[scribus] making your own Pantone color list

[Craig Bradney]

On 23/09/13 6:33 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 12:08 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 23.09.2013 17:29, schrieb 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
>>>
>>
>> Hm. That alone won't help either. And the order of RGB, Name and Spot
>> shouldn't matter, as it doesn't in the other xml files. But there is one
>> more tag called Register, it's missing here, what is it good for?
>>
>> When I leave out the whitespaces after < and before />, Scribus won't
>> complain anymore, but it imports only one single color without any
>> description.
> 
> My guess is that it's important to have COLOR the first word  in the tag.
> 
> Greg
> 


Of course, COLOR is what you are describing, the rest are attributes of the COLOR.

Craig
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