On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:54:00AM +0100, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 28 grudnia 2004 08:18, Craig Bradney napisa?: > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 04:19, Gabriel Gazz?n wrote: > > > At 19:04 27/12/2004, you wrote: > > > >Our final worry is that it doesn't support proprietary color > > > > standards such as Hexachrome or Pantone -- and likely never will." > > > > > > Can't these features ever be supported via proprietary plugins in the > > > future? I mean provide some good API planned just for that, waiting > > > for someone to come in and do it? > > > (perhaps I'm asking for something that's absolutely not feasible...) > > > > Its not about the code, its about the fee/royalties/large sums of cash > > that need to be paid to use the systems. > > > I understand but maybe some day Scribus will be so popular that > commercial firm will wrote closed, not-free plugin. And some users will > prefer to pay money for plugin to Scribus than $BIGSUM for whole > system like Quark or InDesign.
Hey - you can always see if Pantone would like to contribute to an open source project... you know, it's for a good cause sort of thing... You can tell Pantone about "...applications critical to your success in which the ability to use PANTONE Colors would be helpful." at this web page: ;) http://www.pantone.com/products/products.asp?idSubArea=0&idArea=1&idProduct=309&idArticleType_Products=0&productpoll=702 Say, 3 apps can be listed, I can dump in The GIMP and Inkscape as well... cheers dc -- David Purton dcpurton at chariot.net.au For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041228/f9964fdb/attachment.pgp
