Re: How to give colour as parameter to ghostscript

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject	Re: How to give colour as parameter to ghostscript
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Op Monday 31 Mar 2014 13:24 CEST schreef Cecil Westerhof:

> I have defined the following:
> /colors <<
> .
> .
> .
> /colorNavy                { 0      0      0.5  }
> /colorNavyBlue            { 0.14   0.14   0.56 }
> /colorNeonBlue            { 0.3    0.3    1    }
> .
> .
> .
> /colorOrange              { 1      0.5    0    } % coral
> /colorOrangeRed           { 1      0.14   0    }
> .
> .
> .
> /colorRed                 { 1      0      0    }
> .
> .
> .
> /colorWhite               { 1      1      1    }
> /colorYellow              { 1      1      0    }
> /colorYellowGreen         { 0.6    0.8    0.2  }
>>> def
> colors begin
>
> Normally I do something like the following:
> /backgroundColor  {colorYellow} def
>
> But I want to give the colour as a parameter to ghostscript:
> -sbackgroundColor=colorNavy
>
> What do I need to do in the postscript script to get the right value
> in backgroundColor?

Found it. I call the script with:
    -sbackground=color" background

And in the script I use:
    /backgroundColor  {background cvx exec} def

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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How to give colour as parameter to ghostscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2014-03-31 13:24 +0200
  Re: How to give colour as parameter to ghostscript ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2014-03-31 14:00 +0100
  Re: How to give colour as parameter to ghostscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2014-03-31 14:47 +0200

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