Using Strokes and Fills in PageMaker

Strokes and Fills:

You can modify objects a number of ways in PageMaker (resize, rotate and add color to objects). For objects drawn with PageMaker drawing tools, you can also change stroke (the width of lines drawn with the drawing tools and the width of borders around rectangles, ellipses and polygons), as well as stroke and fill patterns. If you select stroke of fill attributes when no object is selected, those attributes become the new default settings. Objects you subsequently draw adopt those attributes until you change them.

You can use, apply or change fill and stroke in these following ways:

1.Using the Pointer Tool, select an object.

2. Use one of the following methods:

2a. To set both the fill pattern and stroke attributes for the selection, choose Element > Fill and Stroke, and select attributes from the Fill and Stroke pop-up menus.

2b. To change only the fill pattern or stroke attributes, choose Element > Fill or Element > Stroke and select attributes.

2c. If the stroke size you want is not listed on the Stroke menus, choose Element > Stroke > Custom to specify a weight from 0 – 800 points in 0.1 increments.

3. Choose any additional attributes for strokes:

3a. Choose the Transparent Background option if you want objects placed behind a patterned stroke to show through the spaces in the pattern.

3b. Click the Reverse Stroke option to draw a paper-colored stroke or outline of a shape on a contrasting black, shaded or colored background.