(v13) Page device keys affecting colorant families

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin Core but not Harlequin MultiRIP.

The following keys in the top-level page device dictionary control the selection of colorant families:

ProcessColorModel

name

As well as setting how input colors are converted when adding to the display list, this setting determines which colorant names are added to SeparationColorNames before matching the colorant family:

SeparationColorNames

array

This is a set of colorants that the output device is expected to produce. The output colorant family chosen is the colorant family entry with the largest number of names matched from this array, augmented with the process color names.

Plugin

string

This string is used to select colorant set dictionaries from the DeviceTypes arrays. Entries that do not contain a matching Plugin value are ignored in the search for a colorant family.

DeviceType

string

This string is used to select colorant set dictionaries from the DeviceTypes arrays. Entries that do not contain a matching DeviceTypes value are ignored in the search for a colorant family.