Marcin Szafran <jm_sz at ...> writes: > > Wiadomosc napisana przez John Brown, 10.07.2007 3:57, zawierala m.in. > takie slowa: > > Hello All, > > > > I am using version 1.3.3.9 n Windows XP. > > > > I created an empty black text frame, and used it as the background to a > > white (or transparent) text frame containing white text ...When I > > exported to PDF, the black background was not quite black. > > It was a very dark gray. > > > > It looks black in Scribus, but not in the PDF (Acrobat Reader 8.0, also > > in KPDF on kubuntu 7.04)...
While fixing the problem, I realized that it was not black in Scribus either. Sorry about that. > > How can I fix this? > > > check your colour profiles - specially for printer (in most such cases > that is the reason). turn it off and try to create pdf. > I looked in File -> Preferences -> Color Management. "Activate Color Management" is not selected. > also check if > your black is cmyk black (c0 m0 y0 k100) and not rgb. > marcin > I duplicated Black, and saw that its properties were as you described. However, the problem was fixed when I: 1) changed the colour model to RGB and set it to (0,0,0) The frame became black on screen in Scribus. 2) selected "Use ICC Profile" in Export to PDF -> Colors. I used the sRGB profile. I don't remember whether it was the default. Without (2), the frame was black in Scribus but not in the PDF. I also tried exporting to PDF with scribus-ng 1.3.3.8 on Kubuntu 7.04 before discovering the solution on Windows, and it seemed to work without my having to change any default options, but I would have to look again to make sure. Thanks for your help.
