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problem with spot color export

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Version 0.7.3, Windows 7

When importing a 'PANTONE color bridge CMYK EC.ACO' from C:\Program Files (x86)\PANTONE(R) color bridge(TM)\PANTONE color bridge CMYK EC\Application Support Files\Adobe\Photoshop or a Photoshop installation and export it to a scribus.xml none of the colors is marked as spot colors.

Well I could step through all of the 1089 colors to mark this by hand, obviously not what someone would do. So could you give us an option in SwatchBooker and SwatchBooker Batch Converter to mark all colors as spot colors before exporting.

And could you do us a favor when writing Scribus swatches - write not only 'Spot="1"' into the file but 'Spot="0"' as well, this will make the file more readable in Notepad++. 1 KB less ore more isn't the case anymore.

And we have something to copy in the replace option and mustn't get it from an other file.

from ' />' to ' Spot="1" />' by replacing - would be more self explaining if I found ' Spot="0" />' in the file

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Launchpad User (78luphr0rnk2nuqimst-launchpad-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjt) said : 		#2

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Best Olivier Berten (olivier-berten) said : 		#3

Hi!

The ACO format doesn't have a "spot" parameter so this is the reason no color is marked as spot in SwatchBooker.

But an option to change all colours to "spot" is interesting. I might add it when I have some more time for that project. Please register a blueprint <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swatchbooker> for this.

Adding 'spot="0"' to scribus format is really easy:

Open file C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\swatchbook\codecs\scribus.py

go to line 99-100:
     if 'spot' in item.usage:
      scsw_tmp += ' Spot="1"'

add after:
     else:
      scsw_tmp += ' Spot="0"'

Yours,

Olivier

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Launchpad User (78luphr0rnk2nuqimst-launchpad-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjt) said : 		#4

Thanks Olivier Berten, that solved my question.