Operation Manual

214 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes
Using object styles
Object styles benefit your design efforts in much the same way as text styles
and colour schemes. Once you've come up with a set of attributes that you
like—properties like line colour, fill, border, and so on—you can save this
cluster of attributes as a named style. PagePlus remembers which objects are
using that style, and the style appears in the Styles tab, and can subsequently be
applied to new objects. For example a Quick Star can have a stone effect applied
via an object style you've saved previously (all object styles use a cog shape as
the default object preview type).
Here's how object styles work to your advantage:
• Each object style can include settings for a host of object attributes,
such as line colour, line style, fill, transparency, filter effects, font, and
border. The freedom to include or exclude certain attributes, and the
nearly unlimited range of choices for each attribute, makes this a
powerful tool in the designer's arsenal.
• Any time you want to alter some aspect of a style (for example,
change the line colour), you simply change the style definition.
Instantly, all objects in your publication sharing that style update
accordingly.
• Object styles you've saved globally appear not only in the original
publication but in any new publication, so you can reuse exactly the
same attractive combination of attributes for any subsequent design
effort.