[texworks] Wishlist for pdf previewer

[Stefan Löffler]

Hi,

On 2011-10-28 02:23, Paul A Norman wrote:
> Thanks Stefan sorry for the delay been very busy. Its used when
>  needing to check colour use in text, graphs, graphics and
> illustrations for indication of the result of grey-scale printing
> (sometimes inaccurately called black and white printing) - invaluable
> to be able to preview on screen without a printout. Means that any
> colours that are too close when viewed in greyscale, can be colour
> adjusted during editing.
>
> Its already in the pdfview.exe (MUPDF a lightweight PDF and XPS
> viewer) project (Atrifex Software Inc) http://www.mupdf.com/ and very
> effective there. 
> It is activated in their viewer, like everything else they do, by a
> keyboard key, c (information in info.txt - does not appear in the Help
> About box)

Thanks for the info. Indeed, I used it (the info, and MuPDF) just today
to check if some figures work reasonably well in grayscale.

I've also added this to the pdf viewer wishlist. The one concern I have
about this is that doing it right is far from trivial. As BPJ suggested,
the only "proper" way of doing this is to do proper color management.
This is far beyond the scope for now, so we'd have to settle for some
approximation (which MuPDF most likely does internally, too). But I
guess that should be doable.

-Stefan
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