Re: How to display CMYK tiffs correctly?

[Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@wp.pl>]

> 
> You need something that understands colour profiles.
> 
> There are probably only two ways.
> 
> The easiest method is to use tiff2pdf (part of libtiff-tools) and then
> use the lastest version of acroread (not any other viewer) to look at
> it.
> 
> If you need more control, then you must use tifficc, which is part of
> the excellent little cms colour management library.
> 
> You also will need to download a set of standard colour profiles from
> Adobe - just google for it.
> 
> then use this command:
> 
> tifficc -i /path/to/cmyk_image_profile -o /path/to/monitor_rgb_profile \
>         -p path/to/cmyk_proof_intent_profile cmyk_image.tif \
>         rgb_image.tif
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> dc
> 
> -- 
> David Purton
> dcpurton@chariot.net.au
>  
> For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
> strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
>                                  2 Chronicles 16:9a

This almost solves the problem, unless you're stuck with files saved
with a popular compression algorithm. Then you will get:

~$ Error PK_85rgb.tif: LZW compression is not available to due to Unisys patent enforcement.


P.

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