creating a custom colour book (AutoCAD 2014)

hi all

i'm trying to make a custom colour book for my company basd on their logo colours and not sure what i'm doing wrong....

i saw here how to do it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<colorBook>
 <bookName>my logo</bookName>
 <colorPage>
   <pageColor>  <RGB8> <red>100</red> <green>100</green> <blue>100</blue> </RGB8> </pageColor>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>color1</colonyc> <RGB8> <red>215</red> <green>192 <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>color2</colonyc> <RGB8> <red>200</red> <green>130 <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>
 </colorPage>
</colorBook>

but cannot get it to appear in the menu. i suspect i have the code slightly wrong (i had to guess how to close the route by copying the RAL colorbook) but maybe someone can advise me? i am not a programmer!

i have put the file with the others in support path, restarted autocad. happy to accept workaround, i just want to make a swatch of my favourite colours.

thank you

Only checking the XML syntax, not its content (to which I'm not familiar), seems that you have two not matched tags:

<colorEntry>  <colorName>color1</[color=red]colorName[/color]> <RGB8> <red>215</red> <green>192 <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>
<colorEntry>  <colorName>color2</[color=red]colorName[/color]> <RGB8> <red>200</red> <green>130 <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>

thanks for reply. i'm sorry, i do not understand. i thought you open with and close with

i expect you are right though as i am not sure what i am doing here! can you explain a bit more what i have wrong please?

here is an excerpt from the RAL color book:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<colorBook>
 <bookName>RAL CLASSIC</bookName>
 <colorPage>
   <pageColor>  <RGB8Encrypt> <redEncrypt>EPY</redEncrypt> <greenEncrypt>UOH</greenEncrypt> <blueEncrypt>QFV</blueEncrypt> </RGB8Encrypt> </pageColor>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>RAL 1000</colorName> <RGB8Encrypt> <redEncrypt>GGR</redEncrypt> <greenEncrypt>PMH</greenEncrypt> <blueEncrypt>UGH</blueEncrypt> </RGB8Encrypt> </colorEntry>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>RAL 1001</colorName> <RGB8Encrypt> <redEncrypt>ZMW</redEncrypt> <greenEncrypt>TRE</greenEncrypt> <blueEncrypt>AMI</blueEncrypt> </RGB8Encrypt> </colorEntry>

Is just that in the excerpt you posted first a tag isn't matched by its closing correspondent.

...<[color=blue]colorEntry[/color]>  <colorName>color1<[color=red]/colonyc[/color]> <RGB8>...

I cannot comment on the content since I know nothing about color books.

ah yes i see - thank you.

i have corrected this but still the book does not load.

has anyone tried using the various colour book creator softwares out there?

has anyone tried using the various colour book creator softwares out there?

I don't remember that I have seen something like this thread before for years now , but if you explain more about that ( software ) or whatever it is called , then we may go further in readying and learning from this interesting thing then we could share some ideas and thoughts in this regard .

Regards

I HAVE DONE IT - FOUND AN OFFICAL (oops) colour book editor and enjoyed using it.

http://www.autodesk.com/acb/

thanks!

I took a deeper look to your code and found that you missed to close the green tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<colorBook>
 <bookName>my logo</bookName>
 <colorPage>
   <pageColor>  <RGB8> <red>100</red> <green>100</green> <blue>100</blue> </RGB8> </pageColor>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>color1</colorName> <RGB8> <red>215</red> <green>192[color=red]</green>[/color] <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>
   <colorEntry>  <colorName>color2</colorName> <RGB8> <red>200</red> <green>130[color=red]</green>[/color] <blue>40</blue> </RGB8> </colorEntry>
 </colorPage>
</colorBook>

This color book is loading into AutoCAD as expected.

thank you very much for your time, i appreciate it.