On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:39:17PM +0200, Fabien SK wrote: > Le dimanche 20 juillet 2008 ? 13:51 +0200, Tino Schwarze a ?crit : > > BTW: Are you sure the print shop won't do automated color correction or > > something else? Did they provide a color profile for you to use, so your > > RGB->CMYK conversion is correct?
> The print shop allows optional automatic correction. I don't know yet > which option I will choose. I did not calibrated my screen (I don't have > any device to do so, and I don't know anyone who has one), and the last > time I ordered some prints (years ago), the non-automatically corrected > photos (I tried both) appeared too dark. Well, I suppose, if they auto-correct your pre-layouted pages, things might get pretty worse because there are multiple images in it (not so with ordinary photos) and you've got a lot of black there. The images might get very distorted. > They provide an ICC profile, but I know about nothing about color > calibration and things like that, I'm just a basic user. My goal is just > to have a decent result. Which kind of ICC profile do they provide? CMYK, RGB? You should use that in any case to do the RGB->PDF export. You don't need a calibrated system for that. You should NOT try to export to "Printer" (=CMYK) PDF without color management activated! The results will be very bad. > > The whole point of Scribus is to *not* export to image files, but to > > PDF. This should be your eventual format, and you can do this in > > individual page files if you wish. Alternatively, exporting to EPS > > should work, but PDF is far preferable. > > Well, the online print shop only accepts image files (it's more a > general public site than a shop for professionals), so I would like to > do like if I were ordering my original photos. You should check carefully in which format you deliver your photos - CMYK is probably not the best option if you're trying to pretent to deliver original photos - these are in RGB. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I cannot check their page. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de
