On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 8:03:55 AM, Jon wrote:
JAC> On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
DH>> I'm glad you clarified that. Would I be correct in saying that the JAC> DH>> Inkscape people are hanging on for 1.2 before unleashing CMYK on us? JAC>
JAC> Only if they are hanging on for uncalibrated CMYK, ie CMYK that JAC> doesn't say what actual color is required. JAC>
JAC> For calibrated CMYK, its already there in the standard, so anyone can implement it. JAC>
JAC> Just in case people are tracking this,
Yeah, actually :)
JAC> I figured I should JAC> mention that basic icc-color support is now in the current SVN JAC> sources. The internals got a good reworking and now I've gotten JAC> the UI to start showing up a bit.
Yay!
JAC> So with a build from recent source one should be able to specify JAC> colors using an attached icc profile and have those values JAC> preserved in the SVG. To do true CMYK colors just hook in a JAC> profile for your target CMYK device and have at it.
Excellent. Look forward to testing this.
JAC> I also just added simple display calibration correction.
So colors are converted to the profile of the display?
JAC> Also, key guys on the Scribus team are aware of the progress, JAC> and will be addressing what's needed to handle a nice workflow.
Even better!
JAC> Of course, you'll have to hear from them on their timeframe, but JAC> I did get the impression that at least the initial end-to-end JAC> hookup won't be *too* difficult.