[Qgis-psc] Investigating CMYK support in Qt/QGIS

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:17 PM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
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> Hi PSC,
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> Nyall is investigating ways to support CMYK in QGIS in the future.
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> Parts of this work (probably the larger part) will be improvements in the qt library.
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> KDAB would be willing to investigate the feasibility and amount of effort necessary for these improvements.
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> I am therefore asking PSC to permit using some funds from the "Qt5 upstream improvements"section (we have 10k in this section, see https://www.qgis.org/en/_downloads/QGISBudget2020.pdf ). For the first investigation we will probably need 2 days of work.
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> Please reply if you are ok with QGIS.ORG funding this initial CMYK in Qt work.

I'm in general not totally comfortable when funds go to activities not
directly involved in the QGIS project, except when they go to
GIS-oriented (OSGEO) "brother" projects (like GDAL or PROJ to cite a
few).

In this case, because the amount seems relatively small (how do they
exactly charge for one working day?) and because I see the potential
to have professional color support in QGIS I think I'm ok with that.

> For any follow-up work there will most likely be some institutional crowd funding.

Wouldn't it be possible to pay-back the initial investment done with
QGIS funds if the crowd-funding goes well?


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