ACT (color table) file format

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Scott Parry
Aug 4, 2003
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I have color information (data sets read from a spectrophotometer) that I need to get into an ACT (color table) file. I am looking for the file format information so I can create such a file (by programming). Do I have to obtain a SDK to get this information? I have been asking the ASN developers this question for almost three weeks and I can’t get an answer. Can somebody help me?
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Mark Hiers
Aug 4, 2003
ACT = Adobe Color Table
ASN = Adobe Solutions Network. You have to be a dues paying member of ASN to get access to the Photoshop 7 SDK
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Scott Parry
Aug 4, 2003
Thanks Burton, but unfortunately I am continually reading colors from a Spectrophotometer (a research project). I have RGB (and LAB) data in a spreadsheet format. All I want to do is convert the data so Photoshop can read it. (With a significant amount of color sets and data it is unrealistic to enter the colors manually).

Does anyone know the data format for an ACT file?
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Phosphor
Aug 4, 2003
ACT is the wrong format for it.

It sounds like you want to create swatches — those are the .ACO file format.

All of it is documented in the Photohsop SDK.

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