[AI 10]How to create a Spot Swatch(CMYK&RGB)?

Hi,
Please tell how to create a spot color swatch & add it to the swatches pallette in Illustrator 10.
I want to specify the swatches name,color(CMYG,RGB)& type(Spot or Process).
I tried the following itdoes not give the desired output:
AICustomColor customData;
AICustomColorHandle newColor;
strcpy((char*)customData.name ,"PANTONE 119 C");
customData.c.f.cyan = 0.75;
customData.c.f.magenta =0;
customData.c.f.yellow = 0.50;
customData.c.f.black = 0;
customData.flag = kCustomSpotColor;
customData.kind = kCustomFourColor;
error = sAIColor->NewCustomColor(&customData,&newColor );
AIDocumentHandle document = NULL;
error = sDocument->GetDocument(&document);
AISwatchListRef swatchList;
error = sAISwatch->GetSwatchList(document, &swatchList);
AISwatchRef swatch = NULL;
swatch = sAISwatch->GetSwatchByName(swatchList, (char*)customData.name);
swatch = sAISwatch->InsertNthSwatch(swatchList, 3);
error = sAISwatch->SetSwatchName(swatch, (char*)customData.name);
AIColor aicolor;
aicolor.kind=kCustomColor;
aicolor.c.c.tint = 0.75;
aicolor.c.c.color = newColor;
error = sAISwatch->SetAIColor(swatch, &aicolor);
Please suggest where i go wrong?
Myriaz

I'm afraid this outside of my realm of expertise, having never tried this. Hopefully someone else can lend a hand here.

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# If the -Organization parameter was NOT set, the $Organization variable will have a length of 0. Thus the if-condition does not apply, thus we do the else block
else
# Tell the user you are starting
Write-Host "Starting to create the user account for $GivenName $Surname"
# Create new User
$NewUser = New-ADUser -Surname $Surname -GivenName $GivenName -DisplayName "$Surname, $GivenName" -SamAccountName "$GivenName.$Surename" -Name "$Surename, $GivenName" -PassThru
# Tell the user you are copying Group Memberships
Write-Host "Copying the group-memberhips of $Template to $GivenName $Surname"
# Copy from old User
$NewUser | Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -MemberOf (Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $Template | Where { $_.Name -ne 'Domain Users' })
# Do Whatever else you feel like doing
There! Now we first check whether the -Organization parameter was set (it's not mandatory after all, so you can skip it). If it
was set, do whatever is in the curly braces after if (...). However, if it wasn't set, do whatever is in the curly braces after
else.
And that concludes my "minor" (and hopefully helpful) tutorial on how to use the function husk I posted :)
With this, whenever you find another cool command that helps you in the user creation process, you can simply add it, similar to what I did in these examples.
And if it all didn't make much sense, go through the tutorials in proper order and come back - it'll make much more sense then.
Cheers and good luck with PowerShell,
Fred
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How to create subpicture for a button?

Hello!
I have really tried to find the answer to this rather silly problem on my own, but without result. Please help someone!
The situation:
I have a menu with three choices: "Play Movie", "Scene Selection" and "Subtitles". Now, the text presenting these choices are part of the background image, created in Premiere (the program I know best). They are written with an old typewriter to get that gritty feeling.
I want the user to scroll between these "menu items". The currently selected item should be indicated by a black circle/spot/dot before the text of the item. By default, when the menu appears, there is a black circle in front of (to the immediate left of) the item "Play Movie". The user should now be able to step with his/her remote to the other items, thereby making the black circle in front of "Play Movie" disappear and appearing instead before some of the other items. In short: the black circle is always showing before the currently selected item. OK, I got a bit verbose there, but the idea got across hopefully. One more thing: the background color is 100% white.
Up to this point, my solution was this: I placed black circles (small images with gradation and all, very nice looking) in front of ALL THREE ITEMS. Then I convert these into buttons. Then I choose the color set for the menu so that the unselected state is 100% white, plain and simple, with 100% opacity, thereby covering the black circles that should not show. Only in the selected and activated states does opacity for the button subpicture drop to 0%, thereby revealing the black circle that should be seen.
The problem? Well, on some DVD-players (not on the XBOX 360 though), when an item is activated, all three circles show for a brief moment before the selected action starts (for example playing the movie). It also happens in Encore Preview. This is not logical at all and looks amateurish. I don't know why it happens, but my guess is that it wouldn't if I did this the "correct" way: by creating subpictures fo the buttons in the shape of circles. I understand the nice looking gradations must go out the window but that is a price I'm willing to pay.
But now I run into an unexpected problem: I don't understand how to create a subpicture for the button that is a black circle. It seems the documentation in Encore and on forums in general takes for granted that you know how to do this.
What I tried ws this: I created a monochrome, small image in bmp format - a black circle on white background. But this image just shows up as a black rectangle in Encore.
What should I do? I should add that I have no real experience with Photoshop, so go slow if you go there.
Regards,
Nikolaj

Basically, when one realizes the limitations of the Sub-picture Highlights, as set by the DVD-specs., it's easy to see the "workaround."
A couple of the aspects of Sub-picture Highlights are:
1.) 2-bit color (either ON, or OFF), from a limited color palette, with degrees of Transparency (the opposite of PS's Opacity).
2.) they will appear on top of anything else on the Menu, including things like Button text/graphics.
By constructing your Sub-picture Highlight in PS, you can use Masking to define where it will be, and where it will not be. In the case that prompted my article, the poster had a series of Text Buttons, and the Sub-picture Highlights were formed from that Text. The poster did not like the look of those 2-bit jagged blocks of color overlying the Text in the Button. The workaround is to "punch a hole" in the Sub-picture Highlight, so that it is hollow, where the Button's Text appears. This is done in PS, by using the "outline" of that Text to create a Mask for the Sub-picture Highlight. The jagged aspect can be adjusted a bit, by using a degree of Transparency (set in the non-Auto Color Set back in Encore). We still have a 2-bit color Sub-picture Highlight, and it still overlays the Button's Text, but now there is a hole in it, right where the Button's Text is located, and it is seen through that hole. The introduction of Transparency has the visual effect of "softening" the look of the 2-bit color, even though the jagged edges are still there - they just look softer. I went on to show how one could even use a second Sub-picture Highlight, that is just a bit larger than the first, and with more Transparency to simulate a "glow." Now, we cannot have a real "glow," because we are limited to that 2-bit color for the Sub-picture Highlight, but we can simulate it.
Much of what a designer does is really slight of hand - illusion. They all have to work within the limitations of the DVD (or BD) specs., but with a bit of creativity, planning and some work in PS and Encore, they can create enough smoke and use enough mirrors to fool the user into believing that what they think they see skirt the DVD-specs. They do not, but that's where the illusion comes in.
We get a lot of questions from people, who claim that one commercial DVD, or another, has full-color Sub-picture Highlights and they complain that Encore cannot do that - only 2-bit Sub-picture Highlights. What they are seeing, but do not realize it, is a dupe Menu, with a full-color graphic, and no real Sub-picture Highlight visible. Jeff gives full details on doing this. Same for those who have seen a Button with a duo-tone thumbnail, that turns full-color, when the Button is navigated to. Wow, how did they do that, and why can't Adobe Encore do that? Well, what they saw was a dupe Menu, with a full-color thumbnail and no visible real Sub-picture Highlight.
Jeff shows how to create what appears to be at least a 3-color Sub-picture Highlight. It's really just 3 regular 2-bit color Sub-picture Highlights, with Masking to create the illusion that he beat the DVD-specs. Neat! [Being from the USA, I also liked that he used the US flag, but he could have chosen the French "Tri-color," or any other flag, without artwork.]
These are all just tricks, but if the user buys into the illusion, who's to know?
Enjoy,
Hunt
PS - though many of the great, older posts were lost, when the forum changeover happened, I strongly suggest reading the posts here. You can bypass ones that do not offer you anything, but almost every possible illusion has been discussed at least one time, and likely many, with some different workflows offered by those, who replied. Great reading.

How to create a bootable clone?

So, I'm returning after a while in Mac-land, and there's one thing I'm missing that the Mac got very right. There were several apps that would easily clone your system onto a backup disk and make it bootable. It was the best backup system I ever had. If my disk died, I just rebooted onto the other one, and when I got the replacement, I used basically the same process to do the restore.
How can I accomplish this in Arch? The "dd the disk" method isn't going to work out to well, as I need support for disks of different sizes, partition layouts, and interfaces. Rsync seems promising, but there's a fair bit of work to do after the copy since things like FS UUIDs will be different.
The way this works on Mac is basically like this:
1. rsync the source to the destination, excluding a few things that are useless, as recommended by Apple.
2. Make the clone bootable. This is easy on Mac as boot code is never written outside the root FS, and doesn't even need to be installed into the FS header - all that has to happen is that the inode number of the boot code is written to a specific spot in the HFS+ header.
3. The Mac's firmware (either PPC OpenBoot or X86 EFI) will scan all attached disks for bootable filesystems and show a list for you to pick, when interrupted with the right key.
4. The root FS is always the boot FS, which eliminates the need for configuring the root FS in the boot code on fstab. It just mounts whatever it booted from as root. This neatly eliminates the need to post-edit these files after a clone
As I see it, the difficulty of automating this process in Linux really has a lot to do with the lameness of the PC BIOS.
I don't want to roll my own cloning code. Backups are too important to trust it to the kind of dirty hack I'd come up with. What can I use?

So, I feel I have to respond somehow to this, so as not to seem ungrateful for the nice responses, but none of these answer the question I actually have. I think the typical Arch-user's DIY attitude goes a bit too far, sometimes.
I know how to copy the files over, how to change the UUIDs, how to install GRUB, and how to create the 3 magic device nodes (null, console, and zero, for future reference). Just about any of these suggestions would be fine for a one-time or once-in-a-while process, but I want something that's painless enough to use as a daily backup routine. There's also the problem that they don't handle well the case where I don't want to take over the entire backup disk, and especially don't handle odd cases such as GPT disk format, where you shouldn't install boot code into the partition table area. They also aren't designed for the case where the backup device is an external disk which isn't intended to be remounted internally when disaster strikes, or the case of laptops where you don't want to have to remove /dev/sda from your machine to test.
Basically, it amazes me that apparently nobody has written software yet to automate what's probably a very common desire. Google didn't find anything of the sort, so I came here to ask actual human beings. (Yet another case where Google is not wrong )
Where I'm at now is to rsync everything and create the 3 device nodes, and then stop. This gets me to the 90% mark, is simple enough to be foolproof, and makes restoring the same as backing up. If there's no professional-feeling way to do the rest, I'll stop there.
None of this post is intended sarcastically, and please don't take offense at my laundry-list of complaints for the suggestions given. I think my posts could stand to be a little clearer if a paid sysadmin with 11 years of Linux background can gather responses that say things like "use cp" and "DONT USE THIS COMMAND UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING"

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