On 12/1/2010 9:08 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 December 2010 15:04:11 Jim Ford wrote: >> On 12/1/2010 6:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 12/01/2010 06:39 AM, Jim Ford wrote: >>>> It seems to be a >>>> major drawback for people like me that only want a few copies, >>>> rather than 1000 off from a print shop! >>> >>> I think the devs may be thinking in terms of making Scribus a >>> major player in the professional field and ignoring the fact that >>> much of the user base is amateur. >> >> Yes. It's a great product and getting better, but as you say "much" >> (probably most) "of the user base is amateur". And as that user >> base usually will want to print small quantities of their work on >> their home printer, the absence of colour management for their >> printers is a very serious drawback. >> >> I might try a convoluted workaround by exporting from Scribus to >> pdf and then loading the pdf into Photoshop and printing from >> there. It'll be messy and I'm not keen on the idea, though! >> >> Jim > > I suggest loading the pdf into Acrobat Reader. In fact I do all my > Scribus printing from AR. It just works for me, no hassles.
But as far as I'm aware, Adobe Reader doesn't use printer colour management! Photographic images embedded into a Scribus file and exported to pdf don't print accurately - at least not for me on my Epson inkjet. Jim
