[Scribus] Images in PDF output

Craig Bradney cbradney
Sun Jan 9 20:18:19 CET 2005


On Monday 10 January 2005 02:39, Kobus Wolvaardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > the photograph in that document.  I create a PDF document from that
> > scribus document and take it to be printed.  The photograph, however, is
> > seriously washed out.  It appears washed out in the pdf when viewed
> > on-screen, also.
>
> I also experience this. Correct me if i'm wrong, but it has to do with the
> conversion from rgb->cmyk. I think that converting a file to cmyk with
> photoshop or gimp (I dont know how good gimp supports this) and including
> it into scribus might improve the color.
>
> A while ago there was a discussion about cmyk images being changed when
> exported as cmyk in scribus, and there was talk of exporting all cmyk
> files unchanged to pdf. Is this true? There are companies who has very
> harsh demands when it comes to the color of their ads and it would help if
> I can export cmyk images (pdf's, eps's, tiff's) without their color being
> altered.

You can.. set destination Screen/Web and not print.

Craig
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