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Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2001 09:23 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> >...but don't expect transparencies to be printable!
> hm, they do print here, but acrobat sends it in a special way; it prints on
> the fierry rip (color printer) (actually, the only thing that the fierry
> there is always the "print as image" option which generally leads to better
> results anyway

Ok, may be - Stephan Jaeggi (alias 'PDF-Pope') said it would not be possible.
I remember he showed several possibilities for "breaking" real transparent 
objects into little none-transparent objects (like Freehand does 
"transparencies").
Maybe this "breaking" is always done while printing from Acrobat. Must have a 
look at Acrobat 5...

> > > rgb, cmyk and gray scales are supported; i will also provide massive
> > > transparencies (apart from color) and more optimizes state restoring
> > > (pdf lacks a reset).
> >Hm, what about ICC profiles?
> i never looked into that (don't even know what they are)

Should I look after the specs? I think I collected enough material on our 
docs server at work. Color Management is 'a bit' complicated...
I think, the only thing ConTeXt must do is not to touch an embedded profile 
of an PDF picture - and that's already the case, AFAIK.
Ok, and the Lab color space should be supported.

Grüßlis vom Hraban!