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<font size="-1">Thank you Richard for the informative and meaningful
responses to the colour and font questions. Learning more every
day! <br>
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Cheers, Patrick<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/03/2014 2:26 AM, Richard Cichelli
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5321D527.8080102@newspapersystems.com"
type="cite">On 3/13/2014 6:42 AM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scribus-request@lists.scribus.net">scribus-request@lists.scribus.net</a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">snip...
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1. Co-Inventor of QuarkXPress Xtensions Offers Scribus
Support
<br>
(Christoph Sch?fer)
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<blockquote type="cite">From: Flem <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:flemblog@free.fr"><flemblog@free.fr></a>
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snip...
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<blockquote type="cite">Wow, that's great news!
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<br>
Very impressive results on the provided Dropbox PDF.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwvcw4emmyjm0d5/ScribusPages.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwvcw4emmyjm0d5/ScribusPages.pdf</a>
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Thanks. And I agree. Thank Marty, who made the pages with
Scribus.
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The only question is: where does this
images colour
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variation between InDesign and Scribus come from?
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</blockquote>
A very smart question!
<br>
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The InDesign pages come from Lancaster Newspapers. I suspect that
the differences might be due to workflow differences. LN run a
product we supply to US newspapers called Alwan CMYK Optimizer
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newspapersystems.com/Products/CMYKOptimizer">http://www.newspapersystems.com/Products/CMYKOptimizer</a> and another
product we also supply here from FotoWare called ColorFactory
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newspapersystems.com/FotoWare/ColorFactory">http://www.newspapersystems.com/FotoWare/ColorFactory</a>. Both of
these products greatly improve high end newspaper production
through automation, image quality improvement and ink saving. The
image changes are subtle on screens, but very noticeable on press
output. What Scribus imports and outputs is compatible with these
tools although we didn't run the Scribus input components or page
output through them as was the case for the InDesign pages.
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">As there's no such one between QuarkXPress
and Scribus...
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</blockquote>
The Times Community Media doesn't have these products. They have
a contract printer for 10 weekly issues.
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Anyway, smart job SCS!
<br>
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Thanks Flem for asking very good questions!
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<br>
I'll ask Marty to fill in more details.
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From: Patrick Ernst <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patrick@aroaustralia.com"><patrick@aroaustralia.com></a>
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>Great to see support for Scribus like this. It shows that
Scribus has reached a level of maturity when a commercial
organisation chooses to add its support. Congrats to Scribus team
and SCS.
<br>
<br>
Thanks. We are quite heartened by the responses to our efforts so
far.
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>The PDF was good to peruse. I did note that both Indesign and
Quark font resolution was better and more legible.
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<br>
Keen observation!
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<br>
>It looked like the letters from those product were better
anti-aliased, whereas the text from Scribus appeared a bit crude.
A function of the export to PDF perhaps?
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There are two things going on here. Scribus 1.4.3 imports PDFs
by rasterizing them. For the kind of images we need to produce
this could be a show stopper. We built Scribus v1.5 as observed
that (as promised) PDFs were imported without rasterization. This
was a positive game changer for us.
<br>
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And those pesky fonts!!! To make the pages we picked a set of
available, non-licensed fonts that looked about right and had
close enough font metrics. We needed to adjust the set size etc.
to get a fair match. For the high end using a newspaper's
licensed fonts with Scribus would solve this.
<br>
<br>
Very good observation!!
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<br>
>cheers Patrick
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<br>
Thanks, Patric for making such very good observations.
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<blockquote type="cite">Great news!
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<blockquote type="cite">Welcome to the Scribus community.
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<blockquote type="cite">Diego
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We are very happy to join you and the Scribus Community and lend
what support we can.
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<br>
Richard.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cichelli@newspapersystems.com">cichelli@newspapersystems.com</a>
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