Re: [Matplotlib-users] CMYK images

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

On 8/26/10 3:26 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Eric Firing<ef...@ha...>  wrote:
>> It's not trivial.  This might help:
>>
>> http://www.littlecms.com/
>>
>> See the tutorial for some nice background info.
>
> And this could be a good start for a python-based workflow:
>
> http://www.cazabon.com/pyCMS/
>
> *if* it works (it looks old, so it may have bit-rotted in the meantime).
>
> Another option would be to ctypes-wrap the calls of littleCMS one
> needs just for this and be done with it.  Not very elegant, but it
> might get the OP out of a bind with minimal work, and he'd have a
> little eps2cmyk.py script he could run on his MPL-generated EPS files
> for colorspace conversion.  Just an afternoon hack.  :)

You can also use my numpy-aware wrappers:

   http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/lcms/

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Robert Kern

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