Navy Blue color is wrong

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   When I used this to try making the font color be Navy Blue but it end up as a bright blue.  Why?

        private readonly Color _argbColorIsNavyBlue = Color.FromArgb(35, 35, 142);

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fletchsod Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 11 Sep 20 Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote fletchsod Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Navy Blue color is wrong Posted: 15 Jun 21 at 3:53PM
	When I used this to try making the font color be Navy Blue but it end up as a bright blue. Why? private readonly Color _argbColorIsNavyBlue = Color.FromArgb(35, 35, 142);

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 Jun 21 at 7:49PM
	Is this syntax from QuickPDF... i think no? ;-) The data should make navy blue - dealing with online rgb generators make it. Think there are still some settings before having influence on the color?
	Cheers, Ingo

fletchsod Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 11 Sep 20 Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote fletchsod Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jun 21 at 2:53PM
	var argColorIsNavyBlue = Color.FromArgb(35, 35, 142); // .NET Color pdfApp.SetTextColor(argColorIsNavyBlue.R, argColorIsNavyBlue.G, argColorIsNavyBlue.B); // Passed on RGB value to Quick PDF's SetTextColor

tfrost Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 10 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 437	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfrost Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jun 21 at 4:29PM
	QP.SetTextColor arguments should be Double values between 0 and 1.0. I suspect that Color.R and friends are bytes, but I am not that familiar with C#.

tfrost Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 10 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 437	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfrost Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jun 21 at 4:34PM
	QP.SetTextColor(35.0/255.0, 35.0/255.0, 142.0/255.0); // looks like Navy Blue to me!

fletchsod Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 11 Sep 20 Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote fletchsod Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jun 21 at 8:03PM
	Okay, another question. How come the color Red works but not different Green color? QP.SetTextColor(255.0/255.0, 0.0/255.0, 0.0/255.0); // Red QP.SetTextColor(0.0/255.0, 128.0/255.0, 0.0/255.0); // Green Edited by fletchsod - 18 Jun 21 at 5:14PM

tfrost Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 10 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 437	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfrost Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jun 21 at 5:10PM
	Please clarify what you mean by 'different'. For light green you need to start with white and reduce the red and blue. What you show should be darker green. For selecting colours I always go to an application like Paint.net with a good colour-picker that I can adjust, and which then displays the RGB and HSV values. Does this not paint correctly in QPDF when you divide the values by 255?

fletchsod Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 11 Sep 20 Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote fletchsod Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jun 21 at 5:14PM
	Post the sample code here that works for you when you tested it. Ignore the comment regarding different green. That remark comment is wrong but my post comment is correct. I updated the post to remove the word "Different". Thanks. Edited by fletchsod - 18 Jun 21 at 5:16PM

tfrost Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 10 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 437	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfrost Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jun 21 at 6:44PM
	Sorry, I am not a C# user and I cannot test your code. We are all users here. I just went to the Foxit PDF Library Dashboard, found the Text and HTML / Draw Text sample script, then added one line near the top reading QP.SetTextColor(0.0, 0.5, 0.0); When I ran the modified sample script, it came out green, a bit darker than with 1.0 as the second parameter. These sample scripts are an excellent way to test QP functions quickly. If things work in the scripting, you then just have to change the syntax details to your own programming language.

fletchsod Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 11 Sep 20 Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote fletchsod Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jun 21 at 7:02PM
	I don't mean C# example. Just the Quick PDF example. Ok, seeing your example, I know what the issue is now. It works now when the 0.0 was used instead of 0 in my case. I think the C++ Quick PDF component internally see things a bit different. Thanks.