Thanks for chasing this up Maren,
Feedback from these sources should be taken into account:
* Facebook - A poll of over a hundred Inkscape users indicates an extremely strong desire for CMYK and general print support. With users indicating that they are using many proprietary tools as workarounds, even when they like Inkscape's other workflows. Full report from Chris Rogers coming soon.
* Other FOSS projects - I've had a few conversations with some other people who work in places like Fedora. There's a strong desire to have CMYK and proper print handling amongst our wider Free Software community which is not being handled by our current setup with Scribus.
* Other - Other discussions on twitter, rocket chat and elsewhere have indicated an extremely large desire to have CMYK support.
So far, very few people have indicated that they would rather Inkscape work on some other feature. This seems to be the mass majority and also a thing which significantly effects people's use of Inkscape.
I'm going to raise the prospect of putting a $20k grant into CMYK and print features. We can discuss if this is too much or too little at the next meeting (this weekend) and work from there.
* macOS speed problems (est $5k) * CMYK print functionality (spitball $20k) * General project administrator position (undefined, probably a lot)
Please come to the meeting if you would like to talk about this further. https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:21 +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote:
Hi again,
I received a reply from Bryce, allowing us to build upon the work he has already done in the mentioned file (as long as he's credited as the original author of it, with the same license as Inkscape, which applies to the Wiki content anyway). Thank you, Bryce!
So I've just (reformatted it and) added it to our Wiki, you can find it at https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Management_Planning
Maren
Am 26.05.21 um 15:03 schrieb Maren Hachmann:
Hi all,
someone has sent me a copy of the mentioned print.md file privately (which is extensive good documentation with the necessary tasks all laid out that could save us weeks), but I'm unsure whether it's okay to share it here, as Bryce has removed it from the web, along with his complete website (which may have been intentional or not).
Bryce, if you read this - do we have permission to use your CMYK writeup?
Maren
Am 24.05.21 um 15:39 schrieb Maren Hachmann:
There's also the discussion with requirements we had already talked about:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/45
Unfortunately, Bryce has removed the writeup from his website, and archive.org doesn't have it, either... (http://www.bryceharrington.org/print.md).
Maren
Am 24.05.21 um 15:08 schrieb Martin Owens:
On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 13:58 +0100, John Cliff wrote:
- I'd definitely support Tavs push for CMYK support, its got
to be one of the most common questions we've had from users about capability for years. Its also one of the stumbling blocks to being more useful in serious print type jobs.
Thanks John,
I'm looking for someone who could gather a list of users who have requested CMYK (or similar) and ask them about what they want. Specifically the difference between producing pdfs with named colours, or just saving cmyk values in the svg (very different problems).
Would you be available to gather more information from our users to solidify a case for investing in it? Maybe Tav can help too, but as volunteers we're always somewhat busy.
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