The borders of a shape or image are delineated in Keynote by the stroke , which is the line around the object. Keynote allows you to set the line style, line thickness , and line color for shapes . If you prefer, you can have no stroke around an object. For the line shape, you can also set a graphic (such as an arrowhead , or a circle) for the line's endpoints.
| 1. | Open the Graphic Inspector. |
| 2. | Select the object for which you want to set the stroke. |
| 3. | In the Stroke section of the Graphic Inspector ( Figure 5.46 ), set the following: Figure 5.46. You can control the stroke width, line style, and line color for any object. - Type an entry, in pixels, into the thickness field, or use the arrow buttons next to the field.
- Choose a line style from the pop-up menu ( Figure 5.47 ).
Figure 5.47. The Line Style pop-up menu gives you four choices of line styles, or you can choose no line at all. - Click the color well to open the Colors window, then set a line color by clicking it in that window.
- If the shape you are working with is a Line, select a graphic for the endpoints from the two endpoint pop-up menus ( Figure 5.48 ).
Figure 5.48. The two endpoint pop-up menus contain identical options to add graphics to each end of a line. The shape's stroke changes as you command ( Figure 5.49 ). Figure 5.49. This image uses a dashed, fairly thick stroke. |