[XeTeX] placing and colouring a graphic

[Vasile Gaburici]

IMHO, the best way to create pdfs with tiff 1-bit images (scans
mostly) is ImageMagick. Try

$ convert myimage.tif +matte -monochrome -compress fax myimage.pdf

After that you can inlcude the pdf page in some other document. Note
that ImageMagick can also convert multi-image tiffs to multi-page
pdfs.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:35 PM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:
> Okay, I've spent a day of my life, banging my head against a wall,
> trying to script changing the fill colour of a graphic in InDesign and
> I'm giving up on that, and hoping that I can just pre-process the
> graphics in TeX.
>
> My hope was that just setting the colour and placing the 1-bit graphic
> would be sufficient, but that fails w/ the error:
>
> (./ADA006-LVL1-MA-BL.aux) <use  "ADA006-LVL1-MA-BL.TIF" >
> Overfull \hbox (51.09396pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 8--10
> []\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 test []
> [1] (./ADA006-LVL1-MA-BL.aux)Error: /undefined in MM
> Operand stack:
>
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --
> nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --
> nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1813
> 1   3   %oparray_pop   1812   1   3   %oparray_pop   1808   1   3
> %oparray_pop   1691   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
> %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --
> nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1092/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:69/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 3
> GPL Ghostscript 8.57: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> ** WARNING ** Filtering file via command -->gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -
> sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -
> dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -
> dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -
> dUseFlateCompression=true -sOutputFile=/var/folders/qq/
> qqznv9WRGEGflSBYT6SmnE+++TQ/-Tmp-//dvipdfmx.PkXNiH ./ADA006-LVL1-MA-
> BL.TIF -c quit<-- failed.
> ** WARNING ** Image format conversion for "./ADA006-LVL1-MA-BL.TIF"
> failed...
> ** WARNING ** Image width=0.0!
> ** WARNING ** Image height=0.0!
> ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object.
>
> So I'm wondering if it's even possible to place a 1-bit graphic in
> xetex using xdv2pdf and Apple's pdf rendering technology.
>
> Anyone have any other ideas on how to do this?
>
> William
>
> --
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
>
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