On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

I need to provide a business card as PSD/ CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)? I designed the card initially in Inkscape & will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is actually the first time I am using a color profile, so any tips would be appreciated.

If the printer will accept PDF, I would design in Scribus and check the color management tab when exporting the PDF. Change the 'Output intended for' to 'Printer' and it will save a CMYK PDF. Don't mess with the checkboxes.

If you have images to into Scribus, you can convert them to CMYK using imagemagick beforehand.

Or if the PSD is flat[0], you might consider just converting that to CMYK (via imagemagick) as an alternate solution.

Also - be sure you have the package 'icc-profiles' installed through apt. Oops - I just reread, and you are going to have to download the SWOP profile from Adobe's web site (get the windows version): http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680

You need to extract them to "$prefix/share/Scribus/profiles" as described here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=cms2

Although I'm not 100% sure how to make sure that the SWOP profile is specified/embedded. I'm going to play around with it a little - if I find anything out, I'll post back.

HTH, Chris

[0] - the last time I tried to use imagemagick on a layered PSD I ran into problems, but it's been quite some time.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:

if I
find anything out, I'll post back.

All I really discovered is that if you place the coatedSWOP profile into /usr/share/color/icc it becomes available to Scribus

Also, I neglected to mention that you should change the 'Compatibility' option to PDF/X-3 on the 'General' tab of the PDF export Dialog. Then a new tab will become available: "PDF X-3" [0]. Here you may specify the output profile to be used. Note you must put something into "info string" before it will let you save.

Sorry this info is sorta all over the place - I do a little prepress stuff in linux from time to time, but have mainly been stuck using Adobe products in a VM.

Chris

Here's one reference site on PDF-X3, and plenty more exist: http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:faq

On 4/10/10, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Hi,

I need to provide a business card as PSD/ CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)?

Use most recent version of separate+ plug-in

Alexandre