On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Claus Cyrny <claus.cy...@web.de> wrote: > I need to provide a business card as PSD/ > CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I > go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)? > I designed the card initially in Inkscape & > will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is > actually the first time I am using a color profile, > so any tips would be appreciated.
If the printer will accept PDF, I would design in Scribus and check the color management tab when exporting the PDF. Change the 'Output intended for' to 'Printer' and it will save a CMYK PDF. Don't mess with the checkboxes. If you have images to into Scribus, you can convert them to CMYK using imagemagick beforehand. Or if the PSD is flat[0], you might consider just converting that to CMYK (via imagemagick) as an alternate solution. Also - be sure you have the package 'icc-profiles' installed through apt. Oops - I just reread, and you are going to have to download the SWOP profile from Adobe's web site (get the windows version): http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680 You need to extract them to "$prefix/share/Scribus/profiles" as described here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=cms2 Although I'm not 100% sure how to make sure that the SWOP profile is specified/embedded. I'm going to play around with it a little - if I find anything out, I'll post back. HTH, Chris [0] - the last time I tried to use imagemagick on a layered PSD I ran into problems, but it's been quite some time. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
