John, you're not entirely true. Read these lines, please. http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2010/10/inkscape-does-support-cmyk.html
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:52 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com>wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 19:13:29 +0400 > Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:11 PM, john Culleton wrote: > > > If I import an RGB vector image created by e.g., Inkscape, (pdf, > > > eps, svg, whatever)and set up the Scribus pdf output with a CMYK > > > profile, am I guaranteed that the pdf output will be in CMYK format > > > and not RGB?I know I can use ImageMagick for such a transformation > > > but that approach loses the vector nature of the image. > > > > Is there a reason you are not using CMYK colors in Inkscape when > > saving SVG? > > > > Alexandre Prokoudine > > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > > > ___ > > > While it is possible to use CMYK colors in Inkscape the program works in > RGB internally. And SVG always records colors in RGB form. That is part > of the SVG standard. Both the book by Kirsanov (page 122) and the book > by Tavmjong Bah (page 230) confirm this point. So an svg file from > Inkscape may have colors within the CMYK gamut but those colors would > be stored internally and in the svg file in RGB terms. > > A related question would be, if Inkscape outputs a pdf file from a > session that has a similar CMYK profile (Fogra etc.) would that > document's colors be expressed in RGB or CMYK in the output file? > > I'll ask that question over there. > > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130528/274dfd6e/attachment.html>
