Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to PDF wiith CMYK

Hi :)
I suspect that cmyk is only marginally better.  Good to use if it's easy
but in this case it isn't so don't.  Image editing programs such as Gimp,
Inkscape, stuff like that make it easy - but then you would be exporting
from LO in RGB anyway.  So the gains you could make would probably be
off-set by all the conversions

Of course LO does give you the massive advantage of being able to do Pdfs
that have no compression, or using a lossless compression very easily.  MS
Office tends to use a very lossy format that makes things a bit blurry.

There is another way of creating Pdfs using "print to file" that might be
better for retaining your fonts but i think that tends to be fairly
lossless too, with LO.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 8 December 2014 at 16:13, Dries Feys <dries.feys@tvh.com> wrote:

> Hello Dave,
>
> AFAIK, cmyk involves a certain patent, and isn't widely available in
> opensource projects like LO. I suggest you export your drawing to .png
> or .jpg, and the printshop should be able to handle that, as otherwise
> they can't handle any incoming picture.
>
> In the latter case, I'd consider to change from printshop instead ;-)
>
>
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> On 8 December 2014 at 17:08, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > All,
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> > I'm doing a Christmas card in LO Draw (I created the templates a few
> > years ago, easy to use...).  The print shop that I normally use says
> > that you can use RGB, which is the normal PDF export, but CMYK is much
> > better.  So I'm looking for a simple, straight forward way of doing this
> > that runs under Linux.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > I'm told that Scribus can import LO files, and do CMYK, but I'm in a
> > time crunch and really don't want to have to learn a new program.
> >
> > Thanks,
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