CMYK to Pantone
Mintsauce (1004 points) | Thu, 2008-09-25 14:22Inspired by: http://creativebits.org/help_cmyk_pantone
Sometimes you get artwork from a client or other "designer" done in CMYK and you need it in Pantone colours. You can use the Pantone CMYK lookup but it will take you days. And for some reason no "reverse lookup" exists. (Not that I know of.)
A nifty little OSX App from somewhere in the Great Outback exists. CMYKtoSPOT. It's not perfect (nor is it 100% correct) but when you're in a pinch it does come in handy.
You can get it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/2392239/CMYKtoSPOT.zip.html
(I am in no way affiliated to this product, just found it in a desperate effort to find the correct Pantone for a CMYK one day, and thought CBers would find it helpful too.)
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nice.. but does it really have to take up the whole screen? how do i quit it besides hitting the pantone website thing?
Annoying ... isn't it. He says it's a BETA bug. Not sure if he's still working on it though.
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Webdevs should know betas aren't for public release. (Just a pet peeve I've carried over from another post). Having "beta" on a website is so web2.0. :)
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A Beta release is "is the first version released outside the organization or community that develops the software, for the purpose of evaluation or real-world black/grey-box testing."
It's up to the programmer / web developer to decide whether the "Beta Testers" are a select number of people or the general population.
The reason commercial software is Beta released to a select group is two fold:
1 - It's buggy and could cause data loss - something Beta Testers are made aware of, and are willing to endure.
2 - It's commercial and releasing a near working version could affect the sale of the commercial release - since everybody has the "Free" Beta version.
With open source software or public web sites the general public becomes the Beta group - the greater the test group the greater the chances of finding errors. Since releasing Beta to the general public will not affect sales, there is no reason not to.
Now what does get to me, like I'm sure it does to you is the Web2.0 tendency - ex. Gmail - to stay in Beta for years. :O
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Great comments. I don't think a beta is a beta anymore if anyone can use it. Then it's a "ready for primetime" release in my mind. Beta just has this cache now as a word just like Web 2.0 used to. Just give us the darned software when it's working... :)
Apple needs to take a page from this book as well.
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"Powerpoint is not a design application"
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The definition of BETA, and other software development terms.
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Thanks Jim, that was an entertaining read!
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