CS> I was wondering there is any place where I could have more information about CS> feature support for Inkscape SVG vs plain SVG. CS> Also, I believe SVG does not support CMYK colour space colours Thats incorrect. SVG supports calibrated color spaces including CMYK ones.

On 7/24/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...32...> wrote: > Inkscape (as of 0.45, I think?) does already does support ICC profiles > for display. AFAIK it only supports profiles for embedded bitmaps.

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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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.

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Yes, EPS is actually a good candidate for the role of vector interchange format, but PDF has a big advantage: it can be multipage (and multipage documents are on the list of Inkscape future features). Also, EPS and PDF are actually postscript formats, so basically they're moreless the same...

On 7/23/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote: > Yes, EPS is actually a good candidate for the role of vector > interchange format, but PDF has a big advantage: it can be > multipage (and multipage documents are on the list of Inkscape > future features). Also, EPS and PDF are actually postscript > formats, so basically they're moreless the same... Not really. PDF is much simpler to parse - unlike PDF it's not a "language" which is a big plus. And in recent versions, PDF got a lot of things that will never be added to PS, such as true vector transparency and even gradient meshes. So it's really a good time to leave PS/EPS behind.

> On Monday, July 23, 2007, 1:28:34 PM, Daniel wrote:

> DH> As for colour spaces, you seem to understand that even CMYK support is > DH> not enough for hardcore logo and printing design. And of course let's > DH> not forget that Inkscape, like other SVG-aware applications, is > DH> constrained by the lack of support in the standard. Until the new SVG > DH> standard, which (I believe) is planned to support CMYK, is out,

> SVG 1.0 supported calibrated CMYK color spaces. It became a W3C > Recommendation in 04 September 2001.

> SVG Print 1.2 additionally supports uncalibrated CMYK. There is a > working draft available which is expected to go to Last call soon.

For logos especially, our PS and PDF export has been quite adequate for many versions, because decent logos never use things like blur or transparency, nor even gradients.

On 7/23/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote: > 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. It always amazes me when a huge creative design task is being reduced to some technical detail. Choosing Pantone color(s) is important for corporate logos, but it's only a small part of the job, and it's pretty orthogonal to anything else because a good logo must look perfect in black and white anyway. It's easy to use AI or whatever else for the CMYK and Pantone selection after the logo is done. But 99% of work is playing with shapes and letters, and this is where Inkscape is IMHO unrivaled. > - 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...). For logos especially, our PS and PDF export has been quite adequate for many versions, because decent logos never use things like blur or transparency, nor even gradients. Even our EPS import, while cumbersome, has always been able to handle simple shapes. And in SVN you have a pretty functional PDF import which also handles modern AI files. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user