Hellow. I use duotone with scribus all the time, for promotional flyers we make every month.
I usually delete all unused colors and leave 2 which i want to use. it is much easier to select them, as there is no other colors in the way. i think it/s edit colors dialog to add and remove default colors in document. i have arranged with my printshop that they print me 2 pantone colours that i pick from the table. well i pick em mostly by eye and monitor but still. The procedure is that before you export to pdf you change your colours to one 100% cmyk colour. like 100% cyan 0%magenta, 0%yellow, 0%black. then export to pdf using printer as type of destination. in the 4th tab i think. then everything else the printshop should know how to print. with this way u have only 2colours so no random mistakes that the colour is not right. if you need different tones of colour u just use that the colour is like 20% of original or something. it works well. with bitmaps it/s trickier. u can make black and white and then replace one colour and u have monochrom. don/t use bitmaps lots. prefer svgs with scribus, when u import the svg and it/s not the right colour just go to the colours menu, delete the colour #smt. from SVG and it replaces it with your selected one. so it/s your picked colour. that would be it. hope that i have helped at least a little. peter Quoting Vic Mortelmans <vic_mortelmans at telenet.be>: > Hallo, > > can scribus handle duotone (bichrome) publications? I'm not a > professional, but I want to design posters or flyers for a concert and > out budget is limited to printing 2-colors (black + orange). > > For regular drawing entities, I can of course restrict to those colors, > but it would be far more easy, if I could tell scribus beforehand to > restrict to specific colors. > > What about bitmap elements? Duotone images seem very hard to create. The > Gimp can't (as far as I figured out searching documenation and the > inernet). Can scribus help me out for that? > > Groeten, > > Vic > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
