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kung.foo
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:44 am Post subject: DTP with inkscape (cd cover and booklet) |
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I want to create the artwork for our bands new CD completely in Inkscape. The followong things are still bothering my creative process:
- The CD is going to be printed with offset printing, so i need to get CMYK colors right...
- The color space. How do I get the colors printed the way I have them on my screen right now?
- The format: They want me to supply files in formats like pdf, or Ado*e Illustrator native format. How do I create a pdf from an svg?? Can't be that hard?
Anyone ever done something like that before?? I really want to do it using inkscape and not any other software (at least if it's not free as free beer) |
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stgreek
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: DTP with inkscape (cd cover and booklet) |
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| kung.foo wrote: | I want to create the artwork for our bands new CD completely in Inkscape. The followong things are still bothering my creative process:
- The CD is going to be printed with offset printing, so i need to get CMYK colors right...
- The color space. How do I get the colors printed the way I have them on my screen right now?
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This is the problem of every single person that is involved with offset printing, good luck with that (seriously, this is the only advice I can give you!)
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- The format: They want me to supply files in formats like pdf, or Ado*e Illustrator native format. How do I create a pdf from an svg?? Can't be that hard?
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Save your file as postscript and use one of the many ps2pdf converters.
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kung.foo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Inkscape does not allow direct *.ps saving, AFAIK.
If you know how to do it, tell me please  I really don't want to use any crappy (maybe even pirated software (not saying that I have pirated software of course, but I might have to get the software otherwise and I probably can't afford it  )) to get this job done. And inscape is just plain awesome. Maybe I'll have to contact one of the developers...
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Ok I found the postscript export I was being dumb....
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kung.foo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Since I arleady editted the previous post, i figured, i could also post a new reply...
So i get out the postscript. It looks alright, colors are still the same, and only at the bottom of it there a slight white line, where the page should end.
The new problem is now as follows:
I've got the postscript, want to convert it to pdf. So off to the command-line ps2pdf14 file.ps and there you go. A shiny pdf. Only problem is that ps2pdf gets the page format wrong. The postscripts page was the same format as in the svg, but now I got what looks like a A4 pdf and the CD cover is at the bottom of the page... 
How do i fix that? (OK, I might start to sound like a retard now, but I still would apreciate any answers...) |
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kung.foo
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And yet another problem I bumped into today, the exported postscripts don't get ANY transparency right. Sometimes the colors get borked too. But only occasionally. I guess I'm gonna have to ask the reproduction facility, wether they can use PNGs, which sucks, because I pretend them not to.....
Any ideas about the postscript transparency and color thing? |
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