On the [Scribus] list Axel Bojer wrote: > I just tried to find several free software graphic programs that are > able to save images as cmyk, because Gimp only can /fake/ this at the > moment. But it seems I can't get it to work properly. > > This is the possible tools I found on my research: > ================================================== > * Krita -- Part of koffice: http://www.koffice.org/tours/1.5 > * Imagemagick (using the command > convert RGB.tiff -profile RGB.icc -profile CMYK.icc CMYK.tiff) > * jpegicc and tifficc > All the last three are mentioned in a former thread on this list :-) > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-August/012738.html > * Cinepaint (a gimp clone) -- http://www.cinepaint.org/docs/cmyk.html > > This web page sums up the mentioned and also proprietary alternatives > for Linux: > http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/hdr-and-cmyk-editing-in-linux/
GraphicsMagic is a better alternative to ImageMagick. For deep color image work these need to be compiled from source. Whether the core is 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit is determined at compile-time (8-bit is default). > * Cinepaint: I was not able to install it on my computer due to > dependency problems (using Kubuntu dapper amd64). Axel, can you give details? Robin -- CinePaint
