Post by benziger on Jan 12, 2021 20:12:24 GMT
Scribus is a good desktop publishing programme from the field of open source programmes. Therefore it is also inexpensive (you donate something to the development costs as you see fit).
Scribus is easy to use and quick to learn. PDF can be generated with a mouse click - unless you want to publish with IngramSpark. Here I have compiled the approaches how it should work anyway - as far as my search engine tells me.
Ingram Spark requires the PDF/X-1a format but does not recommend any ICC colour profiles. On the other hand without colour profiles, there is no focus on the quality of the colours. Discussion from 2018 in the Scribus Forum: forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=3008.0
A success story from an editor who creates books with Scribus and prints them with IngramSpark. The wiki page wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Success_stories_2017#Hinterlands_Press:_Maya_and_the_Book_of_Everything does not tell the detail, how it works. I contacted them, but I am still waiting for an answer.
When I have tried to create an X/3 for my full-colour children's book, I am told by Ingram NOT to use a ICC profile, but Scribus seems to require it. Old question on https://www.reddit.com/r/scribus/comments/1xmlse/scribus_and_ingramsparklightning_source_how_do_i/
Kris Borer found a way: krisborer.com/2020/04/01/book-layout-with-scribus/
In short:
Code:
Scribus is easy to use and quick to learn. PDF can be generated with a mouse click - unless you want to publish with IngramSpark. Here I have compiled the approaches how it should work anyway - as far as my search engine tells me.
Ingram Spark requires the PDF/X-1a format but does not recommend any ICC colour profiles. On the other hand without colour profiles, there is no focus on the quality of the colours. Discussion from 2018 in the Scribus Forum: forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=3008.0
A success story from an editor who creates books with Scribus and prints them with IngramSpark. The wiki page wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Success_stories_2017#Hinterlands_Press:_Maya_and_the_Book_of_Everything does not tell the detail, how it works. I contacted them, but I am still waiting for an answer.
When I have tried to create an X/3 for my full-colour children's book, I am told by Ingram NOT to use a ICC profile, but Scribus seems to require it. Old question on https://www.reddit.com/r/scribus/comments/1xmlse/scribus_and_ingramsparklightning_source_how_do_i/
Kris Borer found a way: krisborer.com/2020/04/01/book-layout-with-scribus/
In short:
- all fonts have to be embedded
- to get the option to output PDF/x-1a, you need to enable colour management as described here: forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,1039.msg4633.html#msg4633
- remove the ICC profiles with GhostScript
Code:
gs -o interior_no_icc.pdf
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sColorCoversionStrategy=Gray
-sProcessColorModel=DeviceGray
-dCompatibilityLevel1.4
-dOverrideICC
interior.pdf