[scribus] How to use color management?

[Jeffrey Silverman]

First of all, color management does not claim to give you "perfectly
correct colors" -- but it does claim to improve your color matching
experience.

I, too, am very interested in this! I'm sure a bazillion others are.
Now that GIMP also supports color profiles, free software has a
fully[1] color-managed workflow. At best, I have been able to improve
my experience using color management but it has always been hit or
miss.




[1] Well, not really fully, but greatly improved. I mean, Inkscape
would be nice to support color profiels, too.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> wrote:
> So I want to try this color management stuff which claims to give me
> perfectly correct colors if I configure it correctly and will totally
> mess up everything if I don't (instead of keeping it deactivated so
> colors would just be mostly correct).
>
> I want to send my files to a printer, which accepts PDF/X-3 and uses ISO
> 12467-2 profiles (ISOcoated.icc/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc, ISOuncoated.icc
> and ISOuncoatedyellowish.icc).
>
> I have:
> - No calibration device
> - A RAL classic color chart
> - A monitor which has two settings ("warm" and "cold") and lets me
> alternatively set R,G,B on a 0-100 scale. It's currently set to "warm".
> - 7 color profiles on the download page of the monitor maker
> (http://www.belinea.com/de/service_support/fm/index.jsp?folderId=103863)
>
> What should I do to get correct color (change monitor settings? create
> profiles? use profiles from manufacturer? which one?)? Which options
> should I use for pdf export (especially in the color tab)?
>
> Philipp
>
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Jeff Silverman
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