Re: Transparencies and color spaces (Was: new beta)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:15 PM 12/4/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>Maybe this "breaking" is always done while printing from Acrobat. Must have a
>look at Acrobat 5...

there is a complicated model in acrobat for grouping; in practice one can 
forget about much in the pdf specs since the complicated graphics will be 
made by dedicated programs; in tex/mp we only have to support what is used 
and useful.

> > > > 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.

indeed

>Ok, and the Lab color space should be supported.

should be possible [never used lab colors] once understood; mainly a matter 
of resource management;

Hans

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