On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, peter sikking wrote: > > OK, I see that I was not clear enough in my blog: > > "When further fine?tuning for the printing press is the goal, > then the solution is to shove the CMYK file straight into a > press projection, as a static, pre-defined separation. Each > plate is then still fully editable as outlined before." > > what i tried to say is that users will have a choice to _not_ > convert a CMYK file to RGB, but to load it straight into a > press projection. the resulting file will have an empty RGB part, > and a static base separation that comes straight from the file. > I fully intent here that GIMP will be able to set up the press > projection from the file, including the number of plates, their > colors used and their order. maybe users will have to help with > saying that spot plate #2 uses pantone 1234 (say). > > so now we have the CMYK file as lossless as it gets in to GIMP, > every plate can be touched up, or a block of text added..., or > all plates together get a curves applied for more oomph, or... > > the result can be saved again to a separation file. OK. I think you addressed my concern. -- | Andrew A. Gill To ensure continued quality of service, | | this e-mail is being monitored by the NSA | | <superluser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://www.needsfoodbadly.com> | -- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
