Re: embed fonts in eps from R?
On 12/26/06, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
I am sorry for bringing this discussion back. From your
experience what tools produced nice results and were easy to use under
linux (or better be available under Linux).
A publisher requested to get tiff's saved in CMYK so I
started doing research on the topic and of cause first of all I mairixed
my mail archives to get to this email ;-)
I am not dealing with very colorful pictures so I am not sure if exact
profiling of screen would do any difference but I've done its basic
profiling using lprof. Now I am looking for easy way to save CMYK
tiff's.
There is a http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml GIMP plugin
but it seems that it wasn't really active developed recently, thus, I
thought, there must be some better alternative. I've split RGB into CMYK
layers using some conversion present in GIMP (takes RBF and decomposes
into separate layers of CMYK - so no proper visualization is
available). I am yet to find how to store that into CMYK TIFF
since it merges layers together while saving into tiff. After browsing
more it seems that the "separate" plugin is the only way.
What other tools are available?
Linux support for publishing is still weak (in part because much of
the effort has gone to servers and in part because most people run
linux on PC's were low cost wins over color
standardization). ImageMagick's command-line tool, "convert" can make
CMYK tiffs and can (if built with lcms) embed ICC profiles. You will
probably need to build it yourself to get all the capabilities, as the
versions included in many linux distros have been built without lcms.
It helps to have some feeling for the differences between the gamut of
a CMYK (ink) printing process and the screen. Many people run into
difficulties because they have chosen colors that aren't in the CMYK
gamut.
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George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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