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Re: How to display CMYK tiffs correctly?



On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:56:50AM +0100, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

What version of debian are you running? Much stuff in sarge now includes
LZW support. Use imagemagick to uncompress your image like so:

$ convert -compress None compressed.tif uncompressed.tif


cheers

dc

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