Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 89778
RFE: Improve PDF quality
Last modified: 2013-07-30 02:15:58 UTC
I designed my business card using OpenOffice Draw. I wanted to have my cards offset pressed for best quality. However my printing office was not happy about the quality of the PDF. They had tools to check on the colors used in the PDF and they showed me that even the black color was built up using different colors and was not 100 % black. This might have something to do that the PDF was exported in RGB and not CMYK. Can there be an option to export to PDF using CMYK so you could create PDFs using OpenOffice that press agencies can work with? This would of course be useful for anyone creating press materials such as newsletters et cetera. Professional features like this would make OO.o stand out!
Created attachment 53844 [details] Businesscard in Draw
Created attachment 53845 [details] Businesscard in PDF
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There is no CMYK support throughout the whole office, all the internal color values are uncalibrated RGB. As long as we only get uncalibrated RGB as input, there is not much point doing CMYK in PDF, the colors will always be wrong since we have no reference. To really have CMYK support the applications would need support for that first. That said you can try to export this using PDF/A which will lead to a PDF file that contains our uncalibrated RGB values as sRGB; this may yield better results in this case.
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