On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:37 -0500, Kevin Wixson wrote:
Jon Phillips wrote:
What needs to be done? Slice and dice the problem into chunks...this will be great to support! Ah, once implemented then can start to work on the OpenColor system to rival Pantone. MRDOCS and I talked about this? Craig, how do you all deal with the whole Pantone-dominance issue?
Jon
I don't understand your question. Pantone has to do with the Pantone ink formulations that printers use. You specify Pantone (PMS) colors in your art so that when you take it to the printer they create a separate printer plate for the offset press that will use that color ink. I don't understand what you're suggesting be changed about that.
In order to explictly include Pantone color support, we would have to license their colors. Pantone colors are industry standard and Pantone has a complete monopoly on color. I want to develop an OpenColor standard akin to Pantone that anyone can use for free and also provide swatches and colors for free. I want to research this a bit and develop our own. However, I'm not sure to what level we could use Pantone in Inkscape, Scribus or GIMP. To be taken seriously by printing houses, we really need to sort this one out. lcms helps with this task.
Jon
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