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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi All, I'm pretty much inline with Alessandro, we could see the small
investment as a seed to a future bigger crowdfunding to tackle such a
low level topic.

so +1 from me.

ciao

Marco

On 01.07.20 13:29, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:17 PM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
>> Hi PSC,
>>
>> Nyall is investigating ways to support CMYK in QGIS in the future.
>>
>> Parts of this work (probably the larger part) will be improvements in the qt library.
>>
>> KDAB would be willing to investigate the feasibility and amount of effort necessary for these improvements.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
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