Re: color separation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:48 PM 12/4/00 +0100, Hraban wrote:
>siepo@client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl wrote:
>> Or you can separate arbitrary PostScript level 1 with
>> aurora, which can be obtained from the author's home page:
>> www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~gfreeman/index.html. This one can handle rgb images.
>> I believe you use it by simply prepending aurora.pro and a
>> plate-specific header file to your PostScript file.
>
>I just had a look on aurora.
>I don't understand everything, and my printer stops after page 14 of
>ther docs, but the capabilities of this "simple" solution are
>fascinating: It can even handle spot colors! That is, it can even
>filter this colors out of RGB or CMYK bitmap pictures! This can't
>be done with most professional software like Photoshop or QuarkXPress!
>
>Almighty Hans, could you please have a look at CTAN:support/aurora
>and integrate this nice thingy with texexec? (I trust in you, that
>you are able to improve the code...) Pleeeaase! ;-)

There is some interesting polish code around too [from the famous boguslaw
jackowski cum suis] which i have to look into. 

Hans
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