Nik schrieb: > Hi Andreas! > > Thank you for your time and suggestions. > > > In your case that would have to be a grayscale ICC profile I'd guess. > > Try to install a generic one > > I had wondered whether I could produce greyscale PDF using a greyscale > profile... > Thank you for your suggestion - I'll look into a greyscale profile.
For a grayscale document, you don't need color profiles at all most of the time, so you probably don't have to care about any advanced color problems. > > Did your printer ask specifically for X-3 compatibility? > No. In fact, they seemed quite confused by the term - I don't think they > actually know what it is. > I selected PDF/X-3 because from my research, it seemed the most reliable > way to ship a print-ready document. > I thought this decision was confirmed when the printer asked for bleed, > and I saw the PDF/X-3 options apparently included control over this. No, PDF/X-3 deals mostly (only?) with color problems. Bleed is only a margin of a couple mm around the document (or on some sides only), which are printed and then cut away by your printer. This is required if you have e.g. a black box which is supposed to go close to the page margin. If your printer would cut the paper not directly at the margin line, you would see a small line of white from the paper at your margins. If you don't have any elements going close to the margins, you can send the document without bleed, too. > However, someone has posted instructions to me on creating bleed in a > regular scribus document, so I will try to set this up correctly, and > send it to the printer. I must say that the 'trim box' in the PDF/X-3 > options certainly seemed a simpler way of doing it - if indeed that does > create bleed for me. > > Q: Is there any way of including some 'bleed' control in regular > (non-PDF/X-3) PDF creation, and is it worth a feature request? It's already planned.
