There are lots of topics I need education on in this task but let me start at the end and work backward. I will import a file into Scribus and produce a file in pdf x/1a:2001 format using a particular icc profile that limits ink coverage particularly in rich black situations.
Now considering all the objectives, cmyk presentation of colors being paramount, what file format is optimal being saved from Inkscape 0.91 and imported into Scribus 1.5.0. I see three candidates: svg, pdf, and tiff.
I'll be asking a similar question on the Scribus list. Many of the gurus on the lists are fluent in both programs.
That has to be dependent on the type of cover art you're using, right?
What I mean is: if your book cover design is purely abstract, than SVG seems fine, since you can control your palette numerically to make sure the colors are set exactly the way you need them. But if you were creating a book cover using art provided by an outside artist, you're probably getting it in tiff (out of the three options you listed), in which case whatever you're doing in Inkscape, you'll be wanting to export everything in tiff in order to keep the colors from shifting around.
Assuming Inkscape can export in tiff. I thought it only supported png, but I dimly remember some chatter that this is no longer the case.
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:09:28 -0400 John Culleton <John@...1668...> wrote:
There are lots of topics I need education on in this task but let me start at the end and work backward. I will import a file into Scribus and produce a file in pdf x/1a:2001 format using a particular icc profile that limits ink coverage particularly in rich black situations.
Now considering all the objectives, cmyk presentation of colors being paramount, what file format is optimal being saved from Inkscape 0.91 and imported into Scribus 1.5.0. I see three candidates: svg, pdf, and tiff.
I'll be asking a similar question on the Scribus list. Many of the gurus on the lists are fluent in both programs.
First correction from a helpful person: substitute png for tiff. It seems that Inkscape won't save in tiff.
Hi John,
I used png for http://amzn.com/B007UADRDU book cover. It worked well with the Irish printers involved in that project.
Martin,
On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 11:09 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
There are lots of topics I need education on in this task but let me start at the end and work backward. I will import a file into Scribus and produce a file in pdf x/1a:2001 format using a particular icc profile that limits ink coverage particularly in rich black situations.
Now considering all the objectives, cmyk presentation of colors being paramount, what file format is optimal being saved from Inkscape 0.91 and imported into Scribus 1.5.0. I see three candidates: svg, pdf, and tiff.
I'll be asking a similar question on the Scribus list. Many of the gurus on the lists are fluent in both programs.
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