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The traditional black background colour has been used in cadett ELSA for almost 40 years. It offers many advantages such as good readability.

 

Despite that fact, an increasing part of our users prefer a white background. However, the standard colours that were previously used for the layers in cadett ELSA made this a bad idea. For example, text with yellow colour is easy to read towards a black background but almost impossible to make any sense of towards a white background.

 

The figure below, shows contemporary white background. A figure in the end of this topic, shows legacy black background.

 

 

 

To offer an easy choice for all our users, a number of features are available to make it easy to switch between black and white background.

 

•Contemporary standard colours which work fine with both white and black background

•Commands to easily switch between white and black background

•Commands to change the colours of existing drawing sheets to contemporary background independent colours

•Commands to change the colours back to the old standards if desired

•Script Sequence to change the colours of the drawing sheets of entire projects to contemporary standard colours

•Script Sequence to change the colours to the old standard if desired

 

In the sub-topics listed below, the subjects discussed above are explained in full detail.

 

•Colours for both black and white background

•Commands to switch background colour

•Commands to change layer colours

•Script Sequences to update entire projects