Gobe Productive User's Guide - Customizing Ink Sets

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Customizing Ink Sets

Create a New Blank Set | Add a New Color to a Color Set | Save a Color Set
Load a Color Set | Delete a Color Set |

In the Gobe Productive suite, color is more than merely shades and hues. Gobe Productive considers color an integral component of any graphic item. Patterns, textures, and gradients can take the place of a color. Together, colors along with textures, gradients and patterns are referred to as Inks.

Each ink type has one or more ink sets. An ink set is a collection of color swatches specific for the color type. Each color type has its own set. When you "tear-off" one of the color tools (fill, pen, or text color), a set of colors is displayed. When you first start Gobe Productive, the default ink sets are displayed for each type.

The Fill Ink palette displaying the default ink set.

Each color type (solid, pattern/texture, gradient) can have one ink set active at a time. For example, if you tear off the Fill Color palette and load a new pattern set, that same pattern set is displayed under the Pen Color palette as well. When you change a set under one tool it changes for all tools.

If you make changes to the colors in the default ink sets, make sure to save the set so you can load your custom colors later. Otherwise, any changes made to the default sets are lost when you exit the document.

You can only edit and load ink sets from one of the formatting palettes. Tear-off the palette you wish to edit and load and save your new sets from the palette.

| Reminder: You must tear-off one of the color formatting tools to edit, load, and manage your personal ink sets. To tear-off a palette, click and drag the appropriate formatting tool until you see an outlined box. Release the mouse button and the palette appears in the outlined box.

## To Create a New, Blank Set

1. Tear-off the color formatting tool you wish to use. Since all three of the ink formatting tools use the same three ink sets, it does not matter which one you tear-off.
2. Select the ink set you want to create:
   - Click to create a new solid color, ink set.
   - Click to create a new pattern ink set,
   - Click to create a new gradient ink set.
3. From the File menu, select New Ink Set. A New Ink Set dialog box is displayed.
4. Type in a New Set Name for the new ink set and click OK.
5. A blank ink set is now displayed in the palette. Use the following instructions for adding a new color entry.

## To Add a New Ink to an Ink Set

1. Display the ink set where you want to add a new color.
   - Click to display the color ink set.
   - Click to display the pattern ink set. To add a new texture, select a texture ink set from the Ink Sets menu.
   - Click to display the gradient ink set.
2. From the Sets menu, select the set you wish to load.
3. From the Edit menu, select New Color/Pattern/Gradient.
4. An Edit dialog box is displayed. If you are adding a new color, an Edit Color dialog box is displayed. Likewise, if you are adding a new pattern, an Edit Pattern dialog box is displayed. The same is true for adding a new gradient. For information about the Edit Color or Edit Pattern dialog boxes, please see the Customizing Inks topic.

| NOTE: Textures are not added in the above described manner. A texture is added from a graphic file. For instructions on adding a texture to the texture ink set, see the Customizing Inks topic.

6. Create the new color. If you need help using the Edit Color, Edit Pattern, or Edit Gradient dialog boxes, please see the topic Customizing Inks.
7. When you are finished creating the color, pattern, or gradient, click OK. The new color is added to the set.

## To Save an Ink Set

1. Make sure the formatting palette is displaying the ink set you wish to save.
2. If you are saving a NEW ink set:
   - Select Save Set As... from the File menu.
   - Type in a name for the set and click Save.

| IMPORTANT: It is a good idea to save the ink set to the default folder shown in the Save dialog box. If you change the folder where the ink set is saved, the set will not automatically appear on the Sets menu for the formatting palette.

3. If you are saving changes and additions to an existing set (that is not a default set):
   - Select Save Set from the File menu.

## To Load an Ink Set

1. Make sure the formatting palette is displaying the correct ink set. For example, if you want to load a new gradient ink set, make sure a gradient ink set is selected and displayed.
2. From the Sets menu, select the set you wish to load. The Sets menu contains Ink Sets created by the user as well as all Gobe Productive sets. For example, the Color Ink Set has Standard, 256 Greys, Spectrum and BeOS 256 Ink Sets that come installed with Gobe Productive.

| IMPORTANT: If the set does not appear in the Sets menu, it is probably because the set file was moved to a different folder. To appear in the Sets menu, an ink set file must be located in the InkSetsFolder which is located in the folder where you installed Gobe Productive.

## To Delete a Color Set

1. Double-click the Disks icon on your desktop.
2. Locate the InkSetsFolder. This folder is located in the folder where you installed Gobe Productive.
3. Each set has its own file. Delete the file corresponding to the set you want to remove.
4. You will need to restart the Gobe Productive application for the change to take effect.

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