Dear fop developers, One of the things I would like to see in fop is proper color management. Of course, just wanting it is not enough, so I would even create a patch for that :). I do have some extra time this weekend and next week. To coordinate and get my idea reviewed here's my plan:
Color is currently handled very inconsistently in many places. In some cases it is handled as r/g/b values in an int[], in others a class, sometimes with or without colorspace information. There is duplicated code in many places. What I would like to do: - Replace ALL occurences of color values with a common color class. I would suggest java.awt.Color and java.awt.color.Colorspace. They have proper support. - Convert that color to the target space no earlier than the output renderer The default target color space is probably sRBG for most screen display devices. For PDF it is a little more complicated. Ideally there would be some kind of PDF-mode option, with possible values of PDF/A-1a, Pdf (print), PDF (screen), PDF (print B/W), PDF (print Grayscale), ... .For now, using CMYK for PDF should be sufficient. Once color is properly used it should be no problem to implement the rgb-cc() and colorspace() functions. Quenstions? Comments? Max Berger -- PGP/GnuPG ID: E81592BC Print: F489F8759D4132923EC4 BC7E072AB73AE81592BC For information about me or my projects please see http://max.berger.name
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
