Hi John, I can't tell you anything from the development end of things. But as an Inkscape user, I know that has been a long wished for feature. Some have even said it's the only thing preventing Inkscape from being a serious, professional, stand-alone vector editor, which could replace AI. Mmm..that didn't come out exactly right. Of course Inkscape is already most of that and I know Inkscape doesn't strive to be an AI replacement. But I've heard professional graphic artists say that lack of true cmyk is the only thing preventing them from dropping AI altogether. We had someone from the Brazillian Inkscape community who wrote a nice extension or 2. (non-functional with 0.91 or 0.92)

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExportPDFCMYK http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/ExportarPDFCMYK http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/ExportarTIFFCMYK

Then they decided to expand it into something more (I don't actually understand what the "more" is).

http://jonata.org/inkscape/outputpro/

Here's some brief discussion about it:

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5943&start=25#p450...

But the new version (OutputPRO) is still under development. The last I heard, development was stalled, but that's all I know. I'll also be interested to learn about the current native development status.

All best, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: John Culleton Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:26 PM To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Any progress on CMYK?

My copy of the 4th edition of the Bah book says it is "under way." The absence is a pity because with the built-in perfect book layout facility Inkscape would be most useful in creating book covers. The ability to distort type faces makes for some interesting possibilities

I recognize the size of the task of course.