[Scribus] Scripting, translation and photos

[Plinnell]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 09:30, s20031701 at tuks.co.za wrote:
> Hi all,

> If I want to do preproccesing on foto's (adjusting light/color and
> converting to cmyk) would you suggest photoshop or gimp? 

GIMP for the moment. You can select an image right click image and edit image 
will launch GIMP. To enable this: go  Settings >Preferences > External Tools. 
The add the path to GIMP. Control will not return until GIMP is closed 
completely, not just the image.

>Does gimp take things like the spreading of ink into account?

No.
>
> Thanks
> Kobus
>
> P.S. Can I tell scribus to no allow more than 240% total color coverage? I
> dont see it as an option?

Not yet directly. If you had an ink limiting ICC profile, you could go this 
route. littlecms can handle this in lcms 1.12+ Export PDF/X-3 and then print 
from Acrobat.

You can create and save a custom color scheme with inks defined < 240%

Scribus does have UCR, Under Color Removal, which might help to prevent over 
saturation with newsprint. 

Hope that helps,
Peter