[Scribus] trick for good quality photos

Craig Bradney cbradney
Thu Nov 25 12:58:18 CET 2004


On Thursday 25 November 2004 12:55, vaise at votreservice.com wrote:
> I have some photographs created with a digital camera, and a postscript
> color laser printer.
> If I print the picture alone from The Gimp quality is ok.
> but from Scribus it was not very nice (darker)
> if I do : Scribus "export as pdf", then printing with lpr -> not nice
> -> So here is a trick : do Scribus "export as pdf", then print the pdf
> document with The Gimp. Quality is back !
>
> There must be some good work in The Gimp images processing . As long it is
> GPL, could these routines be usefull for Scribus ?

With the correct colour profiles for your printer and monitor, and the correct 
CUPS setup, and possibly a profile for the images, you shouldnt need to go 
through all of that mess to get a perfect print directly from Scribus.

Craig
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