Color Books Tab (Color Palette Dialog Box)

Specifies colors using third-party color books or user-defined color books.

COLOR (Command)

Menu: Format > Color.

Summary

Once a color book is selected, the Color Books tab displays the name of the selected color book.

List of Options

The following options are displayed.

Color Book

Specifies the color book to be used when selecting colors.

The list consists of all the color books that are found in the Color Book Locations specified in the Application References dialog box, Application tab.

Displays the pages of the selected color book and the colors and color names on each page. Color books containing up to ten colors per page are supported. If a color book is not paginated, the colors are organized into pages containing seven colors per page. To view color book pages, select an area on the color slider or use the up and down arrows to browse.

RGB Equivalent

Indicates the value for each RGB color component.

Color

Indicates the currently selected color book color. You can search for a specific color in a color book by entering the number of the color swatch and pressing Tab. This action updates the New color swatch with the requested color number. If the specified color is not found in the color book, the closest number match is displayed.

Old Color Swatch

Displays the previously selected color.

New Color Swatch

Displays the currently selected color.