Color Picker in "Color" Window

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Color Picker in "Color" Window

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Hello,

is there a way to color pick a color from the doucment? My intent is to change the color of a comment I 've made with the same color found on an other comment in the document which is rasterized (preexisting and made by the provider of the document).

If not, would you consider adding a button in the window below for color picking and dynamically selecting on the screen the desired color?
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Of course with a bit of trial and error I could find the color but still, tedious a bit and will not be 100% the same.
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Re: Color Picker in "Color" Window

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Still an open question (feature request) for a color picker.

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Hi MJLM and Willy,

I was going to suggest a third party color picker as there are many free ones out there, including the Microsoft store, but it was pointed out to me that this approach would likely result in a conversion from whatever colour space is in the document to RGB and it would be better if we used that which is actually specified in the PDF. If it is specified in CMYK for example, a third party color picker RGB value would be an approximation and we can do better.

So, to that end I have raised a formal Feature Request for this. But be aware that this is literally flagged as low priority, there are many other fish to fry first!

The ticket, for your reference is: RT#5602: Feature request :: Editor :: Color Picker in "Color" Window

I hope that helps.
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Re: Color Picker in "Color" Window

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Thank you for considering. :)

Hopefully we will see it one day implemented as doing it through the app is much quicker and convenient that other external workarounds.
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Hello MJLM,

The ticket is there, and it is with our devs now! So indeed we will look into this!

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Re: Color Picker in "Color" Window

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Also, it would be convenient to insert the color value as a single set of hexadecimal values (#4C8788) instead of separate decimal values (76, 135 and 136).
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Hello all,

I believe that this earlier feature request is related to the present thread, therefore I shall insert it below for easy reference:

https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=34650&hilit=color+picker#p148535
David.P wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:47 am Hello forum and Tracker Team,

while this [#5276: "Add to custom colors" bug] is being worked on, maybe there is a chance to give the color picker dialog an update?

With the current dialog, it seems to be difficult at times to find colors that are just right, and that differ enough from other colors used on the same page already:
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I believe that the Microsoft Office way of picking colors is quite intuitive, and makes it easy to pick colors that are either close to each other, or far apart from each other -- depending on what you want to say with your colors:
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Thanks for consideration,
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Thanks David for the examples.

I have made a note on the ticket about this and hopefully that will translate into whatever eventually is delivered.

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Jensen Head wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:20 am Also, it would be convenient to insert the color value as a single set of hexadecimal values (#4C8788) instead of separate decimal values (76, 135 and 136).
I second that
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:)
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