Obtaining original CMYK from PDF

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:56:10 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.tools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The latest GM snapshot (and CVS) now supports returning CMYK from a 
PDF if it is invoked like

   gm convert -type ColorSeparation input.pdf output.tiff

The CMYK returned may or may not be the original CMYK since I notice 
that if the input PDF is in RGB colorspace, Ghostscript still returns 
CMYK.  Hopefully if the PDF is in a consistent CMYK colorspace, 
Ghostscript will produce CMYK in that colorspace (rather than some 
other CMYK space).

Testing is needed for this feature.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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