About the (wonderful) CxF2 format
About the (wonderful) CxF2 format
- Subject: About the (wonderful) CxF2 format
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:23:36 -0500
As you may already know, the CxF2 format is about to become a "central"
figure in color management processing. It is destined to hold all kinds of
color related data such as illuminant, tristimulus values, spectral
reflectance and so on, into a simple, universally-readable container format.
Right now, there aren't too many "readers" of this exciting new color
format. I was looking for a way to visualize my painstakingly created
ColorMunki Design palettes in a 3D viewing utility like Chromix ColorThink
-- my favorite. But all I could do with my palettes was to export them into
either ASE, CxF2 or ACO format. That's all fine and dandy for directly
putting those palettes to good use in the Creative Suite of applications but
what about for analytical purposes? With my limited understanding of XML, I
searched around for XML Viewing or Editing on the Internet when it hit me
that the answer was right under my nose: MS Excel 2007. Since all MS-Office
2007 Suite is XML-based, there could be a way to import the CxF2 documents,
who are XML-based after all, right into Excel -- wouldn't that be wonderful?
Well, after some trepidation, it worked. And not too difficultly (is that an
acceptable English adverb?). Anyhow, now I have all my palettes sitting in
Excel sheets and the next step of bringing them into ColorThink should not
prove formidable.
Thank you so much Mr. X-Rite for bringing out such indispensable color
formats!
In a not so distant future, I gather we'll be getting more tools from X-Rite
to better exploit the CxF2 format in all of their color management
applications.
But, for the moment, I'll take what I can from MS-Excel ;-)
Roger Breton
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