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Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: CMYK PDF
I am currently
using FOP 0.20.3 to create a PDF that will be used in newspapers that print
using CMYK processes. When these newspapers use an RGB PDF, they run
into lots of problems. I have searched through the list archive and
found very little about the CMYK colorspace in FOP. I tried to modify
the PDFDocument class to default to CMYK, but that doesn't seem to help
much.
protected
ColorSpace colorspace = new
ColorSpace(ColorSpace.DEVICE_CMYK);
Unfortunately, I
am also using some SVG elements, but Batik seems to only output RGB
elements. Has anyone successfully used FOP to make a completely CMYK
PDF?
(I am checking my
results by opening the PDFs in Photoshop and checking the color
channels. When I open the PDF in Photoshop 5.5, the PDF correctly splits
into the CMYK channels with black text only appearing on the Black
channel. But when I open it up in Photoshop 6.0, the black text appears
as a combination of all 4 color channels instead of 100%
black.)
Matt Johnston
Manager of Internet Content
American
Profile, http://www.americanprofile.com
341 Cool Springs Blvd., Ste. 400
Franklin, TN 37067
p:
615-468-6053
f: 615-468-6153
