This could be used to serve CMYK and Pantone color process to the applications too!īut, correct me if I’m wrong… today the Color Management engines are embended within the applications, so each application must pay a fee to use it. Such API could be used by X11 to correct the image displayed according to the monitor, or used by SANE to correct the input from the scanner, or by CUPS to correct the output to the printer… provided that the user purchased a license to use this proprietary Color Management engine. So, either we must create an open Color Manager… or we must create an open API that interface with the proprietary solutions. The problem is: all major Color Management systems are proprietary, and require a fee, or something like it, to be implemented. If MacOSX uses CUPS for printing, then it is not impossible to have full Color Management under Linux. I guess I’d say that Inkscape is an improved, open-source Corel Draw. Yeah…I don’t think Inkscape’s GUI is bad…it does slow down when handling a large number of vectors, though. I personally don’t see Linux making any inroads in the Print Design industry any time soon, unless Macromedia and Adobe release native Linux versions of thier products and Linux gets an industry standard colour management system (which would most likely be closed source) The Printers are already up to thier eye-balls with different file types, throwing Linux into the mix would definately not be appreciated. Just ask Corel how long they’ve strived to get market share amongst professionals – they are still scorned by many and despised by most, but are making inroads. The fact is, everything is very entrenched with Print. Linux doesn’t feature in the print design world as far as I’ve seen, so the colour management support is not really going to make any difference to the industry. Print designers are mainly Mac based, but even that is changing slowly. In terms of graphic design in the professional context, where I live (in South Africa – yes, we have a large and active design industry) Mac still dominates, but Windows is catching up.Īll print houses now have PC’s alongside Macs for processing graphics, something that was unheard of not so many years back – slowly but surely, windows boxes have crept into the industry from a print POV. However, they are not prime time material. Control point editing could also use quite a few improvements.īasically, Inkscape and Sodi are usable - particularly if all you need is to make one CrystalSVG style icon. Some particularly awful UI includes the XML editor, grouping, gradient editor, and layer handling. Unlike the Gimp UI (which is quirky but nice once you are used to it), Inkscape’s UI is truly bad, and Sodi’s is even worse. Basically, the programs are only usable for simple images and only when installed on fast machines. On a large svg, on my Athlon 2500, Inkscape often lags behind the mouse (editing control points, rotating gradients, dragging paths, etc) by ten or more seconds. The most important reason is speed - or lack of it. I’ve used Inkscape and Sodi pretty heavily (making icons, wallpapers, diagrams, etc.), and I can tell you that they are definitely not ready for prime time. Obviously, you’ve not heard of Inkscape () which is ready for primetime, and that is getting pretty heavy use now.
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