[Scribus] PDF color option

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 00:48:03 schrieb Benjamin Huot:
> I published 2 picture books with Scribus through Lulu and  exported a
> PDF with the screen option in both. Lulu wants them in RGB format. My
> graphics looked just perfect with this setting.

I assume lulu.com doesn't use offset printers.

Christoph


>
> On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Dr. Werner Popken wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm ready to produce my first Scribus-made book, 770+ pages. Scribus
> > is really great, thank you all for the good work and all your help!
> >
> > I noticed that there is an pdf option in the settings dialog, both
> > general and document, where color can be set to either printer or
> > monitor. I used monitor before, it looked fine on the monitor, now I
> > tried printer as this ought to be printed, and the colors are not as
> > they should be on the monitor. The pdf-file is much larger, about
> > 20 times as big, as well.
> >
> > As I already printed this book in a previous 700-page-version with
> > Lulu, I know that the colors come fine when they look good on the
> > monitor (should be rather saturated on the monitor than not, rather
> > oversharped than not). I fear that when I print from the
> > printer-specific pdf, things might go wrong. Not so nice with a book
> > as big as this one. I already had one misprinted copy from Lulu
> > (not my fault, though, got an excellent replacement copy).
> >
> > Which option is the right one to choose? Is this something I should
> > ask the printer about or wouldn't he know what I'm talking about? It
> > is a company in Germany trying to find a way between Lulu and a
> > conventional publisher: shaker-media.de, people who talk and listen to
> > their authors.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Werner
> >
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