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Spot Colour: beta testers wanted!
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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I've just uploaded the first beta of "Spot Picker", a new macos X color picker which implements spot colour in most modern macos X applications. If you have Adobe CS (or another source of PostScript swatch libraries) and want to use spot colour in other applications, please beta test this for me.
The typical workflow is: create a piece of artwork in an application such as OmniGraffle, Border, etc. using spot colours from PANTONE; drag the result to InDesign to incorporate it in a document; create your separations in the usual way; and send the results to your print agency. It also works with Print/Save as PDF.
Download Spot Picker from:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.hilke...SpotPicker.dmg
read the readme file, (installation is not completely straightforward yet) and let me know how it works.
Barney.
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OK, beta 2 is out (same address). No one found any bugs, so I added : - simplified installation with automatic location of InDesign swatch libraries
- support for printers registration colour
- compatibility with swatch libraries downloaded from PANTONE
Anyone got any feedback for me?
Barney.
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In case anyone here is remotely interested, I just uploaded beta 3. Now supports EPS output and spot colours with RGB definitions.
If anyone has tried it, please let me know! Does no one here use old-fashioned print?
Barney.
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Barney,
I'm not into old-fashioned print, but I think I know someone who could use this. I'm going to forward it on to her and see if she'll give you some feedback.
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Thanks TimmyDee, that would be really helpful. Reassure her that no one has yet had any problems with it, in spite of the warnings in the readme file!
Barney.
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Join Date: May 2002
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how do I load libraries in to it?
oh and it would be nice if the icon was a little pantone chip 
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Originally posted by sushiism:
how do I load libraries in to it?
oh and it would be nice if the icon was a little pantone chip
Hi sushiism, sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I went up to the lakes for the weekend. If you have InDesign CS it should find your libraries automatically. Otherwise open a terminal window and type:
defaults write -g SpotPickerSwatchFolder <path>
where <path> is the path to a folder of postscript colour libraries. I'll post a new version with more details soon.
Barney.
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New version!
New icon (see if you prefer this one, sushiism);
Stopped embedding unused colours in EPS output;
Fixed a problem if you tried to use a transparent registration colour;
Fixed a remote possibility of getting the wrong colour.
Please upgrade.
Barney.
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