Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Monday 18 May 2009 13:45:48 Glen Turner wrote:
Also lacking in GIMP and Inkscape is support for spot
printing and multi-colour processes. PANTONE is the most
common of those process -- it is commonly used to print
logos onto things.
Yes. I've done a lot of work with old fashioned Letraset.
In short, you wouldn't notice with photos, but if you're
trying for a moderate level of graphics arts on paper then
the lack of ability to describe all that the printer is
capable of gets old pretty quickly. As a simple example,
I had to ditch GIMP to get a "sun rising" effect on some
PR material I was preparing.
Yes. Gimp is much better than it was but some sort of Pantone colour
integration would be good (eventually). An open source version of
that would need to be implemented.
Similarly, the lack of PANTONE support sucks if you are
printing stuff like your sporting club's logo onto water
bottles or whatever.
I agree :)
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Some of these issues are to do with the printer driver and the Gimp's
support/integration with these drivers [this can be a problem on linux] rather
than the Gimp itself. Bear in mind that whatever you see on the screen will be
different to what is printed. That was the point of the discussion between RGB
and CMYK (and this would be applicable to Pantone).
With regard to Technical/Architectural drawing - I suspect there would be lots
of
shortcomings in the gimp apart from its printing capability....but my tech
drawing and
photography classes were too long ago, for me to comment on how the subject is
taught today. But I don't think the Gimp is a particularly good drawing package.
Also, note most cameras capture convert the images to JPG - there is some
discussion about CMYK support in JPG.
Use of Colours for reading on a screen vs printed material is critical for
legibility, clarity and aesthetics. A PDF Form with a Grey background may be
fine for commercial printing - but does not work particularly well on a screen
or ideal for your home or school printer.
I have worked with commerical printers, designers, filmmakers and photographers
to produce printed material and the quality is certainly better - from the fonts
they select,
to the tone of colour to the whitespacing.
However, alas when it comest to the Web/Computer systems the visual is only one
aspect of accesibility and good design.
Marghanita
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