🧊 freezr 🥶 on Nostr: @[url=]Martin Owens[/url] @[url=]Inkscape[/url] @[url=]GIMP[/url] I like start ...

@[url=https://floss.social/users/doctormo]Martin Owens[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.art/users/inkscape]Inkscape[/url] @[url=https://floss.social/users/GIMP]GIMP[/url]

I like start drafting with Inkscape, I usually create the colors in CMYK, even though those will be converted in RGB.

Thus I had several problem to setting up properly the PDF crop box and bleed box with Inkscape, and this is a well known limitation, and I had to redesign it in Scribus.
The RGB colors imported from Inkscape were giving a different CMYK value, I set them with the initial CMYK value and the RGB changed, this not good.

Than even Scribus was giving me headaches, some color overlays even though visualized in PDF weren't printed on the big canon (I work for a midsize Printshop).

Then I colorized the pictures in Gimp and once again the RGB values were diffent, eventually I had to import the PDF and use the eyedropper to get the color tints I needed.

Finally, without fancy transparency the cover was printed and the colors came out pretty correct.

The whole time I used AdobeRGB and SwopCoated as destination, with colorimetric relative as rendering intent.

These variation of colors from a software to another were a big pain in the neck, hope in the future this can be improved.

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