[Scribus] RGB vs CMYK

[Terence Chan]

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. In addition to the
helpful info provided, I've also searched the Scribus archive
and found the following post

http://rants.scribus.net/category/kudos/

which highly recommends using Krita for RGB->CMYK conversion.
I've tried it out myself and can confirm everything that was
said in that post. Even so, since all my images are originally
in RGB, I think I'll stick to importing them direclty into
Scribus and letting Scribus do all the work.

Terence

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Craig Ringer wrote:

> avox wrote:
>
> >> I've experimented with both and the soft-proofed images
> >> appear quite different on screen as well as in PDF, but
> >> maybe this is just because the ImageMagick conversion isn't
> >> very good and I should be using another image processing
> >> software to do the RGB to CMYK conversion (or leaving it
> >> to the printer's own RIP)?
> >
> > I think ImageMagick's RGB->CMYK conversion is unmanaged,
> > so you shouldnt use it. You should trust Scribus to do the
> > right thing during PDF export.
>
> tifficc and jpegicc from the LittleCMS package can do managed
> conversions, but they're not super user friendly. Since Scribus does the
> same thing internally (using the same library) when exporting to PDF,
> you might as well let Scribus do it.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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