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 > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
