[Scribus] joboptions are not ICC-profiles, right?

[Gerhard Gaussling]

Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 15:23 schrieb Sebastian R?der:
> Yesterday, I asked my printer-office for a ICC-profile of its
> printer, because I want to use pdf/X3.

Hello,

I think it's sufficient to use the recommended profiles of the Euoropean 
Color Initiative. There are new profiles for offset-printing arrived 
last week, shipped with the www.altonatestsuite.com . You can download 
the older ones at www.eci.org . 

Recommended work color space for RGB is ECI-RGBv10.icc 
http://www.eci.org/files/profiles/ECI-RGBv10.sit [32kB]

Recommended work color space for CMYK is ISO-coated-sb
part of this Archive:
http://www.eci.org/eng/pages/profiles_e.html#fogra

Somewhere on the web I found also zip archives.

Also you can get much Informations about pdf/x-3,  if you are a german 
reader, at http://www.eci.org/eng/pages/pdfx3_e.html and www.pdfx.de.

Your printer should be able to get good prints if you use the 
recommended ISO CMYK profile. If he got a specific profile of the used 
output device the better are the circumstances. 

*.joboptions are only used by Adobe Acrobat. They are option sets for 
the destilling process to create an PDF similar to the options You can 
adjust in the scribus export dialog.

Be shure, that you choosed the following options:

o	create in /usr/local/share/scribus a folder profiles
o	copy your profiles into that folder, at least one RGB (e.g. 
	ECI-RGB.icc and Your monitor profile created by l-prof, or downloaded
	from the manufacturer) and one CMYK profile (A measured Output profile
	or e.g. ISO-coated-sb)
o	Enable colormanagement (edit > preferences > colormanagement )
o	Disable PDF transparencies  (edit > preferences > general)
o	Export dialog: General > fileformat > pdf/X-3 (That disables all PDF 
	features that are not allowed by the PDF/X-3 standards, such like
	"kryptography"
o	Export dialog: Fonts > embed all fonts
o	Export dialog: select the profiles under "color"
o	Export dialog: Use the PDF/X-3 dialog to define the trim box


bye

Gerhard