[XeTeX] Printers & PDFs created by XeTeX

[William Adams]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Evgenie Medvedev wrote:

> William Adams wrote:
>> Yes, placed image format / colour models will be preserved, so create
>> in / convert to CMYK in advance.
>
> 	I know that JPEG can have CMYK colors in it, so that's one problem
> less, but I also know PNG can't, and there's no way to use TIFF  
> that I'm
> aware of. Does it mean I can't use a lossless compression format for
> raster graphics with XeTeX if I want CMYK, and have to make do with
> minimal compression JPG, or is there some way around it? While I  
> could,
> in theory, load my images into something like Corel Draw, convert them
> to CMYK there and export the objects to PDF while ensuring they're  
> saved
> lossless, that is hardly a nice way of doing it.

Load the PNG into something which can save out a raster .pdf and  
place that.

ISTR xdv2pdf on Mac OS X can place a .tif (since it uses  
quartzcontext to do the heavy lifting of handling image formats).

>> Text / rules will be as specified, so specify all colours in CMYK
>
> 	Does the default text color (black) get written as CMYK, or some kind
> of code that translates independently into CMYK or RGB, or do I  
> have to
> specify it too?

If memory serves, you need to specify the default text colour too  
(this is probably why JK was thinking xdv2pdf makes RGB) --- see my e- 
mail to JK for the code which I used on my most recent project.

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications