Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to extract a color from a text?

Hi :)
Smart!  I was going to suggest using Gimp's (or Photoshop's) "Colour picker" but getting it 
directly from an html document might be a lot faster and reliable and easier to figure out quickly. 
 
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 19:19
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to extract a color from a text?
>
>
> On 05/29/2013 10:59 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 06:19 29/05/2013 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
> > > On 05/29/2013 12:36 AM, Axel Braun wrote:
> > > > Yes, that works for colors that are known to the system, not for custom colors (like in 
> > > > imported documents)
> > >
> > > Try this: Open the Styles and Formatting window (use the F11 key to do this). Select the word 
> > > or letter that has the color you need to know. Right click the paragraph style that is 
> > > highlighted in this window. Select Modify in the context menu. Then click the Organizer tab. 
> > > The RGB values are listed in the "Contains" section.
> >
> > Splendid!  But sadly I think this works only if the colour was (sensibly) originally applied as 
> > a paragraph style, not if it was applied, say, as local character formatting.
> >
> > Brian Barker
>      Obviously, you tried my idea, and found it does not work very well.
>      So, lets try it another way. Use LibreOffice to save the text document as a HTML document. 
> Then open the html document with a text editor. There you should find the font color property 
> contains the color in hex format. You then have to convert this to RGB before you can create a new 
> color in Tools > LibreOffice > Colors.
>
> --Dan
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