[scribus] eliminating color sets.

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/03/2015 08:58 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:32:14 +0200
> "Owen Cook" <owen.cook at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
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>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 at 2:54 AM
>>> From: "John Culleton" <John at wexfordpress.com>
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>>> I have two of the Glaxy color sets in a
>>> particular file. I want to get rid of one of
>>> them which has over 1,000 swatches. There is a
>>> facility for a merging in a set but
>>> none that I see for getting rid of a set once
>>> it is merged in.  
>>>
>>> I can work in 1.5.0 or 1.6.0 if necessary.
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>> I am not sure what you want to do exactly, but
>> if you go
>> to /Your_Scribus_Directory/share/scribus/swatches
>> just delete the unwanted swatch?
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>>
>> Owen
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> 
> the problem is about 1,100 swatches. In the
> future I will be careful to not choose the wrong
> palette. 
> 
> I will try deleting all or most of the stored
> swatches in the sla file and see if that works.
> I will try this on a copy of the file of course.
> 

You should be able to find a directory called 'swatches' which contains
XML files for all the color sets. It would probably be easier to delete
unwanted colors there than one by one in Scribus, especially when you're
talking about 1000 or more.

Greg