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Re: PDF, CMYK and cairo

by Alexandre Prokoudine :: Rate this Message:

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Aubanel MONNIER wrote:

> Hello all,
> I was looking at the cairo-pdf export code and wondered how hard it would be
> to output PDFs in CMYK(a) colorspace ? From what I've seen it shoudl be
> fairly easy on inkscape side. However the status of CMYK(a) support in Cairo
> looks unclear to me (found some references in cairo ML but nothing in the
> actual cairo headers, + a ruby (?) implementation for it). Does anyone have
> a some knowledge / pointers on that ?

Not implemented yet.

I spoke to Carl Worth and Behdad Esfahbod about it before (November
2007) and they basically told me that everyone asking about it has
his/her own understanding of what CMYK support means.

Specifically, Behdad told me that a good proposal coming from Inkscape
team might help designing API.

Alexandre

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