Dear Members,

This lesson will explain the way combine command handles fountain fill and further it will reveal the difference between group and combine.

1. We have two identical rectangles ungrouped filled with separate fountain fills.
2. Select both of them.
3. Go to Arrange > Combine
4. Both the rectangles are combined.
5. Now please carefully observe the fountain fill.
6. When grouped, the fill are separate with two centers in each rectangle.
7. After combine command is applied, both the rectangles are treated as one single object and hence the two fills are turned into one single fountain fill.
8. This fill has one center and both the rectangles are treated as big one single rectangle.
9. Go to Arrange > Break Curve Apart
10. The object is separated again and we have two different rectangles with two separate radial fills.

With regards
Atul Thakur
Editor
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