siggraph@pioneer.arpa (Siggraph) (05/12/88)
Yet another Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting (first of two announcements) Color Advances in Desk Top Publishing Russell Brown Adobe Systems Tuesday May 24th (usually the 4th Tuesday of the month) 8 PM McBean Theater Exploratorium San Francisco Abstract Russell Brown art director for Adobe Systems, developers of the Postscript(tm) language and many popular applications based on the Postscript language, will speak on the technological advances that brought color to the common man and the graphic artists perspective of this new technology. His talk will highlight the color technology used in graphics applications programs such as Adobe Separator and Illustrator'88, Aldus Freehand, as well as that used in color output devices. Russell will discuss the color proofing now possible at 300 dots per inch with the QMS Script 100, how the color technology behind the Lino 300 makes the creation of color keys and Cromalins possible. He will touch on the Mac interfaces that now allow on screen pantone color selection. What can be done about discrepanies between the color you see on the screen and the color you get in print, advances in color slide technology and more.