[scribus] RGB to CMYK for vector images

[Vladimir Savic]

John, you're not entirely true. Read these lines, please.
http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2010/10/inkscape-does-support-cmyk.html


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:52 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. That is part
> of the SVG standard. Both the book by Kirsanov (page 122) and the book
> by Tavmjong Bah (page 230) confirm this point. So an svg file from
> Inkscape may have colors within the CMYK gamut but those colors would
> be stored internally and in the svg file in RGB terms.
>
> A related question would be, if Inkscape outputs a pdf file from a
> session that has a similar CMYK profile (Fogra etc.) would that
> document's colors  be expressed in RGB or CMYK in the output file?
>
> I'll ask that question over there.
>
>
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