OSS in general seems completely lacking in print-oriented tools (other than LaTeX and gs and whatnots ) Are there any OSS solutions for doing CMYK work? I know that Gimp canāt do it. (there is a plug in for doing seperations but you canāt āworkā in the color space)
I like Inkscape quite a lot - but it only has the feature set that people involved in its development have demanded. Thatās the way OSS works - weād do well to move this discussion to its mailing list.
toloban - inkscape has python extensions already, no?
UPDATE: spoke too soon - itās on the inkscape radar (no real plans to speak of though) and scribus already supports CMYK apparently.
I use inkscape for my hobby and at work, We are able to produce everything we need, as far as scaled vector graphics are concernedā¦ WE have a kid working with us who knows illustrator, and complains all the time about the inkscape interfaceā¦ Then I installed Linux, and showed him how to make the windows always stay on top. He still bitches sometimes about this or that, but there is nothing that he cant make. There is no reason for him to use illustrator, other than he is ājust used to itā .that is where he learned SVGā¦ anyway to make a long story short, all i can say is give inkscape a try for 2 weeksā¦ you might not need to spend the money on the adobe product. I say the same thing about GIMP vs Photoshopā¦ there is nothing I cant do with the gimp! Plus, Adobe dose not allow you to program Dynamic Hotkeys (turn it on in your prefrences) with dynamic hotkeys , you just hover the mouse over the desired menu function, and press the hotkeys you want to assign to itā¦ thats it!! I have everythin programmed exactly like blender G for move Q for quit control-wfor save f2- saveas ETC wellā¦ goodluck! I really enjoy inkscape, wish i had more projects to use itā¦ I mainly use it for logos, so we can use the same SVG graphics for the Icons,Tshirts, buisness cards, posters, etc on last thing about inkscapeā¦ learn the hotkeys firstā¦ it will make your experiance more fluid.
I like it quite a bit. It filled a hole in my workflow > Vector. The basic feature set is nice, and they add and improve things on a regular basis. The blur tools in the upcoming release will be very useful. Iāve had it crash on me on nearly every large project though, and some of the ui āfeaturesā are weak (the layer interface for instance :rolleyes:).
A good app to have around anyway, and one with a bright future I hope
The newest release of Inkscape came out the other day with some nice new additions.
Itās definitely worth checking out.
(One of my pet peeves, the toggle of wireframe/normal view is included)
It still doesnāt address the shortcomings for press work or for spot color work, but if youāre working strictly in combined RGB - it has a lot to offer.
) Are there any OSS solutions for doing CMYK work? I know that Gimp canāt do it. (there is a plug in for doing seperations but you canāt āworkā in the color space)
G for move Q for quit control-wfor save f2- saveas ETC 