Hi Gary,
Gary Dale schrieb:
I'm using 5.4.1.2.0+ on a Debian/Buster AMD64 system.
I volunteer with several organizations, some of whom have standard
colours that I would like to add to the LibreOffice colour palette.
However the formerly available Tools | Options | Colors customization
feature seems to have disappeared.
Yes it was removed to reduce complexity for normal users.
I noticed that the font colour chooser allows you to use custom colours
but not add them to the palette. While usable, it's not a good solution
when you are going to be using the same colours repeatedly.
If you, as single user, need a color repeatedly, then you can add this
color to your personal palette "Custom". It is not a real palette, but
part of your personal registrymodifications.xcu. This file holds the
recent colors too. But a normal user does not need to know these details.
After more googling, I eventually found a way of adding custom colours -
by creating a shape then right-clicking on it and selecting area. This
allows me to add colours to the custom palette (and apparently only the
custom palette - even if I select a different palette, the new colour
ends up in custom).
If you want to maintain "corporate identity" colors, storing them in
"custom" is wrong anyway. So do not try to find any "tricks".
You should use a *.soc file stored in share/palette for those colors.
You can add the colors to one of the existing files or make a totally
new such file.
The file is a simple xml-file and can be edit with any editor.
You only need to add one line per color following the example
<draw:color draw:name="Black" draw:color="#000000" />
Instead of "Black" you write the text, which the user will see.
Instead of 000000 you write the code, which you see in the 'Hex' field
in the Area > Color dialog. If you work in Draw you can use Format >
Area without any need of a shape.
That way each user, who will use LibreOffice will get these special
colors automatically.
You need writing rights from the OS to change or add files in share/palette.
Kind regards
Regina
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