Hi there, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:02:10AM -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> >> 3.) I tried printing separations, and I got interesting results. > > > > It looks like ghostscripts eats some colors. > > That would not be my conclusion. My primary conclusion would be > user error. Management summary: General user error. :-( I took my example and actually _filled_ the rectangles now. I then exported to "Printer" PDF, converted that to CMYK TIFF using Ghostscript (8.5) and loaded that up into Cinepaint 0.23. I observed the following: - CMYK colors were not altered. - black image converted by tifficc exactly matches black image converted by Scribus (CMYK 87%/79%/64%/93%) - good to know, saves me a step in the future and lots of disk space - black image with ISOCoated profile looks different on screen than black RGB image, even though they come out the same in CMYK (ISOCoated image looks a lot blacker on screen). IMO that shouldn't be the case. - RGB 0/0/0 black became CMYK 0/0/0/100 black. -> this does not match the black image, so I cannot combine a black RGB background with a black RGB image for printing! This is not a Ghostscript issue since I checked the EPS file exported from Scribus - there is no cmyk color like from the image in there, only "0 0 0 1", "0.4 0.4 0.4 1" and "1 1 1 1" as expected from looking at the TIFF. So the only remaining issues are that "black from RGB image" does not match "black from RGB color" when exporting to CMYK and that "black RGB image" and "black ISOCoated image" look different on screen. Should I file a bug report on these issues or are they known? Thanks and sorry again for the fuzz, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de
