Colors

Shapes, charts, and barcodes have a set of color properties for line and fill. Texts have highlight color properties (which highlights the selected text with the selected color) and text color properties.

Color Type

The color types you can select include:

•	RGB (default) (Red, green, and blue) – For viewing on screen.

•	RGB (Web Colors) – For web "safe" colors.

•	CMYK – Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black – For printing.

•	CMY – Cyan, magenta, yellow. To e.g. achieve a rich black result by adding a black layer on top afterwards.

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Grayscale

•	Transparent – No color.

•	Custom – Specify your own channel values, opacity and tint, and give the color type a name.

You can set default color for new text and graphics you add to the document. This can be useful for example if the output is to be printed out where you want the black color to be defined as CMYK with black channel only. See Options dialog.

Color

For the available colors in each color type, you can specify the 8-bit value of the color channel (0-255), or use the color palette, see the Color palette.

Type

For fill color, you can specify if it is a solid color filling the whole object or if there is a gradient fill, i.e. a transition between two colors vertically, horizontally or radially. The color transition takes place starting from the Color specified and ending with the secondary color.

Example 55

Gradients

 

Figure 60 Horizontal linear gradient

Figure 61 Vertical linear gradient

Figure 62 Radial gradient

 

Secondary color

For gradient fill, this is the color that the color specified for the Fill color property transitions into. For example, the yellow color in the example above.

Opacity

The transparency of the color from 0 to 255, where 0 means full transparency and 255 full color.

Tint

The amount of white added to color. Tint 0 means 100% white, and Tint 255 means no white added to the color.

Color palette

To open the color palette, select the Line color or Fill color property group, and click the drop-down list button. You can modify how the colors are displayed in this palette in the Edit Palettes settings dialog, see Selecting and creating color palettes on page 31.

Example 56

Color palette example

 

Transparent – No color.

More Colors – Opens the Color dialog, see (Add) Color dialog.

>> – Opens the Color Palettes dialog, see Color Palettes dialog.

Effects – Opens the Fill style dialog to let you specify gradient fill properties, see Fill Style dialog.