2010/9/14 John Culleton <john@...1202...>:
Inkscape needs two more features for publishing. First, the CMYK color model needs to be a real option. ImageMagick will convert an svg file to CMYK but that means going from vector to bitmap.
Here's a thing I don't understand. Most print shops want CMYK documents. Logically, if correct color reproduction is the objective, they should accept either RGB documents with an ICC profile for your monitor, or CMYK documents with the ICC profile of their printing equipment. But they usually don't provide any profile, and some of them explicitly discourage sending RGB+ICC.
Can color management incompetence be so widespread in the publishing world that even professionals treat CMYK as a magic switch that makes the colors better (even though in theory it can't, but sometimes does so in practice because of luck)? Or is there some special aspect of using CMYK that I don't understand?
Regards, Krzysztof