6 Welcome
• Quick colour assignment with Colours toolbar (see p. 149)
The toolbar's Fill, Line, and Text buttons will remember the
last applied solid, gradient, or bitmap fill. This makes light
work of recolouring multiple objects.
• Blend modes for creative page design (see p. 164)
For more adventurous colour experimentation, apply blend
modes object-over-object for stunning results. Objects will also
blend to coloured backgrounds (transparent by default).
• Composite transparency and knockout groups
Assign transparency to a group using composite transparency!
As another transparency control, knockout groups prevent
overlapped, semi-transparent object areas from contributing
their transparency to overlapping objects.
• Composite blend modes and isolated blending
Like composite transparency, a composite blend mode affects a
group, after overlapping group objects are blended. For control
of blending scope, isolated blending restricts blending effects
to just the group (and not underlying objects).
• Automatic gradient fill swatches (see p. 154)
PagePlus offers an Automatic fill category which hosts linear
and radial swatches which are not based on fixed colours.
Instead, the currently selected object's solid fill is used.
• More gradient fills categories! (see p. 154)
The range of gradient fills available in PagePlus will be
expanded to include Radial, Plasma, Square, Three Colour,
and Four Colour fills.
