System for choosing RGB or CMYK elements
Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context <[email protected]> Tue, 26 May 2026 18:24:39 +0200
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Dear all, my print shop just rejected my last context created pdf job because some objects where rgb and some cmyk. For many good (or bad) reasons for too long I delayed my plan to establish a system for choosing the right elements according to the selected mode. In short I want that context chooses cmyk elements when I use the mode=isocoated for example, and when I use no mode or mode=web it shall use rgb elements. We have a lot of SVG graphics which are of course in rgb. I learned that I can convert these svg files via Scribus to cmyk pdf files. This is just tedious work, but I guess unavoidable. So I will end up with lots of files named filename.svg (RGB) for web pdfs and filename.pdf (CMYK) for print pdfs. I think of using \setupexternalfigures inside startstopmode[isocoated] to restrict method to pdf or something like this. Is this feasible? Or is it better to create files with a naming scheme that hints to the color space like cow-rgb.pdf and cow-cmyk.pdf and use the right file explicitly in the context file? I don't like this idea. I know that I also must have a good solution for raster images. What do you think? How do you solve this challenge? TIA and Ciao! juh ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________