On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Jan Heinen <jahei...@gmx.de> wrote: > I got an answer from my printer to the example I have shown in this thread: > > >> \framed[% >> width=80mm,height=50mm, >> background=color, >> backgroundcolor=myc, >> ] >> >> {\startcolorintent[overprint]2 Overprinted or not?\stopcolorintent} > > His answer in german: > "Die Texte, welche auf Kasten 2 stehen, sind innerhalb Ihrer erzeugten > Datei zwar alle überdruckend eingestellt, visuell allerdings aussparend." > > My translation: > The text on box 2 is formated as overprinted but visualy spared out. > > What the hell is going on? > > Regards > Jannis
%%% overprint.tex \nopdfcompression \setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes,overprint=yes] %% to be sure \definecolor[CYAN][c=1.0,m=0,y=0,k=0] \definecolor[MAGENTA][c=0,m=1,y=0,k=0] \definecolor[YELLOW][c=0,m=0,y=1,k=0] \starttext \framed[background=color,backgroundcolor=CYAN, frame=off,offset=.25cm,strut=no]{%BEGIN \startcolorintent[overprint] \framed[background=color,backgroundcolor=MAGENTA, foregroundcolor=YELLOW, align={lohi,middle}, frame=off,width=2.5cm,height=2cm] {overprint \\ \startcolorintent[knockout]{knockout}\stopcolorintent}% \stopcolorintent \framed[background=color,backgroundcolor=MAGENTA, foregroundcolor=YELLOW,align={lohi,middle}, frame=off,width=2.5cm,height=2cm]{knockout\\ \startcolorintent[overprint]{overprint}\stopcolorintent}% }%END \stoptext $>gs -sDEVICE=tiffsep -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=z.tiff overprint.pdf -c quit Then study z.tiff, z.tiff.Cyan.tif,...z.tiff.Black.tif with use gimp. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________