font colours available in OpenOffice

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2010/8/25 Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com>:
> Some colleagues and I are trying to coordinate Impress presentations,
> and we noticed that some of us have more colours than others.  My OO
> has 101 font colours; one colleague has at least a dozen more,
> including "Ubuntu Red", which we all like and want to use in our
> presentations, as well as "Chart 1", "Chart 2", etc.
>
> We're both using openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1 on Lucid, and I
> can't see any relevant differences in the related packages we have
> installed.
>
> I've figured out how to add this particular colour (Tools -> Options
> -> Colours, use RGB = 202, 0, 22) manually, but it's bugging me that
> my installation is missing things.

I have Ubuntu 10.04 but I uninstalled OpenOffice.org (which really is
a version of OpenOffice.org that's called something like ”Go Oo” and
installed the original OpenOffice.org from the
http://www.openoffice.org/ web page instead. They are a bit different,
like that I found that a cell function that didn't work in the Ubuntu
OpenOffice.org did work with the standard OpenOffice.org.

However, that's maybe a bit off topic in this case…

What I am trying to say, is that search paths and other things might
be a bit different on my system compared to yours.

I found, on my system, that those colours seems to be defined in a
file called ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/standard.soc.

I found this out by first opening the ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/
folder in Nautilus, then sort by date. Then I opened OpenOffice.org,
added a colour in Tools → Options… → OpenOffice.org → Colors, closed
OpenOffice.org and then got back to the Nautilus window to see which
file now has the most recent date and time stamp.

The file is an XML file and I opened it with Gedit (I just double
clicked the file, of course). The last line in the file was my new
colour. However I am not sure if some other file somewhere is also
affected somehow, but I don't think so.

So in your case, I would do the following:
1. Find out where your standard.soc file is located. If you search by
Places → Search for files, then make sure that you include hidden
files and folders.
2. Open the folder in which your file is located.
3. Change the name of your file to, let's say ”standard.soc.old”.
4. Copy the standard.soc file from the other computer (the one with
more colours) to the very same folder.
5. If things goes terribly wrong, just remove the new file and change
the name back from ”standard.soc.old” to ”standard.soc”.
6. If you didn't perform step 5, then open OpenOffice.org again and
see if you now have some more colours.

As I said, this is what I would have done, but make sure that you
don't blame me if something goes wrong. I didn't actually test this
myself.


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg