- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:22:04 -0400
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 12:23 -0700, Rik Cabanier wrote: > The PDF spec doesn't define device-dependent rendering so this change will > actually make CSS more in line with the prepress world. The PDF _renderer_ does of course need to know, and the person or software creating the PDF needs to know (e.g to specify dot screen pitch and angles). The colour gamut comes from the ICC colour profile for the printer or other output device and is used to create the PDF. Maybe a javascript API would be sufficient, assuming CSS tools like Antenna House and Prince and WeasyPrint and... all support JavaScript. But support in media queries makes sense to me too. Black and white printers are usually one bit per pixel and (as has been mentioned) you need to avoid or control dithering; yuo may well choose different colours on a monochrome or greyscale device too. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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