Am Freitag 24 Juli 2009 01:48:38 schrieb Calum Polwart: > AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! > > I have a 32 page newsletter with a colour cover. We've had problems > before with poor colour matching so we've been trying to export as PDF X/3 > > But when I export to X3 I get an awful mess! > > Basically there are some shadows in two cover photos and they export as > black rather than dark colour. But the bit I don't understand is... > > I have scribus open on my computer. I tell it to export to PDF X/3 and > then open on the same computer the document in Acrobat Reader (9) and it > looks all dark and scary. So I then try printing it and it prints like it > looks in Acrobat... So the colour match from the Acrobat to the Printer > seems fine. Why does scribus think the photos need to become darker when > its exporting them? Surely they should be rendered darker on the scribus > screen....? > > I've pulled some screenshots together to show what I mean. Image on LHS is > Acrobat PDF X3 document, middle is scribus and right is PDF 1.4 > > http://www.wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk/colour.png > > You'll notice that PDF1.4 is far clearer than the X3 document...? Yet this > is the same desktop so should they not either all render the same or left > and centre be the same? > > Calum
Umm, the colors have to be more blakish for printing, because offset colors are a little transparent (they still show the white from the paper). So the picture on the left hand side looks like a document intended to be printed for me. Why your Acrobat did not correct the display with the embedded color profiles is a mystery to me though. Are you sure your whole workflow is color corrected? Can you get a proof from your printer? A proof would be the only definitive answer if your colors will look as intended or not (at least as far as I know). Jan
