What happened to Inkscape's CMYK?

[@andrescastillocorradine1052]

Hello, I know that cmyk is a limitation for inkscape, but I use the scribus alternative and let's say it works, and the truth is that we demand but we don't see how hard the work is and how little financial support we provide. Thank you for your dedication and help to those of us on the other side of the screen

[@jonathonreed2417]

I think that CMYK is one of those features where a whole class of new users will take another look at Inkscape. I'm excited for the future and we'll get there when we get there is my attitude, we appreciate your work even if people seem ungrateful at times.

[@pulsar17]

Wow! This was a great insight into the history of CMYK. I'm more excited for 1.5 than 1.4 :p personally, but 1.4 is shaping up to be a solid release.

[@Inkscape-tutorial-pl]

CMYK is a great chance for Inkscape. And as always: thank for your work. It's very important!

[@psytoolkit]

Inkscape is my favourite drawing software on Linux. CMYK would be great for printing. This is a great video explaining the history of getting there. Yes, Blender is great, but I wonder why Blender seems to get more support, even though Inkscape is probably more useful for creating day-to-day 2D images for a larger potential user base.

[@aliencreation8744]

Thanks guys

[@GraphicDesignStudio]

CMYK is great. so everyone can use inkscape in printing production .

[@RachedNoureddine]

people already use inkscape in printing despite the "cmyk" limitation, to be fair the work gets imported to different program for color correction is needed, am sure you know even saving the work in cmyk printing colors are going to vary and for that youd need printing-color proofing :) i printed few works directly from inkskape, i was surprised what i got was actually better than i anticipated/wanted, because you have to take into consideration where did you do your concept .... for printing i advice you to buy an IPS based Screen rather than a LED/OLED/AMOLED/SuperAmoled screens, as an LCD IPS screen almost have the same gamut as cmyk thus giving you better feedback on colors you're using

[@creapte]

Maybe we could find Cmyk palettes in Inkscape? It's quite long to work on color one by one...

[@fershred]

That is the only thing I need

[@obkf-too]

Use swatches, set them up ones use them later, also you can install color pallets. We need to wait for the CMYK work to be finalized before we can create the palletes, templates, tutorials,...

[@McNastyFlows]

​@@obkf-too That's the problem I'm having. I was making custom palettes using the Pantone Coated swatches using the CMYK values but I hit a point where certain colors would change the values as I entered them to be similarly displayed on screen. Which totally negates the work I was doing. The whole point behind it was having the exact Pantone colors as a palette so my designs would translate directly into what the finished manufactured product would look like. Takes out all the guess work and color matching goes way smoother.

[@GraphicDesignStudio]

please let us know .. estimate date of version of inkscape 1.4

[@GaryParris]

excellent

[@projeto84ae]

good.

[@kairu_b]

Nice

[@ganeshborade3706]

how to use hex code in Inkscape?

[@doctormo]

The fill and stroke dialog?

[@ganeshborade3706]

@@doctormo yes

[@imdxpertm]

Just wondering , with so much hype around AI, are AI tools like chatgpt, Claude etc. not useful to find and fix CMYK issues?

[@doctormo]

No, not in any way. Because what's needed is expertise, not grunt work. We'd still need someone with the know how to check all the work is actually correct. A lot of AI code is complete trash, and a lot of it's logic is hopelessly broken. And that doesn't each touch on the design aspects, or in the previous video's, the UX concepts that have to be researched.

[@a2teach]

@@doctormo you are right it is all about the expertise

[@ronnetgrazer362]

@@doctormo So, another 8 to 16 months before it starts to get useful. Got it.

[@dezenho]

i can´t undertand why inkscape have to be only one svg editor and have suport for cmyk for print. i defend that if cmyk is important inkscape must be a vector editor with svg support pdf is most important than svg for print

[@doctormo]

Inkscape IS svg, there is no separating svg from inkscape. SVG is not imported or exported, it is literally the internal memory of the program. As for PDF, that bugbear should go to the folks at Cairo, who rejected the notion of anything other that RGB for their PDF output.

[@ltlnx-xd4tj]

Just curious, how did the pathfinder replacement project go? I remember seeing the replacement being discussed but didn't follow up after that.

[@craigsparks1442]

so the rambling on about the history of how you got there is really not as important as where it is at the moment... rather focus on the present.

[@doctormo]

We've been waiting for you to fund the project Craig. What is important is set by those that invest, if you are sitting on the sidelines waiting for other people to do the heavy lift then you have no right to complain. Sit down.