| Re: Color mode rgb -> cmyk? [message #27000] |
Tue, 09 October 2001 01:30 |
R.Bauer
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Barry Lesht wrote:
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> Someone else must have encountered this problem, but I can't find any
> mention of it in the FAQ or documentation. I generated an EPS figure
> for publication using IDL. The journal, however, wants figures as EPS
> in CMYK color mode instead of RGB. Is there a way to do this in IDL?
> I've tried using Adobe Illustrator (which will do the conversion) but
> two of my figures are too large for the amount of memory I have (128M)
> on the machine that hosts Illustrator. I've also tried using
> ImageMagick, but without success. Thanks.
>
> --
> Barry M. Lesht
> Associate Director,
> Environmental Research Division
> Argonne National Laboratory Phone: 630.252.4208
> 9700 S. Cass Ave. FAX: 630.252.2959
> Argonne, IL 60439 e-mail: bmlesht@anl.gov
I asked sometime ago the same question. At the moment it is not
supported.
Please do a feature request by RSI too.
regards
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html
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| Re: Color mode rgb -> cmyk? [message #27013 is a reply to message #27000] |
Mon, 08 October 2001 13:44  |
R.G.S.
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R.G.S. <rgs1967@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:VLkw7.74$uT6.129283@news.uswest.net...
> David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.162b7fd812b0eeb9896f2@news.frii.com...
>> Barry Lesht (bmlesht@anl.gov) writes:
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>>> Someone else must have encountered this problem, but I can't find any
>>> mention of it in the FAQ or documentation. I generated an EPS figure
>>> for publication using IDL. The journal, however, wants figures as EPS
>>> in CMYK color mode instead of RGB. Is there a way to do this in IDL?
Hi Barry,
here is what we ended up doing. We are submitting to an AGU journal,
which requires CMYK eps or TIFFs. I read in the postscript figure in
question
(produced by IDL) into Paintshop pro (an inexpensive Windows program
by Jasc Software). I used that program to create a CMYK TIFF files
(compressed)
and submitted that.
You can download the paintshop pro program and take it for a 30 day (?)
trial. I find it comes in handy for image editing.
Cheers,
bob
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| Re: Color mode rgb -> cmyk? [message #27022 is a reply to message #27013] |
Mon, 08 October 2001 09:45 |
R.G.S.
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.162b7fd812b0eeb9896f2@news.frii.com...
> Barry Lesht (bmlesht@anl.gov) writes:
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>> Someone else must have encountered this problem, but I can't find any
>> mention of it in the FAQ or documentation. I generated an EPS figure
>> for publication using IDL. The journal, however, wants figures as EPS
>> in CMYK color mode instead of RGB. Is there a way to do this in IDL?
>> I've tried using Adobe Illustrator (which will do the conversion) but
>> two of my figures are too large for the amount of memory I have (128M)
>> on the machine that hosts Illustrator. I've also tried using
>> ImageMagick, but without success. Thanks.
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> No, IDL won't do it. You may have to take your
> files to someone with a computer with more
> horsepower. Kinko's will probably be able to
> do it for you, if you can't find a colleague
> with Illustrator or Photoshop.
This is amazing. I was at this very minute searching google groups
comp.text.tex and comp.lan.postscript for rgs to cmyk solutions.
(there was nothing found in this newsgroup)
The results of my search is that it is hard to do, there are many algorithms
to do it (because any one alg may not produce good results for certain
cases) and it seems you have to buy some software to do it.
One such package seems to be adobe illustrator (as suggested by JGR).
The Kinko's suggestion is a great one, and is what I'll be telling my
colleagues to do.
Thanks dave!
Be prepared for a flood of cmyk posts, since AGU seems to have changed
its specifications for submitting camera ready manuscript, in that they do
require CMYK for color (or maybe they have always been that way IDK).
Cheers,
bob
PS
Barry "my figures are too large for the amount of memory "
um, how bout cranking up the virtual memory to >10 gigabytes or there
abouts.
(It'll be a slow swappy mess, so leave it running when you go home. :) )
If it is a one page postscript file that is that large (100M) how about
converting
to an image file (TIFF for instance), then doing the color seperation?
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| Re: Color mode rgb -> cmyk? [message #27024 is a reply to message #27022] |
Mon, 08 October 2001 09:20 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
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David Fanning (david@dfanning.com) writes:
> No, IDL won't do it. You may have to take your
> files to someone with a computer with more
> horsepower. Kinko's will probably be able to
> do it for you, if you can't find a colleague
> with Illustrator or Photoshop.
"Horsepower" is probably not the right word.
"More pasture"?
Cheers,
David
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David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Color mode rgb -> cmyk? [message #27027 is a reply to message #27024] |
Mon, 08 October 2001 09:18 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Barry Lesht (bmlesht@anl.gov) writes:
> Someone else must have encountered this problem, but I can't find any
> mention of it in the FAQ or documentation. I generated an EPS figure
> for publication using IDL. The journal, however, wants figures as EPS
> in CMYK color mode instead of RGB. Is there a way to do this in IDL?
> I've tried using Adobe Illustrator (which will do the conversion) but
> two of my figures are too large for the amount of memory I have (128M)
> on the machine that hosts Illustrator. I've also tried using
> ImageMagick, but without success. Thanks.
No, IDL won't do it. You may have to take your
files to someone with a computer with more
horsepower. Kinko's will probably be able to
do it for you, if you can't find a colleague
with Illustrator or Photoshop.
Cheers,
David
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David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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