[scribus] A different Pantone need

[Bert Driehuis]

I noticed that the "How to use spot colors with Scribus" Wiki page has
gone, but common wisdom for using Pantone is that the name of the
color must match the Pantone name exactly. You can use Edit Colours
and Fills in 1.5.5, and create new colors with Add. Under Name, use
the exact Pantone name. Tick "Is Spot Color". The exact CMYK values
are not important, use a color the helps you.

I've never used Spot colors in Scribus myself.

With kind regards,

Bert

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 6:05 PM ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> I have used Scribus 1.5.5 to prepare a file to be silk-screen-printed
> unto t-shirts.
>
> Now I am stuck with the online order:
>
> The print-shop will print with special fabric-ink and their
> online-order-mask gives a choice of colours, all referenced by the
> Pantone Solid Coated series. For example we want our text printed in
> "PANTONE Yellow 012 C".
>
> So I do not care what it looks like on my screen; I have 255 233 0 as an
> approximation to show my team.
>
> But our online affordable printer, is needing the color-information
> encoded into our PDF/X-4 file because they offer many different colours
> and their order-process is fully automated.
>
> I have looked through this list and seen some hacks on how to handle
> Pantone-equivalents with basically RGB swatches, but our need is all
> different.
>
>
>
> I also just created an export to PDF/X-4 and opened it with my best
> editor. I can read but I see no obvious structure. When I needed, I
> boldly edit Scribus .sla files, but those are "nice" compared to this
> PDF syntax.
>
>
>
> It would be a shame after all those years with Scribus, to rob a bank
> and get InDesign, just to convert my (already designed) T-shirt document
> for the print-shop-upload.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thank you, greetings,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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