Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2014 um 10:30 Uhr Von: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> An: "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...> Cc: "Inkscape Devel List" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape in print workflows: Feedback from a conference in Switzerland
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 01:23:58PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Adrian Johnson has come up with some patches a couple years back to get color management into cairo, but they went nowhere for a couple reasons, one of which is because we weren't responsive. I wouldn't be surprised if they're completely bitrotted at this point.
The branch is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/cairo/log/?h=color-space
Read more about it, thanks to Alexandre doing a write-up: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/color-managed-cairo-is-slipping-awa...
I have no idea if the conversation on the cairo list went anywhere after the LGM article said it resumed.
Cheers, Josh
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:02 PM, the Adib <theadib@...400...> wrote:
Bryce,
As You are also working on cairo: Is there any Chance cairo will Support cmyk and spotcolours? Lets say within 2 years. Regards, Adib.
From Christoph Schäfer's followup it sounds like this is already a
solved problem thanks to lcms?
Otherwise, I'm happy to help shepherd Cairo patches into the tree.
Bryce
Hi,
I'm not sure we're talking about the same issues here. Inkscape does display CMS just as well as GIMP, Krita, or Scribus. It also seems to support colour-managed SVGs in all supported colour models well.
What is missing is support for these colour models and CMS support during PDF and PostScript import and export, which includes EPS and AI. It's also necessary to give users PDF export control options, which I'll explain in detail in the announced paper.
People who've been following Cairo development closely told me that CMYK and spot colour support doesn't seem to be interesting to the Cairo team, but since this is hearsay, I cannot confirm the truth of it. I'd be pleased to be proven wrong.
Christoph