[scribus] CMYK and 1.4.0

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 12 March 2011 19:48:15 Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2011/3/12 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>
>
> > On 03/12/2011 06:42 PM, John Culleton wrote:
> >> I scanned a photo creating a RGB file in png format. Then I
> >> converted the picture to CMYK and TIFF format using ImageMagick.
> >> When inserted into a graphics frame using Scribus 1.4.0rc2 part
> >> of the picture (light blue sky) was marked as out of gamut. 
> >> However when inserted in a graphics frame in 1.5.0 it was not
> >> marked as out of gamut.
> >>
> >> Either 1.4.0rc2 or 1.5.0 is handling the converted picture
> >> improperly.
> >>
> >> Here is the conversion command:
> >> convert loon.png -colorspace CMYK loon.tiff.
> >
> > Why not do the simple thing and leave it in RGB?
>
> That is an idea, of course. But I think that the case needs a bit
> of digging, no?
>
> Louis
>
> > Greg
>
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I intend to print the book. Are you suggesting that Scribus will do 
the conversion on the fly, using an icc profile?
-- 
John Culleton
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