LAB Decimal values
Illustrator only supports integer values for LAB. It'd be amazing if there will be support for decimal values for LAB swatches.
Ishay Frenkel
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Tom Bean commented
It silly that Illustrator only supports whole integer numbers in the Lab color space. just a half a percent can cause brand colors to shift when printing , esp in grey , neutral colors. Just in CMYK format, a 1% shift in any color can cause a grey color go from matching to not. When forcing an Lab spot color to round up or down across the 3 axis of Lab, it can compound the Delta E of the color to shift away from being in tolerance to being out of tolerance just in a small space and can make matching difficult. In todays world, with hand held spectrometers and online digital color books, and powerful RIPs that support decimal placing, a half degree can make all the difference color precision especially in the digital, grand format printing
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Andreas Föhl
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InDesign has three decimal values, Illustrator color-books two (inside) and on the interface none!