On Thursday 23 July 2009 07:48:38 pm Calum Polwart wrote: > AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! > > I have a 32 page newsletter with a colour cover. We've had > problems before with poor colour matching so we've been trying to > export as PDF X/3 > > But when I export to X3 I get an awful mess! > > Basically there are some shadows in two cover photos and they > export as black rather than dark colour. But the bit I don't > understand is... > > I have scribus open on my computer. I tell it to export to PDF > X/3 and then open on the same computer the document in Acrobat > Reader (9) and it looks all dark and scary. So I then try > printing it and it prints like it looks in Acrobat... So the > colour match from the Acrobat to the Printer seems fine. Why > does scribus think the photos need to become darker when its > exporting them? Surely they should be rendered darker on the > scribus screen....? > > I've pulled some screenshots together to show what I mean. Image > on LHS is Acrobat PDF X3 document, middle is scribus and right is > PDF 1.4 > > http://www.wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/colour.png > > You'll notice that PDF1.4 is far clearer than the X3 document...? > Yet this is the same desktop so should they not either all > render the same or left and centre be the same? > > Calum
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