On 23/02/10 17:44, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 02/23/2010 08:19 AM, Julian Robbins wrote: >> Hi >> >> We've had some fund and games !! >> >> Not directly related to Scribus, but something I only found out about >> recently is that SVG files only support RGB colourspace not CMYK. >> Because of this, if using Inkscape, and saving in normal SVG format any >> CMYK colours are saved into RGB equivalent. If I have a CMYK colour I >> export as EPS from Inkscape, it too oddly won't save as CMYK, as >> Inkscape still doesn't support this >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171214 >> >> Now what's all this got to do with Scribus ? >> >> Well although the colours themselves when you import these various files >> ie SVG, and EPS are ok, the CMYK colour values aren't correct as you >> expect. >> >> But after creating same files in Illustrator, and saving .ai, .svg and >> .eps files, I would expect the .eps at least to show the correct CMYK >> values on import into Scribus (using 1.3.6SVN), but it doesn't either. >> The colour is more or less the same, but the CMYK values vary wildly. >> >> Loading up the .ai file into Inkscape also doesn't show the right CMYK >> values, similar colour match but wrong values. >> >> Am I looking at this the wrong way, but how do people using a complete >> FOSS system actually get a a fully correct workflow with CMYK using >> Scribus, etc ? >> >> Also, can you get the same actual CMYK colour using a different >> combination of values of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black ? If so, >> perhaps this is what's happening - same colour, but different >> (incorrect) make up to achieve it ? >> > > So when you "correct" colors, try to understand the subjective nature > of this.
Hi Greg I take your point, but one part of my query was why doesn't Scribus show the same CMYK values for a colour saved as an EPS file from Illustrator than what Illustrator does ? I have a file with Pantone 575CVC green, which is CMYK 60%, 9%, 95%, 50% as created in Illustrator (used as Inkscape can't accurately save CMYK values into an svg or eps file). But when I import the Illustrator eps file into Scribus 1.3.6SVN (or 1.3.3.13), the colour although closely matching in tone what was created as the eps, has CMYK values 76%, 36%, 100%, 27% So why aren't the values the same as what's in the Illustrator eps file ? -- Kind regards Julian
