Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP and CMYK
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:27 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: > > First of all, does the EPS contain an ICC color profile? Do you have the > > color profile at all? Did you use it when you tried opening the EPS in > > those 7 applications? > > Downloading the ICC profiles and opening the EPS in Scribus solved the > problem. I had to change a few options in Scribus and then export as an > SVG file. But I got the image in the correct colours now. Thanks for the > pointer. So it looks like I spoke too soon. While using the color profile did seem to get a better result, it is still not the correct colors. Anybody else have a suggestion? I have downloaded an evaluation copy of Illustrator so that I can save the file as an SVG, however this is not an ideal solution for me. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . [EMAIL PROTECTED] D). ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca ( ) ` ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP and CMYK
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:27 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: > First of all, does the EPS contain an ICC color profile? Do you have the > color profile at all? Did you use it when you tried opening the EPS in > those 7 applications? Downloading the ICC profiles and opening the EPS in Scribus solved the problem. I had to change a few options in Scribus and then export as an SVG file. But I got the image in the correct colours now. Thanks for the pointer. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . [EMAIL PROTECTED] D). ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca ( ) ` ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP and CMYK
Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > Hello, > > What I'm having troubles with right now is that I have been given an EPS > file from a graphics company that contains a Logo. The image has been > saved with (apparently) CMYK formated colors. The issue is that the CMYK > representation they say should give the desired RGB formated colors is > not actually doing this. What I get is distinctly not what they > indicated it should be. I have now tried 7 different applications to > convert this image correctly (not Illustrator or Photoshop as I don't > have access to these). Hi First of all, does the EPS contain an ICC color profile? Do you have the color profile at all? Did you use it when you tried opening the EPS in those 7 applications? BR, Martin ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] GIMP and CMYK
Hello, I'm sure this gets asked a lot, but I have spent the better part of today trying to figure out a reason why this is so, so I thought I would ask. Any informaiton, or even directing me to resources on the web would be very helpful. What I'm having troubles with right now is that I have been given an EPS file from a graphics company that contains a Logo. The image has been saved with (apparently) CMYK formated colors. The issue is that the CMYK representation they say should give the desired RGB formated colors is not actually doing this. What I get is distinctly not what they indicated it should be. I have now tried 7 different applications to convert this image correctly (not Illustrator or Photoshop as I don't have access to these). In all cases I get the same rendering of the image. To help illustrate the problem see the image located: http://www.monkeynet.ca/example-cmyk.png The question I have is, why does adobe illustrator apparently display the correct colors and GIMP and the other applications show an incorrect representation? As a follwo up, is there a way to get the correct representation to be rendered? I'm even willing to modify the eps file manually by hand to acheive this. -- o)Derek Wueppelmann (o (D .[EMAIL PROTECTED]D). ((` http://monkey.homeip.net/ ( ) ` ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] GIMP and CMYK
Thus spoke John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Understood. The reference to Gimp 2.0 and CMYK is the closest thing to > a commitment to incorporate useful CMYK capability in Gimp that I > have come across. There are two markets, on-line stuff and printed > stuff. Without CMYK Gimp is limited to the first and effectively > locked out of the second. Hence it cannot be considered as a complete Depends on your point of view. I've done several covers for Linux Journal using nothing but GIMP without CMYK. LJ took my uncompressed TIFF submission and let their printer handle CMYK issues. I've done similar things for CD covers and other prints. I did the cover to my first book with GIMP. Many smaller print houses have been eager to work with me on issues like this - essentially I'm handing off the CMYK work to them. So you aren't "effectively" shut out of the print market. It just depends on how precise you need to be. In my case, none of the prints I've done have been significantly altered by the printers doing the CMYK work for me. > Photoshop replacement no matter how many marvelous tricks it will do.=20 Again, depends on what you're working on. > CMYK is the one bold move that would make all the difference in > publishing.=20 But this I have to agree with. GIMP does need CMYK support for wider acceptance. One can always argue if "wider acceptance" is necessary. Depends on the established goal, I suppose. > I hope for a world where the non-conformist can do whatever he/she > needs to do with free software. The only non-free program I use > regularly is called Mup, a music notation program I paid $29.00 for > many years ago. TeX means never having to buy InDesign or Quark for > typesetting. Gimp should mean never having to buy PhotoShop for book > covers. Until that happy day I will struggle along with Gimp + > pnmtotiffcmyk. Mostly true. But I went through this with book publishers too way before OpenOffice and AbiWord were as stable as they are now. I got them to work with RTF and Applix (which isn't open source, but was available for Linux at the time). I just had to explain my position and need to use the products I was writing about. The same can be said for GIMP and printers. You just have to work a little harder to get things done with those who do not use your tools. -- Michael J. Hammel | I hope that after I die people will say of me: The Graphics Muse | "That guy sure owed me a lot of money." [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey http://www.graphics-muse.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
