[scribus-dev] (forw) [nspm_01 at literaturlatenight.de: [Contact Us] creating pdf/x-3 (CMYK) without colour bars]

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: [scribus-dev] (forw) [nspm_01 at literaturlatenight.de: [Contact
Us]	creating	pdf/x-3 (CMYK) without colour bars]
> From: Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex at scribus.info>
> To: "Scribus Dev List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
> Date: 12-09-2008 8:00
> 
> 
> He's been asking it time and again. Is there really no good solution to
this?
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "scribus.net" <nspm_01 at literaturlatenight.de>
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> 
> > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:25:28 +0200
> > From: "scribus.net" <nspm_01 at literaturlatenight.de>
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> > To: malex at scribus.info
> > Reply-to: nspm_01 at literaturlatenight.de
> > Subject: [Contact Us] creating pdf/x-3 (CMYK) without colour bars
> > 
> > henry atting sent a message using the contact form at  
> > http://www.scribus.net/?q=contact.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I already submitted this question to the mailing list, to the german
scribus  
> > forums and visited the irc channel: If Is it possible to create a
pdf/x-3  
> > (with CMYK colours) without the
> > colour bars at the head of the page?
> > I use scribuse-1.3.5svn and debian/testing. If I create a pdf *without*
the  
> > checkbox `colour bar' activated I get one with RGB colours, if I
activate it  
> > again I get what I want: CMYK colours.
> > But not every printer accepts those colour bars. Is there really no way
to do  
> > it without them?
> > Cheers
> > henry


Sounds like a bug that we are forcing CMYK when the colour bars are
attached. 
Typically, Scribus supports only RGB X/3 IIRC.

Craig