[Scribus] PDF Export to Grayscale.

Arron Robinson mouserar
Tue Mar 15 04:02:47 CET 2005


Does Scribus support a greyscale ICC destination profile? If so, this
would work... I will try this and see ir it will work


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:18:51 +0000, Isaac Davis <isaac at laracers.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>    First of all, thanks for all the work on Scribus. I have put together
> a 50 page program for our Speedway, and after the first printing came
> out, I have to say it looks wonderful. It's been quite the learning
> experience, but Scribus has worked wonderfully throughout.
> 
> Now to my question, I have about 12 pages that will rotate on a weekly
> basis. The printer is receiving and using the exported PDF just fine,
> except that they want them in Grayscale, and it's being exported in
> sRGB. Is there a way to get the export to spit out a grayscale pdf? I
> have lcms installed, and it's working with Scribus. If I was able to
> find a grayscale profile, would that "convert" it for me, or am I
> correct in thinking that it would just basically map the colors to
> grayscale equivalents. Does anyone know where I can download a grayscale
> printer profile?
> 
> Right now, it looks like my only solution is to export to PDF, import
> the pdf to Gimp, and convert to grayscale.
> Thanks,
> Isaac Davis
> 
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