On Friday 24 February 2006 01:27, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi John, > > Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 01:09 schrieb John R. Culleton: > > Scribus documents can be saved in the CMYK color model. > > > > Suppose I buld a document and add an image built with Gimp, which > > only works in the RGB color model. I finish the document and > > save it as e.g., tiff. > > > > 1. Is the imported image now expressed in CMYK model? > > No. > > > 2. At what point does the conversion occur, when the Gimp image > > was imported or when the Scribus document was written out? > > It wil be converted when export to PDF and choose "printer" as destination. > > > 3. Are there limitations or preferences with this conversion > > process in re. using a tiff vs. a png image to be prepared in > > Gimp and imported by Scribus?? > > It's not the import/export process, it's the file formats themselves. PNG > can only consist of 256 colours, so it's of few to no use for photographs. > It is only useful for screenshots or other graphics with only a limited > colour range. The advantages of PNG: lossless compression and transparency.
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