I sort of missed out on this discussion, was away for a week But what I would appreciate is the ability to convert my image to CMYK, so that when I give it to the "friendly print man" he will be able to use it without moaning about this and that and then me standing next to him trying to figure this CMYK stuff out while he is doing the conversion on his pc or mac. Black especially seems to be a big problem for the print shop (something to do with the last print plate, but when you convert black RGB to CMYK, you get the black part on all four the plates, that is the CMY and K plates) If I am totally wrong here, then please just ignore my message :-) Thanks a lot Robert L Krawitz wrote: > > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:13:33 -0800 > From: "Carl B. Constantine" <macman@xxxxxxxxx> > > I'm curious as to when full CMYK support will be available in the GIMP? > > I looked at the Gimp-plugin on source forge and it mentions CMY printing for > some inkjet style printers, but not sure if this is the same thing (not > really knowing a whole lot about this). > > Forgive me if I've missed something, I was asked this by a friend (who uses > Linux, but not GIMP for this reason). > > Hi. I'm the project lead for the gimp-print project on sourceforge. > > CMYK is a bit of an oddball subject. Partly this is because there are > so many variants (CMY, CMYK, CcMmYK, CcMmYy, CcMmYyK), and partly > because (to the best of my knowledge) this color space is really only > useful in the context of specific output devices, which is what the > print plugin deals with. > > What specifically would your friend like? > > -- > Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ > > Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 > Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net > > "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." > --Eric Crampton -- DGIT Solutions Cell: +27 (0)82 464 2595 Tell: +27 (0)12 332 1223
