Re: [Gimp-user] Re: CMYK separation
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:04 pm, Denis McCauley wrote: John Culleton wrote: By golly it works! Reddish colors are faded a bit. I suppose the cure is to adjust in gimp to make the image overly red and then save and do the conversion via pnmtotiffcmyk. Hi John Before you go too far with your color experimentation it's better to check with your print shop, get some proofs of your basic experiments for comparison, ask the print shop's advice, etc, because what you see is NOT what you get when you export from screen to print, unless you're using something sophisticated and horribly expensive like PS (and even then) Cheers Denis McCauley http://www.tenui.tk Thanks for reminding me. For non-photographic use some color shift would not be a problem. For photos for covers only fleshtones would be a major problem. I just hope to have the on-screen image look close to the original photo. My experiments are just to compensate for color shift caused by conversion. You are correct, the cmyk image on the monitor is not going to be identical to what is printed. You mention something horribly expensive like PS. PS to me is PostScript but clearly you mean something else. Photoshop? If I had the bucks for Photoshop I would not be looking for a free conversion utility :-) My goal is to have a cmyk image that the printer can use, which I can not obtain directly from Gimp. Some fiddling in prepress is inevitable, for a variety of reasons. That's his problem. Thaniks for writing. John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] looking for VueScan (aka ImageScan!)
I'm looking for a new scanner (my Astra 1200S no longer seems to work now that I'm using a power supply that doesn't appear to be the one it came with). I've heard good things about ImageScan, but they don't have it available anymore and it's not clear when they might. Does anyone have a copy of this program I can have? And do you know what scanners it supports that are currently available off the shelf? Does anyone have any recommendations for off the shelf scanners (re: ones you can actually buy today at the local Best Buy or Frys) that work with SANE? -- Michael J. Hammel | If a man ate a pound of pasta and The Graphics Muse | a pound of antipasto, would they [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cancel out, leaving him still http://www.graphics-muse.com hungry? -- Dogbert ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text on a curved line?
Paul Thomas writes: was wondering if Gimp can put text on a curved line. I need to have some text around the outside of a circular image. Walker, Sam writes: My version of GIMP, 1.2.3, has a Script Fu-Logos-Text Circle plugin, that creates text in a circle. Wow, I don't even have a Logos section in Script Fu, in either 1.2.3 (RH73 RPM) or 1.2.4 (from tarball). I wonder what else I'm missing? Anyone know where to get Text Circle? Anyway, I didn't have anything that did this, and I wanted it for CD labels, so I wrote Arclayer (it bends the current layer in an upper or lower arc of a given radius). It was also an excuse to play with python, so I wrote it as a python plugin; eventually I may translate it to C, but I haven't had time, so for now you have to install gimp-python, http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygimp/ (in 1.3 it's included, I believe). Arclayer has a few bugs (some extra pixels scattered around that you have to clean up) so I haven't put it in the plugin registry or anything, but you're welcome to try it: http://shallowsky.com/software/arclayer.py It combines nicely with a CD template plugin: http://shallowsky.com/software/CDlabel.py Anyone know a way to bring up the gimp-print plugin with pre-initialized values for offsets and scale? That would make CD labels a lot easier. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
