From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6271 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Transparencies and color spaces (Was: new beta) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:36:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011205093419.03181ad0@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011204091805.02f1c448@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20011203171029.02f13158@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20011204091805.02f1c448@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396806 9032 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:13:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Henning Hraban Ramm In-Reply-To: <200112042016.fB4KG0a01748@nathir.fiee.lan> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6271 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6271 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------