On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, The Bold Look wrote:
Let's say I have a logo with purple, green and black. If I were to print spot color separations for this logo I will get three different sheets. One for the green, one for the black and one for the purple. Now if I print the color separations of the same logo using process colors I will get a sheet for cyan, a sheet for magenta, one for black and one for yellow.
Ah, I see, thanks that explains it. So it's another mechanism for handling colors for printing, basically. Gotcha.
You tell me about scribus and I think it is a wonderful piece of software. I use it occasionally to design our company flyers and booklets, however I believe inkscape should be able to handle printing duties by itself 'a la Illustrator' otherwise it wouldn't be able to find a niche within the design industry. It won't be cost-effective for me to design a logo in inkscape and import it to scribus just to replace its colors to spot colors and print color separations. I hope developers take this in consideration for future releases.
Good point. We've got items in the roadmap to look into the color management (along with migrating to LittleCMS), although it's a bit off in the future. Good to hear that you already know about Scribus; afaik that's the best approach for the problem today; I'm certain that this is an area that will improve in the future, just a question of time. :-)
One area you could help on right now is to go through the feature requests, looking especially at items related to printing industry features and add your comments to help flesh out the ideas. And of course add items for other necessary features not already listed.
Thanks, Bryce