Hi all. First of all this is my first message on this forum and i want to say thank you for Inkscape before I do anything else.

When I create lets say a book cover in Inkscape I can save it as SVG (which I do). but svg is no good for the printing industry. So eventually I have to come up with a pdf in the CMYK colour-space. When I try to save it in Inkscape as a pdf it does not render the bluing correctly. For example a blurred shadow will be solid on the PDF. When I export from inkscape it is only possible as a PNG file which renders the blur correctly but makes everything a RGB image including the fonts.

So my question is how do others get from a Incscape drawing on your screen (that includes blurr) to a print ready file in CMYK?
Any input is most appreciated.

Try Scribus - export as png, import in Scribus and export as pdf
Or try Krita (under Linux)
Or Try the Gimp, with this plugin

Try Scribus - export as png, import in Scribus and export as pdf
Or try Krita (under Linux)
Or Try the Gimp, with this plugin

Thanks for the Gimp plugin link.

Thaks for the links and suggestions. I am still working ont he one with Gimp plugin and colour seperation, but

Expoeting it to a pgn from inkscape gets rid of the fonts. Thus you loos eht acuracy of the embedded fonts on your printout.

Besides importing a grayscale tif produced in Gim 2.4x will still render as a CMYK in the scribus export pdf (scribus 1.3.3.12.

This is exactly what I am strugeling with all afternoon.