?ann f?s 21.sep 2012 12:48, skrifa?i john Culleton: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:09:11 -0400 (EDT) > brinydeep at lavabit.com wrote: > >> When using Scribus to create a PDF for commercial printing, do you >> need to import images/photos as CMYK (already converted from RGB >> elsewhere)? Or, will Scribus automatically convert RGB images to CMYK >> when creating the PDF for the printer? > > If you use a correct ICC profile and set up Scribus for print > rather than web then you should be OK, IME. >
It's been ages since I've had to send in a project in CMYK, PDFs in RGB with respective embedded profiles is the norm around here. Occasionally my projects use spot colours, rarely more than one at a time; then I normally rely on the competences of the printshop people ;-) Also been ages since I've had to send in a separate spot-colour sheet. Just got back some print-on-demand photobooks; instead of using the dumbed-down windoze-only-crappy-cloudy-software I used Scribus to layout a very difficult mix of photos from various sources/ages (BW and color scans, negative and positive filmscans, orange tinted, blueish, yellowish etc...) with various types of RGB-profiles. I'm even a bit surprised how exactly/correctly Scribus managed to display this mess on-screen comparing it to the final product (via 'Simulate printer'). But then; the printshop people were nice and pointed me to the correct output profile. The only complaint I have for Scribus in this workflow is my inability to control the degree/strictness of out-of-gamut highlighting in the 'Simulate printer' feature. The feature would IMHO be of much more service to track real colour problems if the out-of-gamut noise could be lowered a bit. Regards, Sveinn ? Felli
