Operation Manual

152 Colour, Fills, and Transparency
specific colour is assigned (by number) to each region. For example,
imagine a line drawing coded with the numbers 1 through 5. To fill it in,
you'd use paint from jars also numbered 1 through 5. Swapping different
colours into the paint jars, while keeping the numbers on the drawing
the same, would produce quite a different painting.
In PagePlus, the "paint jars" are
numbers you can assign to objects in
your publication. They're known as
"Scheme Colour 1," "Scheme Colour
2," and so on. When you apply
Scheme Colour 1 to an object, it's
like saying, "Put the colour from jar
number 1 here."
The Schemes tab shows the various available schemes, each with a
different set of five colours in the five "jars." Whichever named colour
scheme you select, that scheme's first colour (as shown in its sample) will
appear in regions defined as Scheme Colour 1, its second colour will
map to Scheme Colour 2, and so on throughout the publication.
To select a colour scheme:
1. Click the Schemes tab. The currently assigned scheme is
highlighted in the list.
By default, the Schemes tab is collapsed at the bottom right of the
workspace.
2. Click a different colour scheme sample. Objects in the
publication that have been assigned one of the colour scheme
numbers are updated with the corresponding colour from the
new scheme.
You can repeat this selection process indefinitely. When you save a
publication, its current colour scheme is saved along with the
publication.