[gs-devel] Colour Separation output

[Ken Sharp]

At 15:54 10/01/2008 +0000, Mark Redman wrote:


>Thanks for the response again,

Not a problem, hopefully someone else can help further.


>The PDF files being processed should be Print ready files, so in most 
>cases things will ok as they should being all CMYK files.

Ah, well that should sort the problem out, as long as you know that this 
workflow will always be used.


>I take your point on the RGB to CMYK conversion and am hoping that the 
>ghostscript can do the conversion of the file to CMYK and also be the 
>interpreter to see if the files contained RGB elements.

I would like to think there's some way to tell tiffsep to convert RGB to 
CMYK, but I don't know what it is. You could always use tiff32nc to 
generate 32-bit CMYK composite files, and break those up into separations 
if all else fails.

You certainly could use GS to determine whether a file contained RGB 
elements, but its probably a bit excessive for your requirements, and would 
take a bit of development.

Anyway, I'm packing up for tonight, is someone in the US knows a simple 
answer to this I'm sure they'll get back to you,

All the best,


                             Ken


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