[bug-gs] No spaces allowed in separation names in /SeparationColorNames and /SeparationOrder

[Nikolai Tasev]

I am using 8.53 version of Ghostscript and trying to get separate grayscale separtions for every process and spot color in a PDF file. I am using the tiffsep device.
The problem is that the separation names include spaces in them for example "PANTONE 347 C". But colors are specified to Ghostscript using name elements, which don't allow for separator characters such as a space: 
GSCommand:  -c "<< /SeparationOrder [ /Black /PANTONE 347 C ] >> setpagedevice" -f.
gives an error
I tried replacing space with #hh (hex code) and /ooo (octal) as specified in the PDF standard but obviously such conversion is not supported by ghostscript.
The automatic detection for spor colors works correctly and finds the colors including the spaces in the names, but I can't tell ghostscript which colors to render which is crucial if the pdf has more than 8 colors and multiple passes are needed.

Is there some workaround for this issue which is not documented? Is there a particular reason for which name elements are used and not strings which don't have such a problem with separators.

Thanks for any help,
Nikolai Tasev

PS Reposting this message, I read in sourceforge forum that [xefitra] has to be included in the subject. Why is this not included in the welcome message when registering?
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