Now draw an object, open Fill’n’Stroke dialog ( Ctrl+Shift+F) and switch to CMS tab. The profile will go the the list of available color profiles: Then start Inkscape and head over to File / Document Properties (or Ctrl+Shift+D), switch to Color Management tab and pick a profile from the list: And now with 0.48 color stops of gradients fills can also handle that.įirst of all, make sure your profiles are in ~/.local/share/color/icc folder.

The only change in v0.48 regarding color profiles and, therefore, CMYK is that before 0.48 only colors of flat fills could be using color space of an ICC profile. Then you can import such an SVG document in Scribus, and it will read the correct CMYK values, if you used a CMYK profile. While Inkscape doesn’t do color separation or any of the fancy tricks like trapping, what it can do is saving colors in an ICC profile’s color space, and you can tell it which profile to use. This is not because Cairo folks are not interested in that, but because they don’t have a dedicated developer to work on it, and it’s a lot of work.Īre there any workarounds then? I dare say yes. The problem with Cairo is that it doesn’t yet support CMYK, or, to put in in a more technical language, it doesn’t yet support color management, color separation and spot colors. It’s a great 2D vector graphics library that simplifies lots of things for developers and provides some rendering speed-ups for users, as well as modern antialiased graphics. Hence this article.įirst of all, let’s explain why there still is no color separated output in Inkscape. In case of Inkscape 0.48 I see that a lot of people read the official release notes and get confused, because they see mentioning of CMYK and don’t quite understand what exactly is meant. Let’s talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus. The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one.

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