Hi Nik, Am Dienstag, 14. M?rz 2006 02:04 schrieb Nik: > Hi Folks, > > My apologies if this has been covered already in FAQs or the like, but > my searches have not found any direct references. > > (I am using the standard scribus 1.2.4.1 as maintained in the Fedora > Core YUM repository.) > > I have a scribus document (a newsletter) from which I need to produce > multiple output documents: a colour PDF for a webpage, and a PDF to send > to a printing house for monochrome printing. > > I have assembled a 4 page test document, generated a test PDF/X-3, and > sent this to our printers. They have responded that there are a few > minor changes needed for them to be able to print from this:
A question I would ask first is: Why PDF/X-3 if you want to print greyscale or duotone? > > 1. All pictures need to be in greyscale For converting colour pictures to real greyscale in GIMP, please read the tutorial here: http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Color2BW/ > > 2. If we are printing in monochrome (which we currently do) then all > text must be black. > > 3. If we are printing in black plus one colour (which we don't currently > do, but are considering the option), then we need to provide the > document in black plus one colour expressed as a Spot colour. This seems to make sense, since your printer probably only needs to produce two plates instead of four. > > In addition, the document has fill colour in some of the boxes > (specified as red @ 15%). I presume I need to output this as black @ 15% > for the monochrome output. > > I had hoped that I could produce both PDFs from the same document - ie, > be able to specify greyscale for images and black for text/stroke/fill > when creating the PDF/X-3 for the printer, and specifying full colour > when creating the PDF for the web. > > Q1: Is this simply a matter of my correctly setting some output > parameter(s) that I haven't fully understood? For example, installing a > greyscale Output Profile (instead of the default Fogra27L CMYK profile), > or possibly an ICC colour profile? You can do yourself a favour and wait a few days until Scribus 1.3.3 is released. It has additional greyscale export, as long as you don't use PDF/X-3. > > Q2: Or do I need to create a separate greyscale document, either > manually, or through a script or plugin? I had no chance to test greyscale export of 1.3.3, but if you need high quality greyscale files, I'd follow the instructions for creating greyscale images in the tutorial mentioned above. > > Q3: Is there some other way that I haven't thought of? As above: Even if you don't trust 1.3.3 yet, install it in addition to your 1.2.4.1 and try the greyscale option in PDF export. > > All comments and feedback gratefully accepted. > > Cheers! > Nik. HTH, Christoph
