[reportlab-users] Reportlab and CMYK Images

[Andy Robinson]

> Can somebody give me a short overview about how Reportlab handles CMYK 
> images? I had a look at the source, but I'm not sure I got it right.
> 
> It seems if I use a PIL Image instance, the image is always converted to 
> RGB, while jpeg files are not converted.
> 
> On a related note, it seems there's no implementation in reportlab for 
> adding other types of images, is that right?

There is certainly nothing in our library to help produce 
separations in the same way that Distiller or various
prepres tools do.  
Help me understand what you want a bit better. Are you hoping to 
read in an arbitrary bitmap, include it in a CMYK document, and then 
have Quark or some other tool separate the image layers in the
resulting PDF? Or something else?

Thanks,

Andy