On 05/07/06, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I know this is not an iText question but I couldn't resist seeing > there are so many masters of the pdf universe here! > I need to find out whether a particular page in a pdf file has colour > in it. We need to be able to analyse files to see whether they need to > be printed on a b&w-only or colour capable copier. I realise that to > do it "properly" I would probably need to do some quite complex > analysis of the pdf but I'm looking for something a bit simpler... > The idea I had was to export to an image file format (probably using > ghostscript or something similar) and then analyse that with an image > processing tool. I am going to have a go with ghostscript and see how > far I get but I'm not sure this will work very well. > If anyone has any ideas on how to procede then I am all ears. While it > would be good to do it with iText, I realise this is not core > business! Any free or commercial products anyone knows of are all > welcome. > Cheers, and sorry for the OT, > Antoine
I just saw this post by LDR http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/56851.asp Which suggests this is probably the approach to take... any other opinions? Basically "colour" means "needs other than black ink" for printing. Cheers Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
