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2006.10.16 22:50 "Re: Tag 346", by Chris Cox
PDF does have modes for indexed CMYK. And if the image only contained a few (<1000) colors, even expanding it to the full (non-indexed) channels should compress down to within a few percent of the indexed color image file. Chris On 10/16/06 2:57 PM, "Bob Friesenhahn" <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ross Presser wrote: >> >> But since there are apparently *zero* raster file formats that can >> contain indexed CMYK images, it's impractical to do any image >> manipulation on these bitmaps. Extracting them as full CMYK TIFFs >> swells them to 100-315 mb. > > There are hundreds of raster file formats in the world so it would be > wrong to claim that *none* of them can do what you want. > > I see the value of what you want to do. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/