Operation Manual

Color, Fills, and Transparency 207
Applying solid colors
PagePlus offers a number of ways to apply solid colors to objects of different
kinds:
• You can apply solid colors to an object's line or fill. As you might
expect, QuickShapes and closed shapes (see Drawing and editing
shapes on p. 182) have both line and fill properties, whereas straight
and freehand lines have only a line property.
• Characters in text objects can have fill color or highlight color. Text
frames and table cells can have a background fill independent of the
characters they contain.
• You can colorize a paint-type (bitmap) picture—that is, recolor it to
use a different color. If you recolor a full-color picture, the colors will
convert to tints or shades of the specified color. You can also apply
tinting to a full-color picture to produce a low-intensity picture (useful
for backgrounds behind text).
You can use the Color tab, Swatches tab or a dialog box to apply solid colors to
an object.
To apply a solid color via the Color tab:
1. Select the object(s) or highlight a range of text.
2. Click the Color tab and select one of several color modes (RGB,
CMYK, or HSL) from the drop-down list.
3. Click the
Fill, Line, or Text button at the top of the
tab to determine where color will be applied. The color of the
underline reflects the color of your selected object. For selected frame
text, the Fill will be the background text color (but not the frame's
background color).
4. Select a color from the color spectrum or sliders depending on color
mode selected.