public static PDColorSpace createColorSpace(COSBase colorSpace) throws IOException 
{
        return createColorSpace( colorSpace, null );
}

This will create the correct color space given the name.

 public static PDColorSpace createColorSpace(String colorSpaceName) throws IOException 
{
        return createColorSpace(colorSpaceName, null);
}

This will create the correct color space given the name.

 public static PDColorSpace createColorSpace(COSBase colorSpace,
    Map colorSpaces) throws IOException 
{
        PDColorSpace retval = null;
        if( colorSpace instanceof COSName )
        {
            retval = createColorSpace( ((COSName)colorSpace).getName(), colorSpaces );
        }
        else if( colorSpace instanceof COSArray )
        {
            COSArray array = (COSArray)colorSpace;
            COSName type = (COSName)array.getObject( 0 );
            if( type.getName().equals( PDCalGray.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDCalGray( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDDeviceRGB.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE;
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDDeviceCMYK.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = PDDeviceCMYK.INSTANCE;
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDCalRGB.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDCalRGB( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDDeviceN.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDDeviceN( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDIndexed.NAME ) ||
                   type.getName().equals( PDIndexed.ABBREVIATED_NAME ))
            {
                retval = new PDIndexed( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDLab.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDLab( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDSeparation.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDSeparation( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDICCBased.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDICCBased( array );
            }
            else if( type.getName().equals( PDPattern.NAME ) )
            {
                retval = new PDPattern( array );
            }
            else
            {
                throw new IOException( "Unknown colorspace array type:" + type );
            }
        }
        else
        {
            throw new IOException( "Unknown colorspace type:" + colorSpace );
        }
        return retval;
}

This will create the correct color space given the name.

 public static PDColorSpace createColorSpace(String colorSpaceName,
    Map colorSpaces) throws IOException 
{
        PDColorSpace cs = null;
        if( colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceCMYK.NAME ) ||
                 colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceCMYK.ABBREVIATED_NAME ) )
        {
            cs = PDDeviceCMYK.INSTANCE;
        }
        else if( colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceRGB.NAME ) ||
                 colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceRGB.ABBREVIATED_NAME ) )
        {
            cs = PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE;
        }
        else if( colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceGray.NAME ) ||
                 colorSpaceName.equals( PDDeviceGray.ABBREVIATED_NAME ))
        {
            cs = new PDDeviceGray();
        }
        else if( colorSpaces != null && colorSpaces.get( colorSpaceName ) != null )
        {
            cs = (PDColorSpace)colorSpaces.get( colorSpaceName );
        }
        else if( colorSpaceName.equals( PDLab.NAME ) )
        {
            cs = new PDLab();
        }
        else if( colorSpaceName.equals( PDPattern.NAME ) )
        {
            cs = new PDPattern();
        }
        else
        {
            throw new IOException( "Error: Unknown colorspace '" + colorSpaceName + "'" );
        }
        return cs;
}

This will create the correct color space given the name.

 public static PDColorSpace createColorSpace(PDDocument doc,
    ColorSpace cs) throws IOException 
{
        PDColorSpace retval = null;
        if( cs.isCS_sRGB() )
        {
            retval = PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE;
        }
        else if( cs instanceof ICC_ColorSpace )
        {
            ICC_ColorSpace ics = (ICC_ColorSpace)cs;
            PDICCBased pdCS = new PDICCBased( doc );
            retval = pdCS;
            COSArray ranges = new COSArray();
            for( int i=0; i< cs.getNumComponents(); i++ )
            {
                ranges.add( new COSFloat( ics.getMinValue( i ) ) );
                ranges.add( new COSFloat( ics.getMaxValue( i ) ) );
            }
            PDStream iccData = pdCS.getPDStream();
            OutputStream output = null;
            try
            {
                output = iccData.createOutputStream();
                output.write( ics.getProfile().getData() );
            }
            finally
            {
                if( output != null )
                {
                    output.close();
                }
            }
            pdCS.setNumberOfComponents( cs.getNumComponents() );
        }
        else
        {
            throw new IOException( "Not yet implemented:" + cs );
        }
        return retval;
}

This will create the correct color space from a java colorspace.