[pdftex] RGB image in pdf inteded for printing.

[John Culleton]

On Monday 10 December 2007 03:51:25 pm Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, John Culleton wrote:
> > I know about converting color model via ImageMagick prior to inclusion
> > but what then is the preferred output format? Tiff is not an option of
> > course.
>
> with tools pnmtotiffcmyk and convert you can create an uncompressed JPEG
> CMYK graphics file, e. g.:
>
> convert foo.png foo.ppm
>
> pnmtotiffcmyk foo.ppm > foo.tif
>
> convert foo.tif -colorspace CMYK -density 300x300 -quality 100 foo.jpg
>
> ugly, but it works.
>
> Regards, Hartmut
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I'll print that out for future reference. Just curious about one point: 
why do you use the suffix ppm instead of pnm?

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