Fountain Fills in Draw - Something you probably didn't know
Special rare information from Alex Vakulenko, edited a bit:
NOTE: this does not apply to CorelDRAW X3 or X4..
CorelDRAW has two different ways of applying fountain fills - through the Fountain Fill Dialog as well as using the Interactive Fill Tool. The results are different!
The Interactive Fill tool was introduced in CorelDRAW 8. Using the Fountain Fill Dialog was the only way to apply the fill in prior versions. Fills applied to the object with the Interactive Fill Tool and Dialog also behave differently.
When a fountain fill is applied using the Fountain Fill Dialog, the fill is drawn based on the bounding box of the selected object. When the fill goes from, say, black to white, then the black color will be at one end of the bounding box, and the white will be on the opposite. This is easy understand when the fill angle is 0° (horizontal).
However, when the fill is at an angle, then the color transition is built so that the beginning & end of the fill are at the utmost points of bounding box when viewed at the given angle. For example, if the bounding box of the object is a square and fill goes diagonally at 45°, then it will start at lower left corner of the bounding box and end at the upper right corner.
When you apply a horizontal fill to a rectangle and then rotate the rectangle, the fill rotates with it too (fill angle is changed accordingly). However, the bounding box of the rotated object changes and the fill appears differently. See the attached illustration.
The Interactive Fill tool works differently – the fill goes from the beginning of the shape to its end and the object's bounding box is ignored. So, when a fill has been applied to a rectangle with the Interactive Fill tool and the rectangle is rotated, the vector rotates along with the object and the rotated fill looks exactly the same way on the rotated rectangle as on the original one.
Hence, to fix the problem, before rotating an object with a fountain fill, select the object with the Interactive Fill tool to apply a fill vector to the object. Then you can rotate the object all you want and its fill will rotate with it without change of appearance.
Click on image for a clearer view:
NOTE: this does not apply to CorelDRAW X3 or X4..
CorelDRAW has two different ways of applying fountain fills - through the Fountain Fill Dialog as well as using the Interactive Fill Tool. The results are different!
The Interactive Fill tool was introduced in CorelDRAW 8. Using the Fountain Fill Dialog was the only way to apply the fill in prior versions. Fills applied to the object with the Interactive Fill Tool and Dialog also behave differently.
When a fountain fill is applied using the Fountain Fill Dialog, the fill is drawn based on the bounding box of the selected object. When the fill goes from, say, black to white, then the black color will be at one end of the bounding box, and the white will be on the opposite. This is easy understand when the fill angle is 0° (horizontal).
However, when the fill is at an angle, then the color transition is built so that the beginning & end of the fill are at the utmost points of bounding box when viewed at the given angle. For example, if the bounding box of the object is a square and fill goes diagonally at 45°, then it will start at lower left corner of the bounding box and end at the upper right corner.
When you apply a horizontal fill to a rectangle and then rotate the rectangle, the fill rotates with it too (fill angle is changed accordingly). However, the bounding box of the rotated object changes and the fill appears differently. See the attached illustration.
The Interactive Fill tool works differently – the fill goes from the beginning of the shape to its end and the object's bounding box is ignored. So, when a fill has been applied to a rectangle with the Interactive Fill tool and the rectangle is rotated, the vector rotates along with the object and the rotated fill looks exactly the same way on the rotated rectangle as on the original one.
Hence, to fix the problem, before rotating an object with a fountain fill, select the object with the Interactive Fill tool to apply a fill vector to the object. Then you can rotate the object all you want and its fill will rotate with it without change of appearance.
Click on image for a clearer view:
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