Using Color Library |
What is a Color Library? |
The Color Library is a custom set of colors that you create. You may want to create a Color Library for specific projects or simply to maintain and quickly access the colors you use most frequently. This document contains sections on the following topics. |
Creating a Color Library |
1. Create or open a publication. 2. To view the current Color palette, from the Window menu, select Show Colors, The Color Palette appears. 3. Optional: Modify the Color listing to display the colors you want in your library by adding, deleting, or duplicating colors by accessing the Color palette from the right arrow button. |
4. From the Utilities menu, select Plug-Ins » Create Color Library... The Create Color Library dialog box appears. |
5. In the Library name textbox, type the desired name. Note: The name that you choose will appear on the Library menu in the New Color dialog box. 6. In the File name textbox, type the desired filename. Note: PageMaker automatically appends the filename with the .BCF (binary color file) extension. 7. Optional: In the Preferences section of the dialog box, adjust the Colors per column and Colors per row numbers (up to 10x10). 8. Optional: In the Notes textbox, add notes that will appear when someone clicks the About button in the Library dialog box. 9. Click Save. Note: All color files must reside in the Color folder, which is inside the Language folder; the default saves in the correct location. |
Viewing or Using a Color Library |
1. To open the Color palette if it is not already open, from the Window menu, select Show Colors. 2. At the bottom of the Color palette, click the NEW Color button . Choose New Color from the Color palette menu. The Color Options dialog box appears. |
3. Select a color library name from the Libraries pull-down menu. The selected color library appears in the Color Picker dialog box. |
4. Optional: Click About... to see any notes written by the author of that color library. 5. To accept the selected color library, click Ok. |
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Using Color Library
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