PANTONE(R) ColorWeb(R) Pro User Guide
Version 1.0 for Windows(R) 95/98 or Windows NT(R)


Overview:
ColorWeb(R) Pro contains two color palettes: (1) the PANTONE Internet Color System(TM) (PICS) - 216 Internet-safe colors that will not dither on 8-bit (256 color) monitors regardless of the operating system or browser used and (2) the PANTONE Digital Color System(tm) - 1,012 PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM(R) Colors - the worldwide standard for color reproduction and communication.

A companion fan guide accompanies each color palette. Each guide displays a printed representation of the color along with recipes to reproduce the color in RGB and HTML.  Additionally, the PANTONE Internet Color System Guide provides CMYK and PANTONE Hexachrome(R)t information.

ColorWeb Pro is designed to work with Web authoring programs, presentation applications or any other application where you need color optimized for the Internet.  


What is the PANTONE Internet Color System (PICS)?
The majority of people browsing the Internet have monitors that display 256 colors (8-bit systems), which limits what colors can be simultaneously displayed accurately. To make matters worse, the 256 colors that can be displayed on Macintosh(R) computers are not the same 256 colors that can be displayed on Windows computers.  The PANTONE Internet Color System was designed to handle this problem. The System is comprised of 216 colors that will not get substituted and will appear non-dithered on both Macintosh and Windows computers regardless of the Internet browser used.


What are the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors used in ColorWeb Pro?
The PANTONE Colors contain the RGB and HTML data for the industry standard PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM.  This palette is a full 24-bit (millions of colors) palette and, therefore, some colors will dither on an 8-bit display from within a browser document. These PANTONE Colors have been specially calibrated for the standard monitor color space for the World Wide Web 
and for the Windows operating system. This is known as sRGB.  For more information on sRGB, please see the note about sRGB later on in this document. 


Minimum Windows hardware & software requirements:
* Microsoft(R) Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0
* 4 MB of RAM
* 256-color display
* 1 MB of disk space (for color picker installation only)


Installation instructions:
1. Insert CD-ROM, the Setup program will run automatically.  If you are using the installer downloaded from the Internet, double-click on the installer icon.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions and select the directory in which you want to install PANTONE ColorWeb Pro.
3. When installation is completed, the Setup program may display a message to prompt you to restart your computer.
4. A PANTONE ColorWeb Pro shortcut will be placed on your desktop.
 
 
Getting started:
The ColorWeb Pro Color Palettes are designed to work in conjunction with your Web authoring, presentation and design applications.  This makes it easy to apply colors to text, objects and backgrounds.
1. Select ColorWeb Pro from the Programs menu or the location you have chosen to install the program or you may double-click on the PANTONE ColorWeb Pro shortcut placed on your desktop.
2. This will display a PANTONE "Chip" on your desktop.  The color chip will appear on your desktop displaying the RGB and/or HTML value for that specific color.  Double-clicking on this Chip will open the ColorWeb Pro color picker from which you can select a color of your choice.

The RGB data is presented in sequential order Red being the first set of values, followed by Green and then Blue.  In this case Red=239, Blue=107 and Green=0.  The HTML data is standard hexadecimal notation for the RGB values displayed.


How do I change the color of a PANTONE Chip?
There are three ways you can access the ColorWeb Pro palettes in order to change the color of a Chip you've selected:
* Double-click on the chip icon and the ColorWeb Pro Color Picker will be displayed so that you can now select a different color.
* The use of the right mouse button will also bring up a menu that will let you choose the Color Picker from the menu to choose either a new color for an existing chip or to create a new chip.
* Use the keystroke shortcut of Ctrl+P to bring up the ColorWeb Pro Color Picker and choose a new color for the chip.

This will open up a window from which you can select a color from either the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM or the PANTONE Internet Color System (PICS). The default color system displayed will be the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors.  To switch to the PANTONE Internet Color System, click the "More" button and then select the PICS palette.  The "More" button will let you switch from one color system to another.  The keystroke shortcut of Ctrl+I will let you switch from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM to the PANTONE Internet Color System.  Conversely, the keystroke combination of Ctrl+S will switch from the PANTONE Internet Color System to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM.

There are three ways you can select a PANTONE Internet Color System or PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Color:
* Use the horizontal scroll bar to scroll through the list of colors.
* Use the colored horizontal rainbow bar to move quickly to the general area for the color you want. If necessary, use the horizontal scroll bar to isolate an individual color.
* If you know the number of the color you want, you can type the color number directly into the text entry box below the colors. Once the color number is entered, the ColorWeb Pro palette selected will automatically highlight the proper color.  Once you've located the color desired, simply click "OK" or double-click on the color.  


How do I get the ColorWeb Pro color data into my application?
The color values can then be manually entered into the application you are using by using the right mouse button to access the Copy to Clipboard function.  As each application allows you to enter or edit
colors differently, please consult your application's user manual if you are unsure how to do this.  Color data can also be copied into the clipboard using a keystroke shortcut of Ctrl+C.


How can I find Internet-safe representations of PANTONE Colors?  
ColorWeb Pro can also be used to find the closest "Internet-safe" color simulation to a PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Color.  To do this, simply select the PANTONE Color you desire and then switch to the PANTONE Internet Color System (use the Ctrl+I keystroke shortcut).  The color then highlighted in the PICS palette will be the closest simulation of that PANTONE Color in the 216-color palette.

Note:
Keep in mind, as the 216 colors in the PANTONE Internet Color System (PICS) palette do not have the dynamic range and gamut of the 1,012 colors in the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM, in many cases, it is impossible for the Internet-safe color palette to successfully match the 1,012 colors in the PANTONE Color Palette with only 216 colors.  
 

Can I have more than one PANTONE Chip displayed on my desktop?  How can I add another PANTONE Chip to my desktop?
You can have any number of PANTONE Chips displayed on the desktop for easy reference.  In order to add another chip to the desktop, click on the ColorWeb Pro application icon or double-click on the program shortcut.  This will bring up a new PANTONE Chip on your desktop.  To change the color of the new chip, access the PANTONE ColorWeb Pro color palettes by double-clicking on the chip or use the keystroke shortcut of Crtl+P.  You will then need to highlight and select another color from the PANTONE ColorWeb Pro palettes in order for a different color to be displayed.


How do you change the data displayed in a PANTONE Chip?
Using the right mouse button will bring up a menu with an item labeled "View".  The View menu item will let you change the data displayed in the desktop chip icon.  You have the following choices:
* RGB data only
* HTML data only
* RGB and HTML displayed together


Can I change the size of the PANTONE Chip?
Using the right mouse button will bring up a menu with an item labeled "Size".  From this menu item you can select from three chip sizes.


What does the Stay on Top function do?
A PANTONE Chip can stay on top of any open window if this menu item is selected.  This will make the chip easily accessible.  If you wish to have the chip reside behind any open windows, be sure that the Stay on Top menu item is unchecked.


How do I remove a Chip from my desktop?
Each Chip must be dismissed individually by choosing Exit using the right mouse button options menu.  Simply right-click on the chip you wish to remove from the desktop and choose Exit from the menu displayed.  You can also right-click the Taskbar button for the active PANTONE ColorWeb Pro Chip and select Close (Alt+F4)


Keystroke shortcut summary:
Switch from PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM to PANTONE Internet Color System
Crtl+I
Switch from PANTONE Internet Color System to PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM
Ctrl+S
Copy color data from a PANTONE Color Web Pro Chip to the clipboard
Ctrl+C
Display PANTONE ColorWeb Pro palette selector
Ctrl+P
Close a PANTONE ColorWeb Pro Chip
Alt+F4


Right mouse button function summary:
The right mouse button is used to access the options menus in PANTONE ColorWeb Pro.  By selecting a chip and using the right button of your mouse, you can access the following functions:
* Access to the PANTONE ColorWeb Pro palettes (Color Picker) to change or select a color for the selected chip
* Copy data to the Clipboard
* Change the View of a chip - this will let you select the data to be displayed in the chip or to change the size of the chip
* Stay on Top -  when this is checked off the chip will reside on the top of any open window
* Exit - this will close the chip and remove it from the desktop


What is sRGB?
Traditionally, operating systems have supported the display of colors on a monitor by using RGB.  However, as RGB varies between devices, color was not reliably reproduced across different monitors.
Hewlett-Packard(R) and Microsoft have developed a standard monitor color space that is optimized to meet the needs of most users.  This new color space is called sRGB.  Very simply, sRGB is calibrated RGB that is optimized for the vast majority of computer monitors that use the Windows operating system. sRGB specifications use a monitor with a gamma of 2.2 and 6,500 degree Kelvin white point.  sRGB will allow color to be reproduced and displayed in a single, unified method that provides for viewing consistency from monitor to monitor. Further, Microsoft has made sRGB the default monitor color space for Windows 98.
	
Important note about sRGB:
The RGB color values printed in the PANTONE Digital Color System(TM) Guide are Pantone's official release of RGB values that conform to the sRGB specification. These colors will display reasonably well on most color monitors but will not exactly match PANTONE Colors printed on coated stock.  In the future, these values may be used by many software programs and hardware devices to communicate PANTONE Color information. Therefore, please do not change these RGB values in your software in order to obtain a better match on your specific monitor.

The PANTONE sRGB values were developed with many variables being taken into account. Some of them are:		 
* Differences in monitors from one manufacturer to another and identical monitors by the same manufacturer
* Age of monitor
* Imperfections in the monitor manufacturing process
* Ambient lighting conditions
* Individual perceptual response to color
* The adaptive response to color - colors can visually change based on adjacent and/or background colors
* The relative distance that the printed guide is held in relation to the monitor

The RGB data derived for this Guide is the result of a collaborative effort with several color scientists. The process of creating sRGB data involved measuring spectral data for the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors on coated stock from a benchmarked set of PANTONE Color Standards.  The spectral information was then run against mathematical algorithms to transform them into sRGB data.  However, due to the non-linearity of color space and visual adaptation of the human perception of color, the results proved to be inconsistent.  The resultant sRGB values in this Guide are the best possible data derived after taking all of the above factors into consideration.


Technical Support:
Pantone is committed to providing you with immediate and polite technical support. When calling for software support, please provide us with your product registration serial number, be at your computer and have a description of your problem available.

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PANTONE(R) Computer video simulations used in this product may not match PANTONE(R)-identified solid color standards.   Use current PANTONE Color Publications for the accurate color.

t Hexachrome(R) is Pantone, Inc.'s six-color printing process.  U.S. Patent No. 5,734,800

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