[scribus] Ink coverage control : over 330%

[John Culleton]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:00:57 +0200
Eric Hanuise <eric.hanuise at flatlinedgames.com>
wrote:

> > For print I always use an output format of pdf
> > X/1-a:2001 which doesn't allow
> > transparencies. Any transparencies should be
> > converted to bitmaps via Gimp, imagemagick
> > etc. Of course you should always use CMYK
> > colors instead of RGB for printing.
> >
> > When excessive ink coverage is involved I use
> > an icc profile SWOPcoated5_240.icc which
> > limits the ink coverage to coverage to 240%.
> > I will post it at
> > http://wexfordpress.net/SWOPcoated5_240.icc
> >
> > It was created for my use years ago by one of
> > the experts on the icc_users mailing list.
> >    
> Thank you.
> As explained, Transparencies are key - we have
> a lot of image elements that are on transparent
> background, which need to be superimposed on
> other background elements, as well as inkscape
> svg files with lots of effects (blurs,
> clipping, etc), which need to be converted to
> bitmap as sometimes some of the effetcs get
> lost when importing them as svg's or pdf's.
> Doing that work in Scribus itself is very
> impractical, and importing bitmap works very
> well.
> 
> So are there any other options to control pdf
> ink coverage than using export formats that do
> not support transparencies ?
> 
> 

Not to my knowledge. But if you load a png page
into gimp and then save it as pdf 3 the
transparencies should covert to bitmaps. 

-- 
John Culleton
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