[cairo] Spot colors (and CMYK)

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 22.02.10, 21:53 -0800 schrieb Bill Spitzak:
> What I propose instead is that the program provide a "simulation" of the spot 
> color in RGB (or in any normal color space if the proposed color space api is 
> added). It is the program's responsibility to make this preview "accurate".

Bill, you repeatedly dismiss a central concept of cairo which is:
one input => multiple output

Your suggestion is about one font sort for Xlib, one other for Quartz, 
32-bit Floating point here, only half there and there only double or 
integers. Such would be all workarounds.

What the colour management thread here is about to propose a clearly 
useable API, which integrates well with the style of typical 
unaltered input used for cairo for different output. If I have to sort 
every input for the appropriate backend, then possibly more dedicated 
libraries are better useable.


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org