On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jason Simanek <jsimanek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The trouble that most contemporary designers have when it comes to > creating professional graphics with the Gimp (and Inkscape, Scribus, > etc.) is due to their lack of knowledge. (Also anecdotal) - personally, the trouble I have is with the vendors that require CMYK artwork. If we could convince the entire industry to accept color-managed RGB, well sure we'd not need to design anything in CMYK except corner cases like rich black and overprinting. However, from what I can tell of the printing industry (at least in the US), this is just a nice dream. As long as they insist on CMYK artwork, CMYK mode is a necessary evil. I worked for a printing company for a while. They preferred CMYK artwork, the rationale being: people tend to send something with a #0000FF background and get angry when the final printed item comes out different (of course a good proofing system helps here). But this has all been discussed in depth on this list, and once gegl is fully integrated we'll have all the tools needed for a managed workflow, and also the necessary evil of CMYK mode :) Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
