Upgrade StorageFeature Request: Customizing / reducing PDF reader highlight color palette
I would like to request an option to customize the PDF reader annotation color palette.
My use case is not adding more colors, but reducing the available colors. I use a fixed four-color annotation system — yellow, green, red, and blue — and would like the PDF reader color menu and keyboard cycling to include only these colors, so that I don't have to cycle through colors I don't use.
I tried changing the `pdfjs.highlightEditorColors` preference in the Config Editor, but Zotero still shows the full built-in palette: Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Orange, and Gray.
A useful implementation could be:
- a setting to hide selected annotation colors,
- or a configurable annotation color list,
- ideally affecting both the color dropdown and keyboard color cycling.
- keyboard shortcuts to select specific colors, not just cycle through them (e.g. option+shift+1 for yellow etc)
This would help users who work with strict qualitative coding systems or reduced annotation schemes and want to avoid accidentally using unwanted colors.
My use case is not adding more colors, but reducing the available colors. I use a fixed four-color annotation system — yellow, green, red, and blue — and would like the PDF reader color menu and keyboard cycling to include only these colors, so that I don't have to cycle through colors I don't use.
I tried changing the `pdfjs.highlightEditorColors` preference in the Config Editor, but Zotero still shows the full built-in palette: Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Orange, and Gray.
A useful implementation could be:
- a setting to hide selected annotation colors,
- or a configurable annotation color list,
- ideally affecting both the color dropdown and keyboard color cycling.
- keyboard shortcuts to select specific colors, not just cycle through them (e.g. option+shift+1 for yellow etc)
This would help users who work with strict qualitative coding systems or reduced annotation schemes and want to avoid accidentally using unwanted colors.
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dorotheaenssThat would be great! Also I kinda misread ‘reduce’ as reducing the intensity of the colour and that made me realise how strong some of the colours are. It’s sometimes difficult to read the text when the read highlight is so ‘strong’, so I often default to using yellow as a highlight which aids readability. So reducing the available highlight colours and editing their colour/intensity would both be great ngl. Thanks for making me think of that!!