Re: [Matplotlib-users] CMYK

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2013/01/30 6:43 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> We don't currently have any support -- and we're still struggling in
> certain areas supporting RGBA consistently across the system.
>
> I think this would take someone writing a MEP (as a preliminary study of
> all of the changes that would be involved) and then shepherding it
> through implementation.

My somewhat vague recollection is that CMYK is fundamentally 
output-device dependent, and therefore it really doesn't make much sense 
for a plotting library to support it directly.  The conversion from RGBA 
should be made by the publisher, knowing what the output device 
characteristics are.

Eric

>
> Mike
>
> On 01/30/2013 11:10 AM, Ignas Anikevičius wrote:
>> On 29/01/13 03:37:51 -0800, Dieter wrote:
>>> I was wondering if anything changed regarding this within the last 2.5 years
>>> since the last thread. Is there a way to produce CMYK with matplotlib?
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I would be also interested in how to produce CMYK graphics without
>> external fiddling.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ignas
>>
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