Re: [AS] Find color mode of linked images?

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From: Gerald_Singelmann
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:39

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Hold on, you have a conceptual problem here.
Any pixel-image has exactly one colour space which wakes it RGB or CMYK.
Any EPS or PDF can potentially have any number of RGB and CMYK objects.
There is *no* such thing as THE colour space of an EPS.

While it seems to be true that Illustrator converts all objects to CMYK when you save the file as EPS, you must not assume that all objects in any given EPS share the same colour space.
When you save as PDF from AI and had linked (not embedded) an RGB image, you *will* get an RGB pixel object in your PDF.

In short: you cannot do what you want by scripting InDesign. The *only* save way to know if there was any RGB placed in ID is to analyze the exported PDF in Acrobat.

Thanks
Gerald

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