Datasheet

152 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency
Defining solid line and fill colours
When you're applying a solid fill or line colour using the Studio's Swatch tab,
you choose a colour from one of several colour palettes, arranged as a gallery of
colour swatch thumbnails. Different palettes can be loaded but only one palette
is displayed at any one time. Several of the colour palettes are based on "themed"
colours while the remaining palettes are based on industry-standard colour
models, i.e.
• RGB: Red, Green and Blue (default)
• CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
Palettes can be loaded, created, deleted and saved as discussed later in Managing
colours and palettes on p. 154.
Changing the set of gallery colours
Colours are added manually or automatically from the Colour tab or taken
directly from a drawing object's line/fill into the user's Document Palette. The
palette also stores commonly used colours (e.g., Red, Green, Blue, etc.). Once a
colour is stored in the Document Palette, it can be edited with the Colour
Selector dialog at any time. Colours can be added, edited, deleted, or renamed
within the Document Palette as in any of the other Swatch tab's palettes.
To add a colour to the Document Palette:
• Select a colour mixed from the Colour tab.
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1. Use the
Colour Selector on the Colour tab to select any
colour on your computer screen. Click on the dropper icon, move to
the target area and select your chosen pickup colour with the pickup
cursor (if needed, hold down the mouse button for magnification).
The colour is picked up in the adjacent swatch.
2. Click this swatch to transfer the colour to the Fill swatch.