Hi,
the program I used to obtain the info on the PDFs was ImageMagick-6.2.8 and
this is the command I used: "identify -verbose <image_name>"
I did not see differences in the PDFs neither printing them nor on screen. I
only saw the problem after sending it through the fax system these images are
supposed to be sent.
The file you sent me looks OK after sending it through the fax system used to
deliver this type of image. So, it solved the problem. Is there any way I
could make this change to the ColorSpace from the XSL-FO document? If so,
where could I find info to do this? I copied below the code snippet generating
the FO output just in case you needed to see it.
THANK YOU!!!
StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer("");
content.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n");
content.append("<fo:root font-family=\"Times Roman\" font-size=\"20pt\"
text-align=\"center\" xmlns:fo=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format\";>\n");
content.append(" <fo:layout-master-set>\n");
content.append(" <fo:simple-page-master master-name=\"page\"
margin-top=\"60pt\" margin-bottom=\"40pt\" margin-left=\"20pt\"
margin-right=\"20pt\" page-width=\"8.5in\" page-height=\"11.0in\">\n");
content.append(" <fo:region-body
background-color=\"rgb(255,255,255)\" margin-left=\"10pt\"
margin-right=\"10pt\" margin-top=\"10pt\" margin-bottom=\"10pt\"/>\n");
content.append(" </fo:simple-page-master>\n");
content.append(" </fo:layout-master-set>\n");
content.append(" <fo:page-sequence master-reference=\"page\">\n");
content.append(" <fo:flow flow-name=\"xsl-region-body\">\n");
content.append(" <fo:block>\n");
content.append(" <fo:external-graphic src=\"file:" + fname+
"\"/>\n");
content.append(" </fo:block>\n");
content.append(" </fo:flow>\n");
content.append(" </fo:page-sequence>\n");
content.append("</fo:root>\n");
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FOP 0.95 GIF=> PDF question
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:02:13 +0200
Thanks for the sample image. Let's see what we get:
FOP 0.20.5:
6 0 obj
<</Type /XObject
/Subtype /Image
/Name /Im1
/Length 49754
/Width 630
/Height 801
/BitsPerComponent 8
/ColorSpace /DeviceRGB
/Filter [ /ASCII85Decode /FlateDecode ]
>>
FOP 0.95:
10 0 obj
<<
/Name /Im1
/Type /XObject
/Length 13 0 R
/Filter /FlateDecode
/Subtype /Image
/Width 630
/Height 801
/BitsPerComponent 1
/ColorSpace [/Indexed /DeviceRGB 1 <FFFFFF000000>]
>>
[..]
13 0 obj
18296
endobj
So, with FOP 0.20.5 the bi-level image got converted to 24bit RGB,
whereas in FOP 0.95 the image remains 1-bit. The PDF from 0.95 is also
half as big because of that.
Visually, I can't see a difference on screen and with two different PDF
viewers.
I wonder why some program would report "colorspace:gray" for the 0.20.5
PDF since it's actually using DeviceRGB. We could, in case of bi-level
images, actually use DeviceGray instead of DeviceRGB but I don't think
that would solve any problem, since the color lookup table is already
clearly specifying black and white.
In the end, it's unclear to me what problem you're actually seeing. Is
that seen only on a printed or faxed page or already on screen in
Acrobat?
I've attached a manipulated PDF where I did the following change:
From:
/ColorSpace [/Indexed /DeviceRGB 1 <FFFFFF000000>]
to:
/ColorSpace [/Indexed /DeviceGray 1 <FF00> ]
Can you check if that changes anything?
On 23.04.2010 21:42:14 Isidora wrote:
> I attached one sample of the black and white GIF. Thanks
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: FOP 0.95 GIF=> PDF question
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:51:19 +0200
>
> Do you have a sample GIF file I could reproduce that with? Thanks.
>
> On 20.04.2010 23:02:43 Isidora wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have used FOP-0.20.5 to convert B&W GIF images to PDF. The PDF images are
> > sent via fax afterwards.
> > When tested FOP-0.95 I found out that the faxed PDF images had dotted areas
> > that were white on the versions of the same graphic obtained with 0.20.5.
> > I noticed colorspace:gray in the PDF obtained with FOP-0.20.5 while it is
> > RGB for the PDF obtained with FOP-0.95.
> >
> > Could dotted areas noted in the faxed graphics be caused by this differene
> > in color space?
> > If so, is there any way to create PDF with colorspace=gray using FOP-0.95?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
Jeremias Maerki
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