Hi again, Thanks for a commented and clear answer. I am not complaining about anything and I agree that besides buying your ecellent book 20 months ago, that has helped me enormously sofar, I can only wait to buy the second edition, when ready.
My first post on the subject was on May 2008 and Leonard was very kind at the time to provide a rather generic answer (based on the PDF reference), which although correct, couldn't be applied. As I was rather academically interested at that time, I let it pass. Now I had to decide if I could use iText (as is) to solve a real problem, or abide by the limitations of my solution. Thank you for clearing this out (even as a negative - cant be done manner). I believe iText is a great product sofar and maybe some future edition extends functionality in this multicolor offset printing realm along with its widening market acceptance. Afterall it's all about PDF :) Thanks Bruno for iText George P.S. I think the only way to bypass the limitation as it stands, is to know before hand the names of all the spot colors besides CMYK, in the print job. This way I could use these colorants names in setColorStroke(PdfSpotColor, tint) and draw my registration marks once for C=1,M=1,Y=1,K=1 and one for each spot color. What do you think? 1T3XT info wrote: > > George Bilalis wrote: >> Registration (typographers) marks have to appear in ALL separated color >> plates of a multicolor job (CMYK plus Spot colors). What named color >> should >> I use according to the above definitions? > > I don't know because I never had to do this in a project. > > Everything that is offered for free in iText was written because > somebody needed it in a project (and spent time and/or money on it). > Some part of what is offered for free was written for fun. > >> I know I have to use a colorSpace "separation" and a colorant "All" >> according to PDF reference, but I can't see how to accomplish this with >> above API definitions. > > I should look that up in the PDF Reference, but I don't have any time to > do that. > >> (I hope this helps you understand the nature of my question) > > I don't have the time to do the needed research to understand your > question. Please understand that you're using iText for free and that > your asking something that falls outside of the scope of what can be > offered for free. > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-%3A-Drawing-typographers-marks-using-Registration-Black-tp26421239p26493819.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
