Fill dialog box

How to get there

Enter the Shape Designer (see Shape Designer dialog box).
Select an enclosed-outline object in the drawing area and choose Shape Designer > Fill > Other.

What it does

When you’re creating a shape in the Shape Designer, you can specify that any enclosed object (square, circle, polygon, and so on) be "colored in" with any shade of black or gray. If none of the shading choices in the Fill submenu is what you want, you can use this dialog box to specify any other degree of black or gray.

Fill • [Scroll bar]. In the text box, you can type in any number from zero (white) to 100 (black) to specify a shade of gray. If it’s more convenient, you can use the scroll bar to change the number in the text box. As you change either of these controls, the area above the scroll bar changes to show you the gray shade you’ve specified, as it will appear on the screen. (The grays are smoother when printed on a PostScript printer.)
Solid Fill (PostScript Only). Leave this technical option selected. If you don’t, then shading applied to complex polygons with crisscrossing lines will only fill alternate spaces created by the crossing lines (for example, only the points of a 5-pointed star would be filled in).
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, your specifications of a Fill setting and return to the Shape Designer.