Hi! I've been looking around about color swatches in Scribus these last days and I happen to ask myself some questions.
Legal issues : - Is it ok to use proprietary swatches (read Pantone) outside of the application it's distributed with? - Is it ok to convert these swatches into another format? Concretely: you can install a demo version of InDesign or QuarkXPress, which are distributed with a dozen of proprietary swatches. The XPress 7 ones are in xml format so it would be easy to import and the Adobe Color Book binary format is quite easy to read. So the question is now: is it conceivable to include these formats into the colour import function? I'm trying to make a convertor for acb (CS2 and CS3) to sla: http://www.olivierberten.info/scribus/#acb2sla It's not yet fully functionnal since the L*a*b data are given as-is... and Scribus doesn't yet support it... (if someone has a Lab2sRGB convert script in PHP, it would be helpful... I'm not very good at PHP maths...) Technical issues - I've seen L*a*b support is in project <http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Colour_Requirements> but it's not on the roadmap. It would be quite useful for the spot colours since all software now use the L*a*b data in their spot colour lists... - The current swatch format is quite basic and doesn't include "spot" info (I've started the page <http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/New_Colours_Format> following the 1.3.6 stage of the roadmap) - By default, the colour list is alphabetically sorted. Is it possible to disable this? In some swatches, the colour order is quite significant... Olivier
