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Is there any way to get Inkscape to work in cmyk colors? I have an .ai/.pdf file with cmyk colors which I need to to open in inkscape because I have to cut/paste part of the content to a new file.

But the problem is that as soon as I save the document as pdf in inkscape, it saves a pdf file with rgb colors instead of cmyk colors -(

Is there no way to get inkscape to preserve the cmyk colors? I don't need to edit/change any colors. And if not, what software should I use instead.

I am using inkscape 0.48 on Linux.

MTilsted
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Does inkscape not have the ability to preserve cmyk colors?

No ... it doesn't, that is, yes it does not.

if not, what software should I use instead.

Inkscape+Scribus+blood+sweat+tears?

RedGrittyBrick
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Sorry I doubt it: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=inkscape+preserve+cmyk Inkscape WIKI

Also, IIRC (this is about 6 years ago) Adobe vs Inkscape CMYK profiles were very different; by default Adobe uses calculations in a patented/copyrighted process, so by that nature it will not be the same as Inkscape. So if your ultimate destination for the PDF is a print shop, you need to use the tools they have there.

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No, PDF = RGB. You can use "pdfimages" [of poppler-utils] or "gs" to extract the images from a pdf and save them as a bitmap. Then you can use gimp or ImageMagick to set the colormap to whatever you want for that image. But you said you don't need to change the color mapping. So just import the bitmap into Inkscape and you're done. You may need to convert the image first to a PNG depending on how your Inkscape was built. Gimp is nice Good for Image maniPulation as well.

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