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Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 155
The loaded palette's colours appear as swatches in the Swatch tab, replacing the
swatches previously visible.
To create a new custom palette:
1. With Palettes selected in the Swatch tab, click the Tab
Menu button in the tab's top right-hand corner and choose Add New
Palette....
2. Enter a name for the new palette and click OK. The new empty palette
is displayed and its name will appear in the Palettes drop-down menu.
To delete a new custom palette:
1. In the Swatch tab, select the palette for deletion from the
Palettes drop-down list.
2. Click the
Tab Menu button in the top right-hand corner and
choose Delete Palette.... After confirmation, the palette is removed
from the list.
To save the current Document Palette:
1. Right-click anywhere in the Document Palette and choose Palette
Manager....
2. In the dialog, choose the Options button, pick Save Palette As... and
save the palette to a new .PLT file.
If you store the file in another folder to the initially prompted one,
then your saved palette will not appear in the Palettes drop-down
menu.
Working with gradient fills
Gradient fills are those that use gradients—small "spectrums" with colours
spreading between at least two defined key values. Specifically, gradient fills
include the Linear, Radial, Ellipse, Conical, Square, Three Colour, and Four
Colour types. Once you've applied a gradient fill to an object using the Swatch
tab (see Setting fill properties on p. 143), you can use the Fill Tool to edit the
object's fill path, defining the placement of the spectrum across the object.