Colors Couleurs Colores Színek Kolory Dathanna Tae

deaneau

Hi Rubicons (Progammer) and Sketchicons (SketchupUser),

I would focus all SketchupUser to this Project.

On this site

http://freecolour.org/

or the German Page

http://freiefarbe.de/

At the end of the page you can find very interesting downloads. Interesting for all users that works with colors.

What is "Colors!" ?

http://www.dtpstudio.de/english/

you can print out all colors as PDF.

actually the software is in german language.

i have contact the publisher and have ask for the english version.

When anybody is interesting i could translate via screenshot the navigation and important parts of windows.

When anybody have a PDF2XLS software so you could convert this to CSV and than to sketchup.

here in the download

**%(#FF0000)[http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/OCSC_1_0.zip

SBZ is an open-source version of the BCS-Files.

BCS is the Fileformat for "Colors!"

This is a Zip format with a xml file.

SBZ-Files is the base for Developer to design an own color system]**

In the German Blog i have found the download login for some other ColorFiles

2d/3d and Architecture Software however without sketchup.

http://www.palettes.de/download.php

Name
FreieFarbe
Lizenzcode
000000 (6x zero)

**%(#FF0000)[EDIT: An english version is avaiable however not downloadable.

Why? The Installer have the RAL-Colors included and RAL don´t allow this with RAL colors together.]**

deaneau

I have now a list for 191 Color-Charts in PDF.

See the txt-file in attachement.

how i can convert the PDF to CSV and than import to sketchup?

now i have found a very good program that doing this with very good results.

http://www.cogniview.com/pdf-to-excel/pdf2xl-basic

During this promo you can get PDF2XL Basic OCR and Enterprise Editions for 50% off with this discount code: CPC46479

this program convert pdf to xls.

Inside the pdf is a table. this is what we want have.
#TUT__.png

choose this.
drag the orange mask over the table (top left to bottom right).
and than move the dark orange header at the end of the header of the table in the pdf.
you can move the orange column lines to the position of the column line in the pdf.

in the page preview we can see, we have different pages. (the table in the first page have less lines.) you must choose now "First Page Different" and go to the second page and scale the orange mask. you can see all further pages will update this.
in the bottom frame you can see the preview of the table like in Excel.