[Scribus] ICM Colour Match Issue with PDF - alternatives?

Calum Polwart scribus
Sat Feb 4 18:19:13 CET 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 17:15 +0000, Calum Polwart wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 13:40 +0100, PLinnell wrote: 
> 
> > On Saturday 04 February 2006 13:33, Calum Polwart wrote:
> > > OK - 5 the version of Newsletter (A5 folded book) now come back
> > > from the printers and previous issues with things refusing to print
> > > all seem sorted so finally I should be able to get the editor off
> > > my back about switching back to MS Pub!!
> > >
> > > Our front and back cover are colour with black and white interiors.
> > >
> > > The photos on the covers are not colour matching very well.
> > >
> > > I have no control over the printer at the moment and they don't
> > > even answer emails about colour profiles!  Is there any way to
> > > determine if I am likely to have colour matching issues on future
> > > issues?  If I print on my inkjet here, the colour match seems
> > > reasonably good so presumably my printer and monitor happen to
> > > align reasonably well... but how would I know what will happen on
> > > another printer?
> > >
> > > Calum
> > 
> > Which version ? What kind of images and what image editor ?
> 
> Were produced using  scribus 1.3.2cvs (8th Jan version I think)
> 
> Images are photographs, front cover is a scanned image saved as a
> JPEG.
> 
> Rear cover images are both digital camera jpegs.
> 
> Not edited at all as far as I recall... but if they were then they'd
> be cropped in GIMP but nothing else.
> 
> I've just re-read my original post and there is so much I haven't
> explained!
> 
> The orginal pdf is in 1.3 format.  
> 
> There is no ICC Profile set up (the printer hasn't / can't supply one)
> 
> I'm not expecting a perfect colour match but it is pretty poor.
> 
> Calum 
> 
> > 
> > If you can join us on IRC, so we can cover the details....
> 
> 
> Well - always up for a new challenge will give that a try... never
> IRC'd before. 
> 
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
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