That's because Foxit Reader doesn't do color management and Adobe Reader
does.

On 10.07.2008 15:51:59 Pascal Sancho wrote:
> Hi,
> I just tried to read the PDF with both Foxit Reader v2.3 and Adobe Reader 
> 8.1.2.
> Foxit Reader gives expected color, while Adobe Reader Doesn't.
> 
> HTH,
> Pascal
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Envoyé : jeudi 10 juillet 2008 14:29
> > 
> > On 10.07.2008 13:28:05 Dominique Bourely wrote:
> > > 
> > > Excuse me for the delay.
> > > More explicetely, the PNG image loses the brilliance when 
> > included in PDF
> > > with FOP.
> > > I attach an example of such a PDF ( 
> > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p18380833/test-png-sans-output.pdf
> > > test-png-sans-output.pdf ) and the original image source (
> > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p18380833/img-test.png img-test.png ).
> > > On the opposite, when I use Acrobat Distiller to produce a 
> > PDF from the
> > > image (through Photoshop for instance), I am proposed to 
> > incorpore a color
> > > profile, and if (and only if) I accept and choose sRGB, the 
> > result is
> > > correct.
> > 
> > Can you send me that PDF that you produced with Photoshop? When I
> > produce PDF through means other than FOP, I get either sRGB 
> > with washed
> > out colors or Device RGB or DeviceCMYK.
> > 
> > > So our idea was to simplify the PNG decoder class to avoid 
> > image treatment.
> > 
> > There's no "treatment" or the image itself, just evaluation of
> > information inside the image being loaded. FOP reacts on the and tries
> > to put the right information inside the PDF.
> > 
> > > Could you help us estimate the workload to achieve this ?
> > 
> > You mean you want to write an option to ignore color profiles 
> > on images?
> > Here's what would be necessary:
> > 
> > There's already a configuration option that lets you disable 
> > the default
> > sRGB color profile which is necessary for making sure all 
> > XSL-FO colors
> > are mapped to PDF properly.
> > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/configuration.html#pdf
> > -renderer
> > 
> > Switching this on will make it impossible to create PDF/A or
> > PDF/X-3:2003.
> > 
> > The key change is in 
> > org.apache.fop.render.pdf.ImageRenderedAdapter (in
> > the case of PNG images) where you'd need to override the ColorSpace
> > sent to the PDF library with the device-specific variant.
> > 
> > Then you'll need a way to signal that into the code. You can define an
> > extension attribute for fo:external-graphic (like
> > fox:ignore-color-profile="true") that is evaluated in
> > PDFRenderer.putImage(). I assume the AbstractImageAdapter will need to
> > be changed to carry that signal.
> > 
> > Please note: I consider this a hack or a desperate measure if all else
> > fails. Ignoring the color management is a way to fall back to
> > device-specific colors which is known to produce the color 
> > fidelity you
> > expect on screen. I'd rather find out if there's a bug in the way FOP
> > handles color profiles. But if I see so many other programs fail at
> > producing the colors you expect I have low hopes. Maybe your PDF gives
> > me a clue.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > FOP 0.95beta uses the sRGB color space by default (because XSL-FO
> > > > defines all RGB colors in the sRGB color space). FOP 
> > always embeds an
> > > > sRGB color profile. So specifying another sRGB color 
> > space explicitely
> > > > doesn't have any effect. Can you elaborate on what you 
> > mean by "an issue
> > > > regarding color brilliance"? 
> > > > 
> > > > Please also see my previous answers on similar questions:
> > > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p18380833/test-png-sans-output.pdf
> > > > test-png-sans-output.pdf 
> > > > http://markmail.org/message/3tuims2gjbconya5
> > > > http://markmail.org/message/qithk3gcoyrane3a
> > > > 
> > > > For FOP Trunk, the sRGB disabling option might be 
> > something related to
> > > > this:
> > > > 
> > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/configuration.html#pdf
> > -renderer
> > > > 
> > > > On 30.06.2008 10:35:13 Dominique Bourely wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >> 
> > > >> We use FOP extensively and we are facing now an issue 
> > regarding color
> > > >> brilliance of some of our included images.
> > > >> To keep this brilliance in the result PDF, we tried to 
> > use the sRGB Color
> > > >> Space Profile.icm in the conf file.
> > > >> But with no effect.
> > > >> 
> > > >> We use FOP 0.95b, along with xml-common-graphics-1.3.1
> > > >> 
> > > >> Has someone any idea ?
> > 
> > Jeremias Maerki



Jeremias Maerki


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