[scribus] Scripting expert needed to speed up colour palette conversion

[Owen]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:50:20 +0200 (CEST)
"Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have brought on board another commercial colour vendor, this time
> one from North America. At the moment, we are feverishly working on
> all sorts of issues, including documentation, colour correctness,
> logo exchange, licensing etc.
> 
> You could help to speed up the process by writing a shell or Python
> script.
> 
> I receive all palettes as EPS files, which are easy to convert to
> Scribus's own XML palette format. However, since the colours aren't
> stored as spot colours, they end up being imported as something like
> "FromPDF#00000040", which is completely useless when referring to a
> printed colour swatch that is based on CMYK ink mixtures.
> 
> In a Scribus XML palette file, the converted colour entry looks like
> this:
> 
> <COLOR NAME="FromPDF#00404040" CMYK="#00404040"/>
> 
> What is needed is a script that strips the string FromPDF and
> converts the hex value in a specific way (adding ink channel
> abbreviations and slashes), so that the end result looks like this:
> 
> <COLOR NAME="C25/M25/Y25/K25" CMYK="#40404040"/>
> 
> Anyone willing to step in?



Hi,

A bit like Frank, I am not sure how you went from #00404040 to #40404040

Did you intend to include the eps file in the source? or just the xml?


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Owen