[bug-pcl] Issue with GhostPcl and colors

[Stefan Kemper]

Hi Dorick,

It's colorspace issue.  If you use xpdf to view the output pdf you will see
the color as 0,56,115.  If you use a tool that looks at the colorspace it
will be different.  Both Ghostscript and Acrobat will give you a different
screen color because they map the color using input and output colorspace
information.

Ghostpcl used as a printer would map it's output to the devices colorspace,
used with pdfwrite we do not allow you to change the output colorspace.

Best regards,
Stefan Kemper
Artifex Software Inc.



On 2/23/06, Dorick Frizzera <dfrizzera at montrouge.sl.slb.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Support,
>
> I'm evaluating GhostPCL 1.41 on Windows 2K to convert PCL files to PDF.
>
> The PCL file has been produced on Hp-Ux machine and is supposed to be
> PCL5.
>
> Please find attached the PCL file and the resulting PDF converted on W2K
> machine.
> As you can see there is an issue with colors. The original blue #003873 or
> RGB(0,56,115) was transformed to #31bcda or RGB(49,188,218)
>
> I used the following command (with and without -PPCL5C doesn't make any
> difference):
> pcl6.exe -PPCL5C -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=dummyInvoice.pdf
> dummyInvoice.pcl
>
> Is this a known behavior? If not, is there any missing parameter on the
> command line?
>
> Thanks for your support and looking forward to reading from you soon!
>
> Best reagrds,
>
> Dorick Frizzera
> Schlumberger
>
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