Re: [Inkscape-user] inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
Hi David,
I had a discussion a few months back re SVG features with Chris, who works on W3C SVG, on colour space and how these features are implemented in Inkscape. To make a long story short, it seems that CMYK colours are perfectly supported by SVG standards but that Inkscape only encodes colours as RGB. (apart from the fact that you can use a CMYK interface to input them) .
Thus resulting in the following situation: Inkscape allows you to input CMYK values to pick a colour but saves the SVG file with RGB, although SVG does support CMYK colours.
My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove unused colours). Fortunately for logos you should have very few colours. It is a somewhat tedious workaround but the one I picked as it is reliable.
Cedric
For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though.
Hey Cedric!
Thanx a billion for telling me this a second time. I had tried ones but Scribus couldn't import. Must have been because the logo were just outlines. So I created paths from them and tried again. It works brilliantly, it seems. I haven't tried it in InDesign yet but it seems great in the PDF.
It's really a pity that Scribus is so unresponsive on my machine. If it worked smooth, I would really consider doing more stuff there and neglect InDesign.
Cheers and thanks again!
David
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:03 +0200, Cedric Sagne wrote:
Hi David,
I had a discussion a few months back re SVG features with Chris, who works on W3C SVG, on colour space and how these features are implemented in Inkscape. To make a long story short, it seems that CMYK colours are perfectly supported by SVG standards but that Inkscape only encodes colours as RGB. (apart from the fact that you can use a CMYK interface to input them) .
Thus resulting in the following situation: Inkscape allows you to input CMYK values to pick a colour but saves the SVG file with RGB, although SVG does support CMYK colours.
My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove unused colours). Fortunately for logos you should have very few colours. It is a somewhat tedious workaround but the one I picked as it is reliable.
Cedric
For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though.
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On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Cedric Sagne wrote:
I had a discussion a few months back re SVG features with Chris, who works on W3C SVG, on colour space and how these features are implemented in Inkscape. To make a long story short, it seems that CMYK colours are perfectly supported by SVG standards but that Inkscape only encodes colours as RGB. (apart from the fact that you can use a CMYK interface to input them) .
Well... I'd probably not use the word "perfectly", since good support for CMYK would take some proposed things from SVG 1.2, but 1.2 has been "almost done" for years and years now.
We can, though, shoehorn in CMYK with what is in SVG 1.1, it just won't be quite as straightforward a solution. The good news, though, is that once we get *some* support in via icc-color() leverage then the Scribus guys will get stuff hooked up to handle it on their side.
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Cedric Sagne -
David Christian Berg -
Jon A. Cruz