If you open the Fill gallery, then select an object, choose "fill" on the gallery menu. The object does not receive the fill, instead the bitmap is inserted into the drawing.
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If you open the Fill gallery, then select an object, choose "fill" on the gallery menu. The object does not receive the fill, instead the bitmap is inserted into the drawing.
The fill works fine on my copy.
Click the Fill Tool icon on the left toolbar, and make certain that 'Repeating Tile' is selected on the info bar.
Fills from the fill gallery should then 'fill' your selected shape when the [Fill] button is pressed.
works okay for me too - was it a particular kind of object?
Also works here (I used a simple rectangle quickshape). The only way I could get it to just insert the fill as a bitmap was to not have the shape selected at all.
Perhaps the same sort of subtle weirdness that doesn't happen to everyone, like me and the extrude tool.
No none of the suggestions changes anything. I am talking about the fill Gallery not the bitmap Gallery.
I am not using the pro version, and I have the feeling you all are.
Judi
If a person double-clicks on the picture of the fill, then the fill itself becomes a picture. Selecting the button Fill should fill the selected object.
Drifter is correct, unless the 'shape to be filled' is selected, clicking the [fill] button on the fill gallery window will simply place a rectangular bitmap copy of the selected fill on a page.
The behaviour is the same for both the Classic and Pro versions of Xtreme4
Judi - I have checked xtreme standard 4 as well as pro 4 and it is the same with both on my machine
as long as an object is selected, then choosing a fill in the fill gallery and pressing the fill button fills the selected object
Steve beat me to it:D
In the fill gallery, if you click the "background" button or if you right click and say "Set page background" you only get a small filled rectangle. It doesn't seem to affect the background. It does work in the bitmap gallery
Hold 'ctrl' when you press [background] - or 'ctrl+drag' the fill to the page.
Not sure this is a bug as it's been like this for earlier versions.
Checking the help file doesn't mention using the Ctrl key, so maybe this needs bringing up.
As I mentioned, this works fine in the bitmap gallery. I would have expected it to work better in the fill gallery than the bitmap gallery if anything. but thanks for the tip using CTRL though.
Oh, I almost thought they added a gradient fill gallery when I read this topic, but it's just the same old bitmap fill gallery, right?
They haven't added any way to save gradient fills?
Hi Eobet
have a look at live effect tool/ color filter/ color with gradient - not had a chance to check it out that well yet, so it may or may not help :)
Steve I have been trying away at your suggestion and I am finding hard to get the effects that I want and there is no real help in this area. With all of these filters I suppose I should look up the Magic help files from the old version and see if I can get a better colour gradient faster.
Peter
The color with gradient seems less than intuitive - I have been concentrating on art filter and deformation filter which I can see immediate use for
But its next on the list - never bothered with Magix up to now - like you say worth digging out
Part of the reasons we do not have fill style galleries is that in practice it's rare that any existing graduated fill style is exactly what you need for another shape (i.e. the feature is not that useful), and secondly it's trivially easy to get the same effect via copy / paste attributes. So if you really want a gallery of saved styles, just create a document with loads of small rectangles, give them all the fill styles you want.
To copy the style, just click on source object, copy - click on destination, and Ctr+Shift+A. Perhaps a bit of pain being in another document (but that's just two key presses away). But what I sometimes do (for text styles) is have the styles I want to use in the pasteboard area, and use the same copy / paste trick.
Not a perfect solution, and one day we may add a real style gallery, but a good enough work around that means this feature comes lower down the wish-list than many others.
Is a tabbed document interface a la the Linux version in the wishlist queue???Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles Moir
Peter - the new filters issue[s] off topic for this thread so carrying on here:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...843#post248843
IF you re-read my original post you will note I stated that the object I wanted filled was selected, and that I did press the fill button.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Maybe I have a corrupt copy of the program?
Judi
P.S. oh thanks a lot guys for changing the subject to gradient fills, so that Charles Moir thought that is what this thread was about.
only trying to help by confirming that I [like others] do not have a problem with the xxp4 - it works as it should for me
it is an observation and a statement of what I tested - not a directive ;)
sorry about the lapse off topic, I'm not convinced that distracted Charles, but it might have :)
Further:
again, sorry if my post appeared to ignore what you said in the OP
I re-posted to confirm that I had now tested it on xtreme 4 as well as xtreme pro 4 - sledger also did this and beat me to it - but the principle is the same
I do not have hands on your machine, so can only confirm either same experience as you, or as in this case state as precisely as possible what my experience was
As for whether you have a corrupt copy - yes that is possible - but not possible to confirm
:)
I get it working differently on two machines:
At home: if the object is drawn but not selected then the fill is placed as a bitmap on the page.
At the office: if the object is drawn but not selected then the object is filled as expected.
Seems bizarre to get them working two different ways - Must check this behaviour out again when I return home
that is interesting Keith :confused:
Im not sure I explained that correctly - When I said drawn and filled, I mean't immediately so that the object still had focus of course.
one of the joys of beta versions - they can throw up this sort of thing
You sound a little miffed Judi, but everyone is keen to help and are excited about the new features so it's easy to become a little side-tracked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Judi A
However did you read the preceding posts #3 / #7 / #8 & #11 which I believe helps answer your OP?
If this still does not work for you, then yes, you may need to uninstall Xtreme4, redownload and reinstall.
Please let us know how this goes.
Wouldn't you believe it ..... The home machine now seems to work the same as the office machine .... must have been having a senile moment yesterday. Sorry to have bothered you.Quote:
Originally Posted by ss-kalm