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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "prepress"

Gimp plugin Seperate+ 0.5.3

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The Seperate+ for Gimp, a plugin that sepeartes color channels to layers and allows you to attach color profiles, is now available as version 0.5.3. This release adds a lot of interesting color device features:

* profile selection button : shows profile class icon
  - Digital camera : input device class
  - LCD monitor : display device class
  - Desktop printer : output device class(RGB)
  - Color LBP/copier : output device class(CMYK)
* profile selection button : minor fixes
It seems i have to update my Ubuntu Deb package of 0.5.1 soon :wink: Check out the new screenshot gallery at the bottom of the page too!

Gimp plugin Seperate+ 0.5.2 available

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With some minor changes Seperate+ 0.5.2 is available:
* enabled dragging ICC profile onto profile selection buttons
* profile selection button : (Mac OS X only)fix crashing when checking primary language
* updated Japanese localization messages
* added Polish (from Zbigniew Małach) and Korean (from Dust) localization messages
If you looking for a Ubuntu Deb package you can download my 0.5.1 binary.

Stuff for Scribus

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Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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Scribus 1.3.3.12 Update

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The stable branch of Scribus is updated to 1.3.3.12.
This version shipped with:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

New Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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As i can see there are new Scribus SVN builds available from this weekend for Fedora 9. Hopefully someone updates the builds for Debian/ Ubuntu too :smile:
Thomas Zastrow wrotes a little preview about what we can expect from Scribus 1.3.5.
My favorite wishes about Scribus 1.3.5 are CMYK-Tiff images with alpha work in PDF documents and the text frames renembers their font properties and display them correct in the property panel.