Who else?

On January 23 Alastair M. Robinson silently released first public version of CMYKTool. That would go quite unnoticed if it wasn’t for someone liking to read all sorts of RSS feeds So the very next day linuxgraphics.ru community was already discussing the new tool, discovering bugs and requesting features. The thread was so hot, that Alastair started reading it via BabelFish online translation tool, and now just a week and a half later v0.1.1 is out with feature enhancements and bug fixes for bugs reported by the community.

So, what is CMYKTool exacly? The application is basically a rewrite of Alastair’s old separate plug-in for GIMP (later continued as separate+ by Yoshinori Yamakawa) into a standalone interactive tool. You can freely convert between RGB<->CMYK using ICC profiles and save to TIFF and JPEG, you can use devicelink profiles, you can compare renders (I think this is where libgdl would come in handy to provide arbitrary docking). And you also can see per-channel % and overall ink coverage values for a point under mouse cursor.

In the future CMYKTool is likely to gain spot color based duotones and more devicelink related functionality like generation of such profiles by means of Argyll.

Thank you, Alastair, and thank you, community