On 12-10-13 11:47, ugajin@talktalk.net wrote:

I am running Mac OSX v10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

I wish to find a suitable (open source if possible) application to print high end image files. I have both Gimp v2.8.4 and Scribus v1.4.3 installed, but I cannot find a way to apply output icc profiles for either of these applications. The printer options list for Gimp and Scribus appear to be very similar, however . . In Gimp, the values for each option are clearly labelled e.g. Media Type & etc. whereas for Scribus, the values are displayed as digits e.g. 0, 2, 14 & etc. which is very unhelpful.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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Try printfab from zedonet.com.
It's commercial, i'm using the Linux version with a very high quality.

siem Korteweg.

Hi, Folks,

Success!

FYI: If you need to install a Gimp developer snapshot - just call it Gimp 2.9.1 - on Ubuntu Raring and Saucy try this:

https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp-experimental/

But consider it's experimental. Use it on your own risk!

Cheers

PS: I could not made packages for Precise and Quantal because of a dependency issue: Gimp 2.9 needs at least Glib 2.36. I will try to build a standalone version for "older" Ubuntus which will carry it's own packages.

Sorry for that

On 12.10.2013 at 11:47 A.M., ugajin wrote: > I am running Mac OSX v10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

I wish to find a suitable (open source if possible) application to print high end image files. I have both Gimp v2.8.4 and Scribus v1.4.3 installed, but I cannot find a way to apply output icc profiles for either of these applications.

In GIMP is see two ways:

Image/Mode/Convert to Color Profile... lets you apply a color profile to your image (recalculates the color values of the pixels to make the image look the same with the new profile, considering the rendering intent). Note, that your image is connected to that color profile then - to avoid restricting your possibilities you should keep a device-independent color profile, like sRGB or AdobeRGB etc and thus not overwrite your file with the converted version.

The safe way: On OSX you can assign a color profile to your printer with ColorSync. It's shipped with OS X and you find it in Applications/Utilities.

After that in GIMP: Normally this should be enough and after printing the file from GIMP it should look as expected.

For soft proofing: In the menu GIMP/Preferences/Color Management enter your profile in the field 'Print Simulation Profile' and choose a suitable Softproof rendering intent. For softproofing on the screen go to 'View/Display filters...', add 'Color proof' to the right list. In the field 'Profile' in the lower part of the dialog you can choose your printer profile then and set a suitable Rendering intent. (Anyway I haven't seen the values from the Preferences dialog used as default here - I don't know whether this is intentional).

Kind regards,

Sven