I think there's a pretty strong case to be made for EPS as a candidate for vector interchange between existing applications. I also think it's pretty short-sighted to describe SVG as an Inkscape-only format. I can't think of any free graphics application that doesn't have SVG support these days, and as we've seen from people's queries on the mailing lists, various non-free applications now support it with differing degrees of saneness.
Yes, EPS is actually a good candidate for the role of vector interchange format, but PDF has a big advantage: it can be multipage (and multipage documents are on the list of Inkscape future features). Also, EPS and PDF are actually postscript formats, so basically they're moreless the same... Also, I didn't say that SVG was an Inkscape-only format. It is widely spread among proprietary and free software. I wanted to say that graphic works for printing done in Inkscape could stay Inkscape-only, because of the poor support of SVG among proprietary software. Both illustrator and Corel Draw have problems importing SVG files, specially gradients. Features like blur aren't supported at all (but hopefully will be in the future). So designing something for the printing world in Inkscape with the goal of spreading the result among other software is for now not recommended.
Speaking only for myself, there's no hurry, as I only use Inkscape to design for the screen anyway.
That's exactly the same for me. Inkscape is specially great for icons.
Molumen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Hulme" <art@...1790...> To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:38:16AM +0200, momo wrote:
It is crucial to have a full import/export capability for at least one widely used vector format, and PDF is IMO one of the best candidates. Without that, all the works you do in Inkscape are sentenced to stay "Inkscape only" files. A logo simply MUST be portable between applications (Illustrator, Indesign, Quark, Corel etc...).
- CMYK support (color profiles support, so the colors shown on screen
would at least partly match the colors you'll get from the printer). CMYKOG (for hexachromatic process) would be great to have too, but it's not a must.
I'm not sure I can agree with either of the above. My employers' company logo is specified in an EPS file, and its colours are specified with Pantone and are out-of-gamut for CMYK and sRGB. We keep on file approximations to it in several vector and raster formats.
I think there's a pretty strong case to be made for EPS as a candidate for vector interchange between existing applications. I also think it's pretty short-sighted to describe SVG as an Inkscape-only format. I can't think of any free graphics application that doesn't have SVG support these days, and as we've seen from people's queries on the mailing lists, various non-free applications now support it with differing degrees of saneness.
As for colour spaces, you seem to understand that even CMYK support is not enough for hardcore logo and printing design. And of course let's not forget that Inkscape, like other SVG-aware applications, is constrained by the lack of support in the standard. Until the new SVG standard, which (I believe) is planned to support CMYK, is out, we'll all just have to wait. Speaking only for myself, there's no hurry, as I only use Inkscape to design for the screen anyway.
Incidentally, I had a bit of a laugh reading the chunk added at the bottom:
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The first time I saw this I read it as "Deify all challenges," which I thought was much closer to the point.