On Sunday 08 May 2005 15:40, Maciej Hanski wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2005 16:28:44 -0400 > > Louis Desjardins <louisdesjardins at videotron.ca> wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > Just want to go over the basics. > > > > 1. As a very first step, you need to make sure littlecms is > > installed. You can check this in the About Scribus menu where you'll > > note the compilation date. There are capital letters following the > > date. One of them stands for littlecms and tooltips are there to > > assist. If this is not the case, nothing else will be of any use. How > > to install this properly is beyond me. But I know docs.scribus.net > > must be pretty clear. :) > > > > 2. Then, as bostjan points out, you need ICC profiles, both CMYK and > > RGB in the same directory. You have to tell Scribus where to locate > > this directory. > > > > 3. Only then will you be able to activate Color Management (from my > > previous post). > > > > 4. Then, you will have access to PDF/X-3. > > Wiki is your best friend: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_and_installing_ICC_profiles > > cheers > Maciej > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
In addtion: 1) 1.2.2 CVS has new tooltips to explain when it is disabled. 2) The 1.2.2 docs have been completey re-written for CMS. 3) I am hoping to add a couple of 'generic' profiles, just to enable CMS automagically. The possbile trade off is lots of "my prints look lousy" when CMS is enabled. I guess the other question for the original poster is if PDF/X-3 really desired? PDF/X-3 pre-supposes two things: A commercial printer with a very advanced RIP. A user with experience with color management and already having correctly profiled monitors, as well as other peripherals. Peter
