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Asked: 2026-06-06T02:39:34+00:00

I am parsing a XML file supplied by some software. Part of the parsing

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I am parsing a XML file supplied by some software. Part of the parsing is extracting colors from some attributes. The problem I have is the color is a 12digit hex value. ie,

<Text AdornmentStyle="0" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#DD6B08C206A2" Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Test</Text>

As you can see the colors are 12digits long. I need to get the 6 digit color so I can display it correctly on html.

Has anyone come across this before?

Hope you can advise.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Never seen a 12-digit hex color string before. Must be using 2-bytes per channel, which means if you convert it, you’re going to lose a bit of information.

    I believe the color is in the format #RRRRGGGGBBBB, so take each 4 hexgits and divide by (16^4/16^2)=256, and round if necessary. That should do it.

    …and if that doesn’t give you the right color, try CMYK like cypher suggests: #CCCMMMYYYKKK (12-bits per channel).

    e.g., to convert DD6B08C206A2 do:

    0xDD6B / 0x100 = 0xDD
0x08C2 / 0x100 = 0x08
0x06A2 / 0x100 = 0x06

    Put those back together and you get #DD0806.

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