Frame Styling

You can edit the properties and appearance of the selected frame(s) on the Frame tab.

Colours

Click the Line Colour or Background Colour buttons to choose an alternative line colour from a basic colour palette. If you click the More Colours option then you can select a custom colour.

More about the Colour Palette.

Line Thickness

To change the line thickness, either type in the box or click in the box once and click the up and down arrows. Line thickness is set in mm. A line thickness of 0mm will hide the line completely.

You can set the line to be drawn Inside or Outside the frame boundaries. To change this setting, click the More Options button in the Styling section of the Frame tab to open the Frame Style dialog. On the Frame Style dialog, select Draw Line Inside Frame.

Corner Radius

To change the corner radius of a frame, type in the box, click the up and down arrows or click in the box and press the up and down keys on your keyboard. Corner radius is set in mm. A corner radius of 0mm will mean that the frame has square corners.

You can also set the corner radius as a Percentage.

To set the corner radius as a percentage, click the More Options button in the Styling section of the Frame tab to open the Frame Style dialog. Tick Use Percentage Corner Radius.

Line Style

To change the appearance of the frame line style, click the More Options button in the Styling section of the Frame tab to open the Frame Style dialog.

There are 5 line styles to choose from.

Solid Line
Dashed Line
Dotted Line
Dot-Dash Line
Dot-Dot-Dash Line

Drop Shadow and Effects

You can add a drop shadow and various other effects to a frame.

To add a drop shadow, click the Drop Shadow button.

To change the appearance of the drop shadow or to access different effects, click the More Options button at the bottom of the Styling section of the Frame tab to open the Frame Style dialog.

Choosing Frame Effects

In the Frame Effect section of the Frame Style dialog, you can choose from:

Drop Shadow

Curved Glow

Solid Border

For each of these, you can set the effect:

Colour
Colour transparency
Thickness

To set the transparency of a drop shadow, curved or solid border, click the Effect Colour button to open the colour palette and adjust the transparency slider on the right of the palette.

Pinned Styles

When you have styled your frame, you can 'pin' its style so that you can create more frames with the same style. To do this, right-click on the frame and select Pin this Style.

To create a new frame using the pinned style, select Use Pinned Style from the new frame drop-down on the Create toolbar.

InPrint 3 will remember the frame style that you have pinned until you pin a new one, even if the program is restarted.