On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 08:00 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:12, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 19:05 -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Craig Bradney wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:16, Bryce Harrington wrote:
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/03/08/1712218.shtml?tid=152&t id=1 31&tid=130
(Scribus and Cinepaint have support for LittleCMS, but neither GIMP nor Inkscape support it yet. I wonder which project will succeed in implementing the support first?)
You tell us Bryce? :)
Depends on how many of you can lend me a hand.
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?
We cant. Its well and truly embedded in the printing market, however all it is is a simple list of colours and their references which are embedded into PS/PDF. Providing a method for this addition by the USER, for whatever system, be that Pantone or any of the others out there can easily be done with a reference field in the colour files. Speaking of which, we never really progressed with the colour file format we discussed ages ago.
Well, where do we go from here. I think this is of vital importance. Here is the wiki item that describes what we discussed oh so long ago:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ScribusInteroperability
It would be good to standardize on color format and also how to interoperate with Pantone. It looks like SCRIBUS already has a long list of colors, so maybe we can use these color names as the first OpenColor colors. Then, maybe we can make a chart that shows the equivalent pantone. I don't think we can include this conversion data with our apps, but I wonder what we could do to provide Pantone interoperability?
The other thinking is that OpenColor could be a sub-project of the Open Clip Art Library and color swatches could be large part of the library -- all SVG-based color swatches. Any ideas on this anyone? This would only really work with support from Scribus, Inkscape and Gimp, right?
Fortunately, Scribus and Gimp are much further along in color swatch support, so there are some implementations to think about for a general approach.
Jon
PS: Man, talk about a monopoly....Pantone has the monopoly on color!!!
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