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Re: Web Design & Pantone to RGB

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From: H Doan
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:53
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In article <4jsbc9$r79@news1.io.org>, gmead@io.org (Glen Mead) wrote:

> 
>  Second, are there any programs (either stand alone or as features within 
>another program)or tables to convert Pantone colours to RGB?  At work I tried 
>selecting a Pantone colour in CorelDraw 4.0 as a fill colour, then I changed 
>from the Pantone palette to an RGB palette and recorded the RGB values.  Then, 
>I took the colour values over to our SGI and the resulting colour was nothing 
>like the colour I was looking for.
> 
>  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Glen Mead - gmead@io.org



Let me say that you can never be reallys satisfied with the "colors I was 
looking for." See, the web is much different than print. With print, your 
output is CONTROLLED. On-line designs ahve so many variables involved; 
palette anomalies, multi-platform differences, image dithering, monitor sizes 
and bandwidth considerations.


-- HDoan
   Virtual Works
   www.vworks.com

 
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