Colour sample

Every colour in this program can be transferred into another program via the clipboard. An unimposing little function, that packs a wallop, due to the clipboard function all programs can work with any given colour.

Step 1: Click on the “colour sample” icon in one of the colour selection windows.	Step 2: The colour sample is now on the clipboard.
Step3: The colour sample can now be added into every file. Here different colour tones are used as the legend in a Corel Draw architecture drawing.

Short instructions

• Select the desired colour in one of the colour selection windows.
• Click on the icon “colour sample” on the bottom left next to the colour display.
• Now open the file into which the colour is supposed to be added.
• Select "Ctrl+V" (Windows) or "Apple+V" (Macintosh), in order to add the colour sample.
• If the sample is not added in select “adaptation/content insert…” and "Bitmap"
• The work with the colours in the respective programs occurs through the input of the RGB values.

Via drag & drop, you can bring any colour into any application, even if it is not supporting a clipboard bitmap:

• Select the desired colour in one of the colour selection windows.
• Click the colour field with the left mouse button and drag the colour field into the destination program while the mouse key is pressed.
• When releasing the mouse buitton, you find three text lines in the destination program: colour name/ RGB values/ Lab values.

Kurzbefehle

Sie können anstatt des Kontext-Menüs auch Kurzbefehle zur Erzeugung der verschiedenen Farbprobe-Varianten verwenden.

Notes

Nothing is as complicated as the Windows clipboard! Although the function worked smoothly with Macintosh right from the beginning, our programmer had a hard nut to crack when trying to figure out the Windows version. There are numerous notepad formats which are the cause of the confusion. The insertion of the colour sample is in most cases possible by using “Ctrl+V”, but in the above mentioned Corel Draw 9 example this is not the case. In this case it has be done by using the menu “content insert“ option.

The transferred bitmap is 150 x 40 pixels. This size is just large enough in order to represent longer colour names in readable writing. The imported bitmap can also be scaled as soon as it is inserted.

The indicated RGB values correspond with the sRGB values as long as no further changes were undertaken in the “calibration” window.