From: juh <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Any plans for an active color management?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:10:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0ad45bx.fsf@sokrates> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dde2c215-ae1b-0ab0-5126-5c10e0c8ed43@klankschap.nl>
Floris van Manen writes:
> On 17-02-2020 15:39, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 2/17/2020 3:03 PM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any plans to automate these steps into ConTeXt? That would
>>> enable us to work in RGB the whole time. Only when creating a print pdf
>>> we would specify a color profile and ConTeXt would do the rest by
>>> converting all rgb values to cmyk values due to the given color profile.
>>
>> that would mean plugging some color transfer function into the rgb ->
>> cmyk conversion that is already there (but i never had to deal with
>> color transfer functions)
>>
>>> As this seems very complex I fear that there are no plans to do this.
>> not unless i know exactly what to do (or am forced to use it myself)
>>
>> can't you use spotcolors? these are kind of standardized (say pantone)
>
> As in print the default is CMYK, why not start there.
> The online might be RGB but all pdf viewers know how to deal with the
> convertion from CMYK to RGB by themselves.
At least, digital images are always RGB.
In my special case we started with a RGB corporate design as we are an
online cooperative. Print comes later.
(Strange I can't see the answer of Hans.)
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Jan Ulrich Hasecke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-17 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-17 14:03 Jan U. Hasecke
2020-02-17 14:39 ` Hans Hagen
2020-02-17 14:51 ` Floris van Manen
2020-02-17 15:10 ` juh [this message]
2020-02-17 17:52 ` Floris van Manen
2020-02-17 18:44 ` Hans Hagen
2020-02-17 15:35 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-02-17 16:57 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2020-02-17 18:36 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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