On 3/13/2014 6:42 AM, scribus-request at lists.scribus.net wrote: > snip... > 1. Co-Inventor of QuarkXPress Xtensions Offers Scribus Support > (Christoph Sch?fer) ---------------------------- > From: Flem <flemblog at free.fr> snip... > Wow, that's great news! > > Very impressive results on the provided Dropbox PDF. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwvcw4emmyjm0d5/ScribusPages.pdf
Thanks. And I agree. Thank Marty, who made the pages with Scribus. > The only question is: where does this images colour > variation between InDesign and Scribus come from? A very smart question! The InDesign pages come from Lancaster Newspapers. I suspect that the differences might be due to workflow differences. LN run a product we supply to US newspapers called Alwan CMYK Optimizer http://www.newspapersystems.com/Products/CMYKOptimizer and another product we also supply here from FotoWare called ColorFactory http://www.newspapersystems.com/FotoWare/ColorFactory. Both of these products greatly improve high end newspaper production through automation, image quality improvement and ink saving. The image changes are subtle on screens, but very noticeable on press output. What Scribus imports and outputs is compatible with these tools although we didn't run the Scribus input components or page output through them as was the case for the InDesign pages. > As there's no such one between QuarkXPress and Scribus... The Times Community Media doesn't have these products. They have a contract printer for 10 weekly issues. > Anyway, smart job SCS! > Thanks Flem for asking very good questions! I'll ask Marty to fill in more details. ---------------------------------------------------- From: Patrick Ernst <[email protected]> >Great to see support for Scribus like this. It shows that Scribus has reached a level of maturity when a commercial organisation chooses to add its support. Congrats to Scribus team and SCS. Thanks. We are quite heartened by the responses to our efforts so far. >The PDF was good to peruse. I did note that both Indesign and Quark font resolution was better and more legible. Keen observation! >It looked like the letters from those product were better anti-aliased, whereas the text from Scribus appeared a bit crude. A function of the export to PDF perhaps? There are two things going on here. Scribus 1.4.3 imports PDFs by rasterizing them. For the kind of images we need to produce this could be a show stopper. We built Scribus v1.5 as observed that (as promised) PDFs were imported without rasterization. This was a positive game changer for us. And those pesky fonts!!! To make the pages we picked a set of available, non-licensed fonts that looked about right and had close enough font metrics. We needed to adjust the set size etc. to get a fair match. For the high end using a newspaper's licensed fonts with Scribus would solve this. Very good observation!! >cheers Patrick Thanks, Patric for making such very good observations. ---------------------------------------------------- >Great news! >Welcome to the Scribus community. >Diego We are very happy to join you and the Scribus Community and lend what support we can. Richard. cichelli at newspapersystems.com www.newspapersystems.com -----------------------------------------------------
