User Defined Colors

User Defined Colors
The following buttons appear in the User Defined Colors tab of the Color Matching Table (Figure 1). These options manage your User Defined Colors. Edit Click the Edit button to alter the settings for the selected color. If this is an Alias to a System Defined Color, you may enter the name of the alias. If this is a user defined color, you may enter the name or Lab* values as necessary. Add Alias Click the Add Alias button to create a new name for a color with the same specifications of a previously defined color. The Add Alias option allows you to give a color another name. Search Click the Search button to quickly locate a specific color name. Replace Click the Replace button to search for certain words and replace those words with words of your choice. Add Click the Add button to create a new color (Figure 2). This option allows you to enter the name for the color and specify the Lab values for that color, or you can click the Measure Patch* button to display the Measure Color dialog (Figure 3). As long as the names in RIP-Queue match the names you used in you graphics application and the PostScript file, the Color Matching Table will be able to identify the color values. Delete Click the Delete button to permanently remove a user defined color or alias. If you delete the original color for an alias, the alias will continue to exist, although it will not have any color values or a color indication swatch. CAUTION: You are not given a confirmation dialog or a chance to back out of the deletion. Make sure you have the correct color selected before you click Delete. Import Click the Import button to import a Color Table File from another system. Export Click the Export button to create a Color Table File based on the colors defined in your User Defined Colors tab. Others can then import it into their version of RIP-Queue.	Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

The following buttons appear in the User Defined Colors tab of the Color Matching Table (Figure 1). These options manage your User Defined Colors.

Edit

Click the Edit button to alter the settings for the selected color. If this is an Alias to a System Defined Color, you may enter the name of the alias. If this is a user defined color, you may enter the name or L*a*b* values as necessary.

Add Alias

Click the Add Alias button to create a new name for a color with the same specifications of a previously defined color. The Add Alias option allows you to give a color another name.

Search

Click the Search button to quickly locate a specific color name.

Replace

Click the Replace button to search for certain words and replace those words with words of your choice.

Add

Click the Add button to create a new color (Figure 2). This option allows you to enter the name for the color and specify the *L*a*b values for that color, or you can click the Measure Patch button to display the Measure Color dialog (Figure 3). As long as the names in RIP-Queue match the names you used in you graphics application and the PostScript file, the Color Matching Table will be able to identify the color values.

Delete

Click the Delete button to permanently remove a user defined color or alias. If you delete the original color for an alias, the alias will continue to exist, although it will not have any color values or a color indication swatch.

CAUTION: You are not given a confirmation dialog or a chance to back out of the deletion. Make sure you have the correct color selected before you click Delete.

Import

Click the Import button to import a Color Table File from another system.

Export

Click the Export button to create a Color Table File based on the colors defined in your User Defined Colors tab. Others can then import it into their version of RIP-Queue.

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