On Friday 03 February 2006 07:46, Peter Nermander wrote: > > i exported to PDF/X3, so parameter of colorspace is forced to be > > ,,Printer", next i uncompress the pdf using pdftk: > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong. > > I think that since PDF/X-3 can handle ICC profiles Scribus does NO > conversion at all when exporting to PDF/X-3. It just includes the > images with their colorspace. Then it's up to the displaying or > printing application to convert the images using the profiles for > the destination. >
This is correct in the case of 1.3.x > Lower versions of PDF do not handle ICC profiles so for those all > images are converted to the same color space during export. When > exporting for Screen they are converted to RGB and when exporting > for Printer they are converted to CMYK. > > /Peter > In 1.3.2 if you have embedded profiles and color management enabled, you have several options for profile embedding. PDF 1.3+ does handle icc profiles in PDF, its just not common in PDF 1.3 workflows. Peter
