Hi Craig, On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:45:37PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > 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). > > > > The short answer is: > > You need CMYK, if your print shop wants it, or if somebody sends it to you. > > Well, you don't need CMYK support in your raster graphics app if your > print shop wants a CMYK PDF. Scribus can - and does - convert RGB > graphics to CMYK according to the embedded or configured input and > output profiles. This is done at PDF export time, and doesn't need any > CMYK support in a graphics app. > > If someone sends you CMYK artwork, you should be able to just include > it. Again, little need to involve the GIMP - especially since Scribus > can do any image cropping, rotation, downsampling, and so on that is > required. > > You need CMYK support in your graphics app if: > - You're working without colour management (bad idea!) and want > to try to manually adjust the input images. - You are an artist or are working with artists which just happen to THINK in CMYK. - You've got a photo which looks nice on screen but a bit too yellow when printed - you'll just remove some yellow after conversion to CMYK. - You're using printed color reference charts to get colors right. They are always in CMYK since that's what will be used to print. > After speaking with Marti Maria at LGM, I'm actually now going to be > going to the printers I use at the POST Newspapers and talking to them > about using us as a trial customer for a colour managed workflow. We > currently use the old-style CMYK preconversion (based on Photoshop > profiles, with artwork output untouched through Quark) approach, but are > upgrading to more modern workstations that'll do colour management > sensibly. My point is that I'm not just fluffing randomly - I intend to > act on my own words here and get rid of manual CMYK image management at > my employer. Having a fully color-managed workflow is a nice goal. But in practice, there are a lot of people who will not put a lot of effort into this since it's okay for them to work in CMYK and they are used to it. IMO it's a matter of complexity. Bye, Tino.
