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You can change any of 18 standard colors
(not black or white) by custom-mixing and optionally re-naming them. When you next save
the document, the custom colors and names are also saved. To custom-mix a color you can
specify percentages of red, green, and blue (RGB), or degrees of hue and percentages of
saturation and brightness (HSB), or percentages of the four process colors-cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black (CMYK).
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Choose Pen Color or Fill Color
from the Draw menu, and choose Other.The Color Selector dialog box appears.
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Select any standard color (not
black or white). You cannot change a PANTONE®* Color. The custom-mixed color will replace
the selected standard color, so select a standard colors you don't plan to use in your
design.
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Click Custom
Color. The Custom
Color dialog box appears. The preset option for mixing colors is RGB.
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Select another option for mixing
colors, if you want to. Switch between the options to see the equivalent settings for a
color.
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Drag the scroll bar to change a
setting, or type a value in the corresponding text box. When setting hue (using the HSB
model), set a value between 1 and 360 degrees-think of hue as being represented by a color
wheel.
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Click OK.To rename the color, go
to step 7. Otherwise, go to step 8.
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Click Custom Name, type the new
name of the selected color, and click OK.
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Click OK in the Color Selector
dialog box.
To use standard and custom-mixed
colors from another document, choose Pen Color or Fill Color from the Draw menu, and then
choose Other. In the Color Selector dialog box, click Import, and use the directory dialog
box to open the document whose custom colors you want to use.
The standard or custom-mixed colors from the document you open replace the standard colors
in your current document. They are not added to the list of colors in the current
document.
To force a color to print on every plate when you are printing color separations, give it
the name "Register."
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