[Openicc] Combining colorspaces & PDF/X-3

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 01:51 AM 2/21/2005, Graeme Gill wrote:
PDF is designed to have each element tagged with its own colorspace,
>with the rendering into a single colorspace deferred to the last
>possible point ("Late Binding", embodied in the PDF/X-3 concept.)

         Yes, PDF/X-3 is a great win for color managed workflows.


>Combining such documents is easy, each element retains its own
>tags.

         Actually, combining PDF/X documents WHILE MAINTAINING PDF/X 
compatibility is a major undertaking.  In fact, the PDF/X committee is 
STILL working on guidelines for how to correctly implement the assembly 
and/or aggregation of such documents.


Leonard

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