Re: [Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine 
On 4/10/10, Claus Cyrny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to provide a business card as PSD/
> CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I
> go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)?

Use most recent version of separate+ plug-in

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Mohler 
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Chris Mohler  wrote:
> if I
> find anything out, I'll post back.

All I really discovered is that if you place the coatedSWOP profile
into /usr/share/color/icc it becomes available to Scribus

Also, I neglected to mention that you should change the
'Compatibility' option to PDF/X-3 on the 'General' tab of the PDF
export Dialog.  Then a new tab will become available: "PDF X-3" [0].
Here you may specify the output profile to be used.  Note you must put
something into "info string" before it will let you save.

Sorry this info is sorta all over the place - I do a little prepress
stuff in linux from time to time, but have mainly been stuck using
Adobe products in a VM.

Chris

Here's one reference site on PDF-X3, and plenty more exist:
http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:faq
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Re: [Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Mohler 
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Claus Cyrny  wrote:
> I need to provide a business card as PSD/
> CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I
> go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)?
> I designed the card initially in Inkscape &
> will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is
> actually the first time I am using a color profile,
> so any tips would be appreciated.

If the printer will accept PDF, I would design in Scribus and check
the color management tab when exporting the PDF.  Change the 'Output
intended for' to 'Printer' and it will save a CMYK PDF.  Don't mess
with the checkboxes.

If you have images to into Scribus, you can convert them to CMYK using
imagemagick beforehand.

Or if the PSD is flat[0], you might consider just converting that to
CMYK (via imagemagick) as an alternate solution.

Also - be sure you have the package 'icc-profiles' installed through
apt.  Oops - I just reread, and you are going to have to download the
SWOP profile from Adobe's web site (get the windows version):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680

You need to extract them to "$prefix/share/Scribus/profiles" as described here:
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=cms2

Although I'm not 100% sure how to make sure that the SWOP profile is
specified/embedded.  I'm going to play around with it a little - if I
find anything out, I'll post back.

HTH,
Chris

[0] - the last time I tried to use imagemagick on a layered PSD I ran
into problems, but it's been quite some time.
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[Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Claus Cyrny 

Hi,

I need to provide a business card as PSD/
CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I
go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)?
I designed the card initially in Inkscape &
will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is
actually the first time I am using a color profile,
so any tips would be appreciated.

TIA,

Claus


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