Converts the image from one color space to another.

 

   

Syntax
 

[C#]
void Recolor(ColorSpace space)
void Recolor(ColorSpace space, RenderingIntent intent)

[Visual Basic]
Sub Recolor(space As ColorSpace)
Sub Recolor(space As ColorSpace, intent As RenderingIntent)

Throws Exceptions may throw Exception()

 

   

Params
 
Name Description
space The destination color space.
intent The rendering intent enumeration. If no intent is provided the default for the image (typically RelativeColorimetric) is used.

 

   

Notes
 

Converts the image from one color space to another.

Calling this method results in the pixels within the PixMap image being mapped from the current color space to the new color space. The new ColorSpace is then assigned to the PixMap and (if it is not already there) added to the PixMap ObjectSoup.

Colors can only be sensibly mapped from one color space to another if we know something about the characteristics of the color space. If your color spaces do not contain this information (e.g. if they are device color spaces) then ABCpdf will use a default color profile.

An exception will be thrown if the operation is not possible. This may happen if the PixMap is not in an ObjectSoup or if the ColorSpace object is in some way invalid.

If the ImageMask property is true the image has no color space and is implicitly black and white. Image masks cannot be anything other than black and white so trying to convert an image mask to another color space will result in an exception being raised.

The rendering intent determines how out of gamut colors are handled. For full details see the RecolorOperation.RenderingIntent property.

After the PixMap has been Recolored it is no longer compressed and will have a BitsPerComponent of eight or sixteen. You may wish to compress it using the StreamObject.Compress method.

 

   

Example
 

Here we change all the images in a document to CMYK.

 

using (Doc doc = new Doc()) {   doc.Read(Server.MapPath("../Rez/spaceshuttle.pdf"));   List<PixMap> theList = new List<PixMap>();   // find all the PixMap objects in the soup   foreach (IndirectObject obj in doc.ObjectSoup) {     PixMap p = obj as PixMap;     if (p != null)       theList.Add(p);   }   // add our destination color space   ColorSpace cs = new ColorSpace(doc.ObjectSoup);   cs.IccProfile = new IccProfile(doc.ObjectSoup, Server.MapPath("../Rez/abccmyk.icc"));   // convert images to our color space   for (int i = 0; i < theList.Count; i++) {     PixMap p = theList[i];     p.Recolor(cs, RenderingIntent.Perceptual);     p.CompressJpeg(75);   }   doc.Save(Server.MapPath("pixmaprecolor.pdf")); }


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