[Openicc] questions about Scribus and color management

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hi List
Kai Uwe told me, that this list is close to the scribus team.
As I´m familar with DTP, color management and PDF, I have some questions 
about the implementation under Scribus.

As I´m not a programmer, I may be use not the correct terms:

The Scribus Color & Imaging model
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In the Adobe world, the Adobe programms are using the same technologies 
for some basic functions like simulating correct CMYK colors via color 
management at the screen or central color settings.

I think Adobe is using the same routines / modules in his applications.

If Scribus has already color management implemented, why should other 
applications not use modules from scribus ?

My question to the Scribus programmer: Do you think, this makes sense ?
And if yes, can you give a short description about the scribus Color & 
imaging model ?

- Could other applications use your CMYK color specifier ?
- Could other applications use your routines for displaying vector 
graphics and images with color management at the monitor ?

PDF and color management
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As I talked with some programmers, PDF is very complex format, if you 
want it to colormatch to the screen or to a printing colorspace.

Can you explain, how color is handled for PDFs which are placed in Scribus ?

How is transparency handled in in Scribus especialy, if you are 
generating PDF/X-3 were some flattening is necessary for transparent 
objects?



SVG and color management
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For me SVG seems to be a much better fileformat, if complex objects 
should stay editable. Comparing it to EPS or PDF, which are now used for 
exchangig complex objects in DTP-Workflows SVG seems for me to be the 
better format.
Do you support the color management features of SVG in Scribus ?

If you support color management for displaying SVG, could other 
applications use this routines ?


General question
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Why not defining a Scribus imaging archtitecture, which is free for 
other projects to use in the field of graphic arts ?



Last question
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With some help from a friend, I was able to compile littleCMS under 
MacOS X. Is it possible to compile also Scribus incl. using the color 
management features of little CMS ?

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