Separate+
This plug-in is improvement version of Alastair M. Robinson's "Separate" plug-in.
Changes
- bug fixes
- support embedded color profile as source color space
- added rendering intent selector and BPC switch
- new dialog box for "Proof" function
- support three proofing modes: Normal, Black ink simulation and Media white simulation
- the proof image with media white simulation looks better(like Photoshop's paper color simulation)
- use GtkFileChooserDialog in place of GtkFileSelection for "Save" function
- embed color profile into the separated TIFF file
- better support of non-interactive run mode
- localized messages(Japanese and Russian translation is available)
New in 20070106
- embed color profile specified in "Monitor/working colorspace" into the proof image
New in 20070108
- bug fixes
- save CMYK TIFF file including color profile
- display is not produced in non-interactive mode
- attach color profile to the separated image
- support attached color profile as print simulation color space
New in 20070111
New in 20070115
- merge Separate(normal) dialog and Separate(to Colour) dialog
- added the "plug-in-separate-separate" procedure
- with "Overprint pure black" option, total ink amount never exceeds the limitation described in the destination profile
New in 20070124
- improved some filename problems on Windows environment
- improved problem that the destination/proofing profile is wrong in non-interactive mode
- the image resolution is correct with "Separate/Proof" function
- added new plug-in : separate_import
New in 20070126
- minor bug fix : the wrong type of internal variable was corrected
- added Russian localization messages (from Alexandre Prokoudine)
New in 20070126-2
- improved probrem that the plug-in cannot be built for the GIMP 2.2.x
New in 20070610
- separate_import : minor bug fix
- added the ICC profile selection dialog that looks for the profiles from directories as follows:
- /usr/share/color/icc
- /usr/color/icc
- ~/color/icc
- %PROGRAMFILES%\common files\adobe\color\profiles
- %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\spool\drivers\color
- /Library/ColorSync/Profiles
- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles
- ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
New in 20070625
- profile selection dialog : supported multiLocalizedUnicodeType('mluc') and profileDescriptionMLTag('dscm')
New in 20070709
New in 20070723
New in 20070727
- profile selection dialog : validates UTF-8 encoded text of profile description
- added "Absolute colorimetric(2)" intent that simulates the result of using Adobe Photoshop CS2
New in 0.5.0
- when you save the separated image as xcf file, attached CMYK profile will be included
- updated Japanese localization messages
- added Czech (from Zdeněk Hataš) and French (from Raymond Ostertag) localization messages
New in 0.5.1
- profile selection buttons show the history menu
- minor fixes
Color management preferences support
When the dialog box is opened for the first time, the settings of Color management preferences are used as initial values.
You can call the procedure by emptying the color profiles' path.
Also, you can call the procedure with -1 value as rendering intent (or as proofing mode).
- RGB profile → Source color space
- CMYK profile → Destination color space
- Monitor profile → Monitor/working color space
- Print simulation profile → Separated image's color space
- Softproof rendering intent → Rendering intent
- Display rendering intent → Proofing mode
Notes:
- These combination may be changed in the future.
- Separate+ can't use the color profile provided by X server.
Please inactivate the Color Management display filter for using "Proof" function with monitor profile(instead of RGB workspace). In the future, the display filter will use the embedded profile. Then you will not need to do it.
Requirements
- Little CMS version 1.15 or later
- the GIMP 2.4.x for Color management preferences support
Screenshots
Downloads
Yoshinori Yamakawa <yam at yellowmagic.info>
