[scribus-dev] lcms 2.8 and transparency flattening

["Christoph Schäfer"]

Hi all,


According to https://sourceforge.net/p/lcms/mailman/lcms-user/thread/000001d1c02a%249a1ac4a0%24ce504de0%24%40littlecms.com/#msg35140820 the next version of lcms will support Alpha channels. I wonder if this can help us resolve the lack of transparency flattening in Scribus.

One of the major obstacles of "selling" Scribus to users is that most printers who are asking for PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 files have no idea about the limitations of these standards. The reason is, of course, that InDesign flattens transparencies automatically, whereas Scribus doesn't have a mechanism like this.


Christoph