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March 3, 2009
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Need Help Defining New Color

  • March 3, 2009
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Greetings,

The instructions in the FM user guide are either totally inaccurate, or FM is broken out of the box.

To determine which, I need to know how some one of you add a simple color to the common colors palette.

The guide says View > Color > Definitions. Define your color. Click the Add button. Nothing happens, either to the selected object (hell, I just want to color a line folks), or to the palette. It is apparently "added" to outer space.

I am NOT trying to do anything complicated here. There is NOTHING fancy about what I am trying to do -- no conditional anything, no complicated print considerations, nothing. The end document is a PDF.

So, someone please tell me how can I create a color which will appear in the color palette so I can apply it to a line or whatever, and use it over again as needed.

Many thanks.

stevenjs
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    March 3, 2009
    The way I do it is to do View > Color > Definitions. The default "Name" is "New Color 1". Backspace through this default name and type in my preferred new name. Then click Add.

    Now change the color values as needed. Click Done. The new color name should now appear in the list of colors in the document and be able to be selected.

    For example, if I use Paragraph Designer, I can now see the new color's name listed under the Default Font > Color dropdown.

    Be sure to save the document so that the new color is saved.

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