[pdftex] Bug: CMYK-TIFFs are written out as DeviceRGB

Martin Schröder ms at artcom-gmbh.de
Mon Jun 11 11:35:07 CEST 2001


On 2001-06-09 20:51:34 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 07:27 PM 6/8/01 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> >With pdftex 0.14i: According to writeimg.c included tiffs are
> 
> eh, isn't it thanh who increments the number, so we're still living
> 14h-newdate -) 

How do you increment 14h-released? :-))
 
> Thanh: maybe it's time, at the end of the month, or, say the day before tug
> 2001, to release 
> 
> pdftex version 1.00   

Yes please.
 
> >"converted" to either DeviceGray or DeviceRGB. If the tiff has
> >more than three channels (e.g. it's CMYK) this is clearly wrong.
> >
> >Vote: remove tiff inclusion from pdfTeX. :-{
> 
> fine, 

Or at least let pdfTeX fail loudly if it finds tiffs it can't
handle.

Best regards
    Martin
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