In programming sense there is no "PANTONE problem" This issue is a pure psychological problem, no more. If application supports spot colors it supports PANTONE. For example if I bought printed Pantone color catalogue so I can use these colors in my jobs (without such catalogue it is impossible). I can create my custom palette for these colors in sK1, of course for personal usage not for distribution. It is absolutely a legal way. But Pantone names are important in two production points:<br> <br>1) customer/designer should select the colors in printed Pantone catalogue<br>2) before printing these inks should be prepared on precision scales using Pantone approved formulas provided by ink manufacture<br><br>All the points are not software related directly. All you need is text label on plate, for example  "PANTONE 107C". But for color separation there is no difference between "PANTONE 107C" and "Customer Favorite Yellow Ink" labels. As a result you will get b/w film anyway. For printing probe Pantone color definition in CMYK is also approximate becase there aren't printing devices which can reproduce Pantone color using 4 or 6 color printing.<br> <br>"Pantone support" and Pantone  palette are important for those intense people who say: "Your application doesn't provide Pantone palettes so it is not professional application!". So such users can test importing palettes from CorelDRAW and they will understand quickly that these palettes are useful for attractive application screenshots only :) For example, although we used Pantone based printing for our screen printing production during 6 years I never (!) used Pantone palette in CorelDRAW because it is just redundant operation. Unlike MS fonts the Pantone palettes are only for bating user's curiosity. But unfortunately this is important psychological issue.<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Olivier BERTEN <<a href="mailto:olivier.berten@gmail.com">olivier.berten@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">It's a practical way of solving the problem but not a legal way since most software like Adobe's or Corel's specify in the license that you can't use these data outside their software. Unlike MS fonts which are freely available to anyone.<br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Igor Novikov a écrit :</p><div class="Ih2E3d"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote">It seems this code allows resolving PANTONE colors usage issue into FOSS applications because users will know where to get the palettes and how to convert its. Something like as for MS core fonts for Linux ;)<br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> CREATE mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>