[scribus] How to use color management?

[dwain]

On 8/28/08, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> wrote:
> So I want to try this color management stuff which claims to give me
>  perfectly correct colors if I configure it correctly and will totally
>  mess up everything if I don't (instead of keeping it deactivated so
>  colors would just be mostly correct).
>
>  I want to send my files to a printer, which accepts PDF/X-3 and uses ISO
>  12467-2 profiles (ISOcoated.icc/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc, ISOuncoated.icc
>  and ISOuncoatedyellowish.icc).
>
>  I have:
>  - No calibration device
>  - A RAL classic color chart
>  - A monitor which has two settings ("warm" and "cold") and lets me
>  alternatively set R,G,B on a 0-100 scale. It's currently set to "warm".
>  - 7 color profiles on the download page of the monitor maker
>  (http://www.belinea.com/de/service_support/fm/index.jsp?folderId=103863)
>
>  What should I do to get correct color (change monitor settings? create
>  profiles? use profiles from manufacturer? which one?)? Which options
>  should I use for pdf export (especially in the color tab)?

hi phillip,
all of the color profiles must be the same on all of yoursoftware and
hardware, except for your camera, but you can assign the profile if
you have photoshop.

i too do not have any calibrating equipment, but i have found that if
software and hardware have the same color profiles you are in the ball
park.  i have a viewsonic vp171b that i have an srgb profile with no
black point compensation set as the profile.  the rest of my hardware
carry the same profile.

i use the user settings with the rgb respectively set at 50% for a
middle gray.  no problems so far.  you could go the calibrator route,
but you have had some good suggestions so far.  as a monitor ages it
needs to be calibrated more often.

this profile is recommended by the international color consortium for
on screen viewing.  here's the starting point to get the profile:
http://www.color.org/resourcemain2.xalter

i use a commercial printer who prints digitally from pdf files.  he
told me that he can get the color right whether i send a rgb or cmyk
or mixed (gasp) color file.  i have given him all three and what i see
on my monitor is what comes off the press (printer).

have fun with your new hobby -- color management.

cheers,
dwain
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