Using the Document Color Palette
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aaronbaltzBy Roger Wambolt
This tutorials shows how to use the document color palette in CorelDRAW. With both CorelDRAW® and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™, a custom color palette is automatically created on the fly for each design project. The palette is saved with the file to help you keep track of the colors that you use by storing them for future use.
In this tutorial you will learn about:
- Disabling the automatic adding of colors to the Document palette
- Manually adding colors to the Document palette
- Removing colors from the Document palette
- Resetting the Document palette
This tutorial has been written for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7. While some features might be available in previous releases, the tutorial will be fully applicable to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 only.
When you start a new drawing, an empty color palette named the Document palette appears in the drawing window. Every time you use a color in your drawing, it is automatically added to the Document palette. However, if you prefer to control which colors are added to the Document palette, you can disable the automatic updates and add colors manually.
You can add colors from a color palette, an external image, a color picker, or a color-related dialog box, such as the Edit Fill dialog box. In addition, you can add colors from an imported image or object.
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As objects are created, the colors within those objects are automatically added to the Document palette.
Disabling the automatic adding of colors to the Document palette
On the Document palette, click the flyout button , and click Automatically update.
You can also disable the automatic adding of colors by clicking Tools > Options, choosing Workspace > Customization > Color palette, and disabling the Automatically update the document palette check box.
Manually adding colors to the Document palette
There are a number of different ways to add colors to the Document palette:
- Add a color from another color palette by dragging a color from an open color palette to the Document palette.
- Add a color from a bitmap image by clicking the Eyedropper tool on the Document palette and clicking a color in the image.
- Add multiple colors from an image by clicking the Eyedropper tool on the Document palette, holding down Ctrl, and clicking the image until you add the colors that you want.
- Add multiple colors from an image or object by dragging it from the drawing window to the Document palette.
- Add colors from a selection by selecting an object or multiple objects, clicking the flyout button on the Document palette, and clicking Add from selection.
Dragging a bitmap on top of the Document palette presents a dialogue box that allows you to select the number of colors from the bitmap that you want in the palette. Select the number of colors and click OK.
Removing colors from the Document palette
To remove a color from the Document palette, select the color, click the flyout button , and click Delete color.
Resetting the Document palette
To reset the Document palette, click the flyout button , and click Palette > Reset palette.
It is very easy to see how the Document palette can be a very powerful feature, whether you are creating a single file, a corporate identity package, or a series of projects for which you want to maintain consistency of color.
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User's Guide > The User Interface > Other Tool Locations > Tool Palettes >
You can add tools to a tool palette with several methods.
You can create new tool palettes using the Properties button on the title bar of the Tool Palettes window. Add tools to a tool palette with the following methods:
- Drag any of the following onto your tool palette: geometric objects such as lines, circles, and polylines; dimensions; hatches; gradient fills; blocks; xrefs; raster images.
- Drag drawings, blocks, and hatches from DesignCenter to the tool palette. Drawings that are added to a tool palette are inserted as blocks when dragged into the drawing.
- Use the Customize dialog box to drag commands to a tool palette just as you might add them to a toolbar.
- Use the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor to drag commands to a tool palette from the Command List pane.
- Use Cut, Copy, and Paste to move or copy tools from one tool palette to another.
- Manage tool palettes by creating new palettes from scratch, renaming, deleting or moving palettes with the shortcut menu. NoteIt is not recommended to create or rename tool palettes when the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor is displayed.
- Create a tool palette tab with predetermined content by right-clicking a folder, a drawing file, or a block in the DesignCenter tree view, and then clicking Create Tool Palette on the shortcut menu.
- You can associate a customizable tool palette group with each panel on the ribbon. Right-click the ribbon panel to display a list of available tool palette groups.
NoteIf the source drawing file for a block, xref, or raster image tool is moved to a different folder, you must modify the tool that references it by right-clicking the tool and, in the Tool Properties dialog box, specifying the new source file folder.
Rearranging Tools and Tool Palettes
Once tools are placed on a tool palette, you can rearrange them by dragging them around or by sorting them. You can also add text and separator lines to tool palettes.
You can move a tool palette tab up and down the list of tabs by using the tool palette shortcut menu or the Tool Palettes tab of the Customize dialog box. Similarly, you can delete tool palettes that you no longer need. Tool palettes that are deleted are lost unless they are first saved by exporting them to a file. You can control the path to your tool palettes on the Files tab in the Options dialog box. This path can be to a shared network location.
Read-Only Tool Palettes
If a tool palette file is set with a read-only attribute, a lock icon is displayed in a lower corner of the tool palette. This indicates that you cannot modify the tool palette beyond changing its display settings and rearranging the icons.
To apply a read-only attribute to a tool palette, right-click the tool palette (ATC) file in the following location: C:documents and settings<user name>application dataautodeskAutoCAD 2010r17.2enusupportToolPalettePalettes. On the shortcut menu, click Properties. On the General tab, select Read-only, and click OK.
To create a tool palette from a folder or a drawing
To associate a tool palette group with a ribbon panel
To display the tool palette group associated with a ribbon panel
To delete a tool palette
To add text to a tool palette
To sort items in a tool palette
- Right-click a blank area inside the Tool Palettes window. Click Sort By Name or Sort By Type. NoteItems are sorted in order, by text, separator, and tool.
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