- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:34:33 +0300
- To: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Resurrecting this thread as no resolution has been reached, to mention that AntennaHouse also has its own proprietary syntax for overprinting [1]
~ Lea
[1]: http://antennahouse.com/xslfo/extension.htm#axf.overprint
On Jun 19, 2013, at 06:25, Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com> wrote:
> Hi Lea,
>
>> I’m not sure how overprint could be controlled, since it could be for
>> the entire element, or just the text etc. It looks more like a blending
>> mode. However, if we add a blending mode for it, what will it do for
>> RGB? I'm not sure if overprinting is even a thing in RGB.
>
> Prince has crude support for overprinting, but only for named colors at the moment. So you can do something like this:
>
> @prince-color MySpecialColor {
> alternate-color: device-cmyk(...)
> }
>
> p {
> background: device-cmyk(...);
> color: prince-color(MySpecialColor, overprint)
> }
>
> We could certainly add the overprint flag to the device-cmyk() color function, that would be more straightforward than a new property or an entirely new mechanism for manipulating overprint.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>
> --
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> http://www.princexml.com
>
Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:35:02 UTC