Re: [libreoffice-users] Table background colours in 5.3

On 08/24/2017 05:00 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steve Edmonds schrieb:
> > Hi.
> > Just adding this in case another user has come across this situation.
> >
> > In LO 5.3.3 Writer I found I could not change the palette or edit any
> > colours in Table>Properties>Background.
>
> Yes, in that dialog you can only select a color from the currently 
> active palette. You have to change the palette before you open that 
> dialog. That is not new.
>
> Changing the palette in Writer or Calc needs a trick: Draw a shape, 
> e.g. a rectangle, in its context menu use item Area. And there you can 
> change the palette. It will become the currently active palette for 
> the entire document. Afterward you can delete the shape.
>
> This problem exists since the beginning of OpenOffice.
>
> In newer LibreOffice versions is only the change, that you cannot have 
> several user defined palettes but only one. It is still possible to 
> have lot of palettes as common palettes, but they are not editable in 
> the UI.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
What do you mean that you cannot have several user defined palettes?

I have several user-defined color palettes listed in my Ubuntu folder 
of  "/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config".

The color palettes that were installed by LibreOffice 5.3.x is located 
in "/opt/libreoffice5.3/share/palette" - or at least with Ubuntu 16.04.

I make sure that their names start with "color_" so there is no problem 
with two having the same name.

I just created a few lines and each line was colored by a different 
palette's file. So you can have many palette files used in a document.  
But, if you mean that in the Tools > Options > Chart color definition, 
then I agree that you need to have some way to easily add colors to the 
Chart list of colors.  It lists "LibreOffice" in a option but it seems 
not to be changed to a different palette, like the font color option in 
Writer and in the Application Colors.

Maybe an easier way to add/delete colors from the standard.soc palette 
would be nice.    I had to do a global search to find the standard.soc 
file and where those palettes installed.

I am getting really good making color palettes, but for the average user 
it might not be that easy.  I have a lot of different color chart PDF 
files. That give me some nice HEX numbers for the colors. It I did not 
have those, I would have to use GIMP and its Color selector option[s] to 
define a color, then add it to a user defined palette.  I once made a 
HTML file for a lot of text colors with changing the background color or 
tiled image.  I should have saved it to use it for seeing what text 
colors/sizes would work with a defined background color or image in 
Writer.  I make many poster that use background/watermark images.


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It is just like the list of installed fonts. 
"/opt/libreoffice5.3/share/fonts/truetype" list a lot of fonts, but I 
kept adding/deleting fonts to the "/.fonts" folder.  I had a lot more 
fonts in Writer that was not in my ".fonts" folder that I did not want.  
So after I found the "/opt/" font folder I had to be very careful not to 
uninstall system needed fonts.






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