I am not sure if the colorshift when converting to CMYK is not intentional, remember this is supposed to go to a print process and not for screen .... but you could be right ... Cheers Szemir
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 23:13:36 Shawn Grover wrote: > It does work. But it also has an issue with the color output. I either > get a much faded image, or oranges where there should be blues. But > this has to do with getting the RGB to CMYK conversion profiles right, > and then the CMYK to file. > > This is related to .icc color profiles. I have them installed, but > don't think they are set up right. > > I have to say though, to get this "right" is one of those areas that is > beyond the theoretical end user. In Photoshop, it is as simple as > Image->Mode->CMYK and then File->Save As. That *is* accessible and > understandable to that end user. So, CMYK seems to be an area that Open > Source needs improvement on. At the moment. > > I hear Inkscape 0.47 will have built in CMYK support. So I know this > problem area is being worked on too though. > > Shawn > > bogi wrote: > > convert inputfile -colorspace cmyk outputfile > > > > cheers > > Szemir > > > > On Monday 09 February 2009 17:53:25 Shawn Grover wrote: > >> I have a graphic set up to go into a magazine. It was created with > >> Inkscape. The mag needs the artwork in CMYK format. Turns out Inkscape > >> (the current version) does not support CMYK. So I tried to open it in > >> GIMP, and no luck there either. > >> > >> Has anyone done CMYK based graphics with Linux? Will I need to find > >> someone with Photoshop? If you DO have experience with this on Linux, > >> can you post some links/details? If it helps, I'm on a Kubuntu 8.10 > >> box. > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> Shawn > >> > >> (ps, I have done some google search, but don't want to mis-direct any > >> efforts by referencing what I've found thus far - and my efforts there > >> still are not working either...) > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
