I am redoing my 2009 pdf e-book "Create Book Covers with Scribus" completely, this time in Scribus :<) It was written in pdftex during the Scribus 1.3.3.13 era. We now have 1.4.3 and and 1.6.0 will be available soon. I plan to cover both alternatives.
The e-book is as you might imagine full of color illustrations of cover designs etc. The publisher will allow me to upgrade the pdf e-book for a few bucks. I can also print a paper copy through the same publisher for free (their DIY program) but there is a hitch. They have had a lot of trouble with color print books. So they either want me to use their chosen expert (and pay her) or else do the print copy solely in B/W and grayscale. Part of my market for this book are the authors of this pubishing house so having a print version on their site is important. please don't rib me too much about a publisher insisting that their expert be hired to correct the layout of my book. My question is this. How do I convert all the color illos in the new Scibus pdf e-book version to grayscale for a paperback version? I can do them one at a time in Gimp but I was wondering if there were a Scribus method to do it en-masse, perhaps with an ICC profile? Their is no bleed involved. I will of course put a color paper version out on Amazon etc. later on with a different version indicator and a different ISBN. I just want to nail down this little niche market which has been good to me in the past. -- 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
