[Scribus] cmyk vs rgb

cedric GEMY radar.map35
Mon Apr 23 00:09:36 CEST 2007


lo Farid,

Farid Elyahyaoui wrote:
> 
> BUT (!) why do I get the different colors if I only work on one
> monitor on one machine?

Scribus simulates print colors on screen, that may be an explanation.

> 
> One would expect that if scribus calculates RGB->CMYK and acrobat
> displays these CMYK colors on the monitor (using RGB of course) that
> the colors would be the same. 

It should, but it depends of the algoryhtm. If you try to use some color 
in Adobe Illustrator and the same in Indesign (and certainly Acrobat) 
you may also somteimes get differences.

pygmee



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