Color If you’re using a Macintosh II computer with a color monitor, you’ll find that MORE has several commands that give you extensive capabilities for colors and patterns in outlines, bullet charts, and tree charts. If you’re using a Macintosh Plus or Macintosh SE, some colors are so you can set color of text when printing on color devices.
All the MORE color commands on a Macintosh II have a similar pop-up menu that displays a palette of available colors and some of the pop-up menus display color patterns. So using colors and patterns is basically the same throughout MORE.
Select the text or object that you want to color and then choose the desired color or pattern from the pop-up menu. The pop-up menus also have an option to access the MORE Color Pattern Editor, where you can create custom colors and patterns. If you want, you can even access the Apple color picker to define the colors. The following 8 sections describe the color and pattern capabilities that are available to you.
1. Coloring Windows
Use Window Color on the Window menu to color the basic parts of a MORE outline, tree chart, or bullet chart window. For example, you can color the title bar, scroll bars, window background with colors that you like. You may even want to use color as a way of coding different types of information. The Window Color pop-up menu displays 32 colors. Choose Custom Color from the color pop-up menu, if you want to create other colors.
2. Color in Outlines
You can color, but not pattern, the text in outlines. While the color pop-up menus can have only 32 colors, your outlines can display up to 256 different colors. Your outlines can also include color pictures created in other applications. When you choose Text Color on a black and white machine, your choices are Clear Color Formats, Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan.
Use Text Color on the Format menu to color the text in your outlines, document windows, Notes windows, and the Headers & Footers window. Like other commands on the Format menu, you can apply Text Color as selective styling to a word or phrase, or create a scope rule that colors all text by outline structure.
Use Custom Labeling on the Format menu to color headline labels. Your labels can be in the same color as the headline or in a different color.
Use Table of Contents on the Format menu to print the table of contents listings in the color or their related headlines. If you don’t select Use Headline Color on the dialog box of this command, MORE prints the listings in black. Review the color of the Table of Contents in the Preview window
Use the Display Options command on the Window menu to set the color for marked headlines.
MORE lets you paste a colored graphic from the Clipboard or from the Graphics Library into a headline or a document window of an outline. Graphics created in another application cannot be edited in MORE, but MORE saves graphics with their original colors. MORE automatically adjusts the height of the line to fit the size of the picture.
3. Color in Bullet Charts
All the color commands that are available in an outline, except the Table of Contents command, are also available in a bullet chart view. Additionally, the bullet chart window has palette tools that allow you to color and pattern various chart objects.
Use the Ruler Color setting on the Display Options dialog to color the vertical and horizontal rulers on the bullet chart window.
Use Text Color on the Format menu to color the title, subheads, caption text, and the text in Notes window on a bullet chart. Text Color can selectively style a word or phrase in a caption text box or a Notes window with color, but not in a chart title or subhead. Text Color colors all the text in a chart title, the entire block of subheads, or the document window. Use the palette Scope Tool or the Rules window to create Text Color rules that affect the text in titles, subheads, or document windows in a series of charts. The text color of titles, subheads, and document windows can be independent of the text color in the underlying outline.
MORE lets you paste a colored graphic from the Clipboard. You can also install a colored graphic from the Objects Library and from the Graphics Library. One selection from the Objects Library may actually contain several objects that you can individually drag and size. However, each selection in the Graphics Library is but one graphic picture. By placing an object on the master page, you can display it on all the charts in the series. When you place an object on a chart, however, it displays on only that chart.
4. Color in Tree Charts
All the color commands that are available in an outline, except the Table of Contents and Labeling commands, are also available in a tree chart view. Like bullet charts, the tree chart window also has palette tools that color and pattern various chart objects.
Use the Ruler Color setting on the Display Options dialog to color the vertical and horizontal rulers on the tree chart window.
Use Text Color on the Format menu to color all the text inside one or more tree chart nodes. Text Color does not selectively style a word or phrase in a node.
Use the palette Scope Tool or the Rules window to create Text Color rules that affect text in a range of node levels. The color of text can be independent of the text color in the underlying outline.
You cannot paste a graphic into a tree chart. However, if you previously pasted a picture into the headline of the outline view, you can display it in the tree chart. You may need to resize the tree node to see the picture. Tree charts do not display information in document windows.
5. Creating Custom Colors
On a Macintosh II, the color palette can display only 32 colors at a time, but your outline can contain up to 256 colors. Choosing the Custom Color option on the pop-up menu of either the Text Color or Window Color commands displays the custom color editor. It lets you create custom pure-colors, but not patterns, to place on the color palette. The custom color menu contains the following options:
Menu colors Lets you define the preset colors on the pop-up menu. Click a color to select it. Double-click a color or choose Change to display the Apple color picker, where you can select another pure color. Drag one color into another to replace the destination color with the source color. Option-drag one color into another to exchange their positions on the palette. Option-click outside the dialog box to pick up the color of the pixel under the cursor and drop it into the selected menu color.
Current Color Displays and changes the color of the current selection or insertion point. Double-click or choose Change to display the Apple color picker, where you can select another pure color. All the ways to drag the above menu colors also work with this option.
Change Displays the Apple color picker.
OK Accepts the current settings and returns you to the active window.
Cancel Stops the command and returns to the the active window, as it was before.
6. Creating Custom Patterns
Choose Custom Pattern from any of the color palettes on either a tree chart or bullet chart window to display the color pattern editor. This editor gives you complete control over building up your own custom color patterns. You can invent and combine different patterns and colors. If black and white are your only available colors (for a Mac SE or Mac Plus), you can still use the color pattern editor to alter patterns. The color pattern editor is not available from the Text Color or Window Color commands.
The color pattern editor directly accesses the color picker on the Apple control panel. It is also smart about printing and displaying color patterns in black and white. When you use a color pattern, MORE derives a black and white pattern for printing and viewing on black and white machines.
When chosen, the color patter editor displays a dialog box with the following options:
Menu patterns Lets you define the preset patterns on the pop-up menu. Click a pattern to select it and fill Fat Bits with it. Drag one pattern into another to replace the destination pattern with the source pattern. Option-drag one pattern into another to exchange their positions on the palette. After dragging menu patterns, double-click the selected pattern to revert the pattern selection and Fat Bits. Option-click outside the dialog box to pick up the pattern of the pixel under the cursor and drop it into the selected menu pattern.
Current Pattern Displays and changes the pattern of the current selection. Double-click to revert the pattern and fill Fat Bits with the previous current pattern. All the ways to drag the above menu patterns also work with this option.
Pure Colors Changes the pure color from which you’ll build up a pattern. Click a pure color to change the current color of the mix masks. Double-click a pure color to display the Apple color picker, where you can select another pure color. All the ways to drag patterns also work with pure colors.
Fill Completely fills Fat Bits and displays the mix masks with current pure color selection.
Mix Masks Changes the mask from which you’ll build up patterns. You can use more than one mask to create a pattern.
Mix Mixes the current mask and the current pure color with the current pattern in Fat Bits.
Fat Bits Click or drag through the left Fat Bits box to change the bits to the selected pure color. Click or drag again through the Fat Bits to revert to the previous pure color.
OK Changes the current pattern on the palette and the pattern of the current selection on the chart to the pattern in Fat Bits. You then return to the active window.
Cancel Stops the command and returns to the the active window, as it was before.
7. Converting Color to Black and White
If you’re using a black and white monitor to view information that was created on a color monitor, MORE automatically converts the colors to black and white. Similarly, MORE converts color information to black and white patterns, when printing on a black and white LaserWriter.
If a color pattern is a solid, single color, MORE measures its brightness. If it is completely dim, MORE converts it to black. If the color has maximum brightness, then MORE converts it to white. MORE converts any solid color with a brightness to an appropriate dithered gray. Eight shades of dithered grays are possible.
For patterns with two colors, MORE measures the brightness of each color. MORE converts the brighter color to white and the dimmer color is converted to black.
TIP: For best results when printing or displaying a color pattern on a black and white machine, limit your color patterns to no more than two colors.
8. Printing in Color
There are a variety of printing devices available that take advantage of the color features in MORE. If you have a color printing device that’s compatible with the Macintosh II, MORE approximates the on-screen colors to those that are available on your printing device.
When printing to 35mm film recorders, MORE takes advantage of whatever colors are available on your device. For most recorders, you’ll export your MORE files to the PICT format, which stores colors can be read by the recording devices.
