[Scribus] cmyk workflow

Axel Bojer axelb
Mon Feb 5 23:11:01 CET 2007


jon skrev:
> Forget about my last post - please. I was a little confused by ... 
> something
> Your tiff and png seem to be allright. Sorry.
> 
> I converted one of your pdf (the one for screen) wich has 300 dpi images
> (one was not - but I think this might be ignorable) to no 
> transparencies and
> to cmyk (ISO coated FOGRA 27).
> One font was not included in the pdf.
> And there is at least one kerning() problem with the ISSN number.
> 
> One of the pictures seem to be compressed with LZW - this is, afaik, 
> not allowed within PDF 1.3/1.4.
> 
> Please check the pdf, if you like, if it compares to your needs.
> 
> http://www.jonhagen.de/trans/test.pdf   [ 9 mb ]
> 
> Allow a few minutes to upload.
> Please don't use this as a print pdf - I didn't crosschecked the file 
> after converting and one font is missing.
> It's just for, hmmpf, fun. You might be able to verify how it might 
> look if converted a little more reliable.
> Jon
> 
> Am 05.02.2007 um 21:36 schrieb jon:
> 
>> Am 05.02.2007 um 21:07 schrieb Axel Bojer:
>>
>>> How? The image is totally flattende and looks quite as it should be,
>>> quite the way I made it in Scribus. All my problems would be solved if
>>> this file could be made cmyk and still be printed the way this file
>>> looks on the screen. No transparency in this file at all, no layers no
>>> nothing, just plain png -- made tiff by Gimp. I will try Imagemagick,
>>> perhaps that will be a help.
>> I don't think so. I am not fully aware of the options within .png
>> format, but
>> as scribus is not capable to reduce transparencies the .png will, if it
>> still
>> looks right, contain the transparent layers and vectors. So if you
>> render
>> the file to plain tiff, as long as gimp is not capable of transforming
>> them,
>> which it is not (as others here stated), they will be excluded - and
>> rendered
>> to unwanted results.
>>
>> According to a former discussion here, I don't think there are useful
>> image
>> converters for linux wich can do what you want. At least no free
>> versions.
>> Sorry. I think you have to redo your work or send some rgb pdf to me.

This may perhaps not be valid anymore because my file might be ok, the 
pdf-one:
http://www.bojer.no/Ariadne2006/ariadnes_aarbok2006-omslag-TilTrykking-BareEttBilde.pdf
?
If not, and you still want to help, you may -- with wathever DTP program 
you wish (but I think you use Scribus on mac?). Make a new file with the 
dimensions: 315 mm=width and 216 mm=height. The image:
http://www.bojer.no/Ariadne2006/ariadnes_aarbok2006-omslag-somBildeGB.tiff
should then just fit (about) precicely (315,05 x 216,07 was the closest 
Gimp would allow me to make, strange enough) and export it to pdf. Is 
you pdf-file better than my
http://www.bojer.no/Ariadne2006/ariadnes_aarbok2006-omslag-TilTrykking-BareEttBilde.pdf
then?

Thanks anyway for you help, one way or the other :-)

Best regards
Axel Bojer



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