Thanks everyone for your input - it was helpful! A bit of a summary: > standardization). ImageMagick's command-line tool, "convert" can make > CMYK tiffs and can (if built with lcms) embed ICC profiles. You will > probably need to build it yourself to get all the capabilities, as the > versions included in many linux distros have been built without lcms. actually it seems to be in Debian (unstable/testing at least) compiled against it:
,--- | *$> ldd /usr/bin/convert | grep cm | liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x00002b44c8911000) `--- So now I am trying to do smth like ,--- | convert FH_overlaps_rgbdirect.tif -colorspace CMYK -profile /home/yoh/.color/icc/pcg-v505ack-lcd.icc FH_overlaps_cmyk_fromrgbdirect_v505ackprofile.tif `--- and I get CMYK tiff -- yeay: ,--- | $> tiffinfo FH_overlaps_cmyk_fromrgbdirect_v505ackprofile.tif | TIFF Directory at offset 0x172828 (1517608) | Image Width: 700 Image Length: 542 | Resolution: 72, 72 (unitless) | Bits/Sample: 8 | Compression Scheme: None | Photometric Interpretation: separated | FillOrder: msb-to-lsb | Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs | Samples/Pixel: 4 | Rows/Strip: 2 | Planar Configuration: single image plane | DocumentName: FH_overlaps_cmyk_fromrgbdirect_v505ackprofile.tif | ImageDescription: Image generated by GPL Ghostscript (device=pnmraw) | | Software: ImageMagick 6.2.4 09/11/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org | Ink Set: CMYK | ICC Profile: <present>, 776 bytes | `--- My images are quite simple and not very color informative, so some distortion is tolerable, so I think I should be fine now ;) > It helps to have some feeling for the differences between the gamut of > a CMYK (ink) printing process and the screen. Many people run into > difficulties because they have chosen colors that aren't in the CMYK > gamut. Well -- I am yet to see the obvious difference between the two gamuts. -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
