[pdftex] tiff image placing with colortype and overprint

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:00:22PM +0200, the_shelter wrote:
> I used to place tiff images with several tools out there, preferrably
> pdfTex and pdfLaTeX. I recently
> came across the requirement to place tiff files which are the
> output of a color- seperation of a pdf, done by a rip(i.e. for CMYK
> you get 4 tiff images, one for each color) into a new pdf.
> When placing the tiffs on top of each other in a pdf file, I want to
> specify the tiff's color and set it to overprint('ueberdrucken'), as
> can be done for instance in pitstop. None of the tools I found
> supports placing tiffs in a pdf AND let one specify color(model)[could be any]
> and set to overprint.
> If I handcode an eps- file with these settings the problem is that
> when converting it to pdf via xpdf or ghostscript the pdf loses these
> settings.
> Can anyone help?
> 
> ThanX,
> 
> Weps

If Photoshop is an option: Photoshop can save as CMYK pdf - which
remains cmyk pdf when included in a pdftex document.

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Siep Kroonenberg
siepo at cybercomm.nl