On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:35:11 +0100 > "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > > Thanks to all those that helped me get the print preview working in > > > Scribus.... > > > > > > Now another issue. I was hoping that the ink coverage preview > > > facility in Scribus would be good enough that I wouldn't need the > > > pre-press capabilities of Acrobat Pro. However, the results > > > Scribus gives are dramatically different than what Acrobat Pro > > > gives. Where Scribus sees maximum ink coverage of 160%, Acrobat > > > sees ink coverage of 260% to 300%. > > > > > > Is this a known issue? Am I doing something wrong? Given Adobe's > > > position > > > in the industry, I feel that I should trust the Acrobat pro results. > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > It would be easier to help if we knew what you're actually trying to > > do/achieve. Are you trying to operate a printing machine from within > > Scribus? Which PS printer driver do you have installed? If it's not > > Adobe's generic PS printer driver, which one is it?. Does this driver > > show up in Acrobat, and did you actually select it? There are so many > > unknown parameters that it's hard to answer your questions. > > > > Christoph > > > > ___ > > 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 > > use a variant of a common icc profile to make sure that the > requirement of LSI (no more than 240% coverage) is observed. > Here it is: > http://wexfordpress.net/SWOPcoated5_240.icc > > > > > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > ___ > 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 > Does this mean that if I use the same profile in Scribus and in Acrobat that I should get similar results? @Christoph - > What are the variables that you are talking about? I understand that there is a whole chain of processing that gets done during the printing process, but that is completely invisible to me. Is there a web site that has a tutorial on this that describes the process? What I'm trying to achieve is sending a pdf for a circular (flier) to a commecial printer and have the confidence that the printed results will match my intentions. This printing company has a "Prinergy" setup that does Gray Component Replacement, Sets total ink coverage to 280%, Black Start @30%, Black Max @90% and Black Strength @ 50%. At least that's what the printer people told me. I understand this only in a general sort of way, but not really in terms of how it will affect the final product (which is printed, but I've not seen a hard copy of). It could be that I'm worrying needlessly about this. It just seems to me that if I send the printer a pdf that needs less tweaking by their print system, then I will be more likely to have the results match my intentions. -- Thanks, Jonathan Kreider -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130307/ac93bfd8/attachment.html>
