Am 18.03.06, 22:57 +0800 schrieb Craig Ringer: > 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).
So there is no longer a need to separate in Scribus to Cmyk? (of course a ironical question, but be curious about the answere) > 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
