How do I remove colors from the Tools Palette

Question

Hi,
I recently defined two custom colors (blue and green) that were required for our brand representation (I am using Unstructured FM 8). I used the RGB values that Marketing provided to obtain these colors. For some reason, I now have the entire RGB blue and green libraries displayed in my Set Color option of the Tools Palette.
Is there a way to remove these standard RGB libraries while keeping my custom color definitions?
Thank you,
Miruna

Answer 1

the »Indexed color efficiencies« came from way back when the Net was a number of very thin electronic pipes connected to each other.
You're replying to someone who recalls full page 300 dpi TIFFs taking 30 minutes just to display for text overlay in Frame 3.1.
It is a long time I heard someone complaining about image files larger than 32k. but of course, FrameMaker should handle them OK!
Frame handles large images with ease. I've generated PostScript files of 1GB. The issue is what size PDF they distill to.
We render to PDF at the same resolutions for both publishing and web (200 dpi contone, 600 bitmap). Multiple dozen large images can easily make a final document PDF that is too large for practical web use. Our general rule is that if a single image adds more than 250 KB to the final PDF,  we take steps.
I often have to deal with dense vector objects that are well over 5MB as raw  EPS. I routinely save a convenience browsing PDF of each image, and if it's over 250K, the image gets attention.
For B&W line art, flattening to 600 dpi dithered bitmap in Photoshop usually suffices, but rasterizing to contone does not, because our workflow passes 600 dpi "bitmap", but subsamples "color" and "gray" to 200 dpi.
I had this one vector-overload externally sourced image where I needed just a touch of one color. I was hoping that indexed color (e.g. GIF) might be the solution, but Distiller downsampled it anyway. Some of the indexed color tests, as I recall, but cannot now re-create, also polluted the color pallete.
The work-around, in case anyone else has the same requirement (hi-res bitmap with color), was:
Open the .ai file in PhotoShop, 600 dpi gray.
Convert to bitmap, 600 dpi, diffusion dither.
Save as .tif.
Open the original .ai in Illustrator.
Isolate the color elements to the top layer.
Open the .tif bitmap in Illustrator.
Copy the bitmap into a new bottom layer.
Align the bitmap with the vector B&W layers of the same content.
Turn off the vector B&W layers.
Save the .ai.
Flatten and save as .eps.
This survives distiller, and provides a bitmap with color.
Don't forget to redact the metadata. It can add MBs all by itself.