On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:37, Maciej Hanski wrote: > Plinnell napisa?(a): > > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:56, Corn? Verbruggen wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> following the guidelines on > >> > >> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_use_spot_colours_with_S > >>cri bus > >> > >> I tried to use Pantone colors. For some reason it does not work > >> out the way it should. When I print the pdf's at my print > >> office, the rgb/cmyk colors are used instead of the Pantone spot > >> colors. > >> > >> The print office has spot color capable printing devices > >> (Xerox). I even got their "Xerox DocuSP solid coated color > >> simulation chart" and used the color names from it (e.g. > >> 'PANTONE 102 CS" for a kind of yellow). > >> > >> Somewhere I must be making a mistake. Any advice? > >> > >> -- > >> Kind regards, > >> Corn? > > > > That method on the wiki is somewhat out of date. > > What exactly is out of date? We should make it up to date again:)
I should have said *soon* to be out of date :) > > > Scribus can import > > spot colors via the Edit > Colors from other documents. In > > 1.3.4cvs, you can import spot colors of all kinds directly from > > EPS, PS and even some .ai files. > > > > The issue you are hitting is the way the spot colors are embedded > > in the PDF. That should work fine in 1.3.4. > > Will spot colors going work reliably in the stable 1.3.3.* branch? If you can convince Franz to backport it. Feasible ? No idea. The way it works in 1.3.4 is very clever though and I will update the docs accordingly. > cheers > Maciej Cheers, Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20061117/f74586b6/attachment.pgp
