Re: CxF and Excel
Re: CxF and Excel
- Subject: Re: CxF and Excel
- From: Don Hutcheson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:39 -0500
Unfortunately you have to buy the new Office 2008 suite for Mac which
downgrades several aspects of Office 2004. I had no intention of
upgrading to what is being called by many a downgrade.
Don
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Don Hutcheson
HutchColor, LLC
Washington, NJ 07882, USA
office: (908) 689 7403
cell: (908) 500 0341
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On 12/15/08, at 15:04, email@hidden wrote:
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:23:36 -0500
From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
Subject: About the (wonderful) CxF2 format
To: email@hidden
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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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