1.4

Dialogs
Color Picker
The Color Picker dialog appears when creating a color in the formatting dialogs of certain
elements, for example border colors in boxes and paragraphs.
The dialog consists of two main parts. On the left is the color wheel that can be used to select a
color hue by clicking anywhere on that wheel. To the right of the color wheel there is a vertical
bar used to select the color saturation. At the top-right, two colors are shown: the New box
displays the currently selected color, while the Original shows the color currently attributed to
the element.
The rest of the dialog has various options for choosing colors:
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Color Mode: Use the drop-down to select whether the color is set as RGB or CMYK. This
determines how the color is saved in the formatting properties, and how they are printed
or output; see "Colors" on page 416.
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RGB group: Enter the Red, Green and Blue color values from 0 to 255.
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HEX: Enter a valid hexadecimal color code; see HTML Hex Color.
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CMYK group:Enter the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black color values from 0 to 100
percent.
Note
Whenever one value within this dialog is changed, all the other values are adjusted to their
equivalent.
Colors Properties
The Colors Properties defines and sets named colors used in the template; see "Colors" on
page 416. Named colors can be used throughout the templates, in all contexts and are visible
both in color selector dialogs and useable with their names in style sheets; see "Styling and
formatting" on page 398.
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Color Type Selector: Click and use the drop-down to display which color types to show
in the list: All, RGB, CMYK or Spot colors.
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Color List: Displays the colors, filtered using the Color Type Selector.
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