[Scribus] Big problem with RGB-image

PLinnell mrdocs
Thu Apr 21 17:01:53 CEST 2005


On Thursday 21 April 2005 14:43, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have experienced a very bad print job. A RGB-Logo given to me was
> very pale in the print-pdf I sent to a print shop. Now I want to
> understand, what was wrong.
>
> The Logo was provided as RGB and I thought that I could simply use
> it, scribus would find the right cmyk-conversion. That was
> obviously a fault.
>
> Is it correct,that Scribus does not make right cmyk-pdf-exports
> from a given rgb-image. I am not yet using color management,
> because I always thought that this is only relevant when doing
> scans or mixing own colors in rgb-modus, but not when you get a
> scaled and proved image, which should contain the logo in the
> correct color.
>
>  From this mailing list I learned that there are issues with
> cmyk-images but not with rgb-images.
>
> If anyone will have a look at my work, please mail me. I will
> provide a tarball.
>
> TIA
> juh
>
Just to let the list know:

1) I have Jan's files.

2) My initial inspection reveals they look press ready.

3) I will be doing some pre-press tests of these in the next 24 hours 
or less.

Peter





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