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Drawing Lines and Shapes 97
Brushes are stored in the document. If you want to re-use a brush in another
document, you have to load the document containing your custom brush first. Only
the default brushes are always available.
Editing a brush
To access advanced editing options for a brush:
1. Select the brush that you wish to edit.
2. Click EDIT BRUSH.
Here you can alter:
• SPACING: Gap between the objects
in the brush.
•
OFFSET: Distance between the
original line and the objects in the
brush.
•
SCALING: Size of objects in the
brush.
•
ROTATION: Rotation of the objects
in the brush as they follow the line.
•
TRANSPARENCY: Transparency of
the brush.
•
FILL PROPERTIES: Miscellaneous
options, including color options.
Transparency is described in "Transparency (on page 222)" and colors are described
in "Color handling (on page 159)".
If you use a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet, the transparency and scaling options
allow you to configure the brush’s sensitivity levels. If you do not have a pressure-
sensitive graphics tablet, you can mimic the effects using brush shapes (on page 93).
Save your edit
s with the
SAVE button, with the SAVE AS NEW button a new brush is
created.
Attention: Although you can edit a default brush, you can not save the edits into this
brush for use beyond this session. The default brushes are always restored on the
start of the program. If you want to edit one of the default brushes, for use at a
further time, then you have to save it as a new one.