On Jun 6, 2007, at 6:51 AM, John R. Culleton wrote:
I have praised Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and some have
responded that Inkscape has a problem with CMYK. One has suggested
that CMYK items get converted to RGB on export or save.
1. are there such limitations?
SVG 1.1 is natively sRGB. Even if a UI presents you with CMYK to pick the color, Inkscape is currently using sRGB triplets to store.
However, I'm winding up changes that will allow us to use icc-color(...) to preserve 4 channel info with sRGB triplets for fallback.
2. Are there workarounds to preserve CMYK colors on save/export?
Once icc-color() is supported, using a CMYK ICC profile should allow that. And the Scribus will work on picking things up from there.