I have this working now -- so nevermind.
Dean
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Dean Johnson <dean.john...@rrd.com> wrote:
> So I have code now that finds the spot color names in the dictionary
> <<snippets>>
> Dim pobj As PdfObject = CType(dictEnum.Value, PdfObject)
> Dim parr As PdfArray = CType(pobj, PdfArray)
> spotColorName As String =
> PdfName.DecodeName(parr.ArrayList.Item(1).ToString)
>
> but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to change the color name.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Dean
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com>wrote:
>
>> ARGH!!!
>>
>> I need to go shoot the Scene 7 guys – sorry about that.
>>
>> As to your question…I believe you can use the lowest level APIs in iText
>> to fix this, though I'll leave details to Bruno and team.
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> From: Dean Johnson <dean.john...@rrd.com>
>> Reply-To: Post here <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:46 AM
>> To: Post here <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Rename Spot Colors
>>
>> I agree, hard to believe.
>> Two files attached showing two different colors but named the same.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I find it hard to believe that the actual names of the spot colors are
>>> MAIN and ACCENT. Can you provide a sample that demonstrates this???
>>>
>>> Leonard
>>>
>>> From: Dean Johnson <dean.john...@rrd.com>
>>> Reply-To: Post here <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:27 AM
>>> To: Post here <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> Subject: [iText-questions] Rename Spot Colors
>>>
>>> I'm working on a project where I receive PDFs from an Adobe Secene7 web
>>> site offering various printed products. As I understand it the user can
>>> select a color palette as one of the options from within the product
>>> template. My job is to produce the printed pieces and consistantly match
>>> the color palette on our iGen digital press where we will set up color
>>> match libraries for each color in the palette. My problem is that the spot
>>> color names on the incoming PDFs are all called the same, i.e., MAIN COLOR
>>> or ACCENT COLOR, even though the colors are different, i.e., MAIN may be
>>> purple in one file, while green in another. So there is no way to set up
>>> color definitions for color management on the iGen.
>>>
>>> Question -- is there some way using iText to rename the spot colors
>>> within the PDFs -- I can get the correct color names from the order file
>>> that comes with the PDFs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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