Posts tagged with "print"
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:54:42 PM
prepress, plugin, color profiles, seperate+
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Seperate+ for Gimp, a plugin that sepeartes color channels to layers and allows you to attach color profiles, is now available as version 0.5.5. This release adds again interesting color features:
* separate
- Change Embedded profile priority configuration in Separate and Proof functions to the default
- Support file export of JPEG and Photoshop PSD formats
- Allow to specify whether the file is compressed or not when the file is exported
- Allow to designate a profile of the destination color space as null
when a devicelink profile is used in Separate dialog
- Fix a rendering bug when color separation under the condition that Preserve pure black
is enabled for layers containing alpha channel
- Fix crash when an image whose height is less than 64 pixels is exported in TIFF format
* IccButton
- Change priorities of locations from which profiles are searched (Windows, Mac OS X)
- Enable to acquire the path of the system profile folder using API of ICM (Windows)
- Fix a bug which characters contained a path of a selected profile make a record of
history occasionally unsuccessful
* Update message catalogs in Japanese and Russian
To complete my workflow using Seperate+ that generates CMYK Tiff images inside of Gimp i wrote a small Python plugin for Gimp that allows you to
convert the saved CMYK Tiff image into a PDF for prepress.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:18:57 PM
plugin, seperate+, convert, color profiles
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[/IMGRIGHT]Ok, i'm getting not really famous but as i read my
CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp script is now in Debian SID and Ubuntu Karmic. That means many, many, many people can enjoy my work
BTW : You can enjoy that and a lot of other stuff now too, just download the
liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1_i386.deb and the
gimp-plugin-registry_2.1-1_i386.deb package and install them. This will update the packages of Jaunty.
Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:59:04 PM
layout, typo, scribus, font
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The Dev team released now the 3rd RC of the desktop publishing software
Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over the last RC's can be found at the
release post. Scribus 1.3.5 requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher and will be the base of the 1.4.x brunch.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the
additional sources lists.
Saturday, June 6, 2009 1:31:05 PM
layout, typo, scribus, font
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The Dev team released the 2nd RC of the desktop publishing software
Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over RC 1 can be found at the
release post. Scribus now requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the
additional sources lists.
Thursday, April 9, 2009 8:51:14 PM
print, design, website, grid
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Using a grid for your design is one way to keep it smooth and clear. The Smashing Magazine wrote interesting articles about
what grid design is and
how to use it.
Meanwhile the standard resolution for web pages is 1024x768px and Nathan Smith developed the perfect
960 Grid System. On his website he shows all the beautiness of it and made templates for various programms available. The
960 Grid System is now available for Inkscape too.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:07:09 PM
color profiles, reader, adobe, acrobat
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After the last security updates 8.1.3 and 8.1.4 now the
new Adobe Reader 9.1 is available for Linux too. Like ever it isn't the fast PDF viewer for daily usage (like
Envince) but it is the best PDF viewer for prepress.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:35:03 PM
plugin, color profiles, convert, seperate+
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After using my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp in real life by creating the prepress PDF of the
german Ubuntu flyer and the chance to get it bundled in the Debian package "gimp-plugin-registry" i updated it again and fixed some bugs:
* added license information about GPLV2
* now compression modi "Zip" and "JPEG 95%" are working
* a creator sign "GIMP CMYK Tiff 2 PDF" in the meta informations of the PDF document will be added
» Read more...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:14:38 PM
flyer, design, ubuntu, linux
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[/img]Last year at the
Ubucon'08 i'm getting involved designing a new flyer for Ubuntu Germany. After
Julius Bloch poked us again and again, end of last year
Thomas Keup and me was thinking about the message. Based on the workshop of the Ubucon'08 and our brainstorming Thomas created a really cool text for it. And so it was now on me creating a really cool design that fits to this superb text.
...and i did well »All work is based on
Inkscape,
Gimp,
Seperate+,
Dejavu Sans &
Ubuntu font,
Moonshiner and
CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp.
Thanks to all the people give us feedback and hunting for typo bugs.
UPDATE:Here is the
web optimized PDF of it.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:41:32 PM
pdf, font, scribus, typo
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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.
Monday, November 10, 2008 9:11:28 PM
color management, color profiles, scribus, inscape
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Color profiles are usefull for prepress, image and video editing. Besides the package "icc-proflies" (contains ECI-RGB.V1.0.icc, ISOcoated.icc, ISOuncoated.icc, ISOuncoatedyellowish.icc, ISOwebcoated.icc, LStar-RGB.icc, PhotoGamutRGB_avg6c.icc, Fogra27L.icm, sRGB.icm) that ships with Ubuntu there are other free and professional color profile available:
Adobe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/iccprofiles/win/AdobeICCProfiles_end-user.ziphttp://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/iccprofiles/win/AdobeICCProfilesCS4Win_end-user.zipECI European Color Initiative
http://www.eci.org/doku.php?id=en:downloadsICC profiles are a standard of color management. All of them are platform independent and can be used with Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape and F-Spot & Co. To make the profiles available system wide (including Windows applications running on Wine) copy the downloadad profiles to
~/.color/icc
Myself prefer the Euroscale V2 profile for print and the Adobe 1998 profile for image editing.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 8:29:12 PM
color profiles, convert, seperate+, pdf
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I updated my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp plugin besides minor fixes i added new features like:
* Exporting two images as on PDF
* Start Acrobat or Evince after export
* Delete CMYK TIff images after PDF creation
For myself it sounds like feature complete but i'm interested in your feedback too.
» Read more...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 4:41:27 PM
color profiles, reader, adobe, acrobat
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Envince and a lot of other PDF viewers are great for the daily usage. But working with PDF documents for prepress the best at all is always the Adobe PDF Reader. Due some security issues Adobe updated it now to
version 8.1.3.
The Adobe Reader is available in various languages as a Deb and RPM archive too, so its easy for you to install it. You can get it via the
Medibuntu Repository too.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:25:34 PM
color profiles, convert, seperate+, pdf
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To complete my workflow using
Seperate+ that generates CMYK Tiff images inside of Gimp i wrote a small Python plugin for Gimp that allows you to convert the saved CMYK Tiff image into a PDF for prepress.
Read more...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:28:03 PM
design, print, poster, mag
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The Smashing Magazine didn't get tired of collecting artwork. This time they collected 50 beautiful movie posters.
My favorites are:
* Walk aline
* The Thing
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Unforgiven
* Man With One Red Shoe
* Perfume
* Mean Streets
* Sweeney Todd
As you see it isn't easy to pick just one in such a good selection
Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:56:26 AM
color space, print, debian, cmyk
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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!
Saturday, September 6, 2008 7:31:29 PM
seperate+, color profiles, prepress, GIMP
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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.
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