[OpenICC] colour palettes/lists

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Tue Sep 20 19:28:23 EST 2005


On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:34, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
> > I don´t see any way to realise Pantone Support in OSS like Scribus.
> > The business model of Pantone is totaly contrare to OSS.
> > The idea of Pantone is total control over spotcolor workflows with
> > licensing fees on every step on the workflow.
> > The goal of Pantone to is to licence its system individually to every
> > software vendor.
>
> The only practical way to solve this that I've found, is to include
> spot color library compatibility for a commercial package that
> comes with a licensed Pantone library. Buy a copy of that package,
> for each of your systems, and then use the Pantone spot library
> that comes with it for your non-commercial applications.

Well, we need to define what part of spots to support. Export via a name is 
nothing special. Import via a library or profiles for such commercial systems 
is harder to get around.

Craig



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