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You mean you want to make a plain piece of white paper and print ink on the whole sheet? If that's the case, you can't. You can only color in paragraphs, shapes, text boxes, tables, etc.
rye9 said:
Im not actually going to be printing anything. Its going to become a PDF. It'll be about 30 pages and full of images, no one will be printing it
yg17 said:Im not actually going to be printing anything. Its going to become a PDF. It'll be about 30 pages and full of images, no one will be printing it
Im new to Macs so if Im wrong, dont get on my case.
But, could you use keynote to make a PDF? I think in Keynote you can color a whole background. But like I said, I could be wrong and Ive never used Keynote before, but that would be my guess from using a Mac for 4 months.
Actually, the color-filled box solution will work. Just drag it out the corners of the page. Use Preview to verify. Then define a master page with the colored background page and add that page as many times as you need. Should work fine. The Keynote solution works too, but you'll have to create a custom page size, which could be awkward, depending on what you need.
The easiest way to do it is to select the object which you put in the background and click format>advanced>move object to section master. This will then put it on every page in that section automatically.
In addition, if you have already choose to make the first page different in the inspector then this will stay blank, allowing you to put another image there for a front cover.
This also gives you the option of putting different backgrounds on different sections within your document.
In addition, if you have already choose to make the first page different in the inspector then this will stay blank, allowing you to put another image there for a front cover.
This also gives you the option of putting different backgrounds on different sections within your document.
i have tried putting an object in the backround but this isn't a good solution because then i cannot write in the document
Wow, I'm trying to remember WTF I would've been doing 7 years ago that required a colored background and coming up empty.