Re: [libreoffice-users] adding / using custom colours to LibreOffice

On 10/11/2017 02:43 PM, Toki wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 02:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> > Either way, with that many palettes in play, there should be a way to manage them other than 
> > fiddling with XML files.
> Palettes are function specific. As such, if made according to the user
> specifications, there is no legitimate reason to change anything within
> them.

I agree that there are some users do not want to create a color palette, 
but add just a few colors they need to use.  I remember doing that a few 
years ago, for a specific project, before I looked into creating my 
first color palette.  That seems to be the reason for the "custom" 
palette - which I currently have empty.

> In terms of creating the palette, it is several orders of magnitude
> easier to do so, using XML, than colour pickers. (Try creating the
> Resena Paint colour palette using a GUI. Doable, but instead of taking
> ten or so minutes, you'll spend hours, and need a second person to proof
> read the resulting XML file.)

Yes creating the XML palette is easy to do.  All you need is to rename 
one of the small color palettes and then replacing the values of a line 
- like this one - with your colors.

<draw:color draw:name="Tango: Aluminium 3" draw:color="#babdb6" />

All you need to do is copy/paste this type of line, then replace the 
"Tango: Aluminium 3" with a new name.  Then, change this HTML color 
value of "#babdb6" to the color you want to use.

I have a color palette with Resena colors - over 1370 of them.  I added 
LibreOffice Branded colors, as well of a few others, bringing the total 
to about 1400 of them.

Below is the color palette file and then the PDF file of 10 pages with 
the color names and HTML color codes.

http://libreoffice-na.us/colors_resene.soc

http://libreoffice-na.us/resene-a--Alphabetical-Color-Chart.pdf

I do have other PDF files for other color palette PDF files.  Only some 
of them are listed on the "libreoffice-na.us" site.  The Resene palette 
is not in the same order as the PDF file.  I have 6 versions with it 
either unsorted or sorted by different methods. using these PDF files, I 
have searched for specific colors/hues, like wood-brown, gold-like, 
oranges, etc.. Then I created SOC files for these type of colors.

The PDF files for the large ones, can be found on a web site link on the 
top of each page of these PDF files.  They are a great way to see 
defined color names and their associated HTML color code.

Luck was with me when I was given the text list of colors for several 
large SOC files.

To be honest, if you use a color picker on these PDF color "boxes" you 
may find the visible color may not be the exactly same color code as 
listed in the page.  The problem might stem from the software that 
converted the image files to the PDF pages.  Also, for me, my printed 
pages are darker then what is shown on the display/monitor.  Syncing the 
printer to my laptops and desktops is not something most users can do 
for themselves.  Also only a few printers have drives with options to 
"tweak" the printed colors.
> > FYI: The palette list I see is:
> > standard
> > standard
> What is the extension of those two files?
>
> Regardless, no OS allows two files in the directory to have an identical
> name. Some operating systems allow filenames to differ, only by case
> that used for one or more glyphs.
>
> jonathon
Yes, Color.soc and color.soc are different on Ubuntu Linux, but as one 
professor stated "think of the Windows file names as all uppercase or 
lower case names. . . ". I have run into this type of limitation with 
transferring files from my Ubuntu laptop to a NTFS or Fat32 USB flash 
drive and/or to a Windows format external drive.

Between the /opt/ root system folder[s] and the hidden .config "home" 
folder [Linux install], I have 11 installed palettes and a few in the works.



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