On Friday 13 July 2007 17:39, Craig Ringer wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > I am contemplating using Cinepaint instead of Gimp because of the > > availabilty of cmyk. In fact I am part way through the install > > process (that ol debbil missing prerequisites blew up > > ./configure.)
> > So ... do you really need to hand-convert all your images to CMYK? > > -- > Craig Ringer I would prefer to just work in the CMYK color model, using appropriate profiles for both monitor and the output file. Almost all of what I work on is intended for print, and it needs to be either cmyk or grayscale. Of course something like ImageMagick can do a conversion after the fact but that leaves me with no control of the out of gamut colors. Anoother question: Can I work in some recent version of Scribus, import graphics in png format created or edited in Gimp, and expect the Scribus output to be in cmyk model? I just don't trust the highly automated prepress of printers like LSI to do the coversion in a safe manner. I have a Sony G520 monitor so in theory at least I can calibrate it correctly for display of cmyk images. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
