[scribus] total ink density problem

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/27/2015 06:33 PM, William Bader wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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

If you look at the bug report (Scribus), someone already suggested that
and it didn't make much difference.

Greg