[scribus] total ink density problem

[William Bader]

> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:44:27 +1300
> From: cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] total ink density problem
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:50:17PM +0200, a.l.e wrote:
> > 
> > this might lead some people to check the scribus output multiple times
> > (mostly with non professional tools) and give too much weight to the result
> > from that software, software that has proven to be very solid for them but
> > fails at the small advanced and very specific details that matter here.
> > (i mean, imagemagik is a good software that shines in every task i throw at
> > it! it must be right, when it reports to me the total ink density... and
> > indeeds it does its calculations right, if there was not a small detail that
> > makes the result wrong in this very context!)
> 
> So there is a bug in Imagemagick, in which case I presume it was
> reported, or Imagemagick was being misused, and therefore the results
> were misleading?
> 
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Is the original PDF and command line still around?
It looks like imagemagick supports a "-define pdf:use-trimbox=true" argument.  It doesn't seem to help with my test files, but it might be a start of a solution.
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=15667
Regards, William
 		 	   		  
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