Chart Print Pattern

[Anonymous]

Our customer has several charts with predefined colors e.g. for each product.

For printing we set "use pattern instead of color".

Now the result is, that the first color of the chart comes out as "no pattern" (looks like white on white).

(mostly the first color is a subset of blue - lightblue, darkblue etc.)

In general we would like to define predefined pattern for e.g. the products as well.

Ist this possible? Where and how?

Is there a mapping which colours refers to a specific pattern?

The customer had choosen the colors very carefully according to customer guideline. So it would not be

possible to define other color sets.

Any ideas?

Regard

Rudolf

[#2]

Hi,

Tab 'Colors' you can set your default colors.

Rebeca

[Anonymous]

Thanks Rebeca,

but this was not the question. We defined the colors we want and

it works perfect. The question was how can we define pattern.

And we cannot define other colors which would be shown in other pattern.

Rudolf

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

I don't think the patterns are tied to the colors you can define on the Colors tab. It looks like there are only 18 predefined patterns and you have no influence at all over which patterns are used. The order in which they are shown seems always to be the same.

Get a color printer They're quite affordable these days.

Or maybe NPrinting (or another 3rd party tool) can help you create the reports you need.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your clarifying what I thought.

Unfortunately they used color printer and the costs (cartridges) where way to high so they

decided to print with pattern.

I will try NPrinting as we have a training with this 3rd party tool next week.