On 05.06.2009 18:12, bulia byak wrote:
You are involved in the Inkscape project? Nice!
I'm currently out of the loop on this, but I'm glad to see a discussion going. It would be great if someone could summarize it by creating a "color print" page on our wiki (wiki.inkscape.org) listing what works, what doesn't, etc.
It would be greater if the developer(s) could first write a little on what there is supposed to work how. Details on the preference's color management GUI would be of particular interest.
Yesterday, I went to get a birthday card printed. An orange to red gradient fill turned into orange to brown. It was thus obvious, that the man in the shop picking up the print commented it with big smile and a "You will not like it". We already had discussions on color (management) issues there. It's almost impossible to find the cause(s): Inkscape, Scribus, the destination color profile, or the shop's work flow... At least my monitor adjustments are out of further consideration now as the shop's display of the PDF/X-3 was very close to mine.
Printing of Inksape SVGs is essential! I tried lots of approaches (PDF/X-3, TIF, via Scribus, via Gimp with Separate+ as well as LCMS command-line utility, a little ImageMagick, various standard color profiles to none at all), read mails twice and thrice for s.th. I may have missed out. Still very unsatisfactory. No idea how things are supposed to work (together); nothing worth writing to the wiki...
Apart from color issues fonts are quite problematic too. I couldn't import such SVGs into Scribus properly. I had to convert fonts into paths, which is ridiculous for PDF as destination format.
What can you actually expect from Inkscape?
No need to search, it's right in the Filters menu in 0.47. Please consider switching to it if you haven't already, we need more testing before the release.
Including documentation or 36+ for more guesswork?