[CREATE] CREATE Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10

Jon Cruz jon at joncruz.org
Wed Jan 20 01:31:16 PST 2010


On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Carlos López González wrote:

> Very interesting. I've been thinking lately on implement a palette file format for Synfig Studio.
> I was considering to use same format as Gimp but after see the xml specification from SwatchBooker
> it seems reasonable to use it as our standard. That would give us the opportunity to import several 
> palette formats from other applications and make the Synfig Studio ones easily portable. Also it is 
> possible to save the palette format within the animation file.
> 
> I'm not aware about any discussion on palette format in this mailing list. Can you guys enlight me?
> Is there any open standard on pallete definition?

Well... I've pointed out a few times that we really want to cover swatches, which are far more than just color. The CREATE color effort stopped at color and color only.

I think that Synfig is exactly the type of application that needs swatches in the general graphic arts sense of the word.
http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-swatch.html

I've got code started for Inkscape, and now that 0.47 has been released we can be moving forward on it.

Also... it appears that all the color set work with professional companies Scribus is doing might also need this.


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