On Wednesday 01 December 2010 15:04:11 Jim Ford wrote: > On 12/1/2010 6:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/01/2010 06:39 AM, Jim Ford wrote: > >> It seems to be a > >> major drawback for people like me that only want a few copies, > >> rather than 1000 off from a print shop! > > > > I think the devs may be thinking in terms of making Scribus a > > major player in the professional field and ignoring the fact that > > much of the user base is amateur. > > Yes. It's a great product and getting better, but as you say "much" > (probably most) "of the user base is amateur". And as that user > base usually will want to print small quantities of their work on > their home printer, the absence of colour management for their > printers is a very serious drawback. > > I might try a convoluted workaround by exporting from Scribus to > pdf and then loading the pdf into Photoshop and printing from > there. It'll be messy and I'm not keen on the idea, though! > > Jim
I suggest loading the pdf into Acrobat Reader. In fact I do all my Scribus printing from AR. It just works for me, no hassles. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
