Re: Ragtime
Re: Ragtime
- Subject: Re: Ragtime
- From: Juergen Schell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:11:21 +0200
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.)
Your question reminded me that I always wanted to prepare an English
translation of a German language introduction "Scripting RagTime", I
wrote several months ago for a web site. It will take a couple of
days. I will make it available when it is ready. It will have a lot
of those grammatical mistakes typical for people who learned English
in school but it should help to get some basic ideas.
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...)
Actually Pantone colors are not available in RagTime. If an EPS file
with spot colors is imported, these colors appear as styles in
RagTime and can be used for RagTime objects as well. The screen
representation will be different (both RagTime and the EPS file chose
there way to represent the color independently) but the will behave
consistently when printing on a color PostScript device and in color
separation.
For both, process color separation and spot color separation, an EPS
needs to follow some Adobe specification that extends the basic EPS
spec. All applications doing EPS separation and exporting EPS should
behave in a compatible manner. So far we did not find problems to
print a separation of a RagTime EPS from XPress or vice versa. Of
course, bugs are possible anywhere :-(
(The specs for color separation and EPS are described in Adobe
Technical Note #5044 "Color Separation Conventions for PostScript
Language Programs". It can be found on
<
http://developer.adobe.com>)
J|rgen
PS: We are working on the OS X version and still hope to have a beta
this summer.
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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