[pdftex] Colour profiles and pdftex

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 05:09:50 André Bellaïche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have gone into many troubles with a printing house recently 
about
> colour profiles or workspaces of included illustrations. The 
printer
> complained very much about colour profiles for image files 
embedded in
> the pdf file, although the book was in black, and all the
> illustrations had been converted to black and white or gray 
level.
>
> These profiles or workspaces have names as Fogra 27 or Dot 
Gain 15%.
>
> I know nothing about the subject, and could hardly find 
something
> about it on the Web, or in the books about Illustrator and 
Photoshop
> you can find in bookshops. So, these are my questions.
>
> 1) Where can I find both general and precise information about 
the
> subject (books or url's)?
>
> 2) Is there a default profile included by pdftex in the files it
> produces? What does pdftex do with the profile of included 
images,
> which can be of various sources: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,
> Mathematica, Geoplan... ?
>
> 3) Is there a way to change the default output profile of pdftex 
to
> get more bold printing when one uses the Knuth Computer 
Modern fonts,
> which prints much to pale in most cases?
>
> André Bellaïche

Color profiles for printing bear the suffix ICC. There is an ICC 
mailing list.  There is a web site also.  Europeans seem to be more 
into profiles than Americans.  "Scribus, the Official Manual" has 
many references to ICC profiles. But I would start with the web 
site first.  Google under "ICC Profile". 

I don't know of a way to incorporate an ICC profile in a TeX 
document short of using Distiller or even Scribus.
-- 
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html