[Scribus] PDF/X-3 Option 'Disabled'

[Atlantic Tech Solutions]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 15:40, Maciej Hanski wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2005 16:28:44 -0400
>
> Louis Desjardins <louisdesjardins at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Just want to go over the basics.
> >
> > 1. As a very first step, you need to make sure littlecms is
> > installed. You can check this in the About Scribus menu where you'll
> > note the compilation date. There are capital letters following the
> > date. One of them stands for littlecms and tooltips are there to
> > assist. If this is not the case, nothing else will be of any use. How
> > to install this properly is beyond me. But I know docs.scribus.net
> > must be pretty clear. :)
> >
> > 2. Then, as bostjan points out, you need ICC profiles, both CMYK and
> > RGB in the same directory. You have to tell Scribus where to locate
> > this directory.
> >
> > 3. Only then will you be able to activate Color Management (from my
> > previous post).
> >
> > 4. Then, you will have access to PDF/X-3.
>
> Wiki is your best friend:
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_and_installing_ICC_profiles
>
> cheers
> Maciej
>
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In addtion:


1) 1.2.2 CVS has new tooltips to explain when it is disabled.

2) The 1.2.2 docs have been completey re-written for CMS.

3) I am hoping to add a couple of 'generic' profiles, just to enable CMS 
automagically. The possbile trade off is lots of "my prints look lousy" when 
CMS is enabled.

I guess the other question for the original poster is if PDF/X-3 really 
desired? 

PDF/X-3 pre-supposes two things:  

A commercial printer with a very advanced RIP. 

A user with experience with color management and already having correctly 
profiled monitors, as well as other peripherals.

Peter