Re: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GIMP 2.0 comes with a color proof display filter that uses ICC color profiles to simulate a proof on your monitor. Support for such filters is new in 2.0 and for the future it is planned to integrate display filter modules better into the

Re : Re : [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-24 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 24.03.2004 14:28, Sven Neumann a écrit : Hi, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GIMP 2.0 comes with a color proof display filter that uses ICC color profiles to simulate a proof on your monitor. Support for such filters is new in 2.0 and for the future it is planned to

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
John Culleton wrote: I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in general jump on prepress issues as a point

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren
Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone would have to develop the profiles. The way Photoshop does it is by buying printers and doing test prints and gathering colorimetric data. The GIMP developers are short on people who have access to colorimetry labs, not to mention lots of

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been raised. Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. What

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote: and need to be reprofiled regularly. Good print labs profile their devices and provide the profiles to their clients. It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp to use them. My gf used to work for a large prepress company. They spent a lot of money

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin Myers
issue. s/KAM - Original Message - From: Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Burren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GIMPUser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions David Burren wrote

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren
Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gf used to work for a large prepress company. They spent a lot of money generating and validating matching profiles, and they're not going to just give them to anyone. If you want them, you pay for them. This is silly. The profiles would be for

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote: This is silly. The profiles would be for their specific machines, and would be useless with anyone else's (even with the same make hardware, as the knobs and dials would probably not be in standard positions). The choice of ink and paper stock are also factors. I'm not

Re : [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 24.03.2004 01:59, Sven Neumann a écrit : Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been raised. Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in Gimp, and then transfer to