Comments on: CMYK overprint

By: Graduado Social Sevilla

Graduado Social Sevilla — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:23:56 +0000

all the remaining RGB colors in the graphic, not just the black one. So it could end up in a “color re-conversion madness” in case the design is complicated with many objects and different colors… Or did I get it wrong?

By: tomh

tomh — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:05:29 +0000

Inkscape doesn’t support CMYK because SVG doesn’t, or at least the base of SVG colours are sRGB unless using specific colour profiles (which can’t be set yet in inkscape…)

By: Femke

Femke — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:57:32 +0000

Hello!

I tested (not on a proper proof, so no guarantees) the way Scribus converts RGB to CMYK, and it seems to make no difference whether you manually select CMYK-per-color, or ask Scribus to convert the whole document. But… there is still an issue of course with colors & shades that have lots of black in them, so you are right: color-converting-madness is far from over.

Soon we will do a proper report on SK1, a tool specifically developed to help with these kinds of problems. http://sk1.sourceforge.net/

By: taiabati

taiabati — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:08:26 +0000

The trick is nice and easy for the black overprinting thing, but it gets you to convert to CMYK (again) all the remaining RGB colors in the graphic, not just the black one. So it could end up in a “color re-conversion madness” in case the design is complicated with many objects and different colors… Or did I get it wrong?

By the way. I love this blog.