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I finally sat down and created a friendlier, HTML version of the Unofficial Adobe Color Book Specification by updating the original post. This obsoletes the 80-column plain-text version that I wrote up in 2003.
Here’s a freeware tool that I had written back in 2003, shortly after reverse-engineering the Adobe Color Book Format. This command-line Windows application extracts color data from color book files and generates XML. Once the color data is safely in XML domain, the rest is up to your imagination…
Adobe Photoshop’s Color Picker has a Custom Colors dialog that offers a wide variety of colors from several industry-standard color catalogs such as ANPA, DIC, Focoltone and Pantone.
Adobe Photoshop’s Custom Colors Dialog
The color catalog data comes from Adobe Color Book files. These file have the .ACB file extension on Windows and reside inside the “…/Presets/Color Book” folder in a typical installation. Read the rest of this entry »
