On Friday 15 February 2008 10:36:02 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > xpdf (and its derivatives) does not support 16-bit color. > No warning, the pdf is just displayed incorrectly. > > It 'works' in pdflatex in xpdf because the file does not contain a > 16-bit image at all, it is automatically downgraded. > > If you want that same effect in context, set > \pdfminorversion=4 % or some other low number > > You document will be loosing functionality, and gaining portability. > > Best wishes, > Taco
I am posting this to the mailing list to share the answer/solution. \externalfigure[16-bit.png] indeed works correctly. However, xpdf/kpdf/etc. do not handle 16-bit color, unlike acroread and ghostview. Note also that pdflatex automatically downgrades 16-bit color images to 8-bit. Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
