Re: import colors into FH

Nice to hear from macromedia, John. Thank you.

John Dowdell wrote:
>But did I pick up the correct sticking point here? Was it an issue that
>ColorMix actually uses two or three different colors to simulate a color
>that is never actually there...?

That's it. The problem arises when importing (or pasting) the swatch. When
imported, FreeHand actually divides the swatch into sections - each
containing one of the mixed colors.

>If you wanted to you could blur the swatch once it's in FreeHand (by using
>any standard pixel-blurring filter), and this would give an approximation
>of the perceived color.

I'm concerned about the blur technique, thinking it'll probably dither in
the browser. I'm thinking there's got to be a cleaner method for getting
hybrid colors into FH...

James Counihan
Centren Systems Corporation
Seattle, Washington� USA
Email: j.counihan(at)centren.com
Phone: 206.361.9647� x85

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