On 12/21/2010 09:38 AM, Olivier BERTEN wrote: > Hi! > > Here is my first try at scripting Scribus: > http://www.selapa.net/scribus/Pantone.py > > If you run it as standalone (or within Scribus< 1.5 but it doesn't > really make sense), it let's you save Pantone's palettes in your > "swatches/locked" folder. > >> From within Scribus 1.5, it features importing individual colors to the > current document. It's limited to version 1.5 because earlier version > don't allow to define RGB colors, which is how color data are available > (with Lab, of course) for most of Pantone's palettes. > By the way, adding individual colors from libraries is a feature that > should be added to Scribus since you usually need process colors and a > few spot colors. You don't need to import the whole thousands of colors > in your document. And if you want to load a library, you loose all your > colors... > > Comments and suggestions welcome...
haven't tried it, but on the surface it looks worth a try. It remains to be seen whether Pantone may object to this (if they manage to hear about it). At least you're not including their data inside the script. Greg
