[scribus] Exporting a graphic frame

[William Bader]

>On 03/28/2017 05:44 AM, Lars Behrens wrote:

>> Am 28.03.2017 um 09:18 schrieb ale rimoldi:
>>
>>> but there must be more complex workflows! it cannot be so simple!
>>
>> How about: Export page to pdf, then print this pdf to laser/inkjet
>> printer. With scissors (or cutter) cut out relevant part and then scan
>> it on a flatbed scanner. Send scan to yourself via E-Mail and save
>> attachment in the correct directory.
>
>One of the things about Ken's question is that he never said what he
>wanted this clipped out/exported graphic for. An issue with your
>solution is that you are transforming RGB to an inkjet printer output,
>then scanning, with all the color shift and resolution loss inherent in
>that process. For some uses, perhaps Ok, but for many others, not very good.
>Greg

Was the person who suggested printing and scanning serious? Rasterizing PDFs directly produces better results. The poppler package https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ includes pdftocairo and pdftoppm, and ghostscript supports a number of bitmapped output formats. https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/Devices.htm Other applications like GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick use poppler (or similar libraries) or ghostscript when rasterizing PDFs. pdftoppm and gs both support cmyk jpegs, and gs supports ICC https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/Use.htm#ICC_color_parameters  After you rasterize the PDF page to the resolution and format that you want, you can crop it in gimp https://www.gimp.org/ or a similar application.

Regards, WIlliam

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