Am Montag, 22. Oktober 2007 21:31:14 schrieb Dr. Werner Popken: > Hi all, > > I'm ready to produce my first Scribus-made book, 770+ pages. Scribus > is really great, thank you all for the good work and all your help! > > I noticed that there is an pdf option in the settings dialog, both > general and document, where color can be set to either printer or > monitor. I used monitor before, it looked fine on the monitor, now I > tried printer as this ought to be printed, and the colors are not as > they should be on the monitor. The pdf-file is much larger, about > 20 times as big, as well.
If you print on your Inkjet, you should use "monitor" since the printer expects RGB input. For offset printing, "printer" is the right option. > > As I already printed this book in a previous 700-page-version with > Lulu, I know that the colors come fine when they look good on the > monitor (should be rather saturated on the monitor than not, rather > oversharped than not). I fear that when I print from the > printer-specific pdf, things might go wrong. Not so nice with a book > as big as this one. I already had one misprinted copy from Lulu > (not my fault, though, got an excellent replacement copy). > > Which option is the right one to choose? Is this something I should > ask the printer about or wouldn't he know what I'm talking about? It > is a company in Germany trying to find a way between Lulu and a > conventional publisher: shaker-media.de, people who talk and listen to > their authors. They don't mention which PDF version they can work with. You should ask them about it and also ask for an ICC profile of their printer. HTH Christoph
