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Loraine A. Baird
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Quixotic, sometimes cheesy, silly, artist, fiddler, painter, drawer, Inkscaper, Super Vector Girl, lefty, INFP, Neo-Jungian, perennial philosopher, still learning, changing, growing, late bloomer, religiously unaffiliated but highly spiritual, overly obsessed with music, art, and colour, post-depression, Scrabble player, idealist, Promethean, black sheep, loathe unanswered questions therefore a researcher, somewhat of a geek, very bookish, Open Source software junky, retro, iconoclastic, tolerant, open-minded, compassionate, passionate, peace lover, human rights supporter, best friend, soul mate, mother, genealogist...quintessential nifty oddball

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  • Current Residence: Nashvegas
  • Print preference: Gilcee, Lino, Silkscreen
  • Interests: Art, Music, Perennial Philosophy, Dao, Quantum Physics, Open Source, Inkscape, SVG,
  • Favourite movie: O Brother Where Art Thou, Triplets of Belleville, too many to mention
  • Favourite band or musician: Django Reinhardt, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Louvin Brothers, Jethtro Burns, Rosenburg Trio...who has one?
  • Favourite genre of music: Whatever I listen to, Gypsy Swing, ambient groove, Bluegrass, Regae, folk
  • Favourite artist: Frida Kahlo
  • Favourite poet or writer: Aldous Huxley
  • Favourite photographer: Man Ray
  • Favourite style of art: Surrealism, Pop Art, Ukiyo-e, vintage advertising, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Pre-Raphaelite
  • Operating System: Windows Vista
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp!
  • Shell of choice: All hail the magic conch shell!
  • Wallpaper of choice: I hate wallpaper
  • Skin of choice: soft, blemish and wrinkle free and I'm kinda stuck with the colour
  • Favourite game: Scrabble
  • Favourite gaming platform: The kitchen table
  • Favourite cartoon character: Felix the Cat
  • Tools of the Trade: Inkscape, Rotoscope, acrylics, 100 lb vellum Bristol

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~shanesemler:iconshanesemler: 3 days 5 hours ago
Interview with a couple of the main Inkscape devs on TWiT: [link]

Btw, I've used SVG for print. Scribus has great SVG support and perfect PDF output. I just had to turn my colours to CMYK in combination with my old Pantone book and a website that had Pantone to CMYK conversions. I got perfect colour output from our printer.
*QuicheLoraine:iconQuicheLoraine: 3 days 3 hours ago
Thank you so much Shane! :hug: I have it playing! Printing...I was referring to commercial printing, art prints, which, because of the differences in how to plot an SVG vs. an AI vector (which is like apples vs. oranges- SVG can be read like a text, and edited, unlike other image formats), and the Pantone CYMK vs. RGB issue, there are still very few commercial companies that are capable of plotting them without converting them. AI is still the industry standard pre-press software used in most commercial printing companies, and Pantone is the standard colour profile. I don't think they originally envisioned SVG for print graphics as SVG was originally intended for web graphics and graphical interfaces, and it has only been within recent years that it has been considered for print graphics. Personally, I think it's scalability, immaculate res whatever scale, and the fact that the original SVG stays the same file size (usually in mere KB's as opposed to a 300dpi, big ass raster image) makes it the perfect format for printing.

After your conversions and printing an SVG on your personal printer, you probably have gotten the gist of my commercial printing dilemma :D

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. -Aldous Huxley
~shanesemler:iconshanesemler: 3 days 1 hour ago
I wasn't talking about my personal printer. I was talking about commercial printing. I'm intimately familiar with commercial printing as I used to work in the pre-press department of a commercial printer in Indiana.
*QuicheLoraine:iconQuicheLoraine: 2 days 23 hours ago
Oh! Nifty! Sorry for my misunderstanding! So you just converted the colour profile from RGB to CYMK Pantone...and you were able to print it IN SVG, or did you have to convert it to another format? I had no idea you worked pre-press....sorry for my previous comment and blathering on. I had read SVG.org .pdf on printing SVG, which was a bit intimidating, and looked around for various printing companies that outright print SVG (very few), but your process sounds like an easier way, and you have given me a bit more confidence :D

Thanks again for the link to the interview! I'm that "gal on DeviantART" -lol! Ted Gould blogged about my Pinkitude win some time ago. It is lovely to be associated with Inkscape, something I really believe in, that, and Open Source. Good to hear there are now companies using Inkscape for their graphics- gives me hope that I might actually make some money at this one day, and that Inkscape is becoming a formidable competitor to that other proprietary thang :D

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. -Aldous Huxley
~shanesemler:iconshanesemler: 2 days 22 hours ago
Some time ago I found a website with all the Pantone colours converted to RGB. All I had to do was match them up with the CMYK equivalents (if I remember correctly, this was last year so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the exact details). Scribus can import SVG files and they are fully editable. Also, Scribus has perfect PDF output. So once I had my Pantone-RGB-CMYK conversions set, all I had to do was export as PDF! I'm not sure if this is the exact site anymore but this is essentially what I used (though it looks like the RGB to Pantone conversions are gone now): [link] Some of these sites were shut down because Pantone are assholes about their patent bullshit. I believe I have the webpage I used backed up somewhere if you want it.
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~shanesemler:iconshanesemler: 3 days 4 hours ago
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