On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:58 PM, peter sikking wrote: > If you had carefully read what I am offering to design for > GIMP you will see that it is a lot more than an export. > > I am talking about covering the main image window with a > "projection screen" in this case for cmyk, whenever one wants, > from the first to the last second of the project, that with > the profile > of the printing press will give you some idea (I know there are > limits) of how it will come off the press. this projection screen > will have its own layers where one can take corrective measures > to make the output look good within the possible output range. > these corrective layers will hen be used of course for the > mastering/export to cmyk. all the cmyk tricks you talk about > (ink decomposition, trapping) can be set up for the > projection screen and where possible previewed there. So at the point of final projection users will gain access to each of the CMYK channels separately? That indeed sounds like a fair solution. However, there still is a question of being able to use spot colors, e.g. in vector layers. > I would like to have this answered answer first: why can't they > do it with scribus? are we the last piece of (free) software > in the world that can help them? You can do things like using spot color based duo-/tri-/quadrotones in Scribus, but you run into limitations, because these kinds of raster effects are not a natural part of a desktop publishing application. And a DTP application tends to rather collect and layout already mastered content than try to substitute a sophisticated vector or bitmap graphics editor. Alexandre _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
