Re: Ragtime
Re: Ragtime
- Subject: Re: Ragtime
- From: George Mack <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:56:05 -0400
Nigel Garvey wrote:
The principle condition of use for Ragtime Solo is that it's *not* in a
professional setting!
Yes; but I wanted to evaluate it 1) to see how scriptable it would be
for graphs and 2) to see if it makes sense to buy it for professional
use. I figured I would fool with scripting it, see what roadblocks it
put up, then make a decision. But if there's an a priori limit on
what I can get, it might not be worth taking on the learning curve to
develop the scripts. (As opposed to writing a similar purpose script
for Illustrator, or even Quark, drawing the graphs with paths and
primitives.)
Juergen Schell wrote:
tell application "RagTime 5"
tell document 1
make new named color with properties ,
{name:"Blue", kind:spot, color:{cyan:80.0,
magenta:30.0, yellow:6.0, black:0.0} ,
, overprinting:true} at end
end tell
end tell
So it sounds as if I woould have to include a step of extracting
Pantone name and color spec from the Quark doc to build a color spec
as spot in Ragtime. Ragtime uses a graph object linked to a
spreadsheet object, so if I didn't want to show the spreadsheet I
might have to work around it. Then, if I export the illustration (if
I can) to reimport into Quark, I might have to change the color spec
from spot to process? (I know, Ragtime thinks I'm going to publish
with Ragtime, not Quark. But my printers and clients think
otherwise...)
Though I really like the idea of live spreadsheets in Ragtime, I may
decide to do the development in Illustrator anyway. (Too bad Adobe's
graphing module isn't scriptable.)
George
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