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Rerender existing PDFs

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Topic: Rerender existing PDFs

Posted By: martin.weigl
Subject: Rerender existing PDFs
Date Posted: 07 Apr 16 at 1:44PM

Hello all,

i have PDF files containing elements (Rectangles, Texts, etc. - no images!) in the RGB color space. I need to convert these PDFs to the CMYK color space. Is there any possibility to somehow convert existing PDFs or iterate through them redrawing them to new files or anything else that I could use in order to receive PDFs in CMYK color space?

Regards,

Martin

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 07 Apr 16 at 8:39PM

Hi Martin,

About manual converting/calculating RGB-values to CMYK you can read in this thread:

http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/edit-pdf-text_topic1378.html

For example to set the text color in CMYK you can use SetTextColorCMYK:

http://www.debenu.com/docs/pdf_library_reference/SetTextColorCMYK.php

In the online reference you'll find in the section "color" many CMYK-functions:

http://www.debenu.com/docs/pdf_library_reference/Color.php

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Cheers,
Ingo

Posted By: martin.weigl
Date Posted: 21 Apr 16 at 12:22PM

Hi Ingo,

thx for ur reply. The info was not exactly what I was looking for:

I need to convert elements of existing PDF files from the RGB color space into colors of the CMYK color space. If there is some way to do so (i. e. render the existing PDF element-by-element into a new one converting the colors), please let me know.

Is there a way to fetch all elements (rectangles, circles, texts, etc.) out of a PDF file?

Regards,

Martin

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 21 Apr 16 at 9:22PM

Hi Martin,

embedded images you can extract from pdf-pages, converting them outside with other third party tools.

Rectangles, circles and so on are not graphic objects but only scriptcode - you can't extract things like this.

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Cheers,
Ingo

Posted By: martin.weigl
Date Posted: 22 Apr 16 at 7:58AM

Hi Ingo,

thx for ur reply. The problem is (as you mentioned [URL=http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/topic3314_post13194.html#13194]here[URL]), that the PDFs metadata identifies the PDF as "CMYK", alltough it has some RGB elements embedded.

That's the problem that I need to detect (without correcting it, simply detecting ist is enough).

Regars,

Martin

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 22 Apr 16 at 10:28PM

Hi Martin,

it's not difficult.

Take few relevant pdf-files and have a look directly inside with - for example - notepad.

Keep in mind the relevant devicetags you've found.

Then you can build a routine... reading the pdf-file into a stream and doing a fulltextsearch (with your tags) on the stream.

Additionally you should search for strings like

<</BitsPerComponent

/ColorSpace 291

<</BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace 291

or rdf-content like this:

dc:format="image/jpeg"

...or any other similar string.

What i've found searching for you in ONE pdf was the next:

<</BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace 293

...and few lines later:

<</BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace/DeviceRGB/

...and later this:

<</BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace/DeviceGray/

To determine if coloured objects were used or if device-tags were used can be a different issue.

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Cheers,
Ingo

Posted By: martin.weigl
Date Posted: 25 Apr 16 at 1:12PM

Hi Ingo,

thx for your help!

Regards,

Martin