Christoph, Louis, Peter and Craig, thank you all for contributing to my knowledge. I am experimenting, reading and learning (a lot).
It gives me enough material to go to the printershop for further discussion with them. Regards, Cor Op woensdag 7 september 2005 21:58, schreef Christoph Sch?fer: > Hi Cor, > > > 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? > > From what you wrote, it seems to me they want a CMYK colour profile > embedded in the file. You can do this in scribus in the properties > palette, provided you have such a profile. If you don't need brilliant > colours, you can also try sRGB, which normally translates easily to > CMYK. It's not what I would recommend generally, but just in case ... > > > 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. > > Yes, it should ;) > > > I will experiment with the tiff format (from GIMP) and the possibility I > > saw in Photoshop to choose for CYMK there > > In current GIMP, you can't work in the CMYK colour space, neither can > you apply any profiles. These features will be available in the next > version (2.4). But if you don't need to edit your file, scribus is your > friend. You can attach a profile to the image, do the gamut check and > let scribus do the conversion when exporting to PDF. > > groeten, > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Groet, Cor
