3 color fill pattern

[Wes Newman]

I am using Pub 2003. I need to create a fill patters
using red, white and blue. Is there some way I can
create a custom fill pattern or edit an existing 3 color
fillpattern thich can be seen using the Preset fill
patterns?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can make a pattern by creating red, white and blue stripes, snapped to each
other, no line... select the three rectangles, right-click, save as a picture, choose
whatever format you want, I think wmf is best but that is my opinion. When you want
to use this to fill an object, select the texture option in the fill menu, browse to
your saved pattern.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info but having a problem. I created 3
stripes and made them red, white and blue. I selected all
3 of them, merged them into one and saved as a wmf.

When I go to select the wmf as a texture, All I see is a
white box where the picture of the texture should be.
When I apply the texture, all I get is blue.

I did this without joining all 3 boxes together but I
still get the same results.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help

-----Original Message-----
You can make a pattern by creating red, white and blue stripes, snapped to each
other, no line... select the three rectangles, right-

click, save as a picture, choose

 

[Guest]

Mary, I did figure it out. I was using a text box which
was not working. When I created just a rectangle, WA-LA

Thank you very much..

-----Original Message-----
You can make a pattern by creating red, white and blue stripes, snapped to each
other, no line... select the three rectangles, right-

click, save as a picture, choose

 

[Mary Sauer]

I've been doing some experimenting with this, I think a bitmap will work better(jpg).
I did not group the stripes, I simply selected the three and right-clicked. The
process is the same. How wide are you making the stripes?


It doesn't seem Publisher saves new textures. I thought it was only Publisher but
none of the Office products save new textures.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I've been doing some experimenting with this, I think a bitmap will
work better(jpg).

Out of interest, why JPG? For something like this I would be inclined to
use PNG or a 3-pixel BMP (if it's being stretched)

 

[Mary Sauer]

One format is as good as another with this type of fill. The choice is yours.
Where are the textures stored? I did a quick search, I can't find them. What format
are they in?

 

[Ed Bennett]

One format is as good as another with this type of fill. The choice
is yours. Where are the textures stored? I did a quick search, I
can't find them. What format are they in?

Apart from the fact that if you get three perfectly straight-edged
rectangles and compress them with JPG, you will end up with three
fuzzy-edged bitmaps.

I think the textures are probably stored as resources in one of the common
Office DLLs - I'll have a look and see what I can find.

 

[Ed Bennett]

One format is as good as another with this type of fill. The choice
is yours. Where are the textures stored? I did a quick search, I
can't find them. What format are they in?

They are stored in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\OFFICE11\MSO.DLL by default for Office 2003.
From what I can glean, there is no format explicitly specified, but zooming
in on the images in Paint after extracting them from the EXE shows a little
bit of JPEG artifacting, suggesting that JPG could have been used for the
default textures. However, as these are photographic-style images, JPEG is
an appropriate format to use to reduce filesize, as there are no hard
straight edges like there would be in a rectangular pattern.