font colours available in OpenOffice

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2010/8/25 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> 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

And here's another one:
Add these functions to My Macros:

REM  *****  BASIC  *****

Option Explicit

Function RGBToHEX(R As Integer, G As Integer, B As Integer) As String
	RGBToHEX=Hex(R) & Hex(G) & Hex(B)
End Function

Function HEXToRGB(H As String) As String
	Dim i As Integer
	Dim RGB As String
	For i=0 To 2
		RGB=RGB & Str(CInt("&H" & Mid(H,2*i+1,2)))
	Next i
	HEXToRGB=Trim(RGB)
End Function


Now you can easily convert directly in Calc, for example:
=HEXTORGB(A4)

If A4 contains abcdef, then the result is:
171 205 239

=RGBTOHEX(A5;A6;A7)
If A5=171, A6=205 and A7=239, then ABCDEF will be returned.

Enjoy…

Be aware though, that I didn't include any kind of error handling, so
bad input gives bad output, maybe unexpected some times, I'd guess.


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg

>
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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.
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