org.icepdf.core.pobjects.graphics
Class Separation

java.lang.Object
  org.icepdf.core.pobjects.Dictionary
      org.icepdf.core.pobjects.graphics.PColorSpace
          org.icepdf.core.pobjects.graphics.Separation

public class Separation
extends PColorSpace

Separation Color Space background:

Color output devices produce full color by combining primary or process colorants in varying amounts. On an additive color device such as a display, the primary colorants consist of red, green, and blue phosphors; on a subtractive device such as a printer, they typically consist of cyan, magenta, yellow, and sometimes black inks. In addition, some devices can apply special colorants, often called spot colorants, to produce effects that cannot be achieved with the standard process colorants alone. Examples include metallic and fluorescent colors and special textures.

A Separation color space (PDF 1.2) provides a means for specifying the use of additional colorants or for isolating the control of individual color components of a device color space for a subtractive device. When such a space is the current color space, the current color is a single-component value, called a tint, that controls the application of the given colorant or color components only.

A Separation color space is defined as follows:
[/Separation name alternateSpace tintTransform]

• The alternateSpace parameter must be an array or name object that identifies the alternate color space, which can be any device or CIE-based color space but not another special color space (Pattern, Indexed, Separation, or DeviceN).
• The tintTransform parameter must be a function. During subsequent painting operations, an application calls this function to transform a tint value into color component values in the alternate color space. The function is called with the tint value and must return the corresponding color component values. That is, the number of components and the interpretation of their values depend on the alternate color space.

Since:

1.0

Field Summary

protected PColorSpace	alternate
static java.lang.String	COLORANT_ALL
static java.lang.String	COLORANT_NONE
protected java.awt.Color	namedColor
protected Function	tintTransform

Fields inherited from class org.icepdf.core.pobjects.Dictionary

entries, inited, isDeleted, isNew, library, SUBTYPE_KEY, TYPE_KEY

Constructor Summary

protected

Separation(Library l, java.util.Hashtable h, java.lang.Object name, java.lang.Object alternateSpace, java.lang.Object tintTransform) Create a new Seperation colour space.

Method Summary

java.awt.Color	getColor(float[] components) Gets the colour in RGB represented by the array of colour components
int	getNumComponents() Returns the number of components in this colour space.
float	getTint()

Methods inherited from class org.icepdf.core.pobjects.graphics.PColorSpace

getColorSpace, getColorSpace, getDescription, normaliseComponentsToFloats, reverse, reverseInPlace, reverseInPlace

Methods inherited from class org.icepdf.core.pobjects.Dictionary

getEntries, getFloat, getInt, getLibrary, getNumber, getObject, getObject, getPObjectReference, init, isDeleted, isNew, setDeleted, setNew, setPObjectReference, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

namedColor

protected java.awt.Color namedColor

alternate

protected PColorSpace alternate

tintTransform

protected Function tintTransform

COLORANT_ALL

public static final java.lang.String COLORANT_ALL

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Constant Field Values

COLORANT_NONE

public static final java.lang.String COLORANT_NONE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

Separation

protected Separation(Library l,
                     java.util.Hashtable h,
                     java.lang.Object name,
                     java.lang.Object alternateSpace,
                     java.lang.Object tintTransform)

Create a new Seperation colour space. Separation is specified using [/Seperation name alternateSpace tintTransform]

Parameters:

l - library

h - dictionary entries

name - name of colourspace, always seperation

alternateSpace - name of alternative colour space

tintTransform - function which defines the tint transform

Method Detail

getNumComponents

public int getNumComponents()

Returns the number of components in this colour space.

Specified by:

getNumComponents in class PColorSpace

Returns:

number of components

getColor

public java.awt.Color getColor(float[] components)

Gets the colour in RGB represented by the array of colour components

Specified by:

getColor in class PColorSpace

Parameters:

components - array of component colour data

Returns:

new RGB colour composed from the components array.

getTint

public float getTint()