Philip Luppens schrieb:
> 
> Philipp Wagner-3 wrote:
>> Please have a look at the internet, there are some good articles about
>> this topic, as it pops up every now and then.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. I already knew most of what you told, but I'm
> simply struggling with the concept when integrating with XSL-FO. Like I
> said, there's very limited information when dealing with CMYK (other than:
> "there's support for CMYK in 0.93" and the source code).

Spot colors (no matter if Pantone or whatever else) are not supported by
XSL-FO to my knowledge. To specify a spot color in a PDF document, you
have to give the name of the spot color (= some string without special
meaning, your printer has to know how to interpret this) and a RGB
representation of the color so that Acrobat can display it close to
correct. This RGB-representation can be completely wrong, then you're
document will look wrong when viewed on screen but will be correctly
printed (if your printer uses the color you specified in the color name).

See how Xml2Pdf by Altanova solves this problem:
http://alt-soft.com/Support_kb_color_management.aspx

The first paragraph says it all:
Xml2PDF supports also a number of conventions (!) for RGB, CMYK,
Grayscale, Spot and some other colors.

This means, by adding custom attributes (or "conventions", as they did),
it would be possible for FOP to support spot colors.

Philipp

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