Ludwig Schwardt wrote: >> Publishers sometimes require electronic figures as tif or eps, and using >> the cymk color system. We do everything in rgb. I don't understand >> color systems well. What would be needed to give mpl the ability to >> produce files using the cymk system? > > PDF/X-3 might be a worthwhile standard to follow for mpl figure output > (even only as an option). At least embedding ICC profiles is probably > a good idea. That seems like a great suggestion (without knowing the details of what is really involved). I wonder if that would appease some of the publisher's requirements that Eric mentioned. I vaguely recall seeing CMYK requirements myself in the past, but I can't dig up any of them. I just wonder what *specifically* publishers may require, and whether providing an ICC profile in the PDF or converting rgb colors to cmyk on output (within matplotlib) is the better way to go. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA