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Edit the color of text and graphics

You can replace or change one specific color of text and graphic objects. Graphic objects are images, line art, PDF objects, etc. When you edit an image in the [Edit colors] dialog, the image becomes a monochrome image in tints of the selected color. You can edit objects with an [RGB], [CMYK] and [Grayscale] color space.

There are 3 different tabs with a different function.

Setting

Description

[Proof print...]

Click this button to create a proof PDF or proof print. A proof is used to show a customer the final layout of the product before final production.

Reset your settings

  1. Click the reset button to reset your settings in this dialog. You can find the reset button just below the 'X' of the dialog.

  1. Select the pages that you want to change.

    • To select a page range: select a page in the structure view, press the <Shift> key, then select another page.

    • To select non-sequential pages: select a page in the structure view, press the <Ctrl> key, then select several non-sequential pages.

  2. Click [Pages] - [Edit colors].

  3. Select an action on the left-hand side of the dialog:

    1. Change the color of an object.

    2. Change one color in an area.

    3. Change all colors in an area.

  4. You can select complete lines of text or only parts of the line. You have to select a complete object. Graphic objects are images, line art, PDF objects, etc. A blue border is placed around the selected images.

  5. You can replace the color with a color from the color palette or the color picker.

    You can pick the color of text and of graphical objects. The [Color space] of the selected object is used. The color picker cannot retrieve the exact colors of an unsupported [Color space].

  6. Select how you want to change the fill and stroke color. Fill sets the color inside an object and stroke sets the color of the line drawn around an object. For example, a circle with a red body and a black outline. For this object, the fill is red and the stroke is black. For a fully red circle, both the fill and the stroke are red.

    • [Fill]

      Only the fill color is changed

    • [Stroke]

      Only the stroke color is changed

    • [Fill same as stroke]

      The fill color will be become the same as the stroke color

    • [Stroke same as fill]

      The stroke color will be become the same as the fill color

  7. Click [Apply].