{"id":291,"date":"2007-06-28T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T13:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=291"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:11:57","slug":"cmyk-overprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/cmyk-overprint","title":{"rendered":"CMYK overprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful Inkscape unfortunately does not support black overprinting. You can define colors in CMYK but it will not allow values such as 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K (Inkscape for some reason automatically converts these back to 0% C + 0% M + 0% Y + 100% K).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bad_circles.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bad_circles.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bad_circles.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bad_circles.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"good_circles.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/good_circles.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/good_circles.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"good_circles.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bad_tiger.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bad_tiger.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bad_tiger.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bad_tiger.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"good_tiger.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/good_tiger.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/good_tiger.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"good_tiger.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Left: cyan plate after importing .svg in Scribus.<br \/>\nRight: cyan plate after adjusting colors.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>But with the help of excellent Scribus, this is easy to fix. Simply import the .svg into Scribus, and go to edit &gt; colors. All colors in imported Inkscape illustrations, will be RGB; most likely black has ended up as &#8216;FromSVG#000000&#8217;, or &#8216;Grey0&#8217;. Change this color from RGB to CMYK and change values to 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K. Check in print preview and &#8230; voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful Inkscape unfortunately does not support black overprinting. You can define colors in CMYK but it will not allow values such as 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K (Inkscape for some reason automatically converts these back to 0% C + 0% M + 0% Y + 100% K). Left: cyan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[6,2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}