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In this fourth article in the Scribus series we will discuss creating 'color styles' which will allow us to quickly and easily alter various text or shape colors at the click of a button and with zero guess work. Having continuity in your publications is essential to ensure that all your pages come together to form a single publication. Last month we saw how to create Paragraph Styles this means that with one click of a button you can assign the same font, color and settings every time with minimal work and, more importantly, no guess work. This month we look at Colors, this menu option will do a similar thing to Paragraph Styles but with boxes, lines and so on. This is where we left off in Part 3, Paragraph Styles: Imagine this: you are on page fifty of your publication and you want your image to have a border which has the same color and style as the image on page one. You could easily scroll, or jump' to page one but wouldn't it be easier to just have a palette of colors, with names, that you can call upon? Well with Scribus' Colors settings, you can.
Dans ce quatrième article de la série Scribus, nous parlerons de la création de « styles de couleurs » qui nous permettront de changer la couleur de divers textes ou formes rapidement et facilement en cliquant sur un bouton, de façon aucunement aléatoire.
La continuité dans vos publications est essentielle pour assurer que les pages rassemblées forment une seule publication. Le mois dernier, nous avons vu la création de styles de paragraphe, ce qui veut dire qu'avec un clic, vous pouvez assigner la même police, couleur et paramètres chaque fois avec un travail minime et, surtout, pas d'à peu près. Ce mois-ci, nous regarderons les couleurs ; cette option du menu fera quelque chose de similaire aux « styles de paragraphe », mais avec des cubes, des lignes et ainsi de suite.
First let's make a named color
Click on the Edit > Colors menu option.
That list is the default colors that Scribus creates for almost every document, you can keep them all and start afresh. But wait! What if I delete the colors used in my header and text? To save that happening, click the Remove Unused button. Here's my list now.
So let's create a new color for our palette. Click the New button. You'll see some text at the top left which says 'New Color', change that to what you want to call this color I'm going to call it 'Photo Border'. Below that it says 'CMYK'. You can change that to RGB or Web Safe. If you're going to send your document to a professional printer then use CMYK (same for images too!) but since this is for a PDF (and not being printed professionally) I'll choose RGB. The menu at the top right will give a list of pre-made palettes if you want this but I'm going with my custom palette. I've chosen my color from the rainbow box in the right of the window and now click OK.
And there's my custom made color in the list. Click OK to return to document editing.
Remember, same as with Paragraph Styles: if you change a color that is used in your document, all instances of that color will change to the new value.
Next I need a border around my image so select the image and look at the Color tab in the Properties window
You see the two icons? On the right is the 'Fill' button, this is what you want your Shape colored as (it won't do anything to an image but it will color the inside of other shapes such as rectangles, circles and such like) and below the fill icon is the color that fill is using in this case, none. To the left is the Line Colour, this is what controls the border color, this is what controls the border color, at the moment it is set to none, so left click on our Photo Border color Although there probably looks like there's no change, remember that just clicking the image alone gives it a red border to show selection so click on
a blank place on the page.
I've got a blue border but I'd like it a bit thicker. To control the line thickness and type, click on the image (remember, all this will also work for any shapes you draw too) and click the Line tab in the Properties window.
Clicking the 'Type of Line' menu will let you choose from a range of styles. I'll choose the dashes. If you've drawn a line this is also where you can choose to have an arrow head on it. 'Line Width' is the thickness of the line. I'll go for a setting of three to make sure it shows on the screenshots. 'Edges' and 'Endings' edit either the start/end of a line or the corners of a shape. Unless you have particularly wide shapes you probably won't notice a great deal of change when you play with these settings. OK, I'm happy with that. How does it look? Again, I click on a blank piece of the page to deselect the image (or shape!)
To prove my point: click the 'Insert Shape' button. Click, hold and drag out a rectangle (or whichever shape you have chosen) and release the mouse button. You'll probably see an unfilled shape:
These are the default color settings for a shape but keep the shape selected and click the Colors tab in the Properties window. Click the Fill icon and choose a color and click the Line icon and choose a color for it too. Again, same as with the image, you can click the Line tab and alter the thickness of the line.
Play around with the shapes, borders and colors within your document. Shapes are good for banners or to put text in, and remember: you can color the inside of a shape as transparent by choosing 'None' for the color Normally you don't want to go crazy with colors Same as the Paragraph Styles: choose maybe six or seven and stick with them. Too many colors and text styles will make your document look confusing and unprofessional.