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This is written in the Ubuntu beta font using the mid-aubergine colour which is #5E2750 in hex RGB. Colours in OpenOffice.org are entered in decimal, but still with a 0-255 range, so converting that to decimal is 94 39 80. If you use the gimp colour picker and click on this document in OpenOffice.org you will see that the colour is indeed #5E2750 as it should be. Exporting to PDF and viewing in Exim then using the gimp colour picker still shows it as #5E2750.

Using the CMYK colour reference as given C 70 M100 Y50 K20 in OpenOffice.org gives text in this odd colour, which the GIMP colour picker tells me is #19004c. Just doing the colour mixing in my head leads me to suspect that OOo is right and the colour reference is wrong.

If I open the design toolkit PDF documents and use the gimp colour picker on the mid-aubergine it tells me that it is #4b1841 (75 24 65) and not the #5E2750 like this that it should be.

In the Design toolkit it is this colour

but it should be this colour

A relatively subtle difference, but it would be nice to get it right. I suspect that the problem is the use of software that is trying to apply some kind of colour profile for a specific printer, but it is very irritating designing stuff against the toolkit when you compare it to the toolkit pdf and the colours don't match. I expect most people using it won't type in the RGB references or use the gimp palettes but just use the picker to grab colours from the PDF.