Innocenti ,
I will follow with great interest your work, we uses for years OO as our
"only" desktop publishing tool and we publisch over 8.000 fullcolor
pages a year
To avoid the CMYK problems ( whats is pure temoparly because the
professional printers are fastly moving to a RGB workflow where just
before printing the RGB images are converted to CMYK.
We use for the moment a "private" workflow: We stores our CMYK-eps
images on a server and uses RGB lowres copys embeded in the
OO-documents and just before we makes our CMYK-PDF's we change the
embeded rgb-lowres images with a link to the serverbased CMYK
EPS-images. The secret is in using EPS because on Windows (do not know
about others), the internal Postscript pinter driver who is used to
makes the PDF do not thouch the EPS(=spostscript) images and leaves them
in CMYK. So we have at the end CMYK PDf 's who can be used by every
professional printer.
If you can/will make OO better, please put your efforts in handling the
different pixel resolutions needed to handle proper Desktop Publishing.
At the moment OO uses the DPI (when pressent in the original picture
our when not pressent uses 96 DPI.. The DPI must been diffined by the
final printer output and not by the DPI stored in the images....
- For Porfessional printers 254-300 DPI
- for laser printing 150 DPI
- for screen and web 96 DPI
- A better cropping-tool (I can give you our private written in Basic)
could also been handy
- Global changing off images....
Hope it helps
Fernand
Hello!
I am not (yet) a developper of OpenOffice, but going to seek a solution
which will improve OpenOffice Writer's usability in desktop publishing.
AFAIK all raster images stored internally in OpenDocument are in RGB,
but OpenOffice Writer can use external (linked) images in a document.
Unfortunally, even if image files use the CMYK color model,
such images may appear in RGB in PostScript output, at least in some cases.
I asked this question at http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=349217
, but got no reply.
Please, suggest, what options could control raster image exporting
(particularly color models conversion),
or, if such options are not available now,
what software components should be redesigned.
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