Creating and Applying Tiled Fills

Creating and Applying Tiled Fills

You have to create the next kind of fill-called a Tiled fill - by yourself. Other programs may call this a pattern.

To create and apply a Tiled fill:

Copy the artwork that you want to repeat in other objects

Figure 42. To create a Tiled fill, select and copy the artwork that you would 353g624d like to turn into a pattern.

Select the object you want to fill with the Tiled fill.

Choose Tiled from the Fill inspector popup menu.

Click Paste in. The artwork you copied appears in the Tiled preview box . The selected object displays the Tiled fill

Figure 43. Click Paste in to transfer the copied artwork into the Tiled fill settings box.

Figure 44. The object selected displays the Tiled fill.

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To make the background of the Tiled fill transparent, leave the artwork on an empty area or on a rectangle with no fill.

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To give the Tiled fill a white or colored background, place the artwork on a rectangle filled with white or the color. Select the artwork and the rectangle to paste into the Tiled fill box.

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The more complex the tiled artwork, the longer it takes for your screen to redraw and for the artwork to print.

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Tiled fills cannot contain objects that have Lens fills or Tiled fills applied to them.

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Tiled fills cannot contain bitmapped graphics.

To adjust a Tiled fill:

With the Fill inspector displayed, select the Tiled fill object.

To change the size of the Tiled fill , use the Scale % x and y fields. To scale the fill uniformly, use the same amounts for both the x and y fields.

Figure 45. The effects of scaling a Tiled fill object.

To move a Tiled fill within the object , enter positive or negative values in the Offset x and y fields.

Figure 46. The effects of offseting a Tiled fill object.

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Positive x values in the Offset field move the fill to the right. Negative x values in the Offset field move the fill to the left. Positive y values in the Offset field move the fill up. Negative y values in the Offset field move the fill down.

To angle a Tiled fill within the object , move the angle wheel or enter the exact angle in the Angle field.

Figure 47. The effects of changing the angle of a Tiled fill object.