4.2. Setting borders and fills
In this release of Sophie, borders and fills can be set on frames by clicking on the frame appearance halo to open the frame appearance HUD, which looks like this:
The border of the frame can be set in the top part of this HUD; values can be entered for the width of the top, bottom, left, and right borders of the frame. The color of the border and the color of the fill of the frame can be set by clicking the color square, which will open the color picker:
Click OK when you've picked the color you want.
The gradient fill has been temporarily disabled for this release, but you can use the image fill and pattern fill. Clicking on the squares next to these will prompt you to find an image on your local computer. Image fill will stretch the image so that it fills the frame entirely. Pattern fill will repeat the image (from the top left corner of the frame) as many times as it fits in the frame. Note that images used for image or pattern fill can include transparency.
If you uncheck the Frame visible setting in this HUD, the frame will not appear when the book is previewed or in the reader application. In regular authoring mode, it will appear semi-transparent; it can still be manipulated like a normal frame.
