There's a way of exporting (not saving) GIMP files to CMYK, it's a plug in called separate+. Also, Krita manages CMYK in a very professional fashion, I've printed flyers that were color managed in krita and the result was flawless.
Truth being said, Adobe's CMYK color profile is an industry standard, as the Post Script technology was developed by Adobe. I would think that using Pantone (also a closed, proprietary standard, therefore not available in GIMP or Krita) is a bigger issue than CMYK. Anyway, professional offset printing of files made with FLOSS is possible, cumbersome if compared with Adobe's way of color managing, but possible under professional standards none the less. If you weight in the evil in Adobe and the allegedly 'less intuitive' GUIs of FLOSS software, I think that FLOSS is definitely the wisest choice. On 03/11/15 04:39, George DiceGeorge wrote: >>> Adobe is the devil + much of the Adobe software could be replaced > without loss of tools needed by professionals. > > An expert told me that the biggest problem is that > gimp wont save as CMYK > > [george] > -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
