I send files to print shops every week. Here in argentina even serious printers require proprietary file formats like AIs and CDR, though they're fine with tiffs and PDFs. I don't understand why there is so much interest in supporting PDF export from GIMP, since the exported data will be only bitmap, and in that case a tiff file is enough and is absolutely compatible with every design program out there. In my oppinion, PDF only makes sense if there is mixed data like bitmap images and vector shapes or text. For flattened bitmaps, I'd say TIFF is even safer than PDF. My current workflow consists in separate RGB images to a CMYK tiff using the Separate+ Plugin. Usually I do some black overprint tweaking using the faux channels that Separate+ creates. When I need a PDF, I use Scribus or this script:http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/cmyk-tiff-2-pdf-for-gimp I think PDF will only make sense when vector shapes, CMYK color and spot channels are in GIMP. Meanwhile, Separated Tiffs are enough and I think that putting time and efforts on a PDF exporter wouldn't make a real difference. I'd prefer to see the separate plugin integrated in gimp, direct save of the separated tiff through the save plugin, importing separated tiffs directly (opening CMYK tiffs currently results in an uncorrected image with distorted colors wich is pretty unusable). So -1 to this. There are oteher things far more important than this. Gez. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
