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MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides the ability to simulate how printed
colors will look. Select the
"WINDOWS -> SHOW PRINTER COLORS -> SIMULATE PRINT
COLORS"
menu to get a better idea of how your colors will look when printed. This is
an approximation only since printers vary slightly, but it is far more accurate than
normal screen colors.
Local colors and Theme colors
Page & Layout Designer has two types of color:
•
LOCAL COLORS are used in only one place in the document. Each object has a
separate color and nothing is shared. This is useful if you want to change the
color of an object without affecting other objects. Local colors are the easiest
method and best for simple documents that use relatively few colors. "Applying
color" and "Editing an object’s color" above describe local color handling.
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THEME COLORS (OR NAMED COLORS) can be used again and again in the document.
(As such, they are like styles in a word processor.) Any edits you make to a
Theme color are immediately reflected on all objects and parts of the drawing
that use that color. You can also copy Theme colors between documents. Theme
colors appear on the Color Line and in the
COLOR GALLERY. If there are any Theme
colors already present in the design and you import or paste templates from the
Designs gallery containing Theme colors with the same name, you will be asked if
you want to match the actual color of the imported Theme colors to the existing
ones. The Theme colors in most templates are consistently named so when you
import elements from different themes colors are matched perfectly.
IMPORTANT: If you just select an object on the page that has a NAMED COLOR applied
to it, and alter it with the color editor, this will always turn it into a
LOCAL COLOR
instead of a
NAMED COLOR (because it is assumed that if you try to edit the color of
the object that’s what you mean to do. If you really want to change the
NAMED COLOR
so this and all occurrences of the color change, then you should do so by editing the
NAMED COLOR (on page 168) ).
Theme color schemes
Many of the web themes offered in the DESIGNS GALLERY and in separately
purchasable Template Packs include alternative color schemes which can easily be
applied to websites which use the same theme, to transform the color scheme
instantly. The color schemes are normally found in the Designs Gallery in each theme
under
WEBSITE TEMPLATE THEMES, after all the page layouts and separate graphic
elements that make up the theme. They all have "Color scheme" in their titles in the
Designs Gallery, so they are easily identified.
To apply a color scheme to your website, simply drag the scheme from the Designs
Gallery and drop it on your page. You can try applying the color schemes of one
theme to a website created from the templates of another theme. But you will get