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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ross Presser wrote:
>
> But since there are apparently *zero* raster file formats that can
> contain indexed CMYK images, it's impractical to do any image
> manipulation on these bitmaps. Extracting them as full CMYK TIFFs
> swells them to 100-315 mb.

There are hundreds of raster file formats in the world so it would be 
wrong to claim that *none* of them can do what you want.

I see the value of what you want to do.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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