Hey guys, I've been thinking about his for quite a while and still believe it would be a good idea to implement: I'm doing quite some desktop publishing stuff and I'm trying to stick to the gnome-desktop as much as possible. Unfortunately GIMP fails to support CMYK natively and Inkscape doesn't either (SVG Print doesn't exist yet, though). However, a great step towards allowing better dtp on gnome machines would be to have a global cmyk setting that any program wanting to display cmyk-values on screen would call. Spot colors like HKS or Pantone would first be converted to their cmyk-equivalent (this is just maths) and then the cmyk global profile would be applied. The setting would be a dialogue which asks you to adjust an rgb slider until the representation on screen best fits the cyan, magenta and yellow of printing. These printing colours can be found on basically all packaging (for example boxes for frozen pizza). Real professionals can ask their print shop for a sample and have the option to insert other colours than just C100M0Y0K0 and so on... Out of all the entered value the piece of software will derive a function to translate cmyk to rgb. This is the black box about it...
Anyone to agree that this is good idea? Anyone to disagree? Hope to have risen a point that has not yet been discussed. David _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
