On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
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.
What you're saying is that the user's display does not match the display profile he's indicating for his documents. Yes, this is common, but at least this is a problem a user is perfectly able to fix, by calibrating his display and/or creating a custom display profile. What's important is that this is something you can do on your own, without any knowledge or access to the printer or its profile.
And in any case, from my experience, differences between RGB profiles are generally much smaller than between CMYK profiles of different printers, and the need to calibrate displays is now much less than it was in the era or CRT monitors. So even if the user neglects all this and simply sends his document assuming standard sRGB, the potential color mismatch in printing is going to be smaller than if the same user, disquieted by "experts" claiming he "must" produce CMYK, creates some random-profile CMYK file and sends that instead.
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.
I don't have to "accept" it if it can be dealt with differently and quite satisfactorily in a lot of cases. So many times I heard from someone, "Hey, can you make it a CMYK file, I heard that will make it print better", but got only a blank stare when I asked them for the printer profile.