[cairo] Spot colors (and CMYK)

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Wed Feb 24 07:00:31 PST 2010


>>>>> "C" == Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> writes:

>> | #define MAXCHANNELS 16 // Maximum number of channels in ICC profiles

C> Interesting that it supports more channels than the ICC file format
C> spec does, which is 15.

He may have just rounded up to the next power of 2 (a reasonable thing
to do when choosing the size of fixed-length arrays in ram).

OTOH, I beleive I recall a note on the gs list that they have seen
DeviceNs with that many tints (or was it 24?) in actual use in the wild.

-JimC
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