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Issue handling for Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data
http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
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Printed copies #26

Open Derek-Jones opened 3 years ago

Derek-Jones commented 3 years ago

Opened to record the issues around getting a copy physically printed.

If you have suggestions or comments, please add them.

One of the few companies offering A4 color printing, for non-trivial numbers of pages, are: IngramSpark. They require that the pdf be in PDF/X and that the color format be cmyk (rather than rgb, a common requirement for larger printers, I'm told).; see page 11.

It is possible that the images are too close to the edge of the page. I'm working on getting a trial print.

Ghostscript can be used to convert from RGB to CMYK:

gs -o ESEUR-cmyk.pdf \
   -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
   -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
   -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
   -sColorConversionStrategyForImages=CMYK \
    ../ESEUR.pdf
Derek-Jones commented 3 years ago

If you want to try and get the colors produced by your printer to match those that appear on screen, some tools try try include: