Hi Christoph and Louis I was confused too, so I spoke again with people in the printshop. Why does my pdf not print well? (yes Christoph, I had used 'printer' in the pdf color settings). They told me that if they would do the job, they would first 'translate' a jpg file to contain CYMK information (with photoshop they said). This jpg file would go into Xpress and a good pdf is the result. Sorry for my somewhat criptic last part in the first e-mail. I do not understand why they to this separate translation. Does Xpress not create a pdf with colors in the CYMK colorspace?
So I am looking how to translate (RGB)?- jpg (stemming from a scanned photograph) to CYMK-jpg. I understand that it should go well with the 'printer' button in the pdf color settings. I will experiment with the tiff format (from GIMP) and the possibility I saw in Photoshop to choose for CYMK there. Thanks for your kind help so far. Best regards, Cor Op woensdag 7 september 2005 20:19, schreef Christoph Sch?fer: > Hi Cor, > > > Now it turns out that the printer shop needs a pdf file with information > > about the main colors and black (CYMK). They are printing on a 4 color > > offset machine and I am desperate, how to make a pdf file with separate > > information about the main colors and black? > > As Louis wrote, you can convert to TIF in GIMP (RGB only for the time > being), but I somehow doubt that it wouldn't work with JPEGs either. You > have to make sure that your output is "Printer" in PDF settings. Scribus > will then create a file with colours in CMYK colourspace. > > As for the CMYK-values of the fill colour, the easiest way is to write > down the CMYK values from scribus and tell the printer what they are > (this colour is C= , M= , Y= , K= ). I always do that to make sure I get > what I want. > > > I hope someone of you can explain to me what to do. Is this possible with > > Scribus. The printer shop confirms that they make such a transalation > > with their DTP software (express I thought they mentioned). > > This is a strange thing that happens in many small shops. They try to > use QXP (Xtensions) for everything, including impositions and > separations. The result are problems that would not occur with Acrobat + > PitStop or other well suited programmes. > > groeten, > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Groet, Cor
