Thank you Richard for the informative and meaningful responses to the colour and font questions. Learning more every day!
Cheers, Patrick On 14/03/2014 2:26 AM, Richard Cichelli wrote: > 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 <patrick at aroaustralia.com> > > >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 > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > ___ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140314/c735b999/attachment.html>
