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

On 12/10/17 10:47 AM, Tim-L wrote:
> 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

While for someone literate in XML, creating a palette in XML is not a 
big deal, that's not your typical end user. At one point most people 
created formatted text files by embedding descriptions of the text 
formatting into the text file. Some still do, but doing it through a GUI 
like Writer or one of the LaTex front ends is the more usual route.

To create a palette using a text editor you have to research the format 
and find out where to store the file in addition to knowing the colour 
codes and names. With a GUI, you just need to know the colour codes and 
names. Which do you think people are more likely to use?

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