[scribus] Ink Coverage Preview differs from Acrobat Pro

"Christoph Schäfer" christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Thu Mar 7 05:35:11 UTC 2013


Hi Jonathan,

> Thanks to all those that helped me get the print preview working in
> Scribus....
> 
> Now another issue.  I was hoping that the ink coverage preview facility in
> Scribus would be good enough that I wouldn't need the pre-press
> capabilities of Acrobat Pro.  However, the results Scribus gives are
> dramatically different than what Acrobat Pro gives.  Where Scribus sees
> maximum ink coverage of 160%, Acrobat sees ink coverage of 260% to 300%.
> 
> Is this a known issue?  Am I doing something wrong?  Given Adobe's
> position
> in the industry, I feel that I should trust the Acrobat pro results.
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated.

It would be easier to help if we knew what you're actually trying to do/achieve. Are you trying to operate a printing machine from within Scribus? Which PS printer driver do you have installed? If it's not Adobe's generic PS printer driver, which one is it?. Does this driver show up in Acrobat, and did you actually select it? There are so many unknown parameters that it's hard to answer your questions.

Christoph



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