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CMYKTool 0.1.1 Released

2010-02-02

This is the second public release of CMYKTool, which is still very much experimental software.

DownloadSource code - .tar.gz

DownloadWindows 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:

  • Now handles greyscale images
  • Partial support for 16-bit (5-bits per channel) BMP files
  • Now creates parent directories for XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed.  (Solves issue with preferences not being saved.)
  • Save button in Prefs dialog now works
  • Now saves the window geometry along with global preferences.
  • Cropped the spinner graphic a little, so it will (hopefully) not cause the tab to resize any more.
  • ConversionPresets now have both RGB and CMYK fallback profiles.  (Simplifies the use of DeviceLinks)
  • Now has an option to ignore embedded profiles and use the fallback instead
  • Now supports loading and saving of CMYK JPEGs.
  • Resolution of input file is now preserved.  (Including hack to force this  for CMYK JPEGs.)
  • Now displays the channel percentages under the cursor, overlaid on the "blobs" that make up the colorant toggle, and to the right of that, a total area coverage readout.
  • Added Russian translation - thanks, as always, to Alexandre Prokoudine!

Future plans include:

  • 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).

Recent additions:

CMYKTool 0.1.6-pre1 Released CMYKTool Devicelink Tutorial CMYKTool 0.1.5 Released CMYKTool 0.1.5-rc1 Released CMYKTool 0.1.5-pre2 Released CMYKTool 0.1.5-pre1 Released CMYKTool Tutorial Screencast CMYKTool 0.1.4a bug fix release CMYKTool 0.1.4 Released CMYKTool 0.1.3 Released CMYKTool 0.1.2 Released CMYKTool 0.1.1 Released CMYKTool 0.1.0 Released