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Inkscape by Example
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CMYK has been mentioned before in this book, and users tend to talk about it online as well, but what is the issue here? Inkscape is working with SVG, and SVG is created for the web. It means it is natively running in the RGB color space used by screens and not in the CMYK color space for printing.
Although this issue is less and less important since most printers can do the converting for you if you provide the graphics in RGB, CMYK is still needed if you want to have absolute control over the printed colors. Some printers only accept CMYK formats, and specific files such as PDFs.
In Chapter 7, Combine Inkscape and Other (Free) Programs in the Design Workflow, we learned about Scribus, which is open source publishing software. In the Scribus section, we mentioned one solution for the CMYK challenge: save the vector graphics as an SVG in Inkscape and import the SVG graphics into Scribus...