Unfortunately I'm no more a student, I'm more on the giving courses side of the barrier + a full time job. I just contributed a few bits to inkscape a few years ago, and not being able to generate pre-press quality pdfs (meaning for me CMYK) is a pain in the ... neck. About cairo depending on lcms or another color management system (I think MacOS X has its own for example), I would say yes. It's very small and it seems the simplest solution to me. Do you have some strong feelings agains that ? Regards,    Aubanel. <div>2008/3/5, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <<a href="mailto:ku.b@gmx.de">ku.b@gmx.de</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks for letting us know. Are you going to do a GSoC project for it under the Inkscape roof, that someone can work on this full time? <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code">http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code</a> On <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SpecIccForCairo">http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SpecIccForCairo</a> I dont see the hooks for using the colour management e.g. the rendering backend. Does this mean you propose Cairo becoming dependent on the lcms library? kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management <a href="http://www.behrmann.name">www.behrmann.name</a> + <a href="http://www.oyranos.org">www.oyranos.org</a> Am 05.03.08, 20:28 +0100 schrieb Aubanel MONNIER: > Just to let you know you cairo developers that I setup an inkscape "Blue > print" about color management. > <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/icc-for-cairo">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/icc-for-cairo</a> > It tries to precise use cases and proposes a draft API for cairo. I hope it > helps to get this supported quicker. > It's a wiki, so feel free to discuss/edit. > </blockquote></div>