[Express] Colours not being created correctly

I have noticed that there is something strange about the way that Freeway creates colours from the Freeway design to the published page. Today I narrowed it down to the problem.

E.g. I am trying to create a page with a large plain HTML item box with the colour 990033, yet when I publish the page, the colour has changed to 993333. I also checked this with the colour of FF0033 and sure enough, the published page becomes FF3333.

I checked this a bit further using a neat colour picker app called ColorTagGen, and it is infact the Freeway creation stage where the problem is occurring.

So if I select a colour of 990033 for an item on a Freeway page, I can see the colour of the item change on the page. However, if I then check that colour in Freeway with ColourTagGen, the colour selected of 990033 changes to 993333 and also similarly with FF0033 and CC0033 which change to FF3333 and CC3333.

I select the colour by selecting the item, holding down the mouse over the colour box in the HTML item appearance settings and selecting other, and then choosing the colour from the Apple colour selector.

Am I doing something wrong here? Or am I missing a setting somewhere? I have looked and looked for a setting or preference that may be altering these colours.


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I am not seeing that here - what version of FW are you using?

Do you have the Web Safe checkbox ticked in the bottom left of the colour selector box. Or do you have millions set in File>Document Setup>Document under Document Graphics

Also I am not sure if Express is limited in its colour palette.

David


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Hi david,

I can’t see a Web Safe checkbox in the bottom left of the colour selector box. I have however, selected the web safe in the colour palette and I can see and choose web safe colours.

Also, there is no millions option to set in File>Document Setup>Document under Document Graphics.

However, I have somehow fixed the problem and I think what fixed it, was that I adjusted the Opacity slider from the default 100% to something lower and back to 100%. After that, the colour on the Freeway display was correct. I.e. after the opacity adjustmen fromm 100% and back to 100%, the correct colour was displayed as 990033 instead of 993333.

Looks like a bug to me.


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I may have spoken too soon about a work around. I tried this again but the original problem is still there. I.e. I cannot create a HTML item with a colour of 990033!


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I have however, selected the web safe in the colour palette…,

You dont want it selected - leave it unchecked.

But I do not have Express to see if this is an limitation of Express.

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