On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:15 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:
# ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, right?
Apologies in advance for jumping in without doing my homework but is the Cairo project participating in GSOC this year? If yes, perhaps this could be a cross project collaboration.
Probably also worth looking at the OpenICC stuff http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/GoogleSoC2009
CMYK, PDFs and ICC colour management is one of the BIG ISSUES not just for inkscape but for lots of open source projects, so this is an important area to focus on.
If summer of code students could work directly with the other projects with relevant dependencies this would be very very productive.
++ from me :)
cheers Donna