font colours available in OpenOffice

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On 08/25/2010 03:23 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
> Some colleagues and I are trying to coordinate Impress presentations,
> and we noticed that some of us have more colours than others.  My OO
> has 101 font colours; one colleague has at least a dozen more,
> including "Ubuntu Red", which we all like and want to use in our
> presentations, as well as "Chart 1", "Chart 2", etc.
> 
> We're both using openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1 on Lucid, and I
> can't see any relevant differences in the related packages we have
> installed.
> 
> I've figured out how to add this particular colour (Tools -> Options
> -> Colours, use RGB = 202, 0, 22) manually, but it's bugging me that
> my installation is missing things.
> 
> 

It's most likely that your colleagues may be using different/older color
palettes in their OOo user profile. In OOo it's not readily apparent how
to load different *.soc files as you need to do this in Draw:

<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Draw_workspace>
[Color Bar]

Once you've changed the .soc to another color palette, those colors will
be available in other component (Writer, Calc, Impress, Base) as well.

If you are in a Writer document & need to change, the easiest way is to
add the Draw toolbar (View|Toolbars|Drawing) and then put a small
ellipse on the page. Right-click the ellipse & select 'Area|Color' and
load/change the *.soc that you need. You can then delete the ellipse.
You can copy additional *.soc files (example: scribus.soc) to your user
profile so that you do not need to hunt them down in other folders later on:

/home/<username>/.openoffice.org/3/user/config

Have your colleagues take a look at the *.soc files in the above and see
if they match yours. "Ubuntu Red" was (IIRC) was around the
Dapper/Feisty timeframe, and is, I think, possibly 'Rosso corsa'
(D40000):
http://www.perbang.dk/rgb/D40000/
(212, 0, 0)
An easy RGB to hex converter is here:
http://www.string-functions.com/rgb-hex.aspx

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Interesting OT note: Canonical/Ubuntu have changed to an Orange theme &
I can't find the old logo documents. These offer some guidance:
http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/
http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/guides-for-websites/
The "interesting" part is that the PDF's were created with Adobe
InDesign CS4 (6.0.5) - Acrobat Distiller 8.2.2 (Macintosh) - and the
larger pdf documents don't even contain TOC or indexes...
Seems a shame that Canonical/Ubuntu can't even use their own OS/system
and tools (OOo) to produce these public facing documents.