On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:20 PM, bulia byak wrote:
What use would be for someone to have your monitor's profile? :)
The profile provides a mapping from the colors in document to the device-independent colors
*sigh*
No, it doesn't, the reason being -- there is a universe large difference between monitor's profile color space and a working color space. With current design colors in documents are defined via Document Properties > CMS and picked in CMS tab of Fill'n'Stroke dialog.
The point of working with CMYK natively is that you
a) immediately see what your print is going to look like and
This is an illusion. Different printers will still print your CMYK file differently. Generic CMYK preview is only barely useful: it will warn you about some wildly out-of-gamut colors, but that's all. Other than that, producing a CMYK without a target profile is an exercise in futility - and it's doubly frustrating that so many print providers routinely expect you to do exactly this.
Who said that one doesn't have a target profile? :)
The world of printing is a mess. You can't change it. Saying "Uh. Oh. This is wrong, we won't do it." is not going to make users happy, because it won't help them to get their job done.
I fully agree that it is a mess. But I reject your attitude. On the contrary, saying loudly and clearly what's messy and wrong, and ahy, can't be but beneficial for everyone involved.
Well, rejecting my attitude won't help our users either :) As well as just supporting it :)
Absence of color separated PDF exporting is a deal breaker for gazillions of Inkscape users. You don't have to like it. Just accept it.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org