> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:08:32 -0400 > From: "Louis Desjardins" <louis.desjardins at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Overprint > >> > Dear Scribes, >> > >> > I am working on a newsletter to be printed in two colors (C+K) and need >> > the black to always overprint the cyan. I've found many posts saying >> > this is possible and some showing how to do it in a previous version >> > (1.2, I think) but I cannot find it anywhere now. I am using Version >> > 1.3.3.9 on Windows XP. >> > Hi Luis, I am not aware of a feature allowing specifically to set a > color as overprint. A workaround to this would be to create a color > made of Cyan and Black, for instance 100% C + 100% Black. This will > give the overprint result you are looking for. HTH Louis Thanks! Hi Louis,
thanks for the reply and the suggestion. Making a color as you suggest would do something similar to what I want, but not quite exactly. As far as I understand, the printer runs over the paper twice, once with C and once with K; if the paper is not exactly aligned both times, you get white borders around the K (where there was no C to begin with and the K would have been if it were perfectly aligned), this is why they require us to deliver source with overprint. Looking around in a German forum I found out that Scribus 1.3.3.X does not support overprint (so no wonder I wasn't finding it!) but 1.3.4 (devel) does, so upgrading does the trick for me. By the way, 1.3.4 is very nice. Especially the style manager is a huge step over the previous version, and the overprint function comes just in time... Luis
