

They should reflect the capabilities of modern printing processes, but you have to check with your print shop. Currently does the ECI recommend the working colour space profile eciRGB_V2. These profiles include US, European and Japanese press defaults (previouslyįrom the European Color Initiative (ECI) you can get some brand new ISO 12647-2 compliant ICC profiles for offset printing output on. These would be a good beginning default set of press profiles for Scribus if you are planning to send Scribus files (PS or PDF) to a commercial printer.


The Build ID will has a code where the first letter can be a C if LittleCMS is available or a * if it it's not the case. The splash screen will display some infos about how and when Scribus has been built. If you're wondering if Scribus supports LittleCMS on your system go to the Help menu and select About Scribus. With a long click on the button, you will able to directly go to the color management settings for the current document. If you have Scribus 1.4 or newer, you can activate it and use the current settings by clicking on the small monitor in the lower right corner of the Scribus main window: you can set the defaults for all future documents). > Color Management you can Activate color management for the current document (in the same section of File > Preferences. On Linux/UNIX it depends on the packagers, but our experience shows that in most – if not all – cases it will be automatically installed. Our releases for Windows, Mac OS X, Haiku, OS/2 and eCS always include it. In order to use the color management in Scribus you'll need LittleCMS installed on your system.

