[scribus] RGB to CMYK for vector images

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Tue May 28 15:57:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:52 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013 19:13:29 +0400
> Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:11 PM, john Culleton wrote:
>> > If I import an RGB  vector image created by e.g., Inkscape, (pdf,
>> > eps, svg, whatever)and set up the Scribus pdf output with a CMYK
>> > profile, am I guaranteed that the pdf output will be in CMYK format
>> > and not RGB?I know I can use ImageMagick for such a transformation
>> > but that approach loses the vector nature of the image.
>>
>> Is there a reason you are not using CMYK colors in Inkscape when
>> saving SVG?
>>
>> Alexandre Prokoudine
>> http://libregraphicsworld.org
>>
>> ___
>>
> While it is possible to use CMYK colors in Inkscape the program works in
> RGB internally. And SVG always records colors in RGB form.

Absolutely not. See
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/getting-cmyk-colors-from-inkscape-to-scribus

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org



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