Hey guys!
I don't quite get it. I kinda assume that I'm just not understanding how I can add colours to a custom swatches palette. I mean swatches have been around for quite a while now, but so far I don't see the point in it, if I can't create my own palette with custom colours.
Please help me with this. It's important for icon themes, publishing, well everything. Is is seriously not yet possible?
David
On Sunday 4 September 2005 12:49, David Christian Berg wrote:
I don't quite get it. I kinda assume that I'm just not understanding how I can add colours to a custom swatches palette.
You can't with Inkscape.
I mean swatches have been around for quite a while now, but so far I don't see the point in it, if I can't create my own palette with custom colours.
Inkscape uses GIMP's palettes. You have to edit your palette with The GIMP and then copy the *.gpl file into Inkscape's palettes directory. If you then remove every palette but your own from this directory, it will, obviously, become the default one in Inkscape's Swatches dialog. This is just a workaround for the Swatches dialog not remembering the selected palette upon exit.
Jef
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 13:45 +0200, Jean-Francois Lemaire wrote:
On Sunday 4 September 2005 12:49, David Christian Berg wrote:
I don't quite get it. I kinda assume that I'm just not understanding how I can add colours to a custom swatches palette.
You can't with Inkscape.
I mean swatches have been around for quite a while now, but so far I don't see the point in it, if I can't create my own palette with custom colours.
Inkscape uses GIMP's palettes. You have to edit your palette with The GIMP and then copy the *.gpl file into Inkscape's palettes directory. If you then remove every palette but your own from this directory, it will, obviously, become the default one in Inkscape's Swatches dialog. This is just a workaround for the Swatches dialog not remembering the selected palette upon exit.
Hmm, right, I didn't think of that myself, even though I was aware of the palettes being Gimp palettes. However, it's not quite nice to do, usability wise :(
Anyways, thanx for the tip!
David
On Sep 4, 2005, at 4:55 AM, David Christian Berg wrote:
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 13:45 +0200, Jean-Francois Lemaire wrote:
Hmm, right, I didn't think of that myself, even though I was aware of the palettes being Gimp palettes. However, it's not quite nice to do, usability wise :(
Or...
Since GIMP palettes are just sets of rgb triplets in a text file with an optional name, you can just edit them in your favorite text editor.
Create one in your ~/.inkscape/palettes directory, or in one of the common shared places, and Inkscape should pick it up.
And Swatches haven't really been around all that long. They initially went in to start exercising the widgets used to present and interact with them, with the "color palette" aspect just secondary.
They'll be getting a major tune-up, including nicer UI editing, expanded drag-n-drop, and full coverage of styles, not just RGB colors.
keywords: inkscape swatches, colour palettes
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:55:37 -0700 From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> To: David Christian Berg <david@...407...> Cc: Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...621...>, inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] swatches?
On Sep 4, 2005, at 4:55 AM, David Christian Berg wrote:
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 13:45 +0200, Jean-Francois Lemaire wrote:
Hmm, right, I didn't think of that myself, even though I was aware of the palettes being Gimp palettes. However, it's not quite nice to do, usability wise :(
Or...
Since GIMP palettes are just sets of rgb triplets in a text file with an optional name, you can just edit them in your favorite text editor.
Or even your favourite Spreadsheet. The Swatches or Gimp Palettes (.gpl) are simply Plaint Text files containing Tab Separated Values (.tsv)
The ability to create sequences in spreadsheets could be particularly useful when creating runs of similar colours.
Create one in your ~/.inkscape/palettes directory, or in one of the common shared places, and Inkscape should pick it up.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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On 9/5/05, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
Or...
Since GIMP palettes are just sets of rgb triplets in a text file with an optional name, you can just edit them in your favorite text editor.
I have requested export to .gpl from GNOME Colorscheme which I mentioned a few days earlier, and Jonathon Jongsma answered that it is planned and will be implemented a couple of releases later ;)
Alexandre
On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
I have requested export to .gpl from GNOME Colorscheme which I mentioned a few days earlier, and Jonathon Jongsma answered that it is planned and will be implemented a couple of releases later ;)
I've started talking with him about interoperability, among other things.
Personally I'd also like to get drag-n-drop between that and the various places in Inkscape where it could be handy. Might take just a little more, but you never know when things will just fall into place.
(Oh, but don't look for anything with the next few weeks, my attention is going to polish up a few of the rough things I added for last release).
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