On Thursday, June 4, 2009, 10:02:35 AM, Jon wrote:
JAC> JAC> On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Mathew Oakes wrote:
JAC> LittleCMS doesn't matter particularly as the answer to the JAC> original question from Terry Brown. Printing as SPOT colour, JAC> means output separations for named colours individually, not JAC> mixed as CMYK, RGB, LAB or anything else.
JAC> LittleCMS actually does matter.
JAC> It gives support for *previewing* output results, for detecting JAC> out of gamut colors, and even for using named color icc profiles.
I agree that ICC named colours is the correct way to go here.
JAC> The latter is probably the primary way to reliably and portably JAC> denote spot colors, but SVG hasn't integrated direct use of them yet.
In fact, SVG does have named colour support http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/color/master/SVGColor.html#named
JAC> A functional work-around would be to have an icc profile with a JAC> single number input, and that does an effective index into a set JAC> of spot colors. A bit strange, but should work with Inkscape 0.46 as it was released.
JAC>