hi kaspar, > Unfortunately, it did not help me. The result is still: "Total ink > density: 400%". The problem seems to be Scribus, not ICC profile. When > I use ImageMagick (convert cover-RGB.tiff +profile icm -profile > /usr/share/color/icc/AdobeRGB1998.icc -profile > /usr/share/color/icc/SC_paper_eci.icc cover-CMYK.pdf) to make a PDF > file, I get the result: "Total ink density: 227%".
sorry, i'm no wizard in this topic. but you seem to have an interesting and well researched case... it might be worth to upload your test files to the bug reporting system: http://bugs.scribus.net if you mark it as private, only the devs will see the files. ciao a.l.e