Here are some suggestions. http://namakutux.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/how-to-print-with-cmyk-color-profile-in.html http://makandracards.com/makandra/1489-convert-the-colorspace-of-a-pdf-from-rgb-to-cmyk-under-ubuntu-linux And I found thisEDIT: I have just discovered, that if I create an .odp presentation in OpenOffice, and export it to PDF; that PDF will by default be RGB, however, the following command (from ghostscript Examples | Production Monkeys <http://www.productionmonkeys.net/guides/ghostscript/examples>):
|# Color PDF to CMYK: gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK \ -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf |... actually will produce a CMYK pdf, reported as such by |identify| (although, the black will be rich, not plain - on all four channels); however, this command will work /only/ when the slide has an added image (apparently, it is the one triggering the color conversion?!)! Funnily, I cannot get the same effect from a |pdflatex| PDF.
Here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6241282/converting-pdf-to-cmyk-with-identify-recognizing-cmyk
steve On 2014-12-09 06:03, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) Err, they might be able to handle the Odg file too. They probably can't right now but they might - so it might be worth sending "the original" Odg too, along with the Pdf. If they get more and more people giving them Odg then they are more likely to install programs that can use it, such as LibreOffice or OpenOffice. So i tend to think it's good to give people the file in both formats and let them use whichever they prefer. Regards from Tom :) On 8 December 2014 at 16:56, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote: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 ;-) Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer TVH GROUP NV Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com Watch our company movies on www.tvh.tv On 8 December 2014 at 17:08, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm> wrote:All, 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, Dave -- dave boland dboland9@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NetiquetteList archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot bedeleted -- **** DISCLAIMER **** http://www.tvh.com/glob/en/email-disclaimer "This message is delivered to all addressees subject to the conditions set forth in the attached disclaimer, which is an integral part of this message." -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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