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

[Andreas Neumann]

Yes, Mathieu - this is already on our radar to ask other qt-based (open
source and commercial) to potentially join our / resp. the KDAB efforts.


It is discussed in another thread though with Nyall and the others who
showed interest in CMYK. Perhaps that discussion should be moved to the
dev-list. 

Andreas 

On 2020-07-02 16:16, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:

> One thing I'd really like for QGIS to explore here is whether it could associate with other open source projects that rely on the Qt platform (such as Krita and Scribus) to see if there's a possibility of joining resources to see this become reality. AFAIK, both Krita and Scribus have some level of CMYK support so their downstream implementation might also be a useful resource. I assume they'd be happy to see some of that CMYK support be upstreamed too. 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 8:47 PM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote: 
> 
>> 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 [1] 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>> -- 
>> Marco Bernasocchi
>> 
>> QGIS.org Chair
>> http://berna.io
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