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Color Handling
Xara Designer Pro X gives wide control over applying, creating and altering the colors of
objects. For simple documents, you can just choose colors from the on-screen color
palette, the Color Line. More advanced color operations are described later.
The color line
The Color Line is displayed at the bottom of the window. It shows you the current fill and
line colors, provides access to the color editor and provides a palette of pre-defined
colors including a special "no color".
Color swatch:The outer rectangle of the color swatch shows the line color and the
center rectangle shows the fill color. These are the colors of any selected objects,
or the current color attributes if no objects are selected.
This button provides access to the COLOR EDITOR.
Color picker: Use the eye-dropper to pick a color from any part of the document or
any part of the computer screen. See Using the eye-dropper to pick colors (on
page 194) for details.
NO COLOR: Clicking this applies a "no color fill". Shift-clicking applies "no color" to a
line. Note that this is not the same as 100% transparent. "No color" and
transparency are different. A shape with transparency applied remains a solid
shape whereas a shape filled with "no color" is effectively hollow. The NO COLOR
button can also be used to restore the original colors to a photo which has had a
contone color applied.
Current Fill color - the fill color of the currently selected object (displays a diamond
marker on top left).
Current Line color - the line color of the currently selected object (displays a
diamond marker on top right).
If the length of the Color Line exceeds the window, you can scroll through the Color Line
with the scroll bar below or by "Alt + dragging" the Color Line.
Xara Designer Pro X provides several options for the displayed size of the Color Line
(described in Customizing Designer Pro (on page 643)).
If you do not want to display a Color Line, deselect "WINDOW > BARS > COLOR LINE".
Colors on the color line
