[scribus] Ink Coverage Preview differs from Acrobat Pro

[john Culleton]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:35:11 +0100
"Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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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 use a variant of a common icc profile to make sure that the
requirement of LSI (no more than 240% coverage) is observed.
Here it is:
http://wexfordpress.net/SWOPcoated5_240.icc





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