On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:38:10AM -0800, Jay Cox <jaycox@xxxxxxxx> wrote: [cmyk comversion] > Where I work it is a very critical process. Any tips here? If gimp would support CMYK on-screen, how would the users work be different? Do users actually adjust CMYK themselves or do they just draw using predefined CMYK values? I mean, is the principal problem the missing CMYK colours in RGB, or is the principal problem the "looks the same on-screen as on print". The latter could be solved largely outside the gimp (tiff plug-in), the former obviously not. > with less compulsive designers it is much less critical. This feature > would not get gimp into prepress houses, but might help out the casual > designer who is preparing artwork for a short print run. Would it be worth it? ;) > The most common/best way to do trapping that I have seen is to trap > after the rip using a program like creo/scitex full auto frame (which > isn't quite as auto as the name implies:). Obviously, as only then you have the full image. Hey, the new postscript can do in-rip trapping ;-> (adobe claims yet another revolution ;) > even if it doesn't have a setting I dont think we should modify the > default behaviour of gimp to work around a bug in quark :) well, it depends on wetehr you call this a bug or not. if quark lacks the functionality (if!) to bind profiles to images it's not a bug ;) > > 3. (optional, but important) finally enhance the paths to be multipart, > > contain holes etc. simon? siiiiiiiimoon? ;) > > How is #3 optional? :) Well... it's the most difficult part. 1 and 2 could probably be done even in gimp-1.2, #3 is a problem. Also, if you don't have clipping paths you still can print many photos ;) -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxx |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |