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

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. März 2013 um 11:18 Uhr
> Von: Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au>
> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] Scripting expert needed to speed up colour palette conversion
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:08:39 +1100
> Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>
>
> It just occurred to me, and I shake at the knees to say it, that you may
> have made a mistake, would it be possible that what you wanted to do
> was to go from
>
> <COLOR NAME="FromPDF#40404040" CMYK="#40404040"/>   to
> <COLOR NAME="C25/M25/Y25/K25" CMYK="#40404040"/>
> 
> That is substitute C25/M25/Y25/K25 for FromPDF#40404040 (not
> FromPDF#00404040)
>

Yes, that was a typo.


Christoph