Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > "Ashamed" is completely wrong here. However, one must not forget that the > GIMP > team has deliberately ignored all requests from users to implement CMYK > features for years. Their point of view has been for a long time: That's the > printer's job, not ours. So, they might be to blame for their current > difficulties ;)
Yeah, I read the flame wars - they are in public archives. > They also have ignored many requests for a better usability, > and badmouthing the guy who created GIMPshop or the cinepaint team is not > what I would call good manners. That doesn't diminish my admiration for what > has been achieved by the GIMP developers. The GIMP has become my favourite > tool for restoring old b/w photographs. It's fast and very reliable. I like GIMP very much and use it often. But for preparation of a book I had to use Photoshop and Indesign. I hope that GIMP 2.4 includes CMYK, CMS, and 16-bit depth, and 2.4 comes soon. IMHO the usability is not so bad. If you imagine the complexity, the developers did a great job. But they should be more open to 'small' improvements, maybe look at the competitors and take some of their solutions. > And I really hope no one will complain about inkscape. I complain;-) Some days ago I tried to draw something with inkscape and didn't step forward. It's too technically oriented, not self explaining, hard to learn. It needs a complete redesign of the UI. Same is with lprof. Usually I am somebody helping in test, review and documentation, but inkscape seems to be a too large task for me - lprof is next on my list. Helmut Wollmersdorfer
