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Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2002 21:01 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> >e.g. I use a bitmap logo that should show exactly the same color as
> > defined for backgrounds. If I define the "same" color with PhotoShop it
> > looks
> ah, so it's tuned for some kind of paper

I switched off all color management and used absolute measures.

I "solved" the problem with a clip path. And I was surprised that Photoshop 6 
isn't able to write a spot color bitmap as PDF -- I know such is possible, at 
least with PDF 1.4 -- another disappointment by Adobe.

> ...; btw: quite funny to be able to search for invisible text).
That feature is for scanned documents with OCR'ed text. Some firms or boards 
use PDF to archive their documents...

> >It should as easy as in other functions to assign foreground and
> > background color, maybe even transparency?
>
> when i browsed the specs some time ago i got the impression that this is
> doable, but so far i didn't need it (although i will probably need it
> soon). Building ther sources is trivial (once i understand it) and we can
> probably hook things into the resource dict of graphics, but cooking up a
> proper interface will take me some time. We can look into the specs at the
> coming dante meeting to see what can be done.

Uäh, specs... ;-(
;-)

Grüßlis vom Hraban!