First of all, I really appreciate to take your time in reading this questions.-

In the past i was blind like a sheep follow the masses; using windows and shit like that, but now I already wake up from the nightmare. I been pass the last 2 months testing opensource solutions and have to say everything is OK, there is not such a thing i cannot do that I've done before. Linux is great, the support is great too and best of all people who likes and uses it are the best from the net.

Here are the questions.-

I do editorial design like magazines and some advertising, but here the trouble i can find in a few tries with inkscape, how can I set that objects force align to the rules or guides, can i put a CMYK palette or work in that color separation. For offset printing is what I used most.

The other and last question about inkscape is how can i export a bitmap such as TIF in CMYK color.

Thanks for all. Sorry about my English is not my native language.

Zephyr

If you're a super-serious designer for print, then Inkscape probably won't satisfy you. Currently SVG is a web standard so lacks many print features a professional print designer would need. Colours are stored as RGB--it doesn't support CMYK, or colour speration, or spot colours. And it's ability to save vector information in most common print standards (i.e. EPS, PDF) is limited.

Inkscape can't save as TIFF either. But if you wanted you could open the PNG in an editor, convert it to CMYK and save it as TIFF. That might satisfy your needs

Note that this isn't really a limitation of Inkscape, rather a limitation of the SVG standard. I believe the next version of SVG will cater for print.

You can force alignment objects to guides under File > Document properties > Snap.

I really appreciate your quick answer; i will try to export and re-edit in gimp to CMYK, well I don't know if Gimp does that, but i'm pretty sure it does, OpenSource applications are even most powerful and ease of use that the privative once.

Thanks so much for your answer about my question.

There is a plugin for gimp called "separate" for CMYK color separation. It comes in a package called gimp-plugin-registry in Ubuntu, but I do not know which linux distro you are using. You can download and install this plugin for CMYK.

The SVG files can be imported and converted into Gimp though the blurring and the clones do not always appear! Hours does not have the CMYK mode, but in future it will probably Gimp 2.10 (but 2.8 or 9) in the will ... linux Krita has CMYK mode to convert and also how Scribus converts in print if not mistaken!

export it to png and convert to CMYK for krita

I do most of my work in Inkscape and when I need a CMYK tiff I use Gimp, there is a plugin for that called Separate+

First you Separate, with this you get a new image with each color in a mask, then you Save and with this you get a CMYK tiff.

Scribus is also great