In message <51a5ee6e03riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article <eed6b5a551.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner > <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [...] Line/Shape info dialogue: [...] > Another obvious point is that this dialogue box enables you to fill the > shape by clicking the Filled icon. Yes, but that is really an esoteric option. It controls whether the shape *can* be filled. In ArtWorks, by default closed shapes can be filled and open shapes cannot be filled. That option allows you to deviate from that, but that should rarely be necessary. The main reason why this option is there is because the Draw format allows open shapes to be filled, so ArtWorks has to be able to do it, too, otherwise it could not render Draw files correctly. So, switching on "Filled" for an open shape allows you to fill it. For instance, you can draw three sides of a square, give it a line colour and then fill it, so you can show a filled coloured square with only three of the four sides of the outline drawn, and all using a single shape object. That can be useful in exotic situations, but is not really something that is needed very often. You can also use this option to do the opposite, i.e., disable filling for closed shapes, which is not only useless (much better to simply assign fill colour "None") but also bound to cause confusion sooner or later because assigning a fill colour to that shape no longer has any effect. Martin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Wuerthner MW Software lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------