Re: [css-gcpm][css-color] device-cmyk() interaction with RGB-space colors.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:43 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <
> jackalmage@gmail.com>
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> > > >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >> > The compositing/blending spec doesn't talk about converting
> colors [1]
> > > >> > All
> > > >> > the formulas (except for 4 special ones) work on individual color
> > > >> > channels,
> > > >> > regardless of what they represent.
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> > > >> Those channels appear to be assumed to be RGB.
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> > > > Can you point out where that is so I can update the spec?
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> > > Hmm, I guess it actually doesn't.  The few examples that give explicit
> > > color numbers are all written with RGB, but there's nothing outside
> > > the examples that actually talks about the color value.
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> > > Great. I made a not to add CMYK (and spot?) examples for the next
> version.
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> > We already have CMYK so the note would make sense in this level already,
> wouldn't it?
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> > Is there any support for CMYK as an output color space?
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> > Even though WebKit does not preserve CMYK (and transforms it into RGB)
> for CSS, it has proper CMYK handling in Canvas (in Safari). And CSS
> Compositing addresses Canvas as well.
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> > Really? Canvas is always RGBA; how would you create a CMYK canvas?
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> You can specify CMYK colors for drawing and WebKit/Safari does exactly
> that. It draws with the specified CMYK colors.
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Sure, but you won't draw CMYK pixels. The color is somehow converted to RGB
and then the operation draws with the converted color.