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206 Color Handling

To access the COLOR GALLERY:

• Choose UTILITIES -> GALLERIES -> COLOR GALLERY ("F9").
• Or click the COLOR GALLERY button on the GALLERIES bar.

Buttons at the
top are dimmed if
they are not
available, for
example, if there
is no selected
color, or more
than one color is
selected.
The REDEFINE
button redefines
the selected
color in the
gallery to be that
of the selected
object.

The Color Gallery shows colors for all documents currently loaded.

Document handling (on page 61) has general information about galleries.

PANTONE® Colors

PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE gives access to a wide range of standard pre-defined colors
that you can use when creating materials that will be professionally produced using litho
printing. Using PANTONE color numbers enables a more reliable way of reproducing
known colors. For example, the Scottish Parliament has defined that the blue color used
in the Scottish flag be PANTONE 300. This means anyone reproducing the flag can be
sure to get the correct shade of blue.

PANTONE colors can be used two ways. The "spot color" expensive way involves your
commercial printer using special inks that are exact PANTONE colors. So when you
specify, say PANTONE 120 (a shade of yellow), the printer purchases an ink that is
exactly this shade of yellow. This is expensive because it requires special inks to be
used. It’s usually only economically viable if you require large or very large production
runs. This is sometimes referred to as PANTONE solid or spot colors.