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Use color palette in another project?

New Here ,
Nov 08, 2012 Nov 08, 2012

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I created a few custom colors for a project in RoboHelp 10.  Is it possible to save, or export, the color palette, so that I can use the same colors in another project?  Or do I have to create the colors again? 

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Community Expert ,
Nov 08, 2012 Nov 08, 2012

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Copy the rhcolor.apj file to new project.

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Participant ,
Jan 30, 2017 Jan 30, 2017

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Thank you for this, Peter Grainge. Having just added several colours from our new corporate palette to a current (RH 2015) project, I foolishly expected there to be a way to import them into other projects. No such luck.

I discovered from version control (SVN) that the file must be rhcolor.apj, but didn't know whether I could safely copy it into other projects. Now I do. Thanks for saving me some stressful experimentation. 🙂

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Jan 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017

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That's the beauty of putting stuff on a forum. Over four years later and the information has helped again.


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

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Dec 18, 2017 Dec 18, 2017

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And again - Thanks Peter!

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New Here ,
Aug 09, 2019 Aug 09, 2019

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This sounds easy enough. Even appears to work because when I open the rhcolor.apj file in notepad I can clearly see my color names and hex codes. However in RH 2017, only the default color palette appears when I try to change colors.See screen captures below. Is the color palette supposed to be "installed" or "Imported" somehow?

rhcolor-notepad.png

color selector.png

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LEGEND ,
Aug 09, 2019 Aug 09, 2019

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Try clearing and allowing RoboHelp to rebuild the CPD?

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Aug 10, 2019 Aug 10, 2019

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If Rick's suggestion doesn't fix the issue, is the screenshot in Notepad from the same project as in the second screenshot?

There is no import or installation, the file just has to be in the right place. Look in a new project or a sample project to check its location.


See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

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New Here ,
Aug 14, 2019 Aug 14, 2019

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Hi Peter. As a follow-up and to confirm, the screen shot of the color palette is from the same project. I actually read your helpful site when copying the file to the correct location in the new project so I knew it was in the right place. I was not aware of the option to rebuild the cache - I'm glad I asked on this forum because I learned something new!

sdj

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Aug 14, 2019 Aug 14, 2019

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Thank you, rebuilding the cache when opening the project worked.

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