Re: CMYK when?
I sort of missed out on this discussion, was away for a week But what I would appreciate is the ability to convert my image to CMYK, so that when I give it to the "friendly print man" he will be able to use it without moaning about this and that and then me standing next to him trying to figure this CMYK stuff out while he is doing the conversion on his pc or mac. Black especially seems to be a big problem for the print shop (something to do with the last print plate, but when you convert black RGB to CMYK, you get the black part on all four the plates, that is the CMY and K plates) If I am totally wrong here, then please just ignore my message :-) Thanks a lot Robert L Krawitz wrote: Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:13:33 -0800 From: "Carl B. Constantine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm curious as to when full CMYK support will be available in the GIMP? I looked at the Gimp-plugin on source forge and it mentions CMY printing for some inkjet style printers, but not sure if this is the same thing (not really knowing a whole lot about this). Forgive me if I've missed something, I was asked this by a friend (who uses Linux, but not GIMP for this reason). Hi. I'm the project lead for the gimp-print project on sourceforge. CMYK is a bit of an oddball subject. Partly this is because there are so many variants (CMY, CMYK, CcMmYK, CcMmYy, CcMmYyK), and partly because (to the best of my knowledge) this color space is really only useful in the context of specific output devices, which is what the print plugin deals with. What specifically would your friend like? -- Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton -- DGIT Solutions Cell: +27 (0)82 464 2595 Tell: +27 (0)12 332 1223
Re: CMYK when?
On 2/9/2000 16:47, Robert L Krawitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CMYK is a bit of an oddball subject. Partly this is because there are so many variants (CMY, CMYK, CcMmYK, CcMmYy, CcMmYyK), and partly because (to the best of my knowledge) this color space is really only useful in the context of specific output devices, which is what the print plugin deals with. What specifically would your friend like? Ok, I asked my friend for more details, and here is what he said: "My main concern is support for TIFF images saved in CMYK format Our advertising agency works in this format, and currently I have to ; get the image, convert using a corel product from CMYK to RGB, play with an image in the Gimp, convert back through the corel program and send it back, with image quality loss every step Of course this is probably going to necessitate a major change in the core, because Gimp currently works only with RGB colour palettes..." I'm sure others have similar concerns/wishes so it's good to pass all this on. Hope we can see something soon...1.3 maybe? -- __ _ Carl B. Constantine / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / (2.2.14)http://www.pobox.com/~macman //_/_//_/\_ _/ /_/\_\ Stormix 2000 PGP key available on request VLUG - Victoria Linux Users GroupICQ: 26351441
CMYK when?
I'm curious as to when full CMYK support will be available in the GIMP? I looked at the Gimp-plugin on source forge and it mentions CMY printing for some inkjet style printers, but not sure if this is the same thing (not really knowing a whole lot about this). Forgive me if I've missed something, I was asked this by a friend (who uses Linux, but not GIMP for this reason). Thanks. -- __ _ Carl B. Constantine / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / (2.2.14)http://www.pobox.com/~macman //_/_//_/\_ _/ /_/\_\ Stormix 2000 PGP key available on request VLUG - Victoria Linux Users GroupICQ: 26351441
Re: CMYK when?
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:47:42 -0500, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: CMYK is a bit of an oddball subject. Partly this is because there are so many variants (CMY, CMYK, CcMmYK, CcMmYy, CcMmYyK), and partly because (to the best of my knowledge) this color space is really only useful in the context of specific output devices, which is what the print plugin deals with. Full CMYK (that is, at least 8 bits per channel, not the twiddly 2-bit stuff you deal with working on the printer drivers) is _absolutely necessary_ for GIMP to be viable for prepress work. Kelly
