The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 2
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Applying Fill and Outline Colors

Xara offers several ways to apply fill and outline colors. With an object or text object selected, click any color on the screen palette with the left mouse button to apply a fill color and click with the right mouse button to apply an outline color.

To remove a fill or outline color, click the small hatched box (between the color wheel and the first color on the screen palette) with the left mouse button for fill color and right mouse button for outline color. The larger box on the far left indicates the currently selected fill and outline colors. If one or the other is set to none the box will display a hatched pattern as seen above.

You can also drag a color from the screen palette directly onto an object. As the color approaches the target object, the cursor changes to reflect a fill (a square) or outline (a thin rectangle). When adding colors to two-color fills, click the square at either end of the fill path(s) and then click a color on the screen palette with the left mouse button.

To apply a multicolor fill, select the target object then select the Fill Tool icon.

From the drop down list on the Infobar, select the type of fill.

Shown here is an Elliptical fill which by default is the height and width of the selected object. You can reposition the center of the fill by dragging the center box to a new location. You can also drag the arrows to change the dimensions of the fill as well as rotate the fill paths. To rotate the height and width proportionally, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging one of the fill path arrows.

To change the center or outside colors, with the Fill Tool selected, click on either the inside or outside squares and then select a color from the screen palette.