circle gradient

[Randy]

I created a document in Publisher 2000 that included a 2 color gradient
starteing as a circle in the center and then fading out from there. When I
open the document in Publisher 2003, the center shape is a square. I cannot
find any option in 2003 to start with a circle. Am I missing something
simple?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Fill, fill effects, from center.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Fill, fill effects, from center.

Yes, but that does only create a square gradient from the centre, not a
circular one.

 

[Randy]

Ed hit upon the exact problem. The gradient from the center is only a
square, and none of the other options available in Publisher 2000 seem to be
available in 2003. Can I somehow import them from 2000?

 

[Ed Bennett]

Ed hit upon the exact problem. The gradient from the center is only a
square, and none of the other options available in Publisher 2000
seem to be available in 2003. Can I somehow import them from 2000?

No, you can't, as Publisher 2002 and newer use the new-style Escher drawing
engine that has been in Word since Word 97.

There is, however, a workaround.

Create a circle. Set the fill to the gradient you want, and the line to
none.
Now create a square with the same width and height as your circle. Send it
behind the circle, and set the fill colour to the outside colour of the
gradient of the circle.

 

[Randy]

Thanks Ed. I will give that a try.
--
Randy

No, you can't, as Publisher 2002 and newer use the new-style Escher drawing
engine that has been in Word since Word 97.

There is, however, a workaround.

Create a circle. Set the fill to the gradient you want, and the line to
none.
Now create a square with the same width and height as your circle. Send it
behind the circle, and set the fill colour to the outside colour of the
gradient of the circle.