Page 192 - Xara Designer Pro X17

192 Color Handling

Set end color of graduated fill (seen when dragged over end of fill). For three and
four-color fills, a number is added to mark the according end color handle.
Set page background color (seen when you drag a color onto the page).

Instead of drag & drop, if you have an object selected, you can just click on the Color
Line. If only open shapes or lines are selected, this will set the line and the fill color. In
any other case, you can alter the line color by "Shift + clicking" on the Color Line.
If a bitmap or a bitmap-filled shape is selected, then clicking on Color Line will contone
the bitmap. That means, the bitmap is converted to greyscale (black and white) and the
used color is used as a contone light color. The contone dark color is usually black. You
can set both contone colors via the Color Line context menu (see above). See Bitmap
coloring (on page 293) for more information.

To set a fill or line to no color (clear), perform the
operations as outlined above but use the "No color"
option instead of a color.

Applying a Text or paragraph background color

There are two options when applying a background color to text - TEXT BACKGROUND &
PARAGRAPH BACKGROUND. The former, Text Background will apply a background to just
the text whereas Paragraph Background will apply it to the whole paragraph.

To apply a text background or paragraph color:

• Highlight some text using the TEXT TOOL (ON PAGE 209) or select text object(s) using the
SELECTOR TOOL
• Right-click on a color in the COLOR LINE
• Select SET TEXT BACKGROUND to highlight just the word, or SET PARAGRAPH
BACKGROUND to highlight the whole paragraph

To get rid of the background color...

• Select your text
• Right-click on the 'NO COLOR' swatch on the COLOR LINE
• Select the CLEAR TEXT BACKGROUND or CLEAR PARAGRAPH BACKGROUND option
You can also apply a text background color on top a paragraph background color.