Issue 35221 - CMYK means Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
Summary: CMYK means Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.3
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
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Reported: 2004-10-09 08:03 UTC by klute
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:05 UTC (History)
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Description klute 2004-10-09 08:03:54 UTC 
In the color editing dialog the fields for the CMYK values are labelled 'Cyan',
'Magenta', 'Yellow', and 'Key' (at least in the German localization). However,
the 'K' in CMYK means 'Black' ('blacK'), not 'Key'.
Comment 1 christof.pintaske 2004-10-11 10:27:55 UTC 
of course it is by no means authoritative but
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=CMYK&Find=Find
indicates that it could mean either blacK or Key.
Comment 2 klute 2004-10-11 17:24:29 UTC 
Yes, some CMYK definitions let the 'K' mean 'Key' in addition to 'blacK'.
However, unless someone comes up with a crisp explanation why 'Key' is more
understandable to any end-user than 'Black', I'd suggest to use the latter.
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2004-10-14 16:26:44 UTC 
SBA->LIZ: To the polls... Please take over :-)
Comment 4 lohmaier 2004-10-17 18:44:40 UTC 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK
gives an explanation why "K" is "Key" and not black
(the english article lists K as "key" as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK )

So simply write "Key (keycolor, black)" as in the articles ans everybody should
be satisfied :-)
Comment 5 e.matthis 2004-10-18 09:14:42 UTC 
accepting. Thanks for the research everyone!
Comment 6 e.matthis 2004-10-18 10:19:11 UTC 
Liz->Liz: Initial decision...Change the text to 
English_us
"~Key (black)"
German
"~Key (schwarz)"
This keeps the K in front and the same mnemonic people are used to, plus adds
explanation and German translation.
The string "Key" is here:
KeyId          229858
Language       German
PRJ            svtools
Filename       source\dialogs\colrdlg.src
Build          SRC680
GID            DLG_COLOR
LID            FT_KEY
Type           fixedtext
Comment 7 e.matthis 2005-07-13 14:15:34 UTC 
liz->os: Not sure if this is your area, forward if not.
Please change string as I say above. Thx!
Comment 8 gleppert 2010-04-09 23:09:42 UTC 
Isn't this a irrelevant issue and also very old? Can this issue be closed?
Comment 9 klute 2010-04-12 07:19:31 UTC 
No, it cannot be closed yet. The string is still "Key" instead of "Key
(schwarz)" in OOo 3.2.0. I use the German localization.

And with regards of the millions of end-users it is not irrelevant at all.
Comment 10 Matthias Seidel 2017-02-12 09:21:33 UTC 
Changed in Pootle to:

~Key (Schwarz)
Comment 11 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:05:09 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".