Specifying corner effects

You can specify corner effects, for example to create rounded corners for any shape with corners. You can specify corner effect individually for each corner of the object. The corner effects remain constant and are not affected when resizing the object. However, a corner radius can never exceed half the length of the minimum of the two adjacent edges.

Figure 28

Table with rounded corners

To edit corner effects

1	Select the object, for example a rectangle or a table.

2	In the Properties panel, Border & Fill category, click the Corner effect field.

3	Click the browse button. The Corner Effects dialog opens.

4	Specify the corner effect settings. For more information, see the Corner Effects dialog.

If you are in Edit Points mode, you can access the Corner effects dialog directly by right-clicking a point of the shape and selecting to apply a corner effect. If there already are corner effects applied, you can select to edit or remove them. Note: You can not use corner effects on a table cell when some of the borders in the cell have line color specified on them, and some are set to be transparent .

Example 31

Creating rounded corners on a table

When creating rounded corners on a table, as in Figure 28, you must:

•	Specify rounded corners on the table itself

•	Specify a rounded corner on each corner cell.

To achieve this, you can:

1	Select the table and open the Corner Effects dialog.

2	Select Rounded from the Presets section.

3	Select the top left corner cell and open the Corner Effects dialog.

4	Create four corner definitions in the list, where the Effect property on the top one is set to Rounded and the others are set to None.

5	Select the top right cell and open the Corner Effects dialog.

6	Create four corner definitions in the list, where the Effect property on the second one is set to Rounded and the others are set to None.

7	Repeat accordingly for the other two corner cells.