Greetings Listers,

Original question:  Can I export from ArcView my .avl file, or some other
type of definition of the colors and use those definitions in CorelDRAW 10?
Or, If there is a way to get the hsv2rgb  script (downloaded from ArcScripts
site - it only works on graphics) to work on a shapefile, that would be
excellent!

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Our solution was to minimize the ArcView window so only the the theme legend
in the view screen was visible.  Click alt+print screen to copy the active
window, which was then pasted into CorelDraw10.  There is a tool in
CorelDraw called "color picker," it is either a little eyedropper or a
spilling bucket.  Using that tool, you can then select and copy the colors
from the pasted item, in our case, the legend, to your CorelDraw document.
Crude, yes, but it did work.  Not sure if this tool is available in other
versions of CorelDraw or not.

Two people responded with different scripts.  We did not try these, as we
got the above method to work before recieving these responses.  Thanks for
your help and time in answering my question, Bill and Rolf, and I will try
the scripts with another project I'm working on.

from Bill Huber (thanks Bill!): Consider running the script (Legend.ShowRGB)
with the legend(s)
active.  You can select and copy the output text for pasting into any other
Windows document for further processing.  The script Loops over all active
themes. Within a theme, loops over all symbols in its legend. Sets the
corresponding labels to clearly show R, G, B.

From Rolf Aa. Broch (thanks Rolf!): a script that will loop through the
classifications of the legend of the active themes in the view and get the
RGB values of the foreground,background, and outline colours and present
this in a MsgBox with the following format.
''
''              THEME: Drainage.shp
''              FOREGROUND              BACKGROUND              OUTLINE
LABEL
''              Red     Green   Blue    Red     Green   Blue    Red
Green   Blue
''              000     000     255     NIL     NIL     NIL     NIL     NIL
NIL
''
''              THEME: Cntry92.shp
''              FOREGROUND              BACKGROUND              OUTLINE
LABEL
''              Red     Green   Blue    Red     Green   Blue    Red
Green   Blue
''              192     101     073     255     255     255     000     000
000     Afghanistan
''              255     215     000     255     255     255     000     000
000     Albania
''              189     183     107     255     255     255     000     000
000     Algeria
''              247     181     103     255     255     255     000     000
000     Angola
''              ...
''              ...
''
''              The string is also copied to the windows clipboard.

If anyone would like the full scripts, just drop me a note and I will
forward them on.

Thanks!
Ann Fritz
ND Department of Health - Division of Water Quality