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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:54:09 +0100
To: David Harris <DavidH@pro.com>, tiff@olympiakos.com
From: Martin Bailey <martinb@harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Spot colors in TIFF
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At 14:43 14/05/99 +0100, David Harris wrote:
>I am working on a Graphic Arts application that involves interchanging
>TIFFs, where each TIFF contains an arbitrary number of separations (usually
>CMYK + some spot colors) - photometric interpretation=5, with InkSet=2 and
>the colors listed using the InkNames tag. So that these files can be
>displayed onscreen, it would be useful to store an approximate
>representation of each spot color, in CMYK or RGB. There does not seem to
>be any standard tag for this - has anyone already registered a custom tag
>for this purpose? If not, Ill go ahead and register my own. Thanks for any
>feedback.

I'm hoping to see this as a standard tag in TIFF 7, I know I'm not the only
one who's requested it.



Regards

Martin Bailey

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