[scribus] Grayscale palette

Owen Cook owen.cook at gmx.com
Tue Dec 1 03:04:39 UTC 2015



> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 at 8:07 AM
> From: "Barry McKenna" <bmcken at pobox.com>
> To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Grayscale palette
>
> 
> 
> On 11/25/2015 5:42 AM, Peter Nermander wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > Maybe what you are looking for is to create just a grayscale PDF? It's in
> > the PDF Export options, Printer, Screen/web or Grayscale I think are the
> > options.
> >
> > /Peter
> >
> 
> w/v1.4.5
> 
> I've finally started to use Scribus for application, first in submitting 
> ads for my software.
> 
> "Grayscale" is a major necessity for me to understand.
> 
> One of my most important _print_ publishers (advertising) says that any 
> "grayscale" profile will work for their PDF/X-3 preference.
> 
> However, I can't find any specific references to "grayscale" in the 
> PDF/X-3 export options.
> 
> Perhaps it is clearly "implicit" and I'm just not getting it.
> 
> I have downloaded many of the color profiles referred to in the book, 
> but I have not inserted them into the folders.
> 
> What are my best choices for assuring specific "grayscale" output in my 
> Scribus PDF/X-3 documents?






Hi,

I don't have 1.4.5, but I think it is the same as 1.5.x

File->Export->Save as PDF
  Select X-3
Output to file dialog->color Tab
Select Grayscale

See http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/Colors_Option_PDFexport.png



Owen



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