Actually, the print house I use most of the time recommends only sending RGB-files as the final CMYK conversion takes place *inside* the printer and as long as the operators manually tell the printer what RGB color profile were used to create the file, it should turn out fine. The profile doesn't need to be embedded as such as long as there are no embedded images with different profiles in one file.

Setting up profiles and proofing on Linux Mint with the latest Inkscape pre-release, also worked nicely. Out of gamut colors are marked and all.

My only issue now is that, like I said, my print house would like me to design and proof with Adobe RGB (1998) but only CMYK profiles appear in the "Device profile:" dropdown.
Do anyone have any ideas on solving this? Or could setting the display profile to Adobe RGB help here somehow?

Thanks,

Jimmy Volatile

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM, minombresbond <minombresbond@...155...> wrote

I think inkscape can't embed the CMYK profiles on svg or pdf files

the right CMYK profile that you need (for acurate previews) is the same
color profile will be used in the printing of the print job, you should
send to printing house only a simple RGB file, in theory, that is the
right (and reasonable) way, the 'secret' is to know which color profile
will be used in the printing, and using the same for inkscape previews
with 'simulate output on screen'

I said 'in theory' becose I never sent a RGBA file to printing, and I
never would.. however, in theory it should be possible