Is there any print enabled graphic design software?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 21 20:14:52 UTC 2008


Da Rock wrote:
> I'm trying to get away from Adobe products (which are becoming rather
> agressive towards OSS), but I need to find a graphic software that can
> handle CMYK properly.
> 
> I've tried GIMP (which has great tools) but it doesn't handle CMYK
> files- it only uses sRGB.
> 
> I've tried Krita, but it doesn't work as well as GIMP tool wise, and I
> can't specify images sizes very well at all- it only works on pixel
> size, not inches or dpi/ppi.
> 
> Therefore both are great for designing screen images, but not printed
> images. I even tried using GIMP to design (using CMYK colours here), and
> reformatting to a CMYK file with Krita. Problem with this is that the
> image size doesn't work once reformatted, plus I need to export to pdf
> which neither do and so printing to pdf means the final image size is an
> A4 and god knows what dpi.
> 
> Anything better out there?
> 
> 

Some people use Cinepaint as it is designed for high quality movie work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinePaint
http://www.cinepaint.org/

-- 
Robin Laing




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