New on CTAN: xespotcolor
Date: November 16, 2014 9:25:57 AM CET
Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the
xespotcolor
package.
Version number: 1.0
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Spot colours support for XeLaTeX
Announcement text:
A spot color is one that is printed with its own ink. Typically, printers use spot colors in the production of books or other printed material. The spotcolor package by Jens Elstner is a first attempt to introduce the use of spot colors with pdfLaTeX. The xespotcolor package is a reimplementation of this package so to be usable with XeLaTeX. As such, it has the same user interface and the same capabilities. Currently, xdvipdfm-x does not support the spot command, which is needed in order to be able top use commands like the following one: \definecolor{Spots}{spotcolor}{SOMECOLOR,1.0} File PATCHES contains patches that should be applied to the source code of xdvipdfm-x so to be able to deal with such commands. Also, file spotcolor-test.tex is test file based on the documentation of the original package. Finally, file spotcolor-test.pdf cannot be produced with a current TeX installation. When the source code of xdvipdfm-x will be updated, then the contents of this folder will change. Apostolos Syropoulos 2014/11/13
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xespotcolor More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xespotcolor We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
A spot color is one that is printed with its own ink. Typically, printers use spot colors in the production of books or other printed material. The spotcolor package by Jens Elstner is a first attempt to introduce the use of spot colors with pdfLaTeX. The xespotcolor package is a reimplementation of this package so to be usable with XeLaTeX. As such, it has the same user interface and the same capabilities. Currently, xdvipdfm-x does not support the spot command, which is needed in order to be able top use commands like the following one: \definecolor{Spots}{spotcolor}{SOMECOLOR,1.0} File PATCHES contains patches that should be applied to the source code of xdvipdfm-x so to be able to deal with such commands. Also, file spotcolor-test.tex is test file based on the documentation of the original package. Finally, file spotcolor-test.pdf cannot be produced with a current TeX installation. When the source code of xdvipdfm-x will be updated, then the contents of this folder will change. Apostolos Syropoulos 2014/11/13
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xespotcolor More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xespotcolor We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
xespotcolor – Spot colours support for XeLaTeX
The package provides macros for using spot colours in LaTeX documents.
The package is a reimplementation of the spotcolor package for use with XeLaTeX. As such, it has the same user interface and the same capabilities.
| Package | xespotcolor |
| Version | 2.1 |
| Maintainer | Apostolos Syropoulos Jens Elstner (inactive) |