From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 01:56:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E76416A403 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333F613C465 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working (c-71-60-127-199.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.60.127.199]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B62EBC3B; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Da Rock 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any print enabled graphic design software? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:15 -0000 Da Rock 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