On Friday 12 May 2006 06:05, Nik wrote: > 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.
Scribus does not yet support grey scale icc profiles, nor will you get much gain using them. > > > 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. > The docs clearly say only use PDF/X3 when your printer can use it. > 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? > > Feature request is already there and we know about it. It is on the roadmap for 1.3.x > Cheers! > Nik > > Peter
