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Re: [Groff] Colors with gropdf
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Heinz-Jürgen Oertel |
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Re: [Groff] Colors with gropdf |
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Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:06:43 +0100 |
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Am Freitag, 25. November 2016, 16:47:26 schrieb Robert Marks:
> I have recently had to embed a PDF image in a groff document and so have
> been using
> groff -Tpdf
> to do so.
> But I find that my \m[red] etc color commands are not recognised (and there
> are error messages..
> Some work on Google led me to the Ubuntu gropdf manual, which states:
>
> The default color for \m and \M is black; for colors defined in the
> ‘rgb’ color space setrgbcolor is used, for ‘cmy’ and
> ‘cmyk’
> setcmykcolor, and for ‘gray’ setgray. Note that setcmykcolor
> is a
> PostScript LanguageLevel 2 command and thus not available on some
> older
> printers.
>
> Searching for setrgbcolor tells me that it's a PS commend to be used:
> .ds RED \X'ps: exec 1 0 0 setrgbcolor'
> and then referring to \*[RED] to change the color from black, say.
>
> But there is no change (and no error messages). Using groff 1.22.2
>
> Any advice on using color in gropdf or groff -Tpdf ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
Only to let you know that it works for me
groff -Tpdf inCom.t2 > inCom.pdf ; okular inCom.pdf
On openSuse.
Please that the font switch \f[BHD] is not working here, but the colors.
Regards Heinz
inCom.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
inCom.t2
Description: Text document