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Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        If we all spent that money on gimp, scribus and inkscape, they would be so much better in just 2 years.

        • poinck@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          I am actually producing PDF/X-4 print-ready stuff with Inkscape, ghostscript and Scribus. I even have TrimBoxes and proper CMYK.

          But it involves many manual steps, especially overprinting for the K color channel does not work and I need to adjust every polygon and vectorized text manually.

          I whish it would be possible all in one tool. I can afford the time, because it is only a hobby. If it would be professional the extra steps involved make it not good enough.

          • warmaster@lemmy.world
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            29 days ago

            I use Ghostscript for postprocessing the PDF files. What do yo I use to add a color profile for example?

            • poinck@lemm.ee
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              29 days ago

              ghostcript can add a color profile, too. I use the regular ISO coated v2 (without the 300%). This is just a step to not do all things in Scribus by hand and make sure colors are not out of gamut.

              I don’t now the command line from the top of my head. Just ping me again, so when I am on my computer I can send the complete ghostscript cli line that currently works for me.

              The final profile is set up by Scribus, where I have set it to the ISO coated with 300%. Ideally I would like to have less steps in the chain, so that a change in the Inkscape-source involves less manually steps. One can dream of it. (:

                • poinck@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  17 days ago

                  Finally I found the time to write down, how I use Ghostscript:

                  gs \
    -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
    -o /output/gs_file.pdf \
    -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
    -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
    -sDefaultCMYKProfile=/path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc \
    -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
    source/file.pdf \
    -f

                  I don’t now which of ProcessColorModel or ColorConversionStrategy is the important one. I kept both and did not bother to try to omit one of them. -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress makes sure that embedded bitmaps are in 300dpi and I think -f prevents Ghostscript staying in interactive mode after all pages have been finished.