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3) Select the desired

type

of fill from the drop-down list. The Area

page changes to display the choices available for that fill style, as

described on the following pages.

4) Select the required fill and its parameters, and then click OK to

close the dialog box and apply your selection.

Picking the type of fill from the five available choices (None, Color,

Gradient, Hatching, and Bitmap) modifies the entries in the list below

and makes some new options appear in the Area page. The list is

populated with the default choices for the selected fill type. If none of

the choices is satisfactory, you can fully customize the fill by using the

page with the corresponding name in the same dialog box.

Creating area fills

Impress comes with many pre-defined area fills in four categories:

colors, gradients, hatching patterns, and bitmaps. If none of the

provided fills is satisfactory, you can fully customize them and create

new fills. The following sections describe how to create new fills and

how to apply them.

On each page of the Area dialog box, to modify the characteristics of

an existing fill, change those characteristics in the dialog box and then

click the Modify button. (In some cases, you can also change the name

of the fill in the same step.) However, it is recommended to create new

fills or modify custom fills, and not change the pre-defined ones.

Colors

For color fills, select one from the list on the Area page, as shown in

Figure 97.

Creating colors

On the Colors page, shown in Figure 98, you can modify existing colors

or create your own.

Every color is specified by a combination of the three primary colors

(Red, Green and Blue), hence the notation RGB. To create a new color:

1) Enter the name for the color in the

Name

box.

2) Specify the red, green and blue component on a 0 to 255 scale.

Alternatively specify the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black (K)

components, from 0% to 100%.

3) Click the Add button. The color is now added to the list on the

Area page.

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