Re: gray is also a color (was Re: inDesign2)
Re: gray is also a color (was Re: inDesign2)
- Subject: Re: gray is also a color (was Re: inDesign2)
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 07:41:08 -0400
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I wrote:
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> This will change in a future version, I was told. But, other than
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> Photoshop,
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> what other DTP application can you say support grayscale management?
To which Tom replied:
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Is your point here is that there must not be much of a real need
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for device independence with gray scale images
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if it is not already provided by an application that competes
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with InDesign?
Come on, no! Grayscale management to me is an integral part of desktop
publishing and should not be ignored in modern page layout applications,
especially in InDesign who has all the other components of color management
right. I'm all for grayscale management, don't get me wrong.
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It seems like the techniques that are beginning to serve us well
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for color control
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are fully capable of providing very good results with gray scale.
100% agreement.
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It doesn't call for the development of new techniques,
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we just need to open the color management door to gray scale.
Yes, same perception here.
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Has anyone out there put together or seen a functioning,
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device independent workflow for gray scale "color" management
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that they would be willing to share?
Right now, other than through a RIP I don't know of, the only conduit I can
think for grayscale color management is iQueue, from Gretagmacbeth.
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- - - Tom Vanderlinden
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printing for preservation
I hope grayscale "color" management happens sooner than later.
Regards,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
email@hidden
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