Hi!
Tracing won't help anyway, because everything that come out from Inkscape is RGB (SVG specification doesn't has CMYK yet). Also, tracing would generate vectors that would require optimisation (less nodes, more precision etc...). Although there is a CMYK color chooser in the Fill and Stroke dialog window, it's behaving a little bit differently than expected from a CMYK capable application (see bug 1221603 located at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1221603&gro...).
Personally I wouldn't recommend Inkscape for professional use in the field of logo or print design. It is still a very young and promising application suitable for creating icons, web graphics and illustrations, but creating such an important thing as a logo (a whole corporate identity can be based on this apparently simple thing) is not a task for Inkscape. There are several capabilities that are required from an application to become suitable for professional logo design or printed design:
- a robust PDF import/export (the brave Inkscape developers are working on that, 0.46 should be the first version with that possibility). 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.
- Spot color palettes (like Pantone, TOYO) are also required, but there is a problem related to licencing and proprietary stuff so implementing that in an Open Source application is problematic...
Molumen
----- Original Message ----- From: "stuseven" <stuseven@...9...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
perhaps you could produce your logo in an application which does support CMYK... then... in Inkscape 0.45, trace this. I used a higher number of color passes.
Its not 100% inkscape, but maybe just right for logos ?
Cedric Sagne-2 wrote:
Hi.
I was wondering there is any place where I could have more information about feature support for Inkscape SVG vs plain SVG. Also, I believe SVG does not support CMYK colour space colours (as per Tavmjong Bah's brilliant userguide), and this is important for logos and even EPS export gets imported in Scribus with RGB colours....
Any news on the planned CMYK support?
Cedric
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