In a thread entitled 'An empty correspondence with the CEO of Adobe Systems'
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/_yxo2ZDiUnU
JDAW wrote:
> GhostScript ... encodes settransfer in a manner heeded by Acrobat
> Reader but ignored by Mac Preview
Ken wrote:
> If the settransfer is ignored by Mac Preview, even though its
> valid, surely this is a problem with Mac Preview, not pdfwrite ?
and later wrote
> FWIW, you are correct that Distiller is pickling the transfer funtion
> into the colours in the PDF file, while Ghostscript is preserving the
> transfer funtion.
Please, good people of comp.lang.postscript, is there any way in PostScript to force Ghostscript to 'pickle' settransfer? Doing it in the system call to Ghostscript doesn't work for me: it has to be in the PostScript. Is that possible?