want cmyk support

**steve.ledger** · 17 July 2009, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by the_cat

Till then we will use the trials to see what new is there but we wont buy any copy of the product!

Most professionals find a way

Have a look at Minimro's posts and work - he's a professional who uses Xtreme and works with CMYK.
Also, Charles Moir (Xara CEO) has often written about CMYK here.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...3&postcount=27

**jon404** · 02 October 2009, 08:50 PM

Accurate color is messy.

Here's an approach that works -- most of the time.

The attached XAR file shows a bunch of color boxes. If you make a test print from the file on the same printer that your job will run on, then you can hold the test print next to your screen to see the difference between your screen color and the actual print color. So at least you'll get an accurate look at how any given color will actually print... on that printer, on that day. After you make the test print, write the date, printer name, and check the CMYK box or RGB box depending what kind of printer it is.

You can go round and round worrying about CMYK color, RGB color, screen calibrating, whatever. But for most things, slight color variations don't matter much... except for people and food, where neither should ever have a green color cast.

And always have the printer run a proof sample for you to approve... and to keep to check the job against later if there are problems.

Hope this helps, Jon

**jon404** · 02 October 2009, 11:25 PM

Followup to my previous post... noticed that the color codes for the boxes in the XAR file were inaccurate, as I had brought in a JPG from an old Illustrator file to start with.

Remade the file in Xara, see attached below, and also a PDF of it, where the colors are keeping the correct values...

Jon

**RedWombat** · 09 October 2009, 04:57 PM

CMYK output in Xara is a shot in the dark. I'm happy with the results I get most of the time, but it's only by my experience that I know what I'm going to get. If you have to work with other designers on other platforms in other applications, XP5 really has some distance to go with CMYK. I would put True support, not work arounds, for this at the top of my list. Count me in!

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