Setting page background colour

When setting page background colour I am currently using the shapes tool to create a colour rectangle to place in the background.
Are there any other ways to set page background colour, say to set a book wide preference for page colour, or any alternative method at all?

Thanks for your reply.
I figured that would be the way to go. Though I'm getting a glitch when using image gallery widgets where the background colour flashes white when zooming on an image on the final ipad book. The background fade effect when zooming is set by default to start from white I presume. Hope they fix that soon.

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Setting a page background colour

Hi everyone,
Im new to InDesign, and am (or at least i thought i was), in the final stages of completing a brochure (A4 landscape format) for my photography business.
The brochure Im creating is intended as both a downloadable pdf and also for viewing on screen.
My issue is this:
Ive somehow managed to set it up so that the page background colour is black, which is what I want, as my text alternates between white and a shade of grey.
However, when I PDF this document, or try to physically print it, the pages show up as white, and so a lot of my white text does not show and the grey text looks almost invisible.
Can someone please enlighten me as to how I actually achieve what i would like to - i.e. black pages.
Many, many thanks in advance.
Stevieboy1970

Thanks for your reply.
I figured that would be the way to go. Though I'm getting a glitch when using image gallery widgets where the background colour flashes white when zooming on an image on the final ipad book. The background fade effect when zooming is set by default to start from white I presume. Hope they fix that soon.

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"TDMS" is a file on your harddisc. How should a file have a background color?
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+Although I'm guessing from the underlying tone you're already pretty experienced and it's been a long time since you sat down yourself and first started to "look through the documentation"?!?+
Sorry didn't mean to let the tone bleed through that much.
But seriously I assumed there was an NSWindow function that did it, checked the documentation, found it, mocked it up in 5 minutes (alright 10 I'm still getting used to IB in Xcode 3), tested it to make sure it worked as expected and then answered your post. Not that you should have been able to do that as quickly but I could do it because I have slogged through the process for other objects I had used.
Really this is a pretty basic Cocoa kind of operation. I have object X supplied but Cocoa (eg NSWindow, NSTextBox, etc.) and I want to do operation Y. Operation Y is almost always already there for you just waiting to be used. Learning this process of finding these things in the documentation and using them is really crucial to being a proficient Cocoa developer.
In Xcode 2 Help > Documentation will give you the searchable API and just type in NSWindow. In Xcode 3 selecting an object - like NSWindow - will change the Help > Documentation menu to point to NSWindow directly.
Cocoa is a very "lived in" API and it has clearly been evolved by people who really used it so it has the buttons and levers right where you want them most of the time. I assumed that NSWindow had a function to change the color simply because it would make sense that it would. And when I checked it did, but my making that assumption and being able to find the function comes from doing the heavy lifting already on other objects.
I'm just hoping you take this as an example of how to do this and next time dig into the docs and find the function. There is no way to be good at it without doing it and getting good at it gives you access to Cocoa's rich API and will get you very far because you get all that programming other people have done for you for (almost) free.
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Message was edited by: Gillylal Fordham-Lear

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"katychapman85" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:g6svqs$eli$[email protected]..
> I'm retrieving different colours from a database and I
want to set the
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I've tried doing
> the
> following:
>
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> direction="horizontal"
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> themeColor="#FFFFFF">
>
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> <mx:Canvas width="30" height="30" x="5" y="5"
> backgroundColor="{data.ColourNo}">
> <mx:Image
> source="
http://localhost/Flex/Personalised%20Palettes-debug/{data.@PictureSrc}"/
>>
> <mx:Label text="{data.@ColourNo}"/>
> </mx:Canvas>
> </mx:Canvas>
> </mx:Component>
> </mx:itemRenderer>
> </mx:TileList>
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"katychapman85" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g6svqs$eli$[email protected]..
> I'm retrieving different colours from a database and I
want to set the
> background colour of a canvas to the colour retrieved.
I've tried doing
> the
> following:
>
> <mx:TileList
> x="2" y="237"
> direction="horizontal"
> dataProvider="{MakeUpColours.lastResult.Colour}"
> backgroundColor="#FFFFFF"
> width="288" height="167.04999"
> themeColor="#FFFFFF">
>
> <mx:itemRenderer>
> <mx:Component>
> <mx:Canvas width="35" height="35">
> <mx:Canvas width="30" height="30" x="5" y="5"
> backgroundColor="{data.ColourNo}">
> <mx:Image
> source="
http://localhost/Flex/Personalised%20Palettes-debug/{data.@PictureSrc}"/
>>
> <mx:Label text="{data.@ColourNo}"/>
> </mx:Canvas>
> </mx:Canvas>
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> </mx:itemRenderer>
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