Re: [Usability] cmyk colour profile

[Markus Jonsson <marjo691 student liu se>]

I strongly agree and I am quite suprised that this has not been
implemented already. Does any other DEs on *nix have this? What about
KDE? Is there any support on cairo for cmyk?

tor 2005-10-13 klockan 22:56 +0200 skrev David Christian Berg:
> 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
> 
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