Quoting "Pavel A. da Mek" <a.da_mek@...998...>:
Thanks for the link, it is interesting. But is all this fuss with different black colors really necessary?
After all, the color space perceived by humans is 3-dimensional and so there is no need to use four coordinates.
*puts on graphic designer hat*
It's not that simple, because the behavior of inks is funky and non-linear. There's no trivial mapping. You have to play games to get particular qualities of color sometimes.
In *theory* 100% C + 100% Y + 100% M should = 100% K when printed; in practice that is NEVER true.
*puts on Inkscape developer hat*
Of course, for right now all this is moot. SVG only natively supports the sRGB color space, so that's all we can store in the actual file. The color selector is really only there for picking RGB colors (in terms of RGB, HSV, CYMK, etc...).
We may eventually be able to take advantage of ICC colors in SVG (it makes provision for that at least), but that will require a lot of work before it's ready to use.
-mental