Bryce thanks for the information. I for sure will stay tuned for version 0.40.
The easiest way to explain what spot colors are is with an example:
Let's say I have a logo with purple, green and black. If I were to print spot color separations for this logo I will get three different sheets. One for the green, one for the black and one for the purple. Now if I print the color separations of the same logo using process colors I will get a sheet for cyan, a sheet for magenta, one for black and one for yellow.
I don't know if I made myself clear... probably not, sorry.
You tell me about scribus and I think it is a wonderful piece of software. I use it occasionally to design our company flyers and booklets, however I believe inkscape should be able to handle printing duties by itself 'a la Illustrator' otherwise it wouldn't be able to find a niche within the design industry. It won't be cost-effective for me to design a logo in inkscape and import it to scribus just to replace its colors to spot colors and print color separations.
I hope developers take this in consideration for future releases. If it's worth something I could help with beta-testing in a screen-printing environment. I truly believe this is a niche inkscape should explore, although in our industry (screen-printing) we've had CorelDraw and illustrator for ages these programs are rather expensive and sometimes they could be overwhelming.
Well Bryce. Thanks for replying my post. For sure I'll keep an eye on inkscape.
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:30 PM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Inkscape-user] Spot Colors
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 boldart@...201... wrote:
Hi everyone... i discover this program not to days ago and I'm very
impressed. I
thought I'll give it a chance in my screen printing department since we're
using
coreldraw 5 there (I know it's old). However I found some questions that
even
google couldn't answer. Perhaps you guys could help. here is the list.
- Can spot colors be defined?
Maybe this is a dumb question on my part but what are 'spot colors'?
- Can I mess with text? (curve it, distort it?)
Stay tuned, you've got excellent timing on this one - Fred has been adding some new 'messing with text' capabilities (text in a shape, text