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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:44:27 +1300<br>> From: cbannister@slingshot.co.nz<br>> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> Subject: Re: [scribus] total ink density problem<br>> <br>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:50:17PM +0200, a.l.e wrote:<br>> > <br>> > this might lead some people to check the scribus output multiple times<br>> > (mostly with non professional tools) and give too much weight to the result<br>> > from that software, software that has proven to be very solid for them but<br>> > fails at the small advanced and very specific details that matter here.<br>> > (i mean, imagemagik is a good software that shines in every task i throw at<br>> > it! it must be right, when it reports to me the total ink density... and<br>> > indeeds it does its calculations right, if there was not a small detail that<br>> > makes the result wrong in this very context!)<br>> <br>> So there is a bug in Imagemagick, in which case I presume it was<br>> reported, or Imagemagick was being misused, and therefore the results<br>> were misleading?<br>> <br>> -- <br>> "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people<br>> who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the <br>> oppressing." --- Malcolm X<br>> <br>> ___<br>> Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> Edit your options or unsubscribe:<br>> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus<br>> See also:<br>> http://wiki.scribus.net<br>> http://forums.scribus.net<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is the original PDF and command line still around?</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like imagemagick supports a "-define pdf:use-trimbox=true" argument. It doesn't seem to help with my test files, but it might be a start of a solution.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=15667" target="_blank">http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=15667</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards, William</div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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