Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:06:19 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1226142379.1220.32.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20081108092653.GA4438@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <a15f9fba0811072252i27d2313fw4a43b7891427fe08@mail.gmail.com> <20081108081229.GA3176@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081108093248.J42716@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081108092653.GA4438@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:26 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: > > >> Hello guys, > > >> > > >> Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? > > >> I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. > > > > > > You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating > > > vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. > > > > > i have a friend that do offset printing. > > > > he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't > > support editing CMYK images > > Nobody has ever said that the gimp was suitable for all purposes. But it > seems that most users of gimp (and photoshop) don't need it. > > Most of the gimp users seem to use it for editing photos or making web > graphics, where RGB is fine. Adding and testing CMYK capabilities > is both time-consuming and costly because you need access to pre-press > equipment to do meaningfull testing, see: > http://rants.scribus.net/2006/06/03/why-no-cmyk-in-gimp-is-a-good-thing-now/ > > However, there is a gimp plug-in for exporting CMYK images: > http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html Actually I've checked that out and it isn't much chop unless you specifically want to create colour sep plates. Gimp can handle CMYK palettes because they're a subset of the RGB palette. Just use the right ICC, import into scribus, and save as a pdf (or whatever).
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