Hi,
Thanks for your input Mark and Frank.
But there is something I don't understand : how can you add CMYK colors in
MapInfo, when the palette only offers two possibilities : HSL or RGB ?
Then, when you export your image from the layout, it doesn't even tag the
image with any color profile, it doesn't even tell whether the colors are
RGB or CMYK. The only thing I can tell is that our printer (which accepts
both RGB and CMYK colors) reproduce the colors I see on the display better
when I use the RGB option; so I assumed that there was no CMYK color
management in MapInfo. How are you able to feed in CMYK ? The use of
Photoshop in order to find out the CMYK color numbers is also what I was
thinking to achieve. But then, I don't see how I could achieve that (note
that I'm not an advanced user programming in Mapbasic).
Have a nice week.
Christiane
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"Frank, Claude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05.03.2005 00:06
Pour : "Mark Neuhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Objet : RE: RE: MI-L Réf. : MI-L MapInfo's Map Quality G ets Panned
in the News
Thanks Mark. I actually had a coder colleague write an mbx that recreates
a decent color picker and sometimes I just open Photoshop's and plug in
those values.
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Hi,
At 10:00 AM 3/4/2005 -0700, Frank, Claude wrote:
>and get rid of that ridiculous 256 color palette! That is strictly for
kids.
snip, snip...
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>MapInfo doesn't offer any color management and when you have to convert
>your maps in the CMYK world, this is a pain. I understand that color
>management could be left for other imaging software. But MapInfo should
at
>least offer CMYK palettes or HFS palettes.
For what it's worth, here is how I use CMYK for making geology maps.
For each of our maps, which we plot to an HP postscript plotter and to a
PDF file, we have a layout consisting of a map showing geologic unit
polygons, a time-rock chart, cross sections, and explanation boxes, all in
full color.
Each of these tables have columns for the CMYK values that I wish to use
for that particular rock unit and I have a master table listing each rock
unit only once. In this master table, I enter the CMYK value for each
rock
unit polygon, and then update the other tables through a small mapbasic
command line operation. I then run the mbx called "addcolor" which
changes
all the polygons to the appropriate CMYK color.
This way, if I don't like a color I placed in the map polygons, I only
have
to change it in the master table, run the updater, run addcolor, and all
my
component pieces have the same colors.
I can use ANY CMYK color combination, even better than in the old days
when
I would insert a screen by hand under an open window negative as we made
the printing plates.
Don't know if this is helpful or not.
Mark
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