Operation Manual

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To change the current palette:
• On the Swatches tab, click the
Palette button to view
and adopt colours from a Standard RGB, Standard CMYK, or
selection of themed palettes. Colours can be added, edited, or
deleted from the Publication Palette but not from other
palettes.
Using colour schemes
In PagePlus, a colour scheme is a cluster of eleven complementary
colours (of which five are mainly used) that you can apply to specific
elements in one or more publications. The Schemes tab displays preset
schemes (displaying the five main colours) which can be selected at any
point during the design process.
Each publication can have just one colour scheme at a time; the current
scheme is highlighted in the Schemes tab. You can easily switch
schemes, modify scheme colours and create custom schemes. Colour
schemes are saved globally, so the full set of schemes is always available.
How colour schemes work
Colour schemes in PagePlus work much like a paint-by-numbers
system, where various regions of a layout are coded with numbers, and a