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+ | ====== Create CYMK PDF for Printing ====== | ||
+ | i once designed a red logo with inkscape which only knows rgb. i set the color to 255 0 0 (RGB) and created a pdf which i sent to a digital prining service. they printed the document and all my logos where rose rather than red. | ||
+ | in order to fix that, back at that time, i used adobe illustrator, | ||
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+ | today i don't have a windows machine anymore and i don't subscribe to adobe software, so i need a new method to convert an rgb pdf to cymk for printing. | ||
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+ | luckily there is ghostscript, | ||
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+ | gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK -dProcessColorModel=/ | ||
+ | keep in mind that this will auto convert rgb to cymk which in a way isn't really possible, so this is not the right solution if you need to have an exact color in the end.. in that case i think " |