On Monday 04 April 2005 10:57, Peter Moulder wrote:
My home machine has since come online, so I've been able to look at scribus source there and answer some of my questions.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:10:52PM +1000, Peter Moulder wrote:
What format does scribus use? What source file parses them?
From what I can tell, Scribus currently uses X11-style rgb files, in some cases supplementing R,G,B triplets with a K value for better CMYK support, but still not mentioning colour profile etc.
Relevant source files are scribus/{cmykfw,colorm}.cpp.
What can you tell us about Scribus' future needs relevant to colour swatches (and perhaps patterns, gradients, or anything else suitable for sharing between inkscape,scribus,gimp), or other comments relevant to format or sharing issues ?
At this point, as discussed here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ScribusInteroperability from our first meeting on IRC, we never really pushed this forward. Right now, we have what we need today, but not going forward.
Simply, something like: # Name # Number # Index (we need to sort these by name, group etc). May need multiple indexes. # RGBA value # CMYK value # HSV value # Source (web set, x11 set, etc) # Support for Spot Colours # Commercial names # Commercial values # Profile
etc. The support for commercial printing systems (Pantone, etc) come as optional user filled fields for those users with licences for those systems, and certainly not a mandatory field. We plan no bias towards any particular colour system there. Theres probably more to add.
Craig