I just tried to find several free software graphic programs that are able to save images as cmyk, because Gimp only can /fake/ this at the moment. But it seems I can't get it to work properly.
This is the possible tools I found on my research: ================================================== * Krita -- Part of koffice: http://www.koffice.org/tours/1.5 * Imagemagick (using the command convert RGB.tiff -profile RGB.icc -profile CMYK.icc CMYK.tiff) * jpegicc and tifficc All the last three are mentioned in a former thread on this list :-) http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-August/012738.html * Cinepaint (a gimp clone) -- http://www.cinepaint.org/docs/cmyk.html This web page sums up the mentioned and also proprietary alternatives for Linux: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/hdr-and-cmyk-editing-in-linux/ Results: -------- * Imagemagick: seems alright to me in Konqueror -- My image was slightly darker on the screen, which is normal. But when I imported it to Scribus it seems totally different, almost black and white (and greeenish). * jpegicc: seems totally weird in konqueror, like an inverted image. In Scribus much darker, but still uselessly different and still with totally different colours. * tifficc: In konqueror just slightly lighten up compared to the imagemagick version, but seems totally ok for use there. In Scribus it seems much darker, but as this is the case for CMYK compared to RGB it may be just OK, so I tried to make a pdf out of it (with all those three images in it) -- without colour profiles enabled, though. On all these three I used the profiles: AdobeRGB1998.icc and EuroscaleCoated.icc. My images was created with Gimp, I dont know wich rgb-modell it used for it, so this might be (part of) the problem ... (Krita tells me it is "sRGB built-in (lcms internal)", so I tried to convert the image to "Adobe rgb" before I ran it through tifficc and the result seems pretty the same as the first run with tifficc described above, just that Scribus did not know the resolution of the Image and guessed 72 dpi. When I, still in Scribus, changed it to 300 dpi it has the right size, so I suggest this is just a lack of megainformation in the image. * Krita: I used "CMYK 8 bit integer channel" and "perceptual", but when I try to open the same file with Krita again it gives me a "could not open (...) Reason: parsing error". I think they really are broken because they don't show up in Konqueror and not in Scribus. * Cinepaint: I was not able to install it on my computer due to dependency problems (using Kubuntu dapper amd64). BTW: I tried to open the Gimp-file (.xcf) in krita, but the result was really bad, so I had to convert it first. Does someone have other experiences with this? Best regards Axel Bojer
