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    Gimp/Inkscape - Viable alternatives?

    Anyone use either program with printer profiles successfully?
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    I'm interested in inkscape, because there's a portable version.

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    GIMP 2.4 Color Management
    View here

    Inkscape 0.48 (latest release) has full support for soft-proofing and colour management. Just go to file preferences and select colour management. Then add your monitor and output profiles from the drop down, it uses the same ones as you would in CD or PS. It also shows out of gamut colours. A vast improvement on version 0.46 as you had to manually edit the svg or xml files.

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    Gimp: here
    Inkscape: here

    Hope this helps.

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    Thanks for the info on Inkscape.

    I'm going to download the portable version from here : http://portableapps.com/apps/graphic...scape_portable and try it out.

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    Can't get the latest version of Inkscape to work, had to download a previous version.

    Followed a set-up guide for colour management in Gimp but printed results aren't good, will take another look.

    Interested in these 2 programs as I hope to go back and try Ubuntu again but need a Coreldraw replacement.
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    I've installed and had a quick play with Inkscape 0.48 (Portable). Not sure how I get it to display out of gamut colours or to soft-proof or whatever. I searched for info about it and all I found was that the older 0.46 supports only Mac and Linux, not Windows. Don't know if that applies to 0.48, too.

    I'm sure I'll figure it out when I have time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JSR View Post
    Not sure how I get it to display out of gamut colours or to soft-proof or whatever. I searched for info about it and all I found was that the older 0.46 supports only Mac and Linux, not Windows. Don't know if that applies to 0.48, too.
    Runs fine on windows xp.
    For colour management select;
    File----inkscape preferences----colour management

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    Quote Originally Posted by daviddeer View Post
    Runs fine on windows xp.
    For colour management select;
    File----inkscape preferences----colour management
    I found that, but it didn't seem to make any difference whether it was on or off.

    Maybe it's a quirk with the portable version. I've just fired it up and gone to the colour management section, but today it won't list any profiles (it did the first time I used it).

    I'll look at it further when I have more time but if it's not going to work on the portable version, then it's not something I can use.

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    color menagment is workin only in linux and macs only at the moment :(

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    So it would work if installed in Ubuntu then? Not bothered about running in XP.
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