On Thursday 17 February 2011 00:37:35 Owen wrote: > OK, have you read the manual on color management (Help->Manual) See > if you meet these parameters > > > > > Color management with Scribus, an Introduction > Activating Color Management > > For color management to function properly you need the following to > be installed to be active and usable: Littlecms libraries installed > and scribus compiled with lcms support. You can tell by looking at > Help -> About Scribus and looking for C-C-T. The first C means > Scribus is compiled with littlecms support. This is standard with > MacOSX and Windows. > > You need a minimum of 1 RGB and 1 CMYK profile. Scribus > provides two basic profiles to ensure CMS can be enabled > immediately. In practical terms, you need more. One sRGB for most > RGB colors and one for each color device. One for your monitor > which is created with monitor profiling tools. Several CMYK > profiles for printing. Some CMYK profiles are known as > "press-standards", in that they represent common commercial print > standards used in North America and Europe. The best bet is to > download the "Windows" version of the Adobe ICC profile package and > unzip it into a directory like $home/.colors/icc. > > Linux users can also download freely distributable profiles from > the ICC downloads section on www.scribus.net Scribus, by default on > Linux, will look in: > $home/.color/icc and /usr/share/color/icc/ > for both personal icc profiles or system wide ones. There is a > small, but growing collection of freely available icc profiles for > download on www.scribus.net. Look in the Downloads -> ICC section. > Scribus on Windows or MacOSX will look in the default system > directories. Earlier versions of Scribus will look in the directory > specified in preferences. > > If you are new to color management, please look over the links and > documentation on color management listed on www.scribus.net. These > explain the theory and concepts far better than I could here. > > > Owen > > > > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:51:04 -0800 (PST) > > Thomas Baumann <thomasbaumann at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Already have the Activate Color Mgmt box checked and still get > > the error. > > > > --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote: > > > > > > From: Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> > > Subject: Re: [scribus] ICC error > > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > > Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 2:35 AM > > > > > Am trying to use the ICC color management but am getting an > > > error "An error occurred while opening ICC profiles, color > > > management is not enabled." > > > > > > How do I fix? Using 1.3.3.14 and Windows XP. > > > > Enable color management :-) > > > > File->Preferences->Color Management and activate color management > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
For those who deal with LSI: that printer has a rule that a color (e.g., Rich Black) cannot have more than 240% ink saturation. For spot colors you can control that your self through the color palette. But an imported illo etc. might have a higher percentage. So here is a custom icc profile that limits the color saturation to 240% or less: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/SWOPcoated5_240.icc -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
