 is out ... Actually i keep finding the rendering of RGB pdf produced by scribus a lot different on acroreader 5 and 7. I include two screenshots of the same file. It's a rgb document generated on scribus using the album script i modified and saved "for the web". Acrobat Reader 7.0 has got a strong shift in colors (towards blue maybe?) and pictures are quite darker, with a lot of contrast. I notice differences on CMYK pdf documents too, but less eveident. Il giorno mar, 15-03-2005 alle 08:55 -0400, Greg Hill ha scritto: > Just did a test on Reader 7.0 with two types of color export. The first was > exported to pdf using the "for print" option and then the identical file > exported "for screen or web" view. I used Scribus with lcms enabled CMYK > profile. > Indeed the colors are accurate for both. The difference being that if you save > the file for web viewe you are saving it as rgb and the colors are vibrant. > Saving for print renders the colors more like CMYK, the industry standard for > printing, and the colors do appear somewhat pale. This is normal for CMYK > output, but a commercial printer would have no difficulty making the final > adjustment in his printing plant for optimum printing. > The results are consistant with the Mac version of Acrobat I use at work at > the newspaper.
