On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:37:07AM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/hacking/krita > | 2005-11-10 > | From the promising-but-not-yet-usable-department. > > The above sentence says it all. > > Next I tried cinepaint 0.20-1 (Debian unstable), which has > CMYK/ICC-support, but is unusable, crashes, has bad usability, and my > trials to convert a RGB.jpg into a CMYK.tif resulted in an unreadable file. > > Next I did some research on CMYK-support of GIMP. > There is a feature request in the bugtracking of GIMP: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123598 > opened 2003-09-30 (!). > > There is no visible activity from the GIMP-developers on this problem > since 2.5 years. I know the more or less (more less;-) usable plug-ins. > Additionally you can find discussions about the ignorance of the > GIMP-developers.
Ignorance is relative. It's true that some GIMP folks haven't recognised the need for CMYK etc, but others certainly do, and I think understanding is growing (of course, CMYK is becoming less important at the same time due to better colour management and so on - they make the IMO valid point that really CMYK should be the RIPs problem). At LGM yesterday a working version of GEGL, then "next-generation" 16-bit capable, CMYK-capable, colour-management supporting GIMP image processing engine was demonstrated. It's veen vapourware for a long time but looks like it's been turned into a real working library, albeit not yet a fully finished and stable one. Things may be looking up in that department. -- Craig Ringer
