Color Palates for Pages '09

When you choose a color fill in a Pages inspector you get the colors box. The first button on the top is the color wheel. This first screenshot is from Numbers, but it works the same in Pages.




I don't know about adding other color palettes, the ones supplied meet my needs.

OSX does not support spot colors, so you can not specify Pantone. Trumatch is based on cmyk but there is no direct way to use it.

There is a pricey 3rd part solution, 39 euro, to patch a named pallette into the Color Selector. This is a faux solution because on top of the uncertainty of it working with Pages '09 it requires the prior installation of Adobe's CS software or Quark Xpress in which case there would be little need to use Pages.

These are not real spot colors but merely RGB or CMYK approximations of the Pantone palettes.

Unfortunately this is a big hole in OSX which Apple looks disinclined to do anything about.

Peter

I do not have a color wheel.

Yes, you do. Open the Apple Colour Palette and choose the leftmost palette mode, Colour Wheel.

I have the basic RGB, CMYK, HSB, and grayscale?

Yes, these are the colourant models / colourant formats that can be colour managed.

I would like to have ... Web safe colors.

Yes, you have Web Safe colours. Open the Apple Colour Palette and choose the middle palette mode, Colour Palettes, then open the drop-down list and choose Web Safe Colours (which is in fact a colour managed NMCL Named Colour list profile).

I would like to have other palates I can use, such as Pantone, Trumatch,

No, you cannot colour manage these colourant models / colourant formats. They are premixed and form the intended colours if and only if you precisely duplicate the intended printing conditions (intended paper, intended tone value increase, intended ink set). That is, these colourant combinations are not 'portable' or 'repurposable' from one printing condition to another nor are they defined if you deviate, that is, if you were to use a named colour profile for them, which you could in principle do, that named colour profile would apply if and only if you used the colour definitions for conditions at which the colourants were laid down at 100% as intended. If you used the colour definitions for a 75% tint of Pantone XXX or Trumatch YYY, you would have no predictable colour definition any more.

Peter Breis still does not get to base one on the portability of spot versus process in paginated publishing -:)

/hh

I do not have a color wheel.

Make sure to click on the little oval thing at the top right of the Colors pane.

at the top right of the Colors pane

Top left, see Peggy's post.

/hh

at the top right of the Colors pane

Top left, see Peggy's post.

When someone mistakenly thinks they do not have a color wheel, it is sometimes because they cannot see it to select it, and that is because the area at the top of the Colors pane where you can select it is closed, and the way you open that is to click on the little oval at the top right.

Whether that in fact was an issue for the OP I don't know.

and that is because the area at the top of the Colors pane where you can select it is closed, and the way you open that is to click on the little oval at the top right.

You're right, the Apple Colour Palette is so constructed that

- the set of selectors for colourant model can be hidden, and

- the set of selectors for ICC source colour space are always hidden.

I am sure that the Apple Font Palette is from NextStep release 3 in 1992. I am not sure that the Apple Colour Palette is also from NextStep release 3 in 1992.

/hh

Kenneth Ryland wrote:
Well, that didn't work. Sorry I can't show you a screen shot of what my color palette looks like. Maybe you can tell me how you posted the screen shot.

Command-Shift-4

Drag the capture area.

File appears on Desktop. Give it a descriptive name.

Upload file to photo hosting service, your Mobile Me account, etc.

Copy HTML address of the photo on the host, usually presented with other sharing options.

Paste the HTML code into your post here.

Regard,

Jerry

I cannot find a color wheel

What happens when you do View > Show Colors?

Here is a look at what I see.

Earlier I asked you to click on the little oval thing at the top right, next to where it says Colors. It appears you have not done so. Try it.

I demonstrate some of iWork's great color capabilities in my EmpowerCast series here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERC_9eiX-Ek

Have a look and drop me a line. I just posted Episode 7!

Enjoy!

Pete