Patent ID: 8861023

Claim:
A method for reproducing a designer intended color when said color is ambiguously defined in a document creation application, the method comprising: displaying a document on a display device; receiving a user selection of at least one object with at least one designer intended color in said document to be processed; capturing at least a portion of color signals in a device-dependent color space being used by said display device to display said object with said one designer intended color in said document; converting said object with said one designer intended color to a portable document format (PDF); identifying any device-independent color settings in said PDF; processing said captured color signals through a profile of said display device and said device-independent color settings that have been identified in said PDF to generate respective color values in a desired color device independent-color space; using said generated color values to produce a definition for each of said designer intended colors, wherein said definition of said designer intended color comprises any of: a definition of a spot color, and a definition of a mixture of at least two colors with at least one of said colors being a device-independent spot color; and providing said color definitions to a color management system of a document reproduction device for accurate rendition of said designer intended colors.