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.

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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.


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