From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: RAL colours
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 21:34:49 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73D5DBF2-E4B8-458D-9A3B-E3114D058837@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150404113110.GN9095@darjiling>
Am 2015-04-04 um 17:31 schrieb Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>:
> 1. Is the RAL colour space a decent one for printing purposes? What
> would be disadvantages, if not?
No, it’s not. RAL colors are defined only for surface colors, like lacquer (varnish? paint).
Printing colors work differently, they’re mostly transparent.
A parallel to RAL in printing colors would be Pantone (or HKS in Germany, Toyo in Japan).
But these are copyrighted, so we would be most probably not allowed to ship a library of these.
(If I need some spot color, I look up the CMYK/RGB mix in Photoshop or InDesign.)
> 2. Does colo-imp-ral.mkiv exist already?
That would make no sense IMO.
Greetlings, Hraban (printing engineer)
---
http://www.fiee.net
http://wiki.contextgarden.net
https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-04 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-04 11:31 Pavneet Arora
2015-04-04 11:42 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-07 9:10 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-04-04 15:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2015-04-04 16:00 ` Pavneet Arora
2015-04-06 4:11 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-04-06 8:32 ` luigi scarso
2015-04-06 14:11 ` Pavneet Arora
2015-04-06 14:16 ` Pavneet Arora
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=73D5DBF2-E4B8-458D-9A3B-E3114D058837@fiee.net \
--to=texml@fiee.net \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
--cc=pavneet_arora@waroc.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).