On 09/27/2015 06:33 PM, William Bader wrote: > > >> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:44:27 +1300 >> From: cbannister at slingshot.co.nz >> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Subject: Re: [scribus] total ink density problem >> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:50:17PM +0200, a.l.e wrote: >>> >>> this might lead some people to check the scribus output multiple times >>> (mostly with non professional tools) and give too much weight to the result >>> from that software, software that has proven to be very solid for them but >>> fails at the small advanced and very specific details that matter here. >>> (i mean, imagemagik is a good software that shines in every task i throw at >>> it! it must be right, when it reports to me the total ink density... and >>> indeeds it does its calculations right, if there was not a small detail that >>> makes the result wrong in this very context!) >> >> So there is a bug in Imagemagick, in which case I presume it was >> reported, or Imagemagick was being misused, and therefore the results >> were misleading? >> >> -- >> "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people >> who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the >> oppressing." --- Malcolm X >> >> ___ >> 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 > > Is the original PDF and command line still around? > It looks like imagemagick supports a "-define pdf:use-trimbox=true" argument. > It doesn't seem to help with my test files, but it might be a start of a > solution. > http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=15667
If you look at the bug report (Scribus), someone already suggested that and it didn't make much difference. Greg
