You might want to look at something like pdftops from the Xpdf/Poppler tool set
which can generate separated Postscript (or a limited set of separations). The
problem is complex (especially for vector separations) which is why not too
many do it...
There are commercial server-side solutions for doing it, including Adobe's
LiveCycle Output Server among others. You can also try Ghostscript - it
probably does it as well - or Pstill (another excellent product).
Leonard
On 6/19/09 12:46 PM, "vnug" <[email protected]> wrote:
You are right ... we could use Acrobat. But, we are trying to automate the
process of generating print separations programmaticaly. Let me know your
view. Thanks again for your feedback.
best regards,
Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote:
>
> Those are also Postscript printers - so it seems like you would be better
> served by simply using Adobe Acrobat to just print separations...
>
> Leonard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnug [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Color Separations from PDF
>
>
> Thanks, Leonard.
>
> We have non-digital printers from Riso, Duplo and we print wedding cards.
> For the wedding cards, we have text in multiple colors (at this point only
> 2
> colors). For these printers to work if we can generate 2 separate files
> for
> the colors ... that would help us to get the cards printed properly.
>
> Let me know if you have any more questions or pointers. I would appreciate
> any information you can provide. Also, for developing this solution ...
> would appreciate any pointers.
>
> best regards,
>
>
> Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible? Yes.
>>
>> Is it easy? No!
>>
>> It also depends on whether you are trying to accomplish raster
>> separations
>> or vector separations and what you plan to do with the seps when you are
>> done.
>>
>> Given that separated PDFs haven't been part of any workflow formany
>> years,
>> I'd be curious to hear why you are investing in this today?
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnug [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:12 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [iText-questions] Color Separations from PDF
>>
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I have a PDF document and would like to create color seperation files
>> from
>> the PDF document. Is that something feasible programmatically? I would
>> appreciate any information. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> best regards,
>> vnug
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