Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20105
Adding a custom color selector (easier addition of custom colours)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:40:07 UTC
This is one reason I can't use OpenOffice: The inability to choose a specific color is a total limitation. There is a bunch of colors to choose from, but if I want to match a specific color, then what? Having a custom color palette would be a super nice enhancement at this point, and a necessity for the future. Nice program though.
TM->BH: Please have a look, thanks !
Please have a look at issues 11098 and 16217, which solve your problem.
I am a long-standing user of OO and just ran into this limitation of OO. I was creating a newsletter. We have visual identity standards at our University, so I wanted to specify green and gold colors in Writer. But there was no way for me to specify the colors for the fonts, borders and backgrounds. As a result, in spite of my best intentions, I had to discard OO and resort to Word. I have attached both documents to show that I really mean to use OO but was forced to use Word. OO version: 2.1
Created attachment 41785 [details] Newsletter in OO, notice attempt to match colors
Created attachment 41786 [details] Notice how Word allows margins, fonts and border colors to be specified
I have read the issues 16217 and 11098. As a committed OO user, I would be happy to try the work around the next time I run into this issue. However, it is cruel to expect users to first open Calc and play with it when all they want to do is specify colors in a Writer document. Colors are extremely important in conforming to visual identity standards. OO has circumvented the problem for Sun internal use by defining Sun colors in the default template. But there are other real users who do not have this luxury.
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To manage the many suggestions for enhancing the color palette, I have created a meta-issue here: Issue 105642 - Re-design and UI improvements for color palettes (meta-issue) The purpose of the new issue is for management only, it does not duplicate specific design requests (that we wish to capture). Many thanks, Andrew
*** Issue 35244 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 105609 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 100404 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 89913 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 20038 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I always go to the Draw component to create new specific colours which I then can use in Writer. Indeed a very inconvenient route. I would love to see this feature implemented quickly.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
*** Issue 114715 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***