[Scribus] PDF Export to Grayscale.

Arron Robinson mouserar
Tue Mar 15 04:05:12 CET 2005


Here's a Greyscale Print Profile. I cannot try this until tomorrow, so
if you want to play with this, have at it!


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:02:47 -0500, Arron Robinson <mouserar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Scribus support a greyscale ICC destination profile? If so, this
> would work... I will try this and see ir it will work
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:18:51 +0000, Isaac Davis <isaac at laracers.com> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >    First of all, thanks for all the work on Scribus. I have put together
> > a 50 page program for our Speedway, and after the first printing came
> > out, I have to say it looks wonderful. It's been quite the learning
> > experience, but Scribus has worked wonderfully throughout.
> >
> > Now to my question, I have about 12 pages that will rotate on a weekly
> > basis. The printer is receiving and using the exported PDF just fine,
> > except that they want them in Grayscale, and it's being exported in
> > sRGB. Is there a way to get the export to spit out a grayscale pdf? I
> > have lcms installed, and it's working with Scribus. If I was able to
> > find a grayscale profile, would that "convert" it for me, or am I
> > correct in thinking that it would just basically map the colors to
> > grayscale equivalents. Does anyone know where I can download a grayscale
> > printer profile?
> >
> > Right now, it looks like my only solution is to export to PDF, import
> > the pdf to Gimp, and convert to grayscale.
> > Thanks,
> > Isaac Davis
> >
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