Operation Manual
98 Colour, Fills, and Transparency
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.
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.
By default, the Schemes tab is collapsed at the bottom right of the
workspace.
You can repeat this selection process indefinitely. When you save a
publication, its current colour scheme is saved along with the document.










