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Using Spot Colour palettes

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Reading through Planet Gnome i stumbled over a post of Andreas Nilsson (Random Pixels) who pointed to an interesting entry of the Scribus Wiki about using Spot Colour palettes (like HKS or Pantone). Of course this works with Gimp and Inskape too.
If you are looking for a conversion table about HKS, CMYK and RAL spot colors check out this PDF document and this webpage (HKS N,K,E,Z) or this (HKS/CMYK/ RGB) or this (Pantone/CMYK/RGB) too.

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Comments

Anonymous 4. August 2008, 16:25

Gary Ritchie writes:

You are my hero. This is just the info I needed for an identity project I'm working on. I was afraid I'd have to find a Windows or Mac machine to finish the job.

area42 4. August 2008, 19:04

:smile:

Anonymous 6. August 2008, 09:37

Anonymous writes:

Or you can use PANTANO:

http://www.jesusda.com/projects/colorpalettes/index.html

Anonymous 26. April 2009, 19:00

Anónimo writes:

Do you know if it's possible to convert the Scribus Swatches (imported from Pantone's EPS as described in Scribus' Wiki) to a .gpl palette?
I mean, I know I can create a palette from an imported EPS in Gimp, but I'd like to preserve the swatches names.
Is it possible? I tried using several methods but the problem seems to be that the CMYK swatches can't be converted directly to RGB.

area42 27. April 2009, 09:14

Scribus hasn't support for gpl palette files, i reported this as a requested feature and it is available in 1.3.5.

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