Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Dries ,Dave All (mostly) printschops can convert any RGB pdf to there own CMYK standard's Greetz Fernand Hello Dave, AFAIK, cmyk involves a certain patent, and isn't widely available in opensource projects like LO. I suggest you export your drawing to .png or .jpg, and the printshop shoul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread Steve Edmonds
Here are some suggestions. http://namakutux.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/how-to-print-with-cmyk-color-profile-in.html http://makandracards.com/makandra/1489-convert-the-colorspace-of-a-pdf-from-rgb-to-cmyk-under-ubuntu-linux And I found this EDIT: I have just discovered, that if I create an .odp prese

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I suspect that cmyk is only marginally better. Good to use if it's easy but in this case it isn't so don't. Image editing programs such as Gimp, Inkscape, stuff like that make it easy - but then you would be exporting from LO in RGB anyway. So the gains you could make would probably be off

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, they might be able to handle the Odg file too. They probably can't right now but they might - so it might be worth sending "the original" Odg too, along with the Pdf. If they get more and more people giving them Odg then they are more likely to install programs that can use it, such as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread Dries Feys
Hello Dave, AFAIK, cmyk involves a certain patent, and isn't widely available in opensource projects like LO. I suggest you export your drawing to .png or .jpg, and the printshop should be able to handle that, as otherwise they can't handle any incoming picture. In the latter case, I'd consider t

[libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

2014-12-08 Thread dave boland
All, I'm doing a Christmas card in LO Draw (I created the templates a few years ago, easy to use...). The print shop that I normally use says that you can use RGB, which is the normal PDF export, but CMYK is much better. So I'm looking for a simple, straight forward way of doing this that runs u