Hey Bulia, Mental, Bryce, Alan and all you other active inkscapers!*
There's a feature request for cmyk and spot colors somewhere in the bug tracker. However, if you guys could spend some thoughts on how it might be implemented in inkscape that'd be cool. I'm using inkscape for semi professional work (doing work for ESTIEM, which is the European organisation of students of industrial engineering and management, as well as some stuff for our students government...** and usually need the stuff printed by professional printers who are asking for cmyk profiles. Now since the native format of svg just is rgb, I wonder (as I did in the bug tracker) if it is possible to define the colors used in the defs and add a cmyk equivalent in a inkscape tag. The user would manipulate the cmyk equivalent and inkscape would recaculate the rgb value... something like that.
Then on ps eps or pdf (see below) export, the cmyk values would be embedded instead of the rgb values.
Now concerning pdfs. I tried to import my svg flyer to scribus. That worked fine, really, exept that fonts weren't recognized, but the workaround is to convert them to curves. Now scribus 1.2 really screws up on resizing groups in a way that they exceed the page boundaries... causing me to start all over again a few times. Then -- as I was warned -- gradients with the end points of the object are not exported to pdf and the color output viewed with adobe acrobat afterwards seemed really poor for cmyk. This is why I'm very much hoping for smoothly working pdf output directly from inkscape. That would just be so cool, and for me a lot more important than many other things you can work around (oh well, baseline grid would really (!) help as well -- yes Corel doesn't have it, but that doesn't mean you don't need it :-) --, but other than that inkscape is already such a good app)
Ok I know you're busy, but I needed to put this down, because I just talked to another ESTIEM designer about PR stuff and am wrapping up a document where I mention Inkscape (along with Corel and Freehand and Illustrator) as the program of choice for vector editing. Saying this, can I point to some gtk installation tutorial? I know there is a setup now for inkscape, but don't I also need the gtk stuff first?
Anyways, take care!
David
*not sure what I'm so emthysiastic about but I'm in quite a good mood.
** silently I'm hoping to convert all the ESTIEM designers to Inkscape and (in some point in -- the not to close -- future) to Scribus -- oh, btw, Microsoft is one of our three headsponsors :-) Yes, there are nice people at Microsoft, would you have guessed so? But that doesn't always mean the create great software.