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Hello #Scribus #print professionals (paging @raghukamath because you seem to be very knowledable ^__^). Got some #Inkscape illustrations (so (s?)RGB) printed via Scribus and some of it is very saturated / dark, so I'm getting into #CMYK #printer #profiles again (cont. in next toot.)
#inkscape #print #scribus #printer #cmyk #profiles @raghukamath
jfml - Jonas Laugs
jfml - Jonas Laugs  
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@raghukamath My question: when exporting the Color tab only shows #RGB profiles, is that correct? Output Intent on Pre-Press tab is the correct #CMYK profile but running pdfimages -list in cli show „icc“ is #color unless I export as PDFX1a then it says „cmyk“. Is X1a the only way to export CMYK or should I be able to select CMYK profiles in Color tab?
#color #cmyk #rgb @raghukamath
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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My own experience with Scribus: don't trust it for converting colorspace of RGB bitmaps at export time. It's really buggy and has invisible exceptions (at least it had when I made my books, I don't think it changed much in between). Feed it directly with pre-converted CMYK tiff.

(edit: I'm offtopic here: my mistake, this is my experience with raster images (I'm biased! 😆 ), the topic is about vector SVGs imported in Scribus, jfml told me in a reply.)

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jfml - Jonas Laugs
jfml - Jonas Laugs  
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@davidrevoy @raghukamath Hi, thanks for chiming in ^__^ Yeah, with pixel images I'd totally convert to CMYK beforehand but these are vector files I export from Inkscape (which doesn't do CMYK – yet). I could obviously convert the vector images to bitmap (I always think that means .bmp only +___+) and then import those into Scribus … I probably should, shouldn't I … But the small filesize, the infinite scalability of vector files! 😭
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David Revoy
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Oh, vector! Of course. Sorry, I was (biased!) focusing on raster bitmap. Of course, don't rasterize your vector, you'll lose in quality.
I remember all colors in the color palette have to be changed manually in Scribus to CMYK slots (so better to not have a design with too many or it can be a pain). That's what I did for the vector FSF35 years teeshirt (4 colors). I used this documentation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_set_CMYK_color_on_a_design_for_printing mainly as far I remember.

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How to set CMYK color on a design for printing - Fedora Project Wiki

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