Color Discrepancy in Different Applications

Sorry about the awkward title to this posting--I couldn't think of anything
better!

I've created a website in Freeway Pro and it uses 28 different colors. If I
check each of the colors by selecting Edit>Colors... in the menu and then
selecting one of the colors I can then see the eight bit hexadecimal encoding
for that color along with a sample. If I then place the cursor of the
DigitalColor Meter over the sample the eight bit code shown in the meter is
identical to that shown by Freeway.

If I then export a page containing that color as a .pdf and then examine the
same color with the DigitalColor meter there is now a slight change in the
hex code.

My question of curiosity is whether what I'm seeing is a fault with Pages or
a fault with the export to .pdf?



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In article <0001HW.C4D1CBA0004778CFB01AD9AF DeleteThis @News.Individual.NET>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft DeleteThis @mac.coom> wrote:

> Sorry about the awkward title to this posting--I couldn't think of anything
> better!
>
> I've created a website in Freeway Pro and it uses 28 different colors. If I
> check each of the colors by selecting Edit>Colors... in the menu and then
> selecting one of the colors I can then see the eight bit hexadecimal encoding
> for that color along with a sample. If I then place the cursor of the
> DigitalColor Meter over the sample the eight bit code shown in the meter is
> identical to that shown by Freeway.
>
> If I then export a page containing that color as a .pdf and then examine the
> same color with the DigitalColor meter there is now a slight change in the
> hex code.
>
> My question of curiosity is whether what I'm seeing is a fault with Pages or
> a fault with the export to .pdf?

Make sure everything is sRGB. If it's some other unspecified color profile,
the colors will shift.

I found a test page:
http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html

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