Selecting Pens
You select a pen by clicking the name of a pen in the Pens window. The current pen is indicated by a highlighted background.
Your selection has three effects:
• It changes selected elements
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It changes the selected pen into the current pen
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It changes the style and halo of the pen to the current style and halo.
This allows you to change existing elements. Select the elements you want to assign a different pen to. Then select the required pen.
The current pen, on the other hand, functions as a preference for those elements you still have to draw. Lines, polylines and Bézier paths which are drawn afterwards will be drawn using the current pen.
All other elements will always be displayed in the line combination Thick/thin.
No pen is used to generate elements without contours. In drawing mode, their contours are displayed in the second element color set under Preferences. Elements without contours and fills cannot be seen in preview mode.