feat(pdf): #632 Ghostscript CMYK+OutputIntent post-process module

CLAUDE.md

@@ -124,14 +124,17 @@ The pipeline uses `UseDebugParams` / `UseReleaseParams` (in `AssetConverterConfi
 | Aspect | Debug (`dotnet run`) | Release (`-c Release`) |
 |--------|----------------------|------------------------|
 | Print&Play image format | JPEG Q=85 (~71 MB Tarot) | PNG lossless (~222 MB) |
-| CMYK conversion | Disabled (RGB) | Enabled |
+| Per-image CMYK conversion | Disabled (RGB) | Enabled (but see oxymore below) |
 | CardPen source | Local IIS (`UseLocalCardpen=true`) | GitHub Pages URL |
 | Template paths | `JsonFilePathDebug` | `JsonFilePathRelease` |
 | Harvest output | Debug density directory | Release density directory |
+| **PDF CMYK+OutputIntent post-process** (`PdfCmykPostProcess`, #632) | **OFF** | **ON** (Ghostscript post-pass on final PDFs) |
+
+**⚠️ CMYK oxymore (resolved by #632)**: the per-image `ConvertToCmyk` (`DocumentCardSet.cs`) runs under Release, but the image is then written as **PNG** which cannot carry CMYK — Magick re-encodes to RGB on the write, so the per-image conversion is effectively a no-op for the PNG path. The bundle therefore ships **RGB-300-lossless** (FlateDecode, 0 DeviceCMYK — verified via `pdfimages -list`). The **authoritative CMYK path is the Ghostscript post-process** (`PdfCmykPostProcess`, new flag `ConverterMode.PdfCmykPostProcess = 1<<15`): it converts the final PDF to DeviceCMYK and embeds the SWOP OutputIntent. See `PdfCmykPostProcess/README.md`.
 
 **Override**: Set `ForceReleaseParams = true` in JSON config to use Release params in Debug builds.
 
-**Key files with Debug/Release pairs**: `DocumentCardSet.cs` (CMYK), `PdfManager.cs` (JPEG), `WebBasedGeneratorConfig.cs` (CardPen URL, template paths), `MindMapDocumentConfig.cs` (paths), `HarvestManager.cs` (URLs).
+**Key files with Debug/Release pairs**: `DocumentCardSet.cs` (CMYK), `PdfManager.cs` (JPEG), `WebBasedGeneratorConfig.cs` (CardPen URL, template paths), `MindMapDocumentConfig.cs` (paths), `HarvestManager.cs` (URLs), `PdfCmykPostProcessConfig.cs` (GS post-process enable, #632).
 
 ### Known Fragile Areas
 1. SVG disambiguation in mind map generation

Generation/Converters/Argumentum.AssetConverter.Tests/PdfCmykPostProcess/PdfCmykPostProcessTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+using System.IO;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Argumentum.AssetConverter;
+using Argumentum.AssetConverter.PdfCmykPostProcess;
+using FluentAssertions;
+using ImageMagick;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Argumentum.AssetConverter.Tests.PdfCmykPostProcess
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Contract pin for the Ghostscript CMYK + OutputIntent post-process (#632).
+    ///
+    /// These tests do NOT require Ghostscript to be installed: they verify the gating
+    /// (Release-only by default, master toggle), the exact Ghostscript argument contract
+    /// (ai-01 POC-validated — see issue #632), the PDFX_def.ps generation, and the ICC
+    /// profile extraction from Magick.NET. The graceful-skip-when-GS-absent behavior is
+    /// covered by <see cref="ResolveGhostscript_returns_null_when_binary_absent"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class PdfCmykPostProcessTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Apply_IsEnabled_false_skips_without_requiring_ghostscript()
+        {
+            // A disabled stage must short-circuit before touching the filesystem or GS.
+            var masterConfig = new AssetConverterConfig();
+            var config = new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig { IsEnabled = false, GhostscriptPath = "definitely-not-real-gs" };
+
+            Func<Task> act = () => PdfCmykPostProcessConfig.Apply(masterConfig, config);
+
+            await act.Should().NotThrowAsync();
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void GetEnabled_is_release_only_by_default()
+        {
+            var config = new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig();
+            var debugConfig = new AssetConverterConfig(); // isInDebugMode=true under Debug tests
+            var releaseConfig = new AssetConverterConfig { ForceReleaseParams = true };
+
+            // Default pair: EnabledDebug=false, EnabledRelease=true → OFF in Debug, ON in Release.
+            config.GetEnabled(debugConfig).Should().BeFalse("Debug is preview-only by default");
+            config.GetEnabled(releaseConfig).Should().BeTrue("Release is printer-quality by default");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void GetEnabled_respects_master_toggle_and_explicit_overrides()
+        {
+            var releaseConfig = new AssetConverterConfig { ForceReleaseParams = true };
+
+            var offEverywhere = new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig { EnabledRelease = false };
+            offEverywhere.GetEnabled(releaseConfig).Should().BeFalse("EnabledRelease=false overrides build mode");
+
+            var onInDebug = new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig { EnabledDebug = true };
+            var debugConfig = new AssetConverterConfig();
+            onInDebug.GetEnabled(debugConfig).Should().BeTrue("EnabledDebug=true enables it in Debug");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ResolveGhostscript_returns_null_when_binary_absent()
+        {
+            // A bogus name not on PATH and not absolute-existing must resolve to null, not throw.
+            var processor = new PdfCmykPostProcessor(
+                new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig { GhostscriptPath = "definitely-not-a-real-gs-binary-xyz123" });
+
+            var resolved = processor.ResolveGhostscript();
+
+            resolved.Should().BeNull("an absent GS binary must skip the stage gracefully (#632 spec)");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void BuildGhostscriptArguments_matches_poc_validated_command()
+        {
+            var args = PdfCmykPostProcessor.BuildGhostscriptArguments(
+                iccPath: @"C:\icc\USWebCoatedSWOP.icc",
+                outputPdf: @"C:\out\doc-cmyk.pdf",
+                pdfxDefPath: @"C:\tmp\PDFX_def.ps",
+                inputPdf: @"C:\docs\doc.pdf");
+
+            // POC-validated invariants (issue #632): PDFX, CMYK strategy+model, Flate lossless,
+            // no downsample, ICC permit-read, then -o, PDFX_def.ps, input in order.
+            args.Should().Contain("-dPDFX");
+            args.Should().Contain("-sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK");
+            args.Should().Contain("-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK");
+            args.Should().Contain("-dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode");
+            args.Should().Contain("-dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode");
+            args.Should().Contain("-dDownsampleColorImages=false");
+            args.Should().Contain("--permit-file-read=\"C:\\icc\\USWebCoatedSWOP.icc\"");
+            args.Should().Contain("-o \"C:\\out\\doc-cmyk.pdf\"");
+            args.Should().Contain("\"C:\\tmp\\PDFX_def.ps\"");
+            args.Should().Contain("\"C:\\docs\\doc.pdf\"");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void BuildPdfxDefPostscript_embeds_icc_path_and_output_intent_markers()
+        {
+            var ps = PdfCmykPostProcessor.BuildPdfxDefPostscript(@"C:\profiles\SWOP.icc");
+
+            // ICC path injected (forward-slash normalized for Postscript).
+            ps.Should().Contain("/ICCProfile (C:/profiles/SWOP.icc) def");
+            // PDF/X OutputIntent contract: N=4 CMYK, GTS_PDFX type, SWOP registry identifiers.
+            ps.Should().Contain("<</N 4>>");
+            ps.Should().Contain("/S /GTS_PDFX");
+            ps.Should().Contain("/Type /OutputIntent");
+            ps.Should().Contain("(CGATS TR 001)");
+            ps.Should().Contain("(U.S. Web Coated \\(SWOP\\) v2)");
+            ps.Should().Contain("/RegistryName (http://www.color.org)");
+            // Catalog wiring.
+            ps.Should().Contain("/OutputIntents");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Magick_icc_profile_extracts_nonempty_swop_bytes()
+        {
+            // The ICC profile used both by the per-image ConvertToCmyk conversion AND by this
+            // GS OutputIntent — verifies the extraction API works and yields the ~557 KB SWOP profile.
+            var bytes = ColorProfiles.USWebCoatedSWOP.ToByteArray();
+
+            bytes.Should().NotBeNull();
+            bytes.Length.Should().BeGreaterThan(500_000, "USWebCoatedSWOP ICC is ~557 KB per ai-01 POC (#632)");
+        }
+    }
+}

Generation/Converters/Argumentum.AssetConverter/AssetConverterConfig.cs

@@ -617,7 +617,13 @@ public async Task<bool> Apply()
 				await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
 			}
 
-
+			// #632: Ghostscript CMYK+OutputIntent post-pass. Runs AFTER all other stages
+			// (incl. PDF generation) so it operates on already-written PDFs — can be run
+			// standalone on an existing bundle (Mode=PdfCmykPostProcess) without re-harvest.
+			if (Mode.HasFlag(ConverterMode.PdfCmykPostProcess))
+			{
+				await global::Argumentum.AssetConverter.PdfCmykPostProcess.PdfCmykPostProcessConfig.Apply(this);
+			}
 
 			// Handling for None or unrecognized values
 			if (Mode == ConverterMode.None)

Generation/Converters/Argumentum.AssetConverter/ConverterMode.cs

@@ -21,5 +21,6 @@ public enum ConverterMode
 		QuestPdfGeneration = 1 << 12, // 4096
 		PdfAuditor = 1 << 13, // 8192
 		GSheetSync = 1 << 14, // 16384
+		PdfCmykPostProcess = 1 << 15, // 32768 — Ghostscript CMYK+OutputIntent post-process on generated PDFs (#632)
 	}
 }

Generation/Converters/Argumentum.AssetConverter/PdfCmykPostProcess/PdfCmykPostProcessConfig.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Argumentum.AssetConverter.PdfCmykPostProcess
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Configuration for the Ghostscript CMYK + OutputIntent post-process (#632).
+    ///
+    /// Converts the RGB-300-lossless (FlateDecode) PDFs produced by QuestPDF into
+    /// DeviceCMYK + OutputIntent (CGATS TR 001 / SWOP) print-ready PDFs via a
+    /// Ghostscript post-pass. Runs as a standalone stage AFTER PDF generation
+    /// (dispatched after Task.WhenAll in AssetConverterConfig.Apply), so it can be
+    /// run on an existing bundle WITHOUT re-harvesting.
+    ///
+    /// Scope honesty (#632 spec): the output targets CMYK colorspace + an
+    /// OutputIntent profile, NOT formal PDF/X-3 certification (no trim/bleed boxes).
+    /// </summary>
+    public class PdfCmykPostProcessConfig
+    {
+        /// <summary>Master toggle. When false the stage is skipped entirely.</summary>
+        public bool IsEnabled { get; set; } = true;
+
+        /// <summary>Enable in Debug builds (default OFF — Debug is preview-only).</summary>
+        public bool EnabledDebug { get; set; } = false;
+
+        /// <summary>Enable in Release builds (default ON — printer quality).</summary>
+        public bool EnabledRelease { get; set; } = true;
+
+        /// <summary>Resolved enable flag: Release-only by default (see <see cref="AssetConverterConfig.UseReleaseParams"/>).</summary>
+        public bool GetEnabled(AssetConverterConfig config)
+            => config.UseReleaseParams ? EnabledRelease : EnabledDebug;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Ghostscript executable name/path. Defaults to "gswin64c" (Windows GS console,
+        /// resolves via PATH). Override with an absolute path (e.g. a conda-forge user-scope
+        /// install) when GS is not on PATH. If the binary cannot be found, the stage
+        /// skips every PDF with a warning rather than crashing.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string GhostscriptPath { get; set; } = "gswin64c";
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Optional absolute path to a custom ICC profile. When null/empty, the profile is
+        /// extracted at runtime from <c>ImageMagick.ColorProfiles.USWebCoatedSWOP</c> — the
+        /// SAME profile used by the per-image <c>ConvertToCmyk</c> pixel conversion, so the
+        /// GS OutputIntent is color-consistent with the source pipeline (zero new licensing).
+        /// </summary>
+        public string IccProfilePath { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>Per-PDF Ghostscript timeout in seconds (default 180).</summary>
+        public int TimeoutSeconds { get; set; } = 180;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Entry point dispatched from <see cref="AssetConverterConfig.Apply"/> when
+        /// <see cref="ConverterMode.PdfCmykPostProcess"/> is set. Gated by
+        /// <see cref="GetEnabled"/> (Release-only by default) and the master toggle.
+        /// </summary>
+        public static async Task Apply(AssetConverterConfig masterConfig)
+        {
+            var config = new PdfCmykPostProcessConfig();
+            await Apply(masterConfig, config);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Overload accepting an explicit config instance (testable).</summary>
+        public static async Task Apply(AssetConverterConfig masterConfig, PdfCmykPostProcessConfig config)
+        {
+            if (!config.IsEnabled)
+            {
+                Logger.Log("PDF CMYK post-process is disabled (IsEnabled=false). Skipping.");
+                return;
+            }
+
+            if (!config.GetEnabled(masterConfig))
+            {
+                Logger.Log("PDF CMYK post-process is OFF for this build configuration. Skipping.");
+                return;
+            }
+
+            var processor = new PdfCmykPostProcessor(config);
+            await processor.ProcessAllAsync(masterConfig);
+        }
+    }
+}