[cups.development] cgpdftoraster

[Alexander Cohen]

On May 25, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:

> On May 25, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Alex Cohen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Is cgpdftoraster open source?
> 
> No, sorry.
> 
>> If so, where can i get the source and if not, is there anything comparable that does not use poppler or gs?
> 
> I am not aware of any open source PDF RIPs other than Ghostscript and Xpdf/poppler.
> 
> If you need to render PDF to a bitmap on a Mac, the best/easiest path is via CoreGraphics - you can open the PDF file and render the pages to a bitmap context. That's essentially what cgpdftoraster is doing along with N-up support, etc.

Exactly what i'm doing, but on the iPhone. And on the iPhone, a bitmap context does not seem to support CMYK so raster to hp won't work correctly= since it only seems to support CMYUK or B/W. I was hoping the source code to that had some hints as to how to get this done easily.

thx

AC