Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 129
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
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 y
ou 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