By Jenny Reiman, East-West Gateway Council of Governments
Here’s a useful little map document called ColorPalette_ArcGIS.mxd that I put together to anticipate the variation between colors on my monitor and the printers and plotters in the office. It contains no geographic data, only graphics that correspond to the standard color palette in ArcGIS. Each color swatch is labeled by name and by CMYK values. I print a copy from each printer and hang them near my monitor so I can choose colors for my layout based on what they look like on paper, not just based on what the colors look like on my monitor. Someday everything may be perfectly calibrated with a color matching system like Pantone. Until then, this helps – and it makes great cubicle wall paper!
can u re-save a 9.1 version please?
Posted by Simon Jackson on July 02, 2007 at 02:44 AM PDT
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I agree, a 9.1 version of the mxd would be useful.
Posted by Justin on July 02, 2007 at 08:52 AM PDT
Sorry this took so long. ColorPalette_ArcGIS_91.mxd
is the 9.1 version that Mxd.
Posted by Charlie Frye on July 02, 2007 at 06:25 PM PDT
FYI there’s a color calibration MXD included in your desktop installation. Look under C:Program FilesArcGISPlotters, and you’ll find Calibrate.mxd and CMY_Plotter_Calibrate.mxd (older versions won’t have the 2nd one, it’s new).
These are a great way to match up colors on a plotter vs. on-screen.
Posted by jeremy wright (10.35.26.3) on July 05, 2007 at 06:20 PM PDT
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