Dr Charles S. Bond University of Dundee Tel: +44-1382-348325 Honorary Lecturer Dow St, Dundee Fax: +44-1382-345764 BBSRC David Phillips Fellow DD1 5EH, Scotland c.s.b...@dundee.ac.uk School of Life Sciences http://stein.bioch.dundee.ac.uk/~charlie
>>> "Richard Ball" <r...@ellerbach.com> 09/16/04 5:23 PM >>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:23:01 +0100, Roger Dodd wrote It's actually a little odd that the journal expects to have files in cmyk. Hi Richard, Pretty much all of the journals I submit to prefer cmyk. In my experience, if I submit cmyk, the final printed colours look better than if I leave it to them. On linux the two methods I've found for doing this are: Imagemagick: e.g. convert -colorspace cmyk -gamma 0.5 a.png a.tiff The Imagemagick conversion tends to result in a fairly drab, dark image, hence the gamma correction (try a few different values). GIMP: The is a cymk conversion plugin for gimp which, in my hands, does a better job of producing a vivid cmyk tiff. The program uses the Adobe ICC profiles. (see http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml) Cheers, Charlie
