

Adobe's programs know the conversion between real CMYK printable colors and the usual RGB. That's one good reason why Adobe succeeds to collect high profits year after year. Generally only a part of onscreen RGB colors are possible in usual CMYK printing processes. The transformation between normal on the screen RGB colors and printed CMYK colors is extremely complex, non-linear and depends strongly on the used print process and paper. The shown text Euroscale Coated v2 is the name of one generic CMYK printing color profile. One can find easily in document settings and program preferences some interesting dialogs, but they do nothing, they are still only beautiful dreams. Even worse problem with Inkscape and CMYK is that Inkscape knows nothing of real CMYK printing. It's also exact if you have a CMYK color producing mechanism which creates all sRGB colors with the simplest possible linear transformation.īut Inkscape cannot output CMYK color files, CMYK exists only as a color selection possibility. You can see in Inkscape (and in GIMP, too) as one of the coloring options CMYK.
