[Scribus] CMYK or Sending to a Printer

[Dennis]

> Did you try using the qtmonitorprofile tool from the lprof package to
> create a monitor profile?  My PDF exports with CMS were really different
> from my monitor with the plain Adobe profiles until I used the
> qtmonitorprofile tool to adjust my contrast.  It sounds like your
> initial comment was the closest match except for some contrast
> adjustements.

Hi again,

Here is what I did. I used qtmonitorprofile and followed the instructions, now 
my monitor is on 100% contrast and 0% brightness (BenQ FP767-12 LCD). Looked 
weird at first, but got used to it. All gamma programs show clear gamma in 
all grayscales though (CMS ones, kgamma, etc). 

When I open a picture with the CMS qtmeasurement tool, yes it looks flat, and 
when I proof it with the monitor profile, yes it looks gorgeous. 

So, I installed this profile (as well as Adobe's standard profiles) in 
Scribus, enabled CMS and set up the monitor profile.

2 things happen:

- If I enable gamut checking, literally every single color turns to gray (as 
in out of gamut), except maybe a single shade of cyan. (this is in pictures, 
text, and Scribus' own color palette).

- Without gamut checking, but on-screen print checking, pictures are washed 
out, but somehow text entered with Scribus is not. (i.e. I can not import any 
decent color in any picture, but red text in Scribus is red).

When I export to PDF, set for Printer, the result looks great in acroread - 
but according to identify it is an RGB PDF, not CMYK. I am not sure if the 
printer people want that. (all RGB PDF's look great in acroread btw so I 
could have just as well exported for Screen without any CMS?).

Do I need to adjust the pictures before use? Given a standard high-res picture 
from a digital camera, slightly edited in the Gimp, to use in an ad which is 
to be supplied in PDF format in CMYK (with no further details specified),  
which steps did I miss? 

Many thanks for any advice, and thanks for a great program!
Dennis