Pantone  -  A Pantone colour-set for DTP


This application contains a set of Pantone colours for use with Ovation Pro, ArtWorks and Impression Publisher Plus.

Running the application will open a filer window containing two files and a directory. The text file contains the colour definitions in a suitable form for importing into ArtWorks, and the ArtWorks file is an empty document with the colours already in place. Either of these two files can be loaded directly into ArtWorks, but in order to incorporate the colours into Publisher Plus, it is necessary to proceed as follows:

1. Open the Publisher Plus document into which you wish to
    import the colours
2. Create a new blank frame and drag the ArtWorks file into it
3. Double-click on this frame to open the Alter graphic
    dialogue window
4. Click on Colour map... to open the Colour mapping editor
    sub-window
5. Turn on the AW colours button; the colours will be merged
    into the document
6. Close the dialogue boxes, and delete the frame you created
    in step 2; the new colours will remain in the document

The Ovation Pro version of the Pantone file is contained in the OvationPro directory. In order to install the colours, copy this file into the !OvnResDir.Colours directory associated with your working copy of Ovation Pro. When you next run the application, you will be able to find the colour set within the colour editor: choose the Misc>Edit colours... menu option; in the window which opens, click the Chart... button; and, finally, in the Colour chart window, click on the menu icon and choose Pantone from the pop-up menu that appears.

The official Pantone system is designed to ensure that commercial printing companies can be certain that a chosen colour is always faithfully reproduced. The colours provided on this disc are not endorsed by Pantone, but the results of using them should give the same effect as using an Apple Macintosh or other system which has the colours officially built in.

It is of course impossible to have an official Pantone-approved setup unless you have a closed-loop system where the colorimetry of your monitor and/or your graphics card can be aligned accurately to give the necessary colour temperature responses. RISC OS does have most of the features available to do the necessary calibration in software, but the algorithms to complete the loop and match Pantone standards are not available.

Basic Pantone text file and ArtWorks variant reproduced from the RISC Disc volume 2 CD-ROM by kind permission of Uniqueway Ltd

Ovation Pro-format Pantone file created by Richard Hallas, based on Uniqueway's text-format original version for ArtWorks; copyrightRISCUser1996
