On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:06:04PM +0000, Terence Chan wrote: > > printer/destination profile. Now if I include an RGB picture into > > Scribus and produce a CMYK PDF (Printer target), the picture comes out > > different than when I convert the RGB picture to CMYK with embedded > > EuroscaleCoated profile using tifficc. The picture converted by Scribus > > looked greenish (there were mostly yellow/orangish colors in the > > picture). > > What PDF version and viewer are you using? I had a similar experience > earlier myself but in my case, the problem was to do with PDF version/PDF > viewer rather than colour management. For some reason Acrobat 7 reader > renders the colours greenish on screen with PDF 1.x but printing > should be fine - if you want to see good colours on screen try using > another PDF viewer like kpdf or xpdf, also exporting to PDF X3 > should give good results for nearly all PDF viewers.
I explicitly keep an Acroread 5 around for this purpose. The colors looked similar in all readers. Embedding the CMYK picture in Scribus made a difference to embedding the RGB picture, but it shouldn't. Maybe the embedded profile is kept? Bye, Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de
