The Inner and Outer effects with area styles can also use bitmap images for fills. We will first illustrate an Outer effect using a bitmap, and then add an Inner effect. The map we use is similar to the end illustration in the Style: Areas topic.
We begin with a drawing that shows Australia using default formatting. The Area Style dialog has been used to set a Border of 2 points.
In the Style pane, we click on the total Style button. In the drop down menu we choose More to launch the Area Style dialog.
We click the collection picker button and choose Image to open a dialog that allows us to browse to a folder with bitmap images. We have set a slate blue background color for the preview pane.
We choose the ones we want (use Ctrl-A to choose all of them) and press Open and they will be loaded into the new Images pane. In the illustration below, we have loaded four images.
We click the metal tread pattern. We also set the size to 24 points so the tread pattern is big enough to be seen. We set the Inner / outer offset to 10 points. This will be the width used by both the Outer effect and the Inner effect.
We click the Outer tab.
In the Outer tab we check the Outer box to turn on the Outer effect.
Once again, we click the collection picker button and choose Image to open a dialog that allows us to browse to a folder with bitmap images.
The images we loaded previously are kept on hand for use in the Symbol tab. We can load a different group of images for use with the Outer effect. We choose the ones we want, in this case choosing just one image that gives a water texture, and press Open and any bit map images will be imported into the Images pane that appears for the Outer tab.
We click the water image we imported and we set 400% as the size. This scales the bitmap image to four times the 24 point size. If we are not sure what size to use, we can try trial and error to see from the preview pane what a good size is that gives the effect we want with the particular bitmap image we are using. We press OK.
The result is that the main Symbol tab fills the area with the metal tread pattern bitmap image while the Outer tab fills a swath of ten points outward from the area's border with the water bitmap image.
To add an Inner effect, once more we click the total Style button and we drill down into the Area Style dialog. We click the Inner tab, choose Image in the collection picker button drop down menu, and then load the bitmap images we would like to use for the Inner effect. We can have a different collection of bitmap images loaded for the Inner effect than were imported for either the Symbol tab or the Outer tab.
We click the rivets.jpg bitmap image. The name is taken from the name of the file from which it was imported, and based on what we see in the preview pane we set the size to 90%, that is, a bit smaller as a size factor than the 24 point main size. We press OK.
The result is a rendering of the Australia map with both Outer and Inner effects. In the illustration above we have also set the Border to 1 point.
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