[scribus] Send to Layer changes pure blacks

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Thu Jun 24 09:25:08 CEST 2010


hi fred,
> I am working on a book cover using a printer supplied template. There is a
> bar code that is in pure black. When I print as is to EPS/Distiller, it
> creates a PDF with a pure black bar code.  I created a new layer called ISBN
> and then used Send to Layer to move the bar code up to the ISBN layer. Now,
> when I print the page to EPS and run through Distiller, the bar code is no
> longer pure black -- it has small amounts of CM&Y in each bar.
>
> I'm puzzled by this.  I have "printer" selected for color management (ie
> CMYK) everywhere that I can think of.  It seems that the act of sending to
> layer is somehow adding the colors to the pure black objects.  Does anyone
> understand why this is happening and how to fix it?
>   

attaching the template to a bug report in http://bugs.scribus.net may 
help the team find out what the problem is...
(you mark the bug as private if you don't want it being world readable)


ciao
a.l.e




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