Ah, that probably explains the initial "convert to tiff" suggestion, which is probably redundant now. Sometimes it's good to know *why* :-)
Thanks. -- Ciao Richard Foley Supporting Naked Activities http://www.naktiv.net On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:39:21AM +0200, Flem wrote: > Le 10/06/2012 22:15, Richard Foley a ?crit : > >When creating a PDF with Scribus, is there any particular advantage to > >converting JPG photographs to TIFF format, before generating a PDF? > > > >I ask because this was recommended to me as the right way to proceed to > >generate a PDF for printing via LSI for instance, but it is unclear to me as > >to > >why this would be in any way beneficial. It seems to me likely merely to > >increase the file sizes required, but am happy to be corrected. > > Another point of view would be the way many people worked before an > efficient profile management emerged: the normal process was then to > convert any picture in CMYK before importing it in any DTP software. > In this very process it was logical to avoid JPG format as it > destroys the photographs a little more at every file rewriting. > > Now that pictures can remain in RGB in the DTP software before > generating the final printing PDF this recommendation is not usefull > anymore as long as you don't need to modify the JPG file in any way. > :) > > -- > Flem > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
