[Scribus] How to Convert photos to cmyk

[Brett Shand]

> Hi, I need some help. I'm using scribus 1.3.3.10svn on windows
> vista. I have made a design for a book cover. It is made out of
> photos. Everything worked fine until I sent it to the press in pdf.
> They said that the pdf's not OK because the photos are in RGB.
> After that, I tried to export using pdf x-3, and choose a cmyk
> output profile but it didn't help. I don't have much experience
> with color management. My question is how can I convert photos to
> cmyk?


There is a nice piece of freeware (rgb2cmyk) here:

http://www.smokingun.co.uk/sg/freestuff.htm

that runs on windows xp (not sure about vista).

It converts only uncompressed TIF files - ie it doesn't support LZW compression. 

I haven't used it a lot but it seems to a good job.

Cheers

Brett