[xep-support] Re: Use SVG wth CMYK

Jim Mott jmott at pubdata.com
Wed Dec 8 06:47:05 PST 2010


Anders,

To get CMYK values in your SVG per the RenderX syntax, you might 
consider using XSL to convert the RGB values in the SVG to the CMYK values.

Jim Mott


On 12/8/2010 9:01 AM, Anders Svensson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to be able to use SVG with CMYK, as xep 
> is supposed to support. I found this post on the web from one of 
> RenderXs support technicians:
>
> ===========================
>
> /Hello Eliot, /
>
> /I re-read the SVG spec and have realized that icc-color() cannot be the
> first entry into a color specifier.
> [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#SpecifyingPaint//]. /
>
> /The first entry is a URL (gradient, pattern) or RGB color (as defined in
> CSS2 spec). /
>
> /So the 'fill' attribute in your example should look like:
> fill="rgb(178.5,255,255) icc-color(#CMYK, 0.3,0,0,0)" /
>
> /XEP 4.x includes colorbar.svg (images/colorbar.svg). 'icc-color' 
> function is
> used intensively in that file. :) /
>
> /With best regards,
>   Alexei Gagarinov
> RenderX /
>
> ===========================
>
> That sounds good, and I looked at the colorbar.svg example file. The 
> problem is, how do you actually create such files? I mean, there 
> doesn't seem to be any support for it in Adobe Illustrator that I can 
> find, and searching Inkscape fo rums seems to suggest they don't have 
> any built-in support for creating files like this either. So how are 
> you supposed to create them? Surely you are not meant to write the 
> graphic files by hand? Specifically what I need to do is save EPS 
> files as SVG with this color profile in the SVG file.
>
> BTW, an image like colorbar.svg is only usable by xep (and other 
> special tools that support this function)? Because looking at it in IE 
> (just for reviewing) it doesn't display as a color bar, only two black 
> bars on each end.
>
> Med vänliga hälsningar/Kind regards,
>
> Anders Svensson
>
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