Hello,

I'm sure this gets asked a lot, but I have spent the better part of today trying to figure out a reason why this is so, so I thought I would ask. Any informaiton, or even directing me to resources on the web would be very helpful.

What I'm having troubles with right now is that I have been given an EPS file from a graphics company that contains a Logo. The image has been saved with (apparently) CMYK formated colors. The issue is that the CMYK representation they say should give the desired RGB formated colors is not actually doing this. What I get is distinctly not what they indicated it should be. I have now tried 7 different applications to convert this image correctly (not Illustrator or Photoshop as I don't have access to these). In all cases I get the same rendering of the image. To help illustrate the problem see the image located:

http://www.monkeynet.ca/example-cmyk.png

The question I have is, why does adobe illustrator apparently display the correct colors and GIMP and the other applications show an incorrect representation? As a follwo up, is there a way to get the correct representation to be rendered? I'm even willing to modify the eps file manually by hand to acheive this.

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:27 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:

First of all, does the EPS contain an ICC color profile? Do you have the color profile at all? Did you use it when you tried opening the EPS in those 7 applications?

Downloading the ICC profiles and opening the EPS in Scribus solved the problem. I had to change a few options in Scribus and then export as an SVG file. But I got the image in the correct colours now. Thanks for the pointer.

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Derek Wueppelmann wrote:

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:27 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:

First of all, does the EPS contain an ICC color profile? Do you have the color profile at all? Did you use it when you tried opening the EPS in those 7 applications?

Downloading the ICC profiles and opening the EPS in Scribus solved the problem. I had to change a few options in Scribus and then export as an SVG file. But I got the image in the correct colours now. Thanks for the pointer.

So it looks like I spoke too soon. While using the color profile did seem to get a better result, it is still not the correct colors. Anybody else have a suggestion? I have downloaded an evaluation copy of Illustrator so that I can save the file as an SVG, however this is not an ideal solution for me.