m1jjh00 at frb.gov
2008-May-23 16:50 UTC
[Rd] rgb to cmyk conversion is wrong in src/library/grDevices/src/devPS.c (PR#11509)
The conversion of RGB to CMYK takes place in PostScriptSetCol() starting at line 2900 of R-2.7.0/src/library/grDevices/src/devPS.c if(strcmp(mm, "cmyk") == 0) { double c = 1.0-r, m=1.0-g, y=1.0-b, k=c; k = fmin2(k, m); k = fmin2(k, y); if(k == 1.0) c = m = y = 0.0; else {c /= (1.-k); m /= (1.-k); y /= (1.-k);} r, g, and b have already been normalized to the range [0,1] before the function was called, so this is almost right. The last line should actually be something like else { c = (c - k)/(1 - k); m = (m - k)/(1 - k); y = (y - k)/(1 - k);} Here is some R code I wrote that does the conversion, so you can see what it's supposed to be doing: rgb2cmyk <- function(rgb){ ## rgb is a vector of 3 numbers in the 0 to 255 range ## returns cmyk vector of 4 numbers in [0,1] cmy <- 1 - rgb/255 names(cmy) <- c("c", "m", "y") k <- min(min(min(1, cmy[1]), cmy[2]), cmy[3]) if(k == 1) c(cmy, k = 1) else c(c(cmy - k)/(1-k), k = k) } --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-redhat-linux-gnu arch = i686 os = linux-gnu system = i686, linux-gnu status = Patched major = 2 minor = 7.0 year = 2008 month = 05 day = 22 svn rev = 45762 language = R version.string = R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-22 r45762) Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US;LC_COLLATE=en_US;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base