Subject: Re: syntax for the color property
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 00:55:29 CST
At 11:19 PM +0100 1/10/01, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
>Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> >
> > Because you might want to specify it in some other color
> > space such as grayscale, CMYK, etc.
>
>Hmm. I still do not see any real advantage in this, because AFAIK (though
>I am no expert in color conversions), each of them is easily converted
>to each other.
Conversion between certain spaces is relatively algorithmic,
HOWEVER it's not a perfect conversion - and for people who care about
this stuff (ie. prepress folks), you specify VERY specific colors.
That's where "spot colors" came about where even CMYK values weren't
specific enough and you need to use a name (eg. "Pantone 365", "Coke
Red", etc.)
> You need to do this conversion anyway, because internally
>in AbiWord you do not want many different ways to represent the same
>color (just think about the complications in the code everywhere...).
I don't expect Abi to support non-RGB spaces anytime soon,
BUT I also don't want it to throw away that information should it
appear in the document. However, if a future version of AW were to
support multiple color spaces, then you would keep the color in it's
native space and NOT convert until/unless absolutely necessary.
LDR
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