[scribus] Strange clipping in printing

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/20/2010 07:56 PM, a.l.e wrote:
> hi letage
>
>> I've just created a 2 page document with nine small images on the
>> second page, most of them rotated to differnet angles. The images
>> appear fine on screen, including in print preview but when I actually
>> print them four of them get two corners each cropped off. This isn't
>> a page margin issue because the cropping is occurring on interior
>> corners and well away from the edges, There's also no other image,
>> text box or object overlapping with them. Anyone any ideas how to
>> stop this happening? (Bizzarely (to me) the images print fine if I
>> save the document as .pdf and print that (they're just not such good
>> quality colour))
>
> as john said, use pdf if that works...
>
> and for the bad quality of the color in the pdf, you probably have
> setting somewhere which is wrong: hard to tell more with as few details.
> (conversion from rgb to cmyk? wrong color profile? bad settings on the
> monitor?)
If you want to print to your own local printer (even from a PDF), use 
the screen/web setting in PDF Export. Output Intended For: Printer is 
generally speaking for using a commercial printer.

Greg