[scribus] spot colors in PDF

[Alexandre Leray]

Hi all,

additionally to the problem Stéphanie has described, the print preview 
on my archlinux machine isn't working has expected. I can only see the 
CMYK plates in the print preview window although I have custom spot 
colors in my document.

See http://imagebin.org/158217

I'm running scribus 1.4.0 rc3 on archlinux with gosthscript 9.02. I have 
tried with scribus svn compiled this morning and it is the same 
situation (BTW it looks quite cool :)). However with debian and 1.4.0 
rc3 it works well...

However I don't think it is related to our pdf export problem has I 
didn't use my arch linux machine but my debian one in the first place...

Best,

Alex

On 06/14/2011 04:48 PM, Stéphanie Vilayphiou wrote:
> Hi ale,
> thanks for your answer. I am working with Alex on this project, and we
> used your workaround script. Alex modified it to have only one color and
> not 2. It works fine (thanks!), and in Scribus Print Preview, there is
> no CMYK. Perfect. But when we check on Acrobat Pro on MAcOS (or sending
> to the printer), all bitmap images are back to CMYK...
> Deadline is quite soon and we would like to avoid making one PDF per
> color because it's quite a complicated object already...
>
> Pierre Huyghebaert told me we could import a tiff that we colorize
> directly in Scribus to have the proper color? He says it's not the
> "colorize" option in the Effects. But he can't remember how he did it...
>
>
> Stéphanie Vilayphiou
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> http://stdin.fr/
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>
> On 06/14/2011 02:37 PM, a.l.e wrote:
>> hi steph,
>>
>>> Hi, one question about color management in Scribus.
>>> (sorry I sent it with wrong email address, please forget the one
>>> waiting for moderation)
>>>
>>> I'm using 2 direct tones, no CMYK.
>>> in the Print Preview, everything (text and images) is separated
>>> correctly (no CMYK).
>>> But when generating the PDF (without the option to convert spot
>>> colors into process colors), all texts and vectors are in direct
>>> tones, but the images are back to CMYK.
>>> Of course, no way on Linux to check this, the printer told us the
>>> file was not good, and we had to switch on MacOS to check with
>>> Acrobat Pro that the color channels were not good.
>>>
>>> Is there somehow a bug in the PDF generation?
>>
>> i'm no color specialist... but i think there is a workaround... if you
>> still need this, please get in touch with me
>> (not sure, but i think i've sent the the description of the workaround
>> to alex...)
>>
>> ciao
>> a.l.e
>>
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