[cairo] RFC the idea of n-plane color support

[Carl Worth]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:50:24 -0500 (EST), "Ross McFarland" wrote:
> i'm not talking about a cmyk interface to cairo being used by apps. although
> at times it could be benificial to let the apps talk in cmyk, this is a
> commonly used ability of apps like acrobat  pagemaker, and illistrator when
> working with a postscript printer. they normally write their own custom
> postscript to get around the fact that the windows GDI doesn't let them talk
> in CMYK. page layout programs using cairo would be forced to do something
> similar (avoid the cairo pdf/ps backend) to get a similar level of control.
> this is a much more complicated issues that arises out of the same problem of
> control over which toners are used when, but it's wholey seperate from my want
> of an arbitrary color pathway through cairo's drawing code.

If the solution to the larger problem would also satisfy your current
desire, then I would be much more interested in seeing that larger
problem solved.

-Carl