[texhax] Who can tell me what's the font used in the picture?

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 08:08:21 CEST 2011


On 15 April 2011 22:42, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 2011-04-15 at 20:42:57 +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
>
>  > On 15 April 2011 19:33, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:
>  > > On Apr 15, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Ivan Griffin wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> And taking this further, Inkscape can parse the PDF, and (via the inkscape2tikz extension) can generate TikZ to render this - see the attached LaTeX code.
>  > >>
>  > >> http://code.google.com/p/inkscape2tikz/
>  > >
>  > > Neat!
>  > >
>  > > Is it a tikz limitation that the colours are defined as RGB or was it Inkscape which caused that?
>  > >
>  > > \definecolor{c7dcc35}{RGB}{125,204,53}
>  > > \definecolor{c5a5758}{RGB}{90,87,88}
>  > >
>  > > The original .pdf had them as a CMYK green and CMYK grey, so the not-triplet RGB not-quite grey is kind of odd --- no colour profile applied, so a colour w/ a cast to it is IMO wrong.
>  > >
>  > > William
>  > >
>  >
>  > William, do you think I can read out the CMYK values from the PDF and
>  > change the tikz definitions in Ivan's tex file?  Another relative
>  > question: given any color on my screen, is there a tool that can tell
>  > me its CMYK values?  I love CMYK more than RGB.
>
> From the PDF file:
>
>  <xapG:Colorants>
>     <rdf:Seq>
>        <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
>           <xapG:swatchName>Landis+Gyr Green (51/0/94/0)</xapG:swatchName>
>           <xapG:mode>CMYK</xapG:mode>
>           <xapG:type>PROCESS</xapG:type>
>           <xapG:cyan>51.000000</xapG:cyan>
>           <xapG:magenta>0.000000</xapG:magenta>
>           <xapG:yellow>94.000000</xapG:yellow>
>           <xapG:black>0.000000</xapG:black>
>        </rdf:li>
>        <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
>           <xapG:swatchName>Landis+Gyr Gray (0/0/0/75)</xapG:swatchName>
>           <xapG:mode>CMYK</xapG:mode>
>           <xapG:type>PROCESS</xapG:type>
>           <xapG:cyan>0.000000</xapG:cyan>
>           <xapG:magenta>0.000000</xapG:magenta>
>           <xapG:yellow>0.000000</xapG:yellow>
>           <xapG:black>75.000000</xapG:black>
>        </rdf:li>
>     </rdf:Seq>
>  </xapG:Colorants>
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>

Thanks Reinhard, you found the answer for me.  Now I am looking
through the xcolor manual trying to get know how to convert (cyan:51,
yellow:94) to correct xcolor expression (i.e., cyan!xx!yellow!yy) that
can be used in my document.  The strange part is that 51 + 94 != 100.

Best Regards,
narke

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