From: David Burleigh <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 4:32 PM To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Subject: Re: [scribus] Dot Gain
Do you mean modifying the pdf before burning the plate? Somehow in InDesign there is a provision for compensating for the expected dot gain. I've never used InDesign, and never will, but the co-workers I'm trying to win over to Scribus see this lack of pre-press features as a fatal flaw. On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:23:19 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > On 02/07/2017 03:23 PM, David Burleigh wrote: > [...] > > That's the point I'm talking about. I would think there would be dot > adjustments that could be made at that point. > If not, you're back to experimenting on your own. Scribus doesn't > create the dots. > > Greg --- I have not tried it, but Scribus supports ICC profiles https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Getting_and_installing_ICC_profiles and ICC profiles can specify dot gain and color curves. https://printplanet.com/forum/prepress-and-workflow/color-management/274-dotgain-compensation-in-icc-profiles Regards, William -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170208/1395e638/attachment.html>
