CMYKTool 0.1.2 Released
2010-03-07
Since my coding time is currently very limited, here's a stopgap release with a few improvements until I can put more time in!
Source code - .tar.gz
Windows Binary - .zip
Please note: the Windows build requires an existing GTK+ installation - the easiest way to get that is to install GIMP.
Notable changes this time include:
- French translation added - thanks to Cedric Gémy.
- Profile selector now allows "None" as a choice for output profile.
- Now has a "naive" non-colour-managed RGB -> CMYK conversion, accessed by setting the output profile to "None".
- Added (currently non-functional) "External Utilities" tab to the preferences dialog.
- Now remembers the last settings in the Save Dialog during a session. They are also saved along with preferences.
Future plans include:
- Support for unicode filenames.
- Support for "duotone" images, where an image is converted to use black and a single spot colour. (Similar to the Separate plugin's duotone feature, but with the ability to specity the spot colour.)
- The addition of a "width" parameter to the Hold Grey mode, to hide the sharp transitions that can become visible between pure grey pixels and neighbouring very-nearly-grey pixels. What I plan to do is take the distance from pure grey in RGB space, compare this against the "width", and interpolate between the pure grey in K only, and the CMYK value returned by the colour transform, giving a smoother transition between the two.
- The ability to import PostScript and PDF (by means of GhostScript. (There is already rudimentary support for this if GhostScript is in the path).
- The ability to make use of Argyll to create a DeviceLink profile for a given source and destination profile. (This will also allow recalculation of black-generation).
- The ability to make use of Argyll to create a DeviceLink profile specifically for transforming a particular image (or set of images).
