On Sunday 10 April 2005 05:36, Joe Richards wrote: > > One of the things I have been hoping would change at some point is the > > way that colors are presented. > > As it stands now, you are given an alphabetical listing of colors, with > > no ability to rearrange according any sort of palette scheme (unless > > one > > artificially renamed them all). > > > > Is there a way to arrange by RGB/CMYK value? Would others find that > > useful? Maybe hue/saturation?
Should be possible in 1.3 at some stage. > I'm used to working in documents that have 3-5 colors. With a list that > short, the actual color arrangement in the list is of little > consequence. As a matter of habit, I always remove all unused colors, > especially before sending a job to press-assuming I'm sending native > files. > > > I also find that even though I may want access to the entire list of > > colors, I would prefer to have a much shorter working list on a given > > project. So, for example, there could be two color requestors, a > > working list and a repository, from which I could pluck colors at any > > time to add to my working list. This seems to especially come up when > > I > > am editing an old file, from which I got rid of all unused colors, but > > I'd like to switch or add one from the master list -- maybe not sure > > which one, either. The repository would not have to be saved with the > > scribus file, ever, since it has to do with the program, not the file > > content. > > The color palette in 1.2.1 functions in a way that I find very useful. > I can remove all unused colors, then go back and add a new one. The > color picker allows me to select from the different color sets (X11, > Gnome, SVG). Has this feature been removed in 1.3? Certainly not. > > It might also be useful to have some kind of indicator to show which > > colors are actually in use in a project, realizing of course that this > > would be subject to a kind of error in which I may have used a text > > color for one character that turned out to be a space, but that's a > > minor problem. This comes up like this: I might be wanting to use a > > color I used several pages ago, and I know it was a aquamarine-like > > color, but which one? Now all I can do is go back and highlight the > > instance to figure it out. > > > > I'll be interested to hear if others have similar or better ideas. > > A "show used colors" function would be useful, even more useful would > be a "show instances" function for tracking down that one item that's > using a color you don't want anymore. Yes.. good idea. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050410/18ad60cc/attachment.pgp
