annotation color management

[mlana]

in the prefs, pref("extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.colorCategories", '{"Black": "#000000", "White": "#FFFFFF", "Gray": "#808080", "Red": "#FF0000", "Orange": "#FFA500", "Yellow": "#FFFF00", "Green": "#00FF00", "Cyan": "#00FFFF", "Blue": "#0000FF", "Magenta": "#FF00FF"}'); it is not clear how to manage the color names and the color codes and how a specific color used to highlight a passage is 'matched' the the above colors. i would like to be able to add a new color and/or to define a new color code for an existing color name, but my trials and errors remain ...at the stage of errors: that is i get nothing. best maurizio

[simull]

Hi there, I have the same issue. Instead of displaying the name of the color in brackets, I would like to assign a different name.

As long as I cannot manage to assign other names, I would like to drop the names alltogether so that the text is highlighted in the background but no color is mentioned in brackets. Is there currently a way to do that in the settings?

Thanks and best wishes.

[sar48]

Note: also posted on Zotero zotfile discussion - I'm not sure which is checked most. Apologies for the duplication.

Hi - thanks for this great program, I like it a lot & I think I will be using this a lot!!!

Is there a reason there are only 9 colors? I was highlighting in Adobe which has the possibility for a lot more colors, but they were getting grouped (green + light green, for example)

I tried increasing then number of colors in the code, by editing it as instructed by the site: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/more-zotfile-hacks-extract-underlines-and-change-remove-title-and-color-names/21051

I found the color section and increased the number of color steps (though not with great naming) // define color category based on HSL if (l < 0.12) return "Black"; if (l > 0.98) return "White"; if (s < 0.2) return "Gray"; if (h < 15) return "Red"; if (h < 30) return "RedOrange"; if (h < 45) return "Orange"; if (h < 55) return "YellowOrange"; if (h < 65) return "Yellow"; if (h < 85) return "YellowGreen"; if (h < 125) return "BrightGreen"; if (h < 155) return "MintGreen"; if (h < 170) return "Green"; if (h < 180) return "GreenCyan"; if (h < 190) return "Cyan"; if (h < 230) return "RoyalBlue"; if (h < 270) return "Blue"; if (h < 300) return "Lavender"; if (h < 335) return "Magenta"; return "Red";

I also changed the labels in the options {"Black": " #000000", "White": " #FFFFFF", "Gray": " #808080", "Red": " #FF0000", "RedOrange": " FF5500", "Orange": " #FFA500", "YellowOrange": " #FFD500", "Yellow": " #FFFF00", "YellowGreen": " #AAFF00", "BrightGreen": " #00FF00", "MintGreen": " #00FF80", "Green": " #00FFAA", "GreenCyan": " #00FFEA", "Cyan": " #00FFFF", "RoyalBlue": " #0055FF", "Blue": " #0000FF", "Lavender": " #AA00FF", "Magenta": " #FF00FF"}

I can install zotfile & it is recognized as such, but no longer extracts highlighted annotations, even when I toggle the color options to false.

Anyway, it still works when I re-install the original file, so I can go back to only 9 colors if what I am trying is not really feasible.

Thanks for a great program!