Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:13 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there any print enabled graphic design software?
Message-ID:  <20080220205613.b5b48f86.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <1203554373.3455.15.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <1203554373.3455.15.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get away from Adobe products (which are becoming rather
> agressive towards OSS), but I need to find a graphic software that can
> handle CMYK properly.
> 
> I've tried GIMP (which has great tools) but it doesn't handle CMYK
> files- it only uses sRGB.
> 
> I've tried Krita, but it doesn't work as well as GIMP tool wise, and I
> can't specify images sizes very well at all- it only works on pixel
> size, not inches or dpi/ppi.
> 
> Therefore both are great for designing screen images, but not printed
> images. I even tried using GIMP to design (using CMYK colours here), and
> reformatting to a CMYK file with Krita. Problem with this is that the
> image size doesn't work once reformatted, plus I need to export to pdf
> which neither do and so printing to pdf means the final image size is an
> A4 and god knows what dpi.
> 
> Anything better out there?

Might Scribus suit your needs?

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080220205613.b5b48f86.wmoran>