[scribus] CMYK problem

Rolf-Werner Eilert rwe-sse at osnanet.de
Mon Sep 30 10:07:17 UTC 2019


Thank you for this hint, Bert.

In my Scribus, Fogra39L would be in the list of profiles if Color 
Management was activated. Color Management is not activated, and as far 
as I remember, it wasn't on the old system.

By the way, Scribus itself offers "Artifex CMYK SWOP Profile" as 
default, but maybe it's just because it's the first one in the list. 
There are quite a lot of different options to be adjusted when I 
activate color management, and I really don't know what to choose for 
any of them. It always ran out of the box, so I never cared.

Maybe the reason is in Ubuntu's printing system which is completely 
different (if not only newer) than on the old Suse system. But on the 
other hand, Ubuntu is so popular that I would expect more people to run 
into problems here.

Regards
Rolf



Am 30.09.19 um 11:05 schrieb Bert Driehuis:
> Your print shop will be able to tell you what profile they accept
> (mine takes Fogra39, which is for offset printing).
> 
> I've got multiple copies of the Fogra39 profile on my system. I'm not
> sure where Scribus gets its profiles from, but you may want to check
> that you've got these two packages installed, as they both contain the
> Fogra39 profile in different forms:
> 
> icc-profiles-free
> colord-data
> 
> I'm not a color expert so take this with a grain of salt.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Bert Driehuis
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:35 AM Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 30.09.19 um 09:13 schrieb Peter Nermander:
>>>> I made new posters and flyers as CMYK PDFs ("For Printer") and wanted to
>>>> upload them to the printer shop, but in the preview the colors appear
>>>> rather pale. When I make a test print here on my laser printer, same thing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think someone mentioned that this is an indication that you do not use
>>> the correct color profiles. When exporting to CMYK Scribus needs to convert
>>> RBG colors to CMYK, and that needs to be used using a color profile.
>>>
>>> You probably do not have the same color profiles installed on the Ubuntu
>>> machine as you had on the Suse machine.
>>>
>>> /Peter
>>
>> Hm, strange... I didn't realize I use profiles, I thought I would do
>> without some.
>>
>> So what can I do now? I still have the old harddisk. Where are they
>> stored, and can I simply copy them from there to here?
>>
>> Regards
>> Rolf
>>
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