Hello everyone,
I have a colour document I want to get printed by a print shop. It is a monochrome (shades of the same hue with different lightness/saturation, basically all brown) fully vector document. Currently I have the SVG exported in PDF.
The print shops want a CMYK PDF, as expected. They don't seem too smart (insist on using photoshop on the PDF, don't pay much attention to the superposition of recto and verso, etc.) so I would like to do as much as possible myself. However, even with a CMYK document I guess they would still need to do a CMYK to CMYK conversion between my CMYK profile and the one of their printer. Would this be any better than going straight from my RGB to their CMYK?
If I do need to convert in CMYK, I explored the possibilities. The SVG does not import correctly in Scribus so this is out of the question. I have Adobe Acrobat, which looks like it can do the conversion on the PDF. I am just not sure what it assumes as a starting colour space, if any. What would the knowledgeable people on this list advise as a workflow to get an Inkscape generated PDF in CMYK?
As a related note, what is the advised workflow within Inkscape? I have a display and proofing profiles set in the preferences (NB: Jon, does the "Retrieve profile from display" works on Mac? It does not inactivate the drop down menu when checked at least, while it looks like it should.). My understanding of the 0.46 release notes is that as soon as a display profile is set, it is used, and clicking the indicator at the bottom-right corner turns soft proofing on, using the specified proofing profile. Am I right? What part of all this is currently retained in the SVG? in the PDF?
Sorry for the numerous questions. I would like to get this one right. Thanks in advance,
JiHO --- http://maururu.net