bitmap filled shape

[gpholman]

Hi, I have shape with a 'single tile' bitmap fill and the bitmap is smaller than the shape (which is what I need) but I want the fill of the shape not taken up with the bitmap to be white, however this is defaulting to transparent. I've gotten around this by cloning the shape, setting the fill to flat white and placing it behind the original (bitmap filled) shape. This works fine but is there a way to do this without resorting to this second copy?

[wizard509]

Not as far as I know. That's more or less what I do. Maybe someone will come along who has the answer you need.

[gpholman]

Fast reply Larry! Thanks, nice to know it's not my ignorance at play here.

[mwenz]

Fast reply Larry! Thanks, nice to know it's not my ignorance at play here.

Use Clip instead of bitmap fill. The shape has a red outline inside a white shape and the objects are sitting on a black square.

The top one has the bitmap fill.
The bottom one has the clipped bitmap.

Mike

[gpholman]

Brilliant Mike, many thanks, that worked like a charm.