[scribus] making your own Pantone color list

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/23/2013 09:55 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Thanks for your idea, Gregory. I made a quick and dirty implementation
> of it in Gambas, and ended up with some error.
> 
> Strangely enough, I had go into the original resource directory to find
> a number of color .xml files delivered with Scribus. Isn't there a
> standard directory for these? And why are they hidden in the source?
> 
> Anyway, according to your idea this is what my program should deliver:
> 
>> <COLOR RGB="#f4ed7c" NAME="PMS 100" Spot="1" />
> 
> When I offer a list like this, Scribus imports it with all color fields
> black and just the original xml code behind it. So I looked into the xml
> files provided, and they showed a header and start-end tags, of course.
> 
> Adding those, however, resulted in Scribus telling "not an XML color file".
> 
> So, what now? Here's an excerpt of what my program produces:
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <SCRIBUSCOLORS Name="Pantone-Farben">
> < Name="PMS 100" COLOR RGB="#f4ed7c" Spot="1" />
> < Name="PMS 101" COLOR RGB="#f4ed47" Spot="1" />
> < Name="PMS 102" COLOR RGB="#f9e814" Spot="1" />
> ...
> ...
> ...
> </SCRIBUSCOLORS>
> 

Yes.
The lines should be:

< COLOR RGB="#f4ed7c" Name="PMS 100" Spot="1" />

and so on.

Greg