From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17365 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Creutzig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Black generation in cmyk output Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:21:30 +0100 Message-ID: <41B0220A.4050804@creutzig.de> References: <20041130150602.GA1420@mnw.art.pl> <41AC903E.9030000@elvenkind.com> <20041201141942.GA1143@mnw.art.pl> <6CD8912C-43B6-11D9-9EBB-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <41ADF6B9.7050700@wxs.nl> <20041202094007.GB1269@mnw.art.pl> <41AEEA2B.4090407@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102062106 16155 80.91.229.6 (3 Dec 2004 08:21:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 03 09:21:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ca8hA-0006UZ-00 for ; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:21:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8F112795; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26742-01; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0404412777; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA90A12777 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26663-02 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailgate2.uni-paderborn.de (unknown [131.234.22.35]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4321C1276C for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:21:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mlt131.math.uni-paderborn.de ([131.234.103.131]) by mailgate2.uni-paderborn.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ca8gC-0007S5-3Y for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:20:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: de, en-gb, en, en-us Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <41AEEA2B.4090407@elvenkind.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://imap.uni-paderborn.de for details X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-5, required 4, AUTH_EIM_USER -5.00) X-MailScanner-From: christopher@creutzig.de X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17365 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17365 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Just curious: why do you need a cmyk pdf document? I'm asking because=20 > the requirement often implies that you are using a less-than-modern=20 > printing house. If that is the case, you may be better off using=20 > PostScript instead of PDF. Last time I prepared a file for Springer Heidelberg, they explicitly=20 wanted a cmyk pdf file, too. I have no idea what printing house they=20 contacted. I ended up converting those images to appear in color into=20 cmyk jpegs in Photoshop (next time I'm going to try =93convert=94 with=20 =93-colorspace cmyk=94 instead) and the printing house slightly grudingly= =20 accepted rgb grey scale images for the bulk of the book. regards, Christopher Creutzig