Hello all,

I'm using Inkscape on Win 8.

I did some large black and white standee images, around 60cm by 20cm last year for a local charity to use at their 'Black & White' charity ball. I used Inkscape and they came out really well, so I followed the same work flow this year for some colour standees.

I export them as pdf with 5mm bleed and at 300dpi, the same as last time, but the printer is complaining that they are in RGB, and he wants them in CMYK. So, I started trying to import them into Scribus and export them as CMYK, but that hasn't gone smoothly as the text in the svg images, seems to throw things out of alignment and I lose my blur on the drop shadows, these are known issues as far as I can tell.

So, I did consider redrawing all of the text in Scribus, but it is too time consuming, and I am too lazy, and whilst looking for answers, I came across the ExportPDFCMYK Extension, but this only works on Linux.

Well, I like Linux, and have dabbled with it in the past, so I found a hard drive and popped it into my machine, installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu on to it. I installed the ExportPDFCMYK Extension, as documented here, and, after some messing with directory ownership, I got things sorted.

When I now try to export as per the instructions, I get to this bit:



Clicking OK, gives me this notification, and an empty pdf file.

"Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected."



This means nothing to me, but I wonder could anybody here help me as I really do need the files ready by tonight, eek

Thanks!
Nick.

I can't answer your question. But I would suggest trying to contact the author of the extension, and report the error. You should be able to find contact info from the place you downloaded it.

(Btw, I'm curious what is a "standee image"? I tried a dictionary, but no help. Maybe something related to a "black and white ball"? Tried searching black and white ball, and got a huge long biography of Truman Capote! Sorry, I lead such a simple life....but like to learn new things.)