6 Welcome
Graphics
• Drawing Tools
Design stunning vector graphics with Pencil, Pen and Straight Line
tools, and add line endings like arrowheads, diamonds, and quills.
Alternatively, the array of fully-customizable QuickShapes let you
quickly create outlines for your designs, while Convert to Curves,
Crop to Shape, and curve drawing offer complete flexibility for
creating any shape imaginable! Mesh warp envelopes add
perspective, slant, and bulge to any object.
• Fills
Enhance shapes and artistic text with fantastic professional fills. Use
the Colour tab to change fill, line, or text colour with one click.
Choose preset fills (solid, gradient, or bitmap) from the Swatches tab's
palettes—even create stunning bitmap fills from your own images.
What's more, every colour used is added to the Publication Palette so
that you can easily re-use it again and again.
• Intelligent Colour Schemes
Choose from dozens of preset colour schemes to change the overall
appearance of your publications with a single click. You can
customize the scheme colours, create brand new schemes, and apply
any scheme to a "from-scratch" publication.
• Ready-to-use Styles
Choose various filter effects, glows, shadows, textures, and materials
from the Styles tab. Customize the preset styles or store your own!
• Transparency
Add transparency to your backgrounds, text frames, tables, shapes and
text to achieve a truly professional look. As with colour fills, you can
apply solid, gradient, and bitmap transparencies—even create bitmap
transparencies from your own image collection.
• Filter Effects
Apply eye-catching Filter Effects to make your images and text really
stand out. Easily add shadows, glows, bevels, blurs, reflections,
outlines, feathering, or embossing effects and alter the flexible settings
for exactly the right look—your original object remains intact and
editable if you change your mind! Use the Shadow Tool for on-the-
page control of basic or skewed drop shadows.
