What about CMYK ?

What about CMYK ?

Posted Nov 23, 2005 8:20 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: What about CMYK ? by smurf
Parent article: Inkscape, a Scalable Vector Graphics Editor

Well since it's designed specificly for web svg standards and whatnot I am not suprised that CMYK support isn't a big deal. CMYK is a prepress-only thing.

Plus I am suspecting that lower down there would be issues.. How well does the SVG format itself deal with CMYK colors? I don't know, but I suspect the answer is 'not at all'.

I never tried superscript or anything like that in inkscape. I think that it's possible, after a fasion. I don't mave a machine aviable right now to try it out. Try shifting the text up/down using 'alt-uparrow/downarrow' then manually adjusting the 'superscripted' item's font size.

But I only do text in images if the text needs to be part of the image... Signs, web banners and the like.. For better text layout I like to use a real layout program rather then vector image editor. Something like Scribus. It makes things much easier to manage.

Actually I think it makes most sense just to use Inkscape as it's intended. As just a vector based image editor and use Scribus for print layout, text, and other things like that. It has support for CMYK colors, can do ICC color profiles (via littlecms) (I don't think inkscape supports ICC yet) and the like which are important for doing actual print work. (color profiles are uber-important for getting good print output without going insane)

Of course the ideal is to have all this supported all the way through by whatever programs you want to use (Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, etc), but color spaces, profiling and all that is relatively immature in Linux and dominated by propriatory and secret color proccesses elsewere. Most stuff is getting ICC support nowadays, even gimp, but Linux still lacks the ability to use hardware-based calibration tools like that spider thingy you put on the front of monitors.

Now that would be very nice.

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