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Marco Ugolini wrote:
The Pantone libraries reside in files ending in ".aco", in the directory
(computername)/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS/Presets/Color Swatches/Adobe
Photoshop Only.
These are formatted in a proprietary way that makes them unreadable in
ColorThink or ColorShop or ColorLab.
Probably proprietary. I've looked at (and decoded) spot color library
formats from a number of vendors, and they have been all different.
Some have been easy to work out, and some impossible.
There are open standards for this sort of thing, namely the ICC format
(but it only holds CIE values), and Gretag have tried to promote their
XML based CxF format. The most flexible formats hold spectral values.
What seems to be missing, is any interest by the vendors of spot color
palates, in selling them in any standard format (presumably due to
concerns over copying.)
Graeme Gill.
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