Modifying or Creating a Color Palette

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NeoOffice includes several color palettes. In Writer you can use the default color palette, available from the NeoOffice menu, by choosing Preferences, then NeoOffice and Colors . The other ones are only available in Draw. All these palettes are files in .soc format and are placed in the ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/config folder. The default palette is standard.soc.
You can modify, remove the colors provided in the palettes, or add new ones. You can even create a new color palette and make it the default palette.

Contents 1 Displaying a color palette 2 Adding or deleting colors 3 Modifying colors in a palette 4 Creating a new palette 5 Using Digital Color Meter

Displaying a color palette

• To display the default palette, you just have to go to the NeoOffice menu, click on the Preferences item, then choose NeoOffice and Colors.
• To display another color palette, you must:
  • Open a Draw document
  • In the Format menu, choose Area…
  • In the Area window, click on the Colors tab
  • Click on the Load Color List button, showing a blue folder with a green arrow
  • The ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/config folder opens
  • Select the file in .soc format which corresponds to the palette you want to display, and click on Open.

Adding or deleting colors

• To add colors
  • Click on a color, then modify the RGB values by copying, for example, the values read in the Digital Color Meter of your Mac while selecting a color (see Using the Digital Color Meter)
  • Or you can click on the Edit… button and follow the steps given in the Modifying colors in a palette section
  • Give this new color a name
  • Click on Add
  • Click OK.
• To delete colors
  • Click on the color you want to delete.
  • Click on Delete.
  • Click OK.

Modifying colors in a palette

• Click on the color you want to modify, then on the Edit… button
• In the Color window which opens, a little square in the right area selects the color you want to modify
  • You can modify the chromatic values of the color in the numeric input fields
  • You can modify the color by moving the cursor in this area
  • You can also click on a corner of the left area and replace the color selected in the color palette with the color selected at the right by clicking on the <–– button
  • Choose the color you desire, then click on the ––> button to replace the color in the right area with the color selected in the left one, and update the chromatic values
• Click OK

  The color is changed in the palette

• Click on Modify
• Click OK.

Creating a new palette

• Open the ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/config folder, select the file in .soc format which corresponds to the palette you want to change, then copy it, to make a backup, in case of problem.
• Open a Draw document
• In the Format menu, choose Area…
• In the Area window, click on the Coulors tab
• Click on the Load Color List button, showing a blue folder with a green arrow
• Navigate to the file you have saved, select it and click on Open
• Modify the palette by deleting or adding colors as in the previous section
• Save the new palette by clicking on the Save color List button, showing a floppy disk
• Give this palette a name then click OK.
  

This palette will be available in Draw documents. If you want to make it the default palette, rename it standard.soc. Before, be sure to make a backup of the standard.soc file.

Note : If you have modified or created a palette, remember to save it in case of a reinstallation or installation of a new version of NeoOffice . It is located in the ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/config, where ~ is your home folder.

Using Digital Color Meter

The Digital Color Meter of Mac OS X located in /Applications/Utilities allows you to know, by moving the cursor, the chromatic values of any pixel on your screen.
It gives you several options :

• Copying the values RVB in the clipboard: press the Cmd-Shift-C keys
• Holding the color: press the Cmd-Shift-H keys

  then

• Copying the color as image: press the Cmd-Opt-C keys

  Afterwards you can paste that image in a text document, a spreadsheet or an Impress document by pressing the Cmd-V keys.

• You can look at this aricle on Apple's web site.