Red vs Gray Pattern Shading

[GLC]

Yesterday I used Steve's Key Chain Pattern maker and inadvertently printed the pattern using the default color scheme which is Black.  I couldn't see to cut it as the blade and pattern were so close to the same color.  I have poor vision.  I went back and printed the pattern again and chose to use Red as a test.  I was amazed that I could see so much better than when using Steve's normal of light gray against white.

I seem to recall that in the recent discussions on the issues with using the "Re-sizer Program" and it's retraction from availability there was mention of converting Steve's PDF files to Word files where you could then change the image color to another color - if you chose.  I converted a sample pdf to a word document.  However, I was unable to apply "red" to the image.  I am using Word 2010.  Any  assistance and or a point to the discussion that I mentioned would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance - GLC

[don in brooklin on]

You can open Steve's patterns in Inkscape.

You some times have to ungroup to get a single item.  As an example

I took todays pattern opened and ungrouped until I got just one pattern.

Enlarged a little.

Selected item and changed the stroke to red. (right click on red in the bar and changed stroke)

Keep item selected and (right click on other colour and set fill)

See below.