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Bitmap fills
Fill Type
Fill Tiling
Not used
Bitmap name
Resolution
Not used
The Bitmap Gallery is described in The Bitmap Gallery in the Photo Handling chapter, for the Fill
Gallery see below
.
Bitmap fills are one of the most powerful fill types. It allows any photo or texture to be used as a fill for
any shape and you have direct immediate control over the size, angle, position and tiling. You can color
bitmap fills. You can use any type of bitmap as a fill, including JPEG photos, and alpha-channel
(semi-transparent) bitmaps.
When you import a photo file into Web Designer MX Premium (eg. a JPG or PNG file) it appears as a
shape with a bitmap fill type. When such an object is selected the status line shows it as a "photo", but it
is just the same as a shape that has had the photo applied as a bitmap fill.
To fill a shape with a bitmap or photo fill, do one of the following:

Drag any bitmap from the Bitmap Gallery or from your Windows File Explorer over any shape,
hold "Shift" and drop, or

Drag any fill from the Fill Gallery onto the shape (there is no need to hold "Shift" to drop in this
case)

Select 'Bitmap' from the left side drop down menu of the Fill Tool InfoBar, and then select the
required bitmap from the dropdown menu of bitmap names (this only shows bitmaps that are or
have been previously loaded).
You can fill an object with single or multiple tiles (repetitions of the bitmap image).
Single tile (photo)
Repeating tile
Repeat inverted-the tiles fit
together perfectly.
The fill has three handles. Use it for Resizing and re-positioning bitmap fills
. An alternative way to set the size of the bitmap is to type in a resolution into the InfoBar field. You first
have to un-select the fill handle by clicking anywhere on the image away from a fill handle, then just type
a new dpi resolution.
Replacing Bitmap Fills
If a shape already contains a bitmap, or is a photo, then you can just drag and drop a new bitmap from
any source, such as Windows Explorer, and it will replace the existing bitmap. The new image is 'best
fitted' into the shape so that it just fits in. Doing this will also replace all other instances of that photo on
the current page if they are in the same Soft Group
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