Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "prepress"

Scribus Manual available for Preorder

Wednesday, 10. December 2008, 19:41:32

If you like to get detailed informations how to use Scribus for layouts and prepress then you can now preorder The Official Scribus 1.3 Manual at Fleskbook.
A sample chapter can be found at the Scribus website.

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Inkscape & CMYK

Tuesday, 25. November 2008, 10:32:27

prepress, vector graphics, svg, coreldraw ...

John Cruz posted some interesting news about CMYK profiles in Inkscape. It seems the upcoming Inkscape 0.47 would be very interesting for prepress cases too:
* Add a basic UI for linking to ICC profiles
* Integrate ICC profile support into the existing color selectors, incl. gamut warning.
* Improved style and/or CSS support to manage paint types, palettes, etc.
* Basic support for "registration" color/style.
* Coordinate with Cairo team on extending API beyond RGB
* CMYK PDF export

That sounds great so after that it isn't longer necessary exporting Bitmaps and using Gimp to create CMYK PDF documents.

Update
Some more information and mockups at the Inkscape Brazil Wiki (in portuguese).

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Gimp plugin Seperate+ 0.5.3

Sunday, 28. September 2008, 09:56:26

color space, print, debian, cmyk ...

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

Check out the new screenshot gallery at the bottom of the Seperate+ page too!

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Gimp plugin Seperate+ 0.5.2 available

Saturday, 6. September 2008, 19:31:29

seperate+, color profiles, prepress, GIMP ...

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.

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Stuff for Scribus

Thursday, 4. September 2008, 11:07:25

prepress, layout, typo, scribus ...

Here is a short link list for those working with Scribus for prepress:
http://scribusstuff.org/
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Video_Tutorials
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=about2
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=tutorials/freedomyug/scribustutorial
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000225
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scribus
http://www.scribus-forum.de/

...much more links can be found at the Scribus wiki too.

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Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

Saturday, 19. July 2008, 15:51:15

print, typo, layout, style ...

After i wished a month ago some one would built some newer Scribus 1.3.5 packages, now a month later it comes true

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http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running
http://debian.scribus.net/debian/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/

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Scribus 1.3.3.12 Update

Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 12:56:26

prepress, layout, typo, scribus ...

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.

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New Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

Monday, 23. June 2008, 20:46:46

prepress, layout, typo, scribus ...

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

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.

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