Thanks for the swift reply. Ok, so, let's me summarize it and please correct me afterwards. Like I said, I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this.
So, am I correct when I say that Pantone is not an ICC color space ? So it's not like the printing department can just send me an ICC file, which I then specify in <output-profile> and everything will be fine ? Bummer :-) If I were to be sure that the included images were in the correct color space, would that mean those are fine then when included, or would they still be transformed by FOP when dealing with color spaces ? So how should I go ahead to get the CMYK support going in FO ? You said to specify the output profile, but should I find an .icc profile for that ? And would that require changing anything else, or would the transformation be automatically ? You spoke about proprietary extensions - does that mean there are companies that provide commercial extensions for Pantone ? Or is that totally out of the question ? Sorry for asking these (stupid) questions, but it's hard to find information or code examples on these issues. Phil Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote: > > Using Pantone colors is not an option using plain SVG or XSL-FO. Both > standard use sRGB by default and support ICC color spaces in addition to > that. Everything else means the usage of proprietary extensions. > > We now have some support for CMYK and you can specify an output profile > to map those CMYK colors into a calibrated space. But that does only > work for the XSL-FO part. SVG is a different story. I don't even know if > ICC colors in SVG would be handled correctly for PDF output at the > moment. > > If you need more than that, it's Java hacking time in Batik and FOP. :-) > > If sRGB is out of the question, I'd try in the direction of ICC colors > but that might still require some work in both products. > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > On 27.11.2007 16:28:23 Philip Luppens wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have inherited a project that's using FOP to create PDFs, and send them >> to >> the printing department. Of course, the printing department doesn't quite >> like sRGB color spaces, and they requested the possibility to use the >> Pantone color space instead (CMYK being a distant second option). Now, I >> have very limited experience with color spaces (read: I knew they existed >> .. >> somewhere ..), so some of this might be entirely wrong (or badly worded). >> >> In the XSL we're using to transform the XML, we're also using external >> SVG >> images. The newly created PDF should be using the Pantone color space. >> Now, >> I wonder: does this mean my SVGs should also be declared in the Pantone >> color space, or is this something FOP should take care of (provided that >> there is Pantone support, of course) ? >> >> I've seen there is (limited) CMYK support for PDFs, but whatever >> post/page >> I've found regarding Pantone colors, is either complete rubbish (at least >> for me), or unanswered. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Philip >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/CMYK-Pantone-support-tf4882401.html#a13972838 >> Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMYK-Pantone-support-tf4882401.html#a13973897 Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
