I am supposed to put my organizations newsletter on the web and I need to change some colors first because the Pagemaker file I have of them uses grays and various percentages of blacks instead of the blues that the printer uses. I called the printer and was told that the ink they use is "PMS 307." I now how to set up RGB and CMYK colors in Pagemaker but what is a PMS color and is it possible that I can do that in Pagemaker?

Tony

They are ink colors mixed for printing and thus have nothing to do with the web - you cannot use them online. You can buy and RGB guide to Pantone colors here - but it ain't cheap! https://www.pantone.com/ShopPantone/product.asp?ProductID=345

Someone once had the info contained in this online but the last time I looked it was gone - I would think they were caught out on copyright issues. I think the best you are going to be able to do is try to choose the best approximations you can.

I just found the link that used to have the chart - they seem to have some way of generating Pantone colours if you have CoralDraw, don't know anything about it but it may be worth a look. http://www.unleash.com/articles/colorchart/

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Tony

Thanks for the explanation! I am going to make pdf files out of my organizations newsletters and put them on the web. It can save a lot of money on mailing when people just download things! This stuff needs to be done asap (maybe this weekend...yeah, right) so if I can use exact colors instead of eye-balling them that would save me a lot of time.

This is such a great forum!

Tony