[scribus] How to use color management?

[Lars O. Grobe]

> why then are there so many color profiles to chose from?  your
> hardware can read a specific profile.  if you set the color profile of
> your monitor to sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_noBPC.icc then your monitor responds
> to that profile.  if you set it to swop v2 then it reads that and
> responds accordingly.

I never heard about that. Usually you cannot set a monitor to "use" a
profile, it does not have intelligence to do so, you can just use a
display profile to get from a working color space (e.g. sRGB) into the
monitor's one. But, I think that is the key here, in this discussions
two applications of profiles are getting mixed...

One typical application of profiles is getting from one color space into
another. That can be device spaces (e.g. to match the characteristics of
a display, a scanner or a paper/printer set-up), or something like sRGB,
euroscale etc.

The second one is what is called proofing. Here you simulate the
behaviour of one device on another. E.g. to show how your printouts will
look like before you send them to the print shop, by simulating this
using your display, laser printer etc.

Two very different concepts...

CU Lars.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3617 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080831/144a86f5/attachment.bin>