CMYK/RGB conversion

[Steve Rickaby]

At 11:52 +0100 8/11/06, Aronsson, Martin wrote:

>I assume you use Windows and that you print your Framemaker-book to PostScript via an installed PostScript printer.

As a side-line to all this nightmarish-sounding stuff, does anyone know whether the new WCS color output machinery in Vista supports CMYK properly? I have read the white paper, but I'm not much wiser.

<http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/WCS.mspx>

Amongst a lot else, this says 'As in Microsoft Windows XP, most basic color-rendering scenarios are still governed by the 8-bit-per-channel sRGB color space. But for specialized applications that can handle richer content, WCS additionally supports 16-bit-per-channel sRGB (IEC 61966-2-1), 16- and 32-bit-per-channel scRGB (IEC 61966-2-2), and 8- and 16-bit-per-channel CMYK (cyan-yellow-magenta-black) color spaces.'

Can we hope that FrameMaker will be one of those 'specialized applications', or will it be one of 'most basic color-rendering scenarios'?

-- 
Steve