Re: [tdf-discuss] PDF export in CMYK

Hi,

Most printshops do the RGB-CMYK conversion themselves,
normal home/office printing devices take in RGB.

If your friend wants to enter the field of "real" DTP (and
does not have/want the cash to shell out to Adobe) he could
go for Scribus, a cross-platform FOSS DTP application.
Scribus imports styles and some formatting from OOo/LibO.

The learning curve (in DTP) is quite steep, and you're
entering a minefield of professional techniques and jargon
which is best handled by the printshops - unless one wants
to take the plunge themselves.

The easiest would be to place the LibO-RGB.pdf in an image
frame in Scribus (each page separately) and let Scribus
render the file to Scribus-CMYK.pdf.

There are also a bunch of command-line tools which can
assist in such a conversion, but for them to be useful one
has to know exactly which parameters to use.

Regards,

Sveinn í Felli

On 12/16/2010 08:08 AM, skrifaði Fernand Vanrie:
> Tibor,
>
> A few years ago i would say yes a good idea that "CMYK" but deaser days
> RGB is a common workflow due to the online use of the same (rgb)
> documents. CMYK is "printer" business so they mostly prefer to do the
> transfer off a RGB-pdf into a CMYK-pdf.
> Important for this process  is using the correct colorspace (sRGB or
> adobeRGB) is more important and there are we have no tools in LO !
>
> Fernand
> > Hi,
> > Friend of mine had an issue with openoffice, He was asked to deliver
> > pdf in CMYK colorspace. It is not possible by now AFAIK. But are there
> > any plans or any work being done in this regard? I just wonder, it is
> > not critical issue for me, nor for my friend. He used some Adobe
> > product at the end...
> >
> > Regards


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