PagePlus Essentials User Guide
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Contents Contents 1. Welcome .......................................................... 1 Welcome! .................................................................................. 3 Key features .............................................................................. 4 Installation ............................................................................... 10 2. Getting Started ............................................... 13 Startup Wizard ...................................................
Contents 4. Working with Objects ..................................... 53 Selecting an object...................................................................55 Selecting multiple objects ........................................................56 Copying, pasting, and replicating objects .................................58 Snapping ..................................................................................60 Creating groups .......................................................................
Contents Using text styles .................................................................... 120 Wrapping text ........................................................................ 126 Creating a bulleted or numbered list ..................................... 127 Using AutoCorrect and Spell as you Type ............................ 131 Spell-checking ....................................................................... 133 Automatic proofreading ......................................................
Contents 7. Color, Fills, and Transparency ..................... 205 Applying solid colors ..............................................................207 Using schemes ......................................................................209 Working with gradient and bitmap fills....................................212 Working with transparency .....................................................216 8. Printing and Publishing ................................ 221 Previewing the printed page ............
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Welcome 3 Welcome! Welcome to PagePlus Essentials, the affordable and easy way to design and print high quality calendars, stationery, newsletters, signs, notices, invites, and cards. Share as hardcopy print or by electronic PDF—the choice is yours! Instead of starting from scratch, PagePlus comes with an impressive selection of design templates, creative gallery content, and styles for you to use. You'll also be able to reuse existing content by importing word processing documents.
4 Welcome Key features Before you get started with PagePlus, we recommend you take the opportunity to familiarize yourself with PagePlus key features and capabilities. Ease of Use • Dynamic guides Align and resize objects with each other using dynamic guide snapping, without the need for ruler guides or precise object transforms. • Learn in PagePlus The Startup Wizard's new Learning Zone helps you get the very best out of PagePlus.
Welcome 5 • Master Pages Save time and maintain consistency by using multiple master pages assigned to your publication pages. • Layers Each page can have multiple layers—so you can assign elements to different layers for modular design. • Anchor any object Anchor pictures, shapes, tables, artistic text, and nested text frames to your publication's artistic or frame text.
6 Welcome • PhotoLab for non-destructive adjustment and effect filters The powerful PhotoLab studio packs a punch with an impressive selection of editable adjustments, creative, and artistic effects (pencil, water color, oil, and more). Use integrated Straighten, Crop, Redeye, and Spot-repair tools for easy retouching. Apply filters to selected areas of your photo by using brush-based masking. Save adjustment/effect combinations as favorites for future use.
Welcome 7 • Ready-to-use Styles Choose various filter effects, glows, shadows, textures, and materials from the Styles tab. Customize the preset styles or store your own! • Photo-based borders Exciting new ready-to-go borders can be applied around text frames, tables and pictures alike. Create and save custom borders from your own electronic border designs or scanned picture frames! The Gallery tab's Picture frames have the same borders already applied.
8 Welcome • Stunning logos and flashes Use the Gallery tab for a range of pre-designed logo designs— alternatively, create from scratch in LogoStudio or base your logo on existing PagePlus objects! Pick attention-grabbing flashes of varying layout and design! Use for poster advertising or for a greetings card. Even create your own flash from scratch (or from drawn objects) in the powerful LogoStudio design environment.
Welcome 9 Easily swap all selected instances of a common font for another font in one fell swoop! • Frame and Artistic Text Create text with stunning transparency effects, gradient/bitmap (photo) fills, 2D/3D effects and more. Use designer artistic text for high impact headlines and powerful design elements—artistic text scales, flips, and can follow a drawn path, while frame text flows and line wraps.
10 Welcome Installation System Requirements Minimum: • Windows-based PC with DVD drive and mouse • Microsoft Windows® XP (32 bit), Windows® Vista, or Windows® 7 operating system • 512MB RAM • 795MB free hard disk space • 1024 x 600 monitor resolution Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large and/or complex documents.
Welcome 11 First-time install To install PagePlus Essentials simply insert the PagePlus Essentials Program DVD into your DVD drive. The AutoRun feature automatically starts the Setup process. Just answer the on-screen questions to install the program. Re-install To re-install the software or to change the installation at a later date, select Settings/Control Panel from the Windows Start menu and then click on the Add/Remove Programs icon.
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Getting Started 15 Startup Wizard The Startup Wizard presents the following choices: *Startup Wizard may differ in your program. • Start New Publication, to open a blank page to work on. • Use Design Template, to create an instant document from a predesigned template. • Open Saved Publication, to edit a saved PagePlus file. • Learning Zone, to access online videos, tutorials, PDF User Guides, and more. Use the Choose Workspace drop-down menu to choose your workspace appearance (i.e.
16 Getting Started As you select different profiles from the menu, your workspace will preview each tab layout in turn. The Startup Wizard is displayed by default when you launch PagePlus. If you don’t want to use the Startup Wizard again, check the “Don't show this wizard again” box. You can switch it on again via the Use startup wizard check box in Tools>Options... (use Options>General menu option). You can also access the Startup Wizard at any time from New>New from Startup Wizard... on the File menu.
Getting Started 17 Instead of a design template, you can adopt a Theme Layout instead; layouts offer picture placeholders instead of actual pictures. Different physical document types (Brochure, Business Cards, Flyer, Newsletter, etc.) can be created from a chosen theme (e.g., Arctic), each type offering a choice of complementary multiple page designs.
18 Getting Started 5. Examine the page sample(s) in the Pages pane. If you're happy with the template pages, click Open.
Getting Started 19 To create a publication from a themed layout: 1. From the dialog's Templates list, select Theme Layouts, then select a theme name from the list. 2. The adjacent pane updates to show document types for that selected theme. Select a thumbnail. 3. In the upper-right corner of the dialog, choose a color scheme on which to base your publication from the drop-down menu (the first three schemes are designed specifically for the themed layout).
20 Getting Started As each template is color schemed, you can swap the underlying scheme, and the publication's appearance, for another scheme at any time! 4. From the right-hand Pages pane, select one or more page layouts by checking the box under each thumbnail. Some publication types only offer an either/or selection. 5. Click OK. The page layouts are added as pages to your new publication.
Getting Started 21 You can define a custom publication by clicking Custom Page Setup.... 4. Click OK to open a new publication with a blank page. (or press Escape) from the Startup Wizard, PagePlus opens a If you click blank document using default page properties. To start a new default publication: • Click New Publication on the Standard toolbar (only if Startup Wizard is turned off).
22 Getting Started To revert to the saved version of an open publication: • Choose Revert from the File menu. Font substitution PagePlus supports automatic and manual font substitution if you open a publication which uses fonts which are not stored on your computer. See PagePlus help for more details. Working with more than one publication If you have multiple publications open at the same time it's easy to jump between them using different methods.
Getting Started 23 Closing publications To close the current publication: • Choose Close from the File menu or click the window's Close button. If it's the only window open for the publication, the command closes the publication and you'll be prompted to save changes. To close all publications except current: • Right click a Publication tab on the Publications toolbar and choose Close All But This. You'll be prompted to save changes for any unsaved publication.
24 Getting Started Updating and saving defaults Object defaults are the stored property settings PagePlus applies to newly created objects such as: • lines and shapes (line and fill color, shade, pattern, transparency, etc.) • frames (margins, columns, etc.) • text (i.e., font, size, color, alignment, etc.). Defaults are saved separately for artistic, shape, frame and table text.
Getting Started 25 To view and change default text properties: 1. Choose Text Style Palette... from the Format menu. 2. Click Default Text, then from the expanded list of text types, choose an option (e.g., Artistic Text). 3. Click Modify... to view current settings for the selected text type. 4. Use the Text Style dialog to alter character, paragraph, or other properties. To save all current defaults as global settings: 1. Choose Save Defaults from the Tools menu. 2.
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Working with Pages 29 Setting up a publication A publication's page size and orientation settings are fundamental to your layout, and are defined when the new publication is first created, either using a design template or as a New Publication choice via File>New... and the Startup Wizard. If the Startup Wizard is turned off, or you cancel the setup dialog, a new publication is created to a default page size. To adjust size/orientation of the current publication: 1. Select 2.
30 Working with Pages Facing pages You can set up your regular publication or booklet so that the PagePlus window displays pages either singly or in pairs—as two facing pages side by side. You'll need facing pages if you're creating a publication where you need to see both the left-hand (verso) and right-hand (recto) pages, or one that employs double-page spreads where a headline or other element needs to run from the left-hand page to the right-hand page.
Working with Pages 31 Understanding master pages Master pages provide a flexible way to store background elements that you'd like to appear on more than one page—for example a logo, background, header/footer, or border design. The key concept here is that a particular master page is typically shared by multiple pages, as illustrated below. By placing a design element on a master page and then assigning several pages to use that master page, you ensure that all the pages incorporate that element.
32 Working with Pages Master pages are available in every publication, but in a simple publication you may not need to use any master pages—or you may need only one master page. Facing pages and multiple master pages prove valuable with longer, more complex publications. Using the Pages tab or Page Manager, you can quickly add or delete master pages; for example, you could set up different master pages for "title" or "chapter divider" pages. For details, see Adding, removing, and rearranging pages on p.
Working with Pages 33 In PagePlus, the Page area is where you put page layout guides, and of course the text, shapes, and pictures that you want to print. The Pasteboard area is where you generally keep any text, shapes, or pictures that are being prepared or waiting to be positioned on the page area.
34 Working with Pages Pan Tool for moving the page area by dragging. Actual size option for viewing the page at its true size (100%). Zoom to selection option to focus on a selected area. Page Width option to fit to the page's width. Full Page option to fit the page into your current window. Multi-page option to view multiples pages simultaneously (set page number by dragging a page array from the flyout menu).
Working with Pages 35 The publication appears in Multi-page mode with the specified page array in view. To switch between views: • Choose between Normal or Multi-page from the View menu. Navigating pages To switch between pages: • Click the Previous Page, Next Page, First Page or Last Page button on the Hintline. - or On the Studio's Pages tab, double-click the page's thumbnail for the page (or master page) you want to view.
36 Working with Pages Adding, removing, and rearranging pages Use the Pages tab to quickly rearrange standard pages using drag-and-drop, add/delete standard or master pages, or assign master pages to standard pages. The tab displays master pages in the upper Master Pages window (shown collapsed) and standard publication pages in the lower Pages window.
Working with Pages 37 To add master pages: For master pages, the above procedure applies but within the Master Pages window. The only exception is that you cannot create a new master page based on a design template's pages (no dialog opens). To delete a single page/master page: 1. On the Pages tab, select the page (or master page) to delete on the appropriate window by clicking its thumbnail. 2. Click the Remove button.
38 Working with Pages To assign a master page: From the Page tab's expanded Master Pages window, drag a master page onto a target standard page in the lower window. If the page has more than one layer, you can specify the layer to which you want to assign the master page. Alternatively, use the Master Page Manager (use the Set tab) in the Pages tab. Working with layers Each new page or master page consists of a single layer.
Working with Pages Each layer is situated along with other layers (if present) within a stack on the Layers tab. The uppermost layer is applied over any lower layer on the page. Layer 1 and Layer 2 above could represent the following: In order to create new objects on a particular layer, you'll need to "activate" (switch to) that layer in the Layers tab.
40 Working with Pages To activate a particular layer: • Click at the beginning of a layer entry to activate that layer. You'll see the layer arrow jump to the now activated layer (Layer 1 in the Layers tab example above is currently active). Don't confuse this with simply selecting a layer (Layer 2 in the example is selected, but not activated), which is used to manage the layer itself (e.g., to move it, preview it, view/change layer options, etc.).
Working with Pages 41 can also move objects to specific layers, and merge and preview layers. (See online Help.) Selecting objects on layers Once you've displayed a page or master page, you can normally select and then edit any object on it—regardless of which layer the object is on—simply by clicking the object. Alternatively, you can limit object selection and editing to objects on a specific active layer.
42 Working with Pages text elements, while another included background graphics. By assigning the two master pages to separate layers you could achieve a unified design while keeping the elements separate. Page layers can each take a master page, but master page layers cannot. You can also set any layer to use no master page. Commonly, the first layer uses a master page while subsequent layers use no master page, but there's no hard and fast rule.
Working with Pages 43 When you add a new master page to the publication, you have the option of copying the layers and/or objects from an existing master page. If you choose not to copy existing layers, the new master page starts out with one layer. You can always add more as described above. To switch to a master page from a particular layer: • From the Layers tab, right-click a particular layer's name and choose Go to Master Page.
44 Working with Pages • Check the box in the Locked column to prevent objects on the layer from being selected/edited; uncheck to allow editing. • To set the Selection handle color, click the color selection button and choose a color from the palette (click More Colors... for a wider choice). This helps identify which objects belong to which layer. Setting guides Layout guides are visual guide lines that help you position layout elements.
Working with Pages 45 visual aid; only the Bleed limit setting in the Print dialog extends the actual output page size. Ruler guides are free-floating lines that you set by clicking and dragging from the rulers. They are "sticky" so that objects can snap to them, then be moved collectively with guide movement. Defining layout guides To define layout guides: • Click on the Page context toolbar, Layout Guides... from the File menu, or right-click on a blank part of the page and choose Layout Guides.
46 Working with Pages • For ruler guides, use the Guides tab to precisely create, edit or delete ruler guides, or more commonly, just drag the guides from the rulers. To show or hide guides: • On the View menu, check or uncheck a guide option. Creating ruler guides PagePlus lets you to set up horizontal and vertical ruler guides—non-printing lines you can use to align headlines, pictures, and other layout elements.
Working with Pages Click red marker to make nonsticky. • 47 Markers become non-sticky and change to black; object and guide are unstuck and either can then be moved. To turn sticky guides on and off, check/uncheck Sticky Guides from the Arrange menu (or the equivalent from Tools>Options>Layout). Previously stuck objects will remain sticky even after sticky guides are switched off—you'll have to make them non-sticky manually.
48 Working with Pages Adjusting rulers By default, the horizontal ruler lies along the top of the PagePlus window and the vertical ruler along the left edge. The default ruler intersection is the topleft corner of the pasteboard area. The default zero point (marked as 0 on each ruler) is the top-left corner of the page area. (Even if you have set up bleed area guides and the screen shows an oversize page, the zero point stays in the same place, i.e. the top-left corner of the trimmed page.
Working with Pages 49 To lock the rulers and prevent them from being moved: • Choose Tools>Options... and select the Layout>Rulers page, then check Lock Rulers. Rulers as a measuring tool The most obvious role for rulers is as a measuring tool. As you move the mouse pointer, small lines along each ruler display the current horizontal and vertical cursor position.
50 Working with Pages Using headers and footers Headers and footers are layout elements that are positioned at the top and bottom of your master page(s), and are repeated on every page of your publication. The Headers and Footers Wizard lets you create these elements easily. Remember to set up your margins so that you leave enough room for any intended header or footer. To create headers and/or footers: • On the Insert menu, choose Headers and Footers... and follow the Wizard instructions.
Working with Pages 51 To define a header or footer that includes a page number field: 1. Create a header or footer on the master page by choosing Headers and Footers... from the Insert menu. 2. In the wizard, press the Page Number button to insert a page number field (as a prefix or suffix) along with any optional header/footer text. 3. Complete the wizard. To insert a page number field: 1. Switch to the master page (if desired) by clicking the Current Page box on the Hintline. 2.
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Working with Objects 55 Selecting an object Before you can change any object, you need to select it using one of these tools from the Tools toolbar: Pointer Tool Click to use the Pointer Tool to select, move, copy, resize or rotate objects. Rotate Tool Click to use the Rotate Tool to rotate an object around a rotation origin (normally centered). See Rotating an object on p. 68. To select an object: • Click on the object using one of the tools shown above.
56 Working with Objects • Double-, triple-, or quadruple-click to select a word, paragraph, or all text. • To select only the text frame, click the frame's bounding box. • Clicking on a group selects the grouped object. Ctrl-click to select an individual object within a group. Selecting multiple objects Selecting more than one object at a time (creating a multiple selection) lets you: • Position or resize all the objects at the same time.
Working with Objects 57 To create a multiple selection: Drag a "marquee" box around the objects you want to select. Alternatively, hold down the Shift key and click each object in turn. To add or remove an object from a multiple selection: • Hold down the Shift key and click the object to be added or removed. To deselect all objects in a multiple selection: • Click in a blank area of the page.
58 Working with Objects Copying, pasting, and replicating objects Besides using the Windows Clipboard to copy and paste objects, you can duplicate objects easily using drag-and-drop, and replicate multiple copies of any object in precise formations. You can also transfer the formatting of one object to another, with the option of selecting specific attributes to be included when formatting is pasted.
Working with Objects 59 Replicating objects Duplicating an object means making just one copy at a time. The Replicate command lets you create multiple copies in a single step, with precise control over how the copies are arranged, either as a linear series or a grid. You can include one or more transformations to produce an interesting array of rotated and/or resized objects. It's great for repeating backgrounds, or for perfectlyaligned montages of an image or object. To replicate an object: 1.
60 Working with Objects The result is a multiple selection. Click its Group button if you want to keep the separate objects linked for additional manipulations. Pasting an object's formatting Once you have copied an object to the Clipboard, you can use Paste Format (Edit menu) to apply its formatting attributes to another object.
Working with Objects 61 Tools>Options offers the full set of snapping options for the user. You can also control Snapping Distance, i.e. the distance at which an object will start to snap to a dot, guide, etc. For precise ruler guide placement, check Ruler Marks in Tools>Options to snap guides to ruler marks.
62 Working with Objects To snap to page centers as well, you must additionally check Page center in Tools>Options>Layout>Snapping. Creating groups You can easily turn a multiple selection into a group object. When objects are grouped, you can position, resize, or rotate the objects all at the same time. To create a group from a multiple selection: • Click the Click to Group button. To ungroup: • Click the Click to Ungroup button.
Working with Objects 63 Moving objects To move an object (including a multiple selection): • Drag the selected object by using its move cursor you can begin dragging. Move button. Once you see a To set exact horizontal and vertical positions, use the Transform tab. To constrain the movement of an object to horizontal or vertical: • Select the object and use the keyboard arrows (up, down, left, right). Resizing objects PagePlus provides several methods of resizing single or grouped objects.
64 Working with Objects Dragging from an edge handle resizes in one dimension, by moving that edge. Dragging from a corner handle resizes in two dimensions, by moving two edges. Use a ruler guide and center snapping to scale an object in two directions simultaneously. Center snapping involves snapping to the object edge, then dragging from a corner (or edge) handle. Text in frames and tables doesn't change size when the container object is resized.
Working with Objects 65 To constrain a shape, frame object, or table object when resizing: • Hold the Shift key down and drag from a corner (or line end) handle. For shapes, this has the effect of keeping a square as a square, a circle as a circle, etc. For pictures, dimensions are constrained on dragging a corner handle. Use Shift-drag to resize a picture freely. Ordering objects Each new page or master page consists of a single layer.
66 Working with Objects To align the edges of two or more objects in a selection: 1. Using the Pointer Tool, Shift-click on all the objects you want to align, or draw a marquee box around them, to create a multiple selection. 2. Select the Align tab. 3. Select an option for vertical and/or horizontal alignment. Choose Top, Bottom, Left, Right, Center Horizontally or Center Vertically, i.e.
Working with Objects 67 Exporting as a picture Exporting as a picture lets you convert all the objects on the page, or just the currently selected object(s), to an image file, using a file format you specify. To export as a picture: 1. (If exporting objects, not the whole page) Select the object or Shiftclick (or drag a marquee) to select multiple objects. 2. Choose Export As Picture... from the File menu. 3. In the Save as type drop-down list, select a image format, e.g. Serif MetaFile Format (*.
68 Working with Objects Rotating an object You can rotate single and multiple objects, including pictures, text objects, and groups using the Rotate Tool. To rotate an object: Rotate Tool on the Tools toolbar's Selection flyout. 1. Select the 2. Click to select the object, hover over one of its handles until you see the rotate cursor (below). 3.
Working with Objects 69 To undo rotation (restore the original orientation): • Double-click the object. • To restore the rotated position, double-click again. To change the rotation origin: Rotate Tool and click to select the object. 1. Select the 2. away from its original position in the Move the rotation origin center of the object to any position on the page. The origin can also be moved to be outside the object—ideal for rotating grouped objects around a central point. 3.
70 Working with Objects To flip an object horizontally/vertically: • Select the object and choose Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical from the Arrange menu. Cropping and combining objects Cropping means masking (hiding) parts of an object, for example to improve composition or create a special effect. The underlying object remains intact. Two types of cropping are possible—square cropping or irregular cropping.
Working with Objects 71 To crop by modifying the object's outline: • Select the object and select the Irregular Crop Tool on the Attributes toolbar's Crop flyout. The Curve context toolbar appears, which lets you control the displayed nodes and connecting segments that define the object's crop outline. See Editing lines on p. 179. • To move a node (control point) where you see the drag the node. • To move a line segment (between two nodes) where you see the cursor, drag the segment.
72 Working with Objects To crop one shape to another: 1. Place the "clipping" object in front of the object to be cropped, using the Arrange menu and/or Arrange toolbar as needed. In the illustration above, a QuickShape is in front of a text frame. 2. With both objects selected (or grouped), choose Crop to Shape from the Tools menu. You can restore an object cropped in this way to its original shape, but the upper "cropping" object is permanently deleted (use Undo to recover it if necessary).
Working with Objects 73 Combining is a quick way to create a mask or stencil cutout: QuickShapes Convert to Curves Combine Curves Drop Shadow Added To combine two or more selected lines or drawn shapes: 1. Draw your two lines or QuickShapes. 2. Place the "clipping" object in front of the object to be cut out. 3. Select each object and choose Tools>Convert To>Curves for both. 4. Select both objects. 5. Choose Combine Curves from the Arrange menu.
74 Working with Objects In PagePlus, this positioning is controlled by anchoring an object using different positioning options. • Float with text. The object is positioned horizontally and vertically relative to an anchor point. This option is ideal for pictures, pulled quotes, etc. • Position inline as character. The anchored object is placed as a character in the text and aligned in relation to the text that surrounds it. The anchored object flows with the text as before.
Working with Objects • 75 Detach from text. The anchored object is disconnected from its anchor point, leaving a normal unanchored object. PagePlus objects can be anchored to anywhere in your publication text, but the floated object can be positioned in relation to indented text, column, frame, page margin guides, the page itself, or most typically the anchor point in a text frame. For text frames, when the text reflows, the anchor point (and therefore anchored object) reflows with the text.
76 Working with Objects 2. Specify a Horizontal (e.g., Inside, Left-Aligned) and/or Vertical position (e.g., Inside, Top) in relation to different page elements (e.g., anchor point, frame, etc.). Check Mirror facing pages if you're using facing pages and you want the object to automatically mirror its position in relation to anchoring text moved onto a new page. 3.
Working with Objects 6. 77 • Allow the overlap. The overlap is left as is. • Pack into lines means the second object will be placed beside the first object if there is room, or below it if not. • Line up left to right/Line up right to left means the second object will be placed to the right or the left of the first object, respectively. • Stack top to bottom/Stack bottom to top means the second object will be placed below or above the first object, respectively. Click OK.
78 Working with Objects Notes • Anchored object have all the same properties of unanchored objects; you can modify them whilst anchored. • Frame text can wrap around floating anchored objects, as described in Wrapping text (p. 126). Inline anchored objects do not allow text wrapping. Joining object outlines PagePlus includes some powerful tools to carve new shapes out of old overlapping shapes.
Working with Objects Subtract Discards the overlap between the top and bottom object. The bottom object is also discarded. Useful as a quick way of truncating shapes and pictures with another object. Intersect Retains the overlap and discards the rest. Exclude Merges two or more objects into a composite object, with a clear transparent “hole” where their filled regions overlap.
80 Working with Objects Applying a mesh warp envelope Mesh warping lets you apply a Preset warp envelope to your PagePlus object (below) or modify a flexible grid of points and lines that you can drag to deform or distort an object and (optionally) its fill.
Working with Objects 81 Adding borders A border is a repeating, decorative element that can be set to enclose objects, such as text frames, pictures, and tables. PagePlus comes with an impressive range of categorized picture-based border styles for you to use. However, if you'd like to create your own custom borders you can import a border design as a picture, and save it for future use.
82 Working with Objects To remove a border, select None from the top of the list. 3. Select a border Weight (width) for your border. You may need to experiment to find a width that complements the size of your object. 4. To apply the border to specific edges of the object, use the Edge dropdown menu. You can switch edges on and off to make multiple combinations. 5. Set other options as needed: • Select a border Type.
Working with Objects 6. 83 • If Behind contents is checked, the inner half of the border extends behind the object. If unchecked, the whole border appears in front (the wider the border, the more it encroaches on the filled region). • If Scale with object is checked, both border and object change together when you resize the object. If unchecked, the border weight remains constant during resizing.
84 Working with Objects Adding logos Logos are intended to send a clear message to your target audience, all within a simple and identifiable design. Whether you intend to communicate a stylish, business, fun or modern message (opposite), PagePlus allows you to create impressive logos of varying design. Logos are great for adding to master pages associated with your publication. To add a logo: Insert Logo from the Tools toolbar's Logo flyout. 1. Select 2.
Working with Objects 7. 85 To insert the logo at a default size, simply click the mouse to leave a logo placeholder (envelope). - or To set the size of the logo, drag out a region and release the mouse button. PagePlus's Gallery tab also hosts the same selection of logos. If you're looking to further modify your logo you can use LogoStudio, an integrated design environment. This allows you to focus on your design without the distractions of other objects on the page, i.e.
86 Working with Objects 3. Edit your logo design. In particular, you can use the upper Logo Text input box to "caption" your logo (typically a company or club name), then click the check box. Adding flashes In PagePlus, flashes can be created, with each design intended to catch the eye, especially for commercial reasons or general attention grabbing.
Working with Objects 87 3. Drag your chosen design to the page. 4. From the dialog, you can choose design variations, edit text and apply colors, i.e. • For design variations. Select a design from the Designs pane (e.g., offering different text labels and positions). • For text. If the selected design has supporting text, you can customize it in the Text or Message field. Edit the text accordingly to give your flash meaning.
88 Working with Objects • 5. For color: To apply the publication's current color scheme to your design, uncheck Apply color set. Alternatively, to adopt a color set independent of your publication's current color scheme, keep Apply color set checked and pick a color set option from the drop-down list. Click OK. Design variations and supporting text may not be available for some designs. If you're looking to further customize your flash design (or use existing page objects) you can use LogoStudio.
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Working with Text 91 Importing text from a file Importing text from a word-processor file is the traditional way to create text content for Desktop Publishing layouts (but you can also create a story using WritePlus). If you use your current word processor to create the text file for your publication, you can import any number of files into one publication.
92 Working with Text 2. Choose Text File... from the Insert menu. 3. From the Open dialog, locate and select the file to import. 4. Check the Retain Format box to retain the source file's formatting styles. Uncheck the box to discard this information. In either case, PagePlus will preserve basic character properties like italic, bold, and underline, and paragraph properties like alignment (left, center, right). 5.
Working with Text • When you move a text frame, its story text moves with it. • When you resize a text frame, its story text reflows to the new dimensions. 93 Frames can be linked so that a single story continues from one frame to another. But text frames can just as easily stand alone. Thus in any publication, you can create text in a single frame, spread a story over several frames, and/or include many independent frame sequences.
94 Working with Text Feature Supported Margins and column guides Breaks (column, page, and frame) Resize/move frame Crop frame Rotate frame Frame linking Columns Export as text Line attributes Solid fill and line color Gradient and bitmap fill Transparency Borders Warp 2D/3D Filter Effects Instant 3D
Working with Text 95 Creating text frames You add frames to a page as you would any other object. PagePlus supports a wide variety of frame shapes which can be resized and morphed into new shapes once placed on the page (just like QuickShapes; see p. 182). To create a frame: Text Frame 1. Select a standard or shaped text frame from the flyout on the Tools toolbar. 2. Click on the page or pasteboard to create a new frame at a default size.
96 Working with Text Importing text: Right-click on a frame and choose Insert Text File... (shortcut Ctrl+T) to import text. Typing into the frame: Select the Pointer Tool, then click for an insertion point to type text straight into a frame, or edit existing text. (See Editing text on the page on p. 108.) Pasting via the Clipboard: At an insertion point in the text, press Ctrl+V. Drag and drop: Select text (e.g. in a word processor file), then drag it onto the PagePlus page.
Working with Text 97 To edit frame properties directly: • Select the frame object, then drag column guide lines to adjust the boundaries of the column. (1) (2) (3) The illustration above shows how the cursor will change when hovering over the selected bounding box (1), after dragging inwards the column margin can be adjusted (2), and after dragging downwards, the top margin blind can be moved (3).
98 Working with Text To edit frame properties using a dialog: Frame Setup on the Frame context 1. Select the frame and click toolbar. 2. From the dialog, you can change the Number of columns, Gutter distance between columns, Left Margin, Right Margin, and enable/disable text wrapping around an object. 3. To change the column widths and blinds (top and bottom frame margins), click a cell in the table and enter a new value.
Working with Text 99 Fitting text to frames Fitting story text precisely into a sequence of frames is part of the art of laying out publications. If there's too much story text to fit in a frame sequence, PagePlus stores it in an invisible overflow area and the Link button on the last frame of the sequence displays ; an AutoFlow button appears next to the Link button. You might edit the story down or make more room for it by adding an extra frame or two to the sequence.
100 Working with Text No Autofit This is the normal mode of operation where, if selected, text won't automatically scale throughout the selected text frame, possibly leaving partly empty frames at the end of the frame sequence. Shrink Text on Overflow If selected, extra text added to a selected frame will shrink all frame text to avoid text overflow.
Working with Text 101 Linking text frames When a text frame is selected, the frame includes a Link button at the bottom right which denotes the state of the frame and its story text, and which allows you to control how the frame's story flows to following frames: No Overflow The frame is not linked to a following frame (it's either a standalone frame or the last frame in a sequence) and the frame is empty or the end of the story text is visible.
102 Working with Text • Different frame sequences can be combined, creating unified story text. To link the selected frame to an existing frame: 1. Click the frame's Link button (showing 2. Click with the Textflow cursor on the frame to be linked to. or ). To link the selected frame to a newly drawn frame: • As above, but instead of clicking a "target" frame, either click on the page (for a default frame) or drag across the page (to create a frame sized to your requirements).
Working with Text 103 Using artistic text Artistic text is standalone text you type directly onto a page. Especially useful for headlines, pull quotes, and other special-purpose text, it's easily formatted with the standard text tools. Here are some similarities between frame text and artistic text. Both text types let you: • vary character and paragraph properties, apply named text styles, edit text in WritePlus and even import text.
104 Working with Text • Artistic text won't automatically line wrap like frame text. • Artistic text doesn't flow or link the way frame text does; the Frame context toolbar's text-fitting functions aren't applicable to artistic text. To create artistic text: 1. Choose the Artistic Text Tool from the flyout on the Tools toolbar. 2. Set initial text properties (font, style, etc.) as needed before typing, using the Text context toolbar, Format menu, or right-click (and choose Text Format>). 3.
Working with Text • 105 To resize freely, hold down the Shift key while dragging. To edit artistic text: • Drag to select a range of text, creating a blue selection. You can also double-click to select a word. Now you can type new text, apply character and paragraph formatting, edit the text in WritePlus, apply proofing options, and so on.
106 Working with Text To apply a preset curved path to text: 1. Create an artistic text object. 2. With the text selected, on the Text context toolbar, click the Path Text flyout and choose a preset path. The text now flows along the specified path, e.g. for "Path - Top Circle". To add artistic text along an existing line or shape: 1. Create a freehand, straight, or curved line (see Drawing and editing lines on p. 176) or a shape (see Drawing and editing shapes on p. 182). 2.
Working with Text 107 To fit existing text to an existing line or shape: 1. Create an artistic text object. 2. Create a freehand, straight, or curved line or a shape. 3. Select both objects. On the Tools menu, choose Fit Text to Curve. The text now flows along the specified path. To create text and path at the same time: 1. Choose one of the Path Text tools from the Text flyout: The Freehand Path Text Tool lets you sketch a curved line in a freeform way.
108 Working with Text Editing text on the page You can use the Pointer Tool to edit frame text, table text, or artistic text directly. On the page, you can select and enter text, set paragraph indents and tab stops, change text properties, apply text styles, and use Find and Replace. For editing longer stories, and for more advanced options, choose WritePlus (Edit Story… from the Edit menu).
Working with Text 109 To start a new paragraph: • Press Enter. To start a new line within the same paragraph (using a "line break" or "soft return"): • Press Shift+Enter. The following two options apply only to frame text. You can use these shortcuts or choose the items from the Insert>Break submenu. To flow text to the next column (Column Break), frame (Frame Break) or page (Page Break): • Press Ctrl+Enter, Alt+Enter or Ctrl+Shift+Enter, respectively.
110 Working with Text Copying, pasting, and moving text You can easily copy and paste text using standard commands; drag and drop of text is also supported. If you don't place an insertion point on pasting, the text can be pasted into a new text frame directly. Setting paragraph indents When a text object is selected, markers on the horizontal ruler indicate the left indent, first line indent, and right indent of the current paragraph. You can adjust the markers to set paragraph indents, or use a dialog.
Working with Text 111 To set the indents of the current paragraph: • Drag the appropriate ruler marker(s). - or - • For quick left indents, select the Increase Level or Decrease Level button to increase or decrease indent, respectively. Indent is by the currently set default tab stop distance. - or - • To adjust indent settings numerically, choose Paragraph... from the Format menu. In the Indentation box, you can enter values for Left, Right, 1st Line, or Hanging indents.
112 Working with Text Working with Unicode text PagePlus fully supports Unicode, making it possible to incorporate foreign characters or special symbols. • To paste Unicode text from the Clipboard to the page, use Edit>Paste Special..., then select "Unformatted Unicode Text." • Insert Unicode characters directly into your text by typing your Unicode Hex value and pressing Alt+X. The Alt+X keyboard operation toggles between the displayed character (e.g., @) and its Hex value (e.g., U+0040) equivalent.
Working with Text 113 expressions to treat the contents of the Find box as an expression, rather than as a literal string to be found. 5. Click Find Next to locate the first instance of the Find text. - or Click Select All to highlight all instances of matching text in your document simultaneously. 6. Click Replace if you want to substitute with replacement text. Alternatively, click Find Next again to skip to the next matching text.
114 Working with Text Using fonts One of the most dramatic ways to change your document's appearance is to change the fonts used in your artistic text, frame text, or table text. Applying different fonts to a character or entire paragraph can communicate very different messages to your intended readership. Font assignment is very simple in PagePlus, and can be done from the Fonts tab, Text context toolbar, or in the Character dialog (via right-click, or from the Format menu).
Working with Text 115 • View most recently used, Websafe, and your favorite fonts simultaneously. • Search for installed fonts via search box. • Hover-over preview of fonts applied to your document's text (optional). • Change a font for another throughout your publication (by right-click Select All). • Access Serif FontManager (if available in your region). The Fonts tab is automatically hidden by default, but can be viewed by clicking the arrow button at the left of your workspace.
116 Working with Text 3. On the Fonts tab, hover over any font in the list. The selected text will update to show how the font will appear in situ. 4. (Optional) Click on the font in the Fonts tab to assign the font to the text. Changing common fonts Changing one font for another is very simple for a single portion of text, but the Fonts tab can take things a step further by allowing a font to be located throughout the entire document (see above), and if necessary, swapped for another font.
Working with Text 117 2. Click the message label, making it shaded in blue—text formatted with the chosen font is selected. 3. Hover over font names in your font list. Click on a chosen font to apply it to the selected text (if you've used the Used fonts search you may need to clear the results before selecting a replacement font). Substituting fonts Font substitution issues may arise when opening PagePlus Publications.
118 Working with Text To manually substitute a font on loading a publication: 1. Enable the Edit font substitutions manually button on the initial dialog, and click OK. 2. From the Resource Manager, click the Fonts tab, and select the font with status "Missing". Click . 3. From the Substitute Missing Fonts dialog, choose a replacement font from the Available fonts list box ensuring that the Bold and/or Italic options are checked if necessary.
Working with Text 119 Reset the Substitute with box by clicking the Default button. This will replace the fonts listed with a single font, e.g. Arial or Times New Roman, as governed by Windows (this is not configurable). To manually substitute a font any time: 1. Select Resource Manager from the Tools menu. 2. Choose the Fonts tab, select a font from the list, and click the button. 3. In the dialog, select the missing font to be substituted from the Font to substitute drop-down menu. 4.
120 Working with Text Using text styles PagePlus lets you use named text styles (pre- or user-defined), which can be applied to frame text, table text, artistic text, index text or table of contents text. A text style is a set of character and/or paragraph attributes saved as a group. When you apply a style to text, you apply the whole group of attributes in just one step.
Working with Text 121 word marked as bold would remain bold when the paragraph style was updated or changed. A character style includes only font attributes (name, point size, bold, italic, etc.), and you apply it at the character level—that is, to a range of selected characters—rather than to the whole paragraph.
122 Working with Text As both paragraph and character formatting can be applied to the same text, all of the current text's formatting is displayed in the Current format box on the tab. In the example below, currently selected text has a Strong character style applied over a Normal paragraph style. To update a named style using the properties of existing text: 1. Make your desired formatting changes to any text that uses a named style. 2.
Working with Text 123 To create a new style using the properties of existing text: 1. Format the text as desired. 2. To define a character style, select a range of reformatted text. To define a paragraph style, deselect text but leave a blinking cursor (insertion point) within the newly formatted section. 3. Type a new style name into the Text context toolbar's Styles box and press Enter. The new style is defined with the properties of the selected text. To modify an existing style: 1.
124 Working with Text Take care when deleting styles. Styles based on a checked "parent" style will be checked for deletion. Removing local formatting To return characters and/or paragraphs back to their original formatting, click on the Clear Formatting option in the Text Styles tab. This is great for reverting some formatting which hasn't quite worked out! You can clear the formatting of selected characters, paragraphs, or both depending on what text is currently selected.
Working with Text 125 To remove local formatting: 1. Select locally formatted characters or paragraph(s) as described in the above table. 2. Either: • Select Clear Formatting from the Styles drop-down list on the Text context toolbar. - or - • On the Text Styles tab, click the Clear Formatting option. - or From the same tab, select Apply to Both from the drop-down menu or Clear Text Formatting from the Format menu).
126 Working with Text To select (and change) a style throughout your document: 1. Right-click a style displayed on the Text Styles tab. 2. If the style is used in your document, you'll see a "Select All n instance(s)" message (n is the number of times the style is used). If there are no occurrences of the style, you'll see a "Not currently used" message. 3. Click the message label—text formatted with the chosen style is highlighted. 4.
Working with Text 127 3. Select the manner in which text will wrap around the object by clicking a sample, i.e. 4. Choose which side(s) the chosen wrapping method will be applied, again by clicking a sample. The examples show tight wrapping applies to the right of the object only. 5. Click OK. In addition, you can specify the Distance from text: the "standoff" between the object's wrap outline and adjacent text.
128 Working with Text Bulleted list Numbered list Multi-level list PagePlus lets you create simple lists directly from the Text context toolbar or choose from a preset bullet, number or multi-level lists via dialog. If you want to go a step further you can create custom list styles by selecting your own symbols, numbers and letter formats. You then have the option of replacing an existing preset with your own preset based on your own custom list style.
Working with Text 129 4. Select one of the preset formats shown by default. - or For a custom list, click the Details button to display, then alter custom options. 5. Click OK to apply list formatting. For number and multi-level lists, check Restart numbering to restart numbering from the current cursor position in the list; otherwise, leave the option unchecked. Turn off list formatting by clicking the Text context toolbar's or buttons again.
130 Working with Text The flexibility of PagePlus's multi-level bullet and numbering system means that you have full control over what gets displayed at each level. For this reason, no common numbering schema needs to exist between levels, i.e. the list could equally be prefixed with a different symbol, text prefix, or number combination at each level. If you apply a multi-level preset to a range of text you'll get a list with the preset's Level 1 format applied by default.
Working with Text 131 Style dialog when Multi-Level style is selected. See online Help for more details. Assigning bullets, numbers, and levels to styles The lists discussed so far are usually applied as local formatting to a single style, typically "Normal" or "Body". To prove this, you'll see the list structure disappear if you apply Clear Formatting (from the Text Styles tab or Text context toolbar's Styles drop-down menu) on the selected list.
132 Working with Text AutoCorrect To set options for automatic text correction: 1. Choose Options... from the Tools menu and select the Text>AutoCorrect page. 2. Check your desired correction options as required. Check Replace text while typing to turn on AutoCorrect. To create a correction list: 1. In the Replace field, type a name for the AutoCorrect entry. This is the abbreviation or word to be replaced automatically as you type.
Working with Text 133 To check spelling as you type: • With the Check spelling as you type feature turned on (from Tools>Options>Options>General), place an insertion point in a marked word by clicking, then right-click. You'll see alternative spellings on the context menu. • To replace a marked word, choose an alternative spelling from the menu.
134 Working with Text 3. (Optional) In the dialog, click Options... to set preferences for ignoring words in certain categories, such as words containing numbers or domain names. 4. Select Check currently selected story only, Check all stories on the current page, or Check all stories in my publication to select the scope of the search. 5. Click Start to begin the spelling check. When a problem is found, PagePlus highlights the problem word.
Working with Text 135 Using the thesaurus The Thesaurus lets you find synonyms, definitions, and variations of words in your publication text. You can use the Thesaurus from either PagePlus or WritePlus. To display the Thesaurus: 1. To look up a specific word, first drag to highlight it. 2. Choose Thesaurus... from the Tools menu. 3. To look up a different word, type it into the "Replace/Look Up" box and click the Look Up button.
136 Working with Text To exit the thesaurus: • Click the Cancel button. Creating text-based tables Tables are ideal for presenting text and data in a variety of easily customizable row-and-column formats, with built-in spreadsheet capabilities. Each cell in a table behaves like a mini-frame.
Working with Text Transparency Borders Warp 2D/3D Filter effects Instant 3D QuickClear/QuickFill/AutoFormat Edit cell text in WritePlus View cell text in Text Manager Pasting of Excel cell contents 137 Table text doesn't flow or link the way frame text does; the Frame context toolbar's text-fitting functions aren't applicable. Rather than starting from scratch, PagePlus is supplied with a selection of predefined table formats, i.e. templates, that can be used.
138 Working with Text To create a table: Table Tool from the Table 1. On the Tools toolbar, choose the flyout. 2. Click on the page or pasteboard, or drag to set the table's dimensions. The Create Table dialog opens with a selection of preset table formats shown in the Format window. 3. Step through the list to preview the layouts and select one. To begin with a plain table, select (Default). 4. (Optional) Click if you want to further customize your chosen format.
Working with Text 139 To select and edit text in cells, rows, and columns: • To select text in a single cell, double- or triple-click text (for word or paragraph selection) or drag over the text. See Editing text on a page on p. 108. • To move to the next or previous cells, use the Tab or Shift+Tab keys, respectively, or the keyboard arrow keys. • To enter text, simply type into a cell at the insertion point. Cells expand vertically as you type to accommodate extra lines of text.
140 Working with Text • To rotate selected text, right-click and choose Table>Cell Properties. On the Orientation tab, use the rotation dial to set a rotation angle or enter a specific value into the input box. • Table text can be sorted by row, column, multi-row, multicolumn regions or entire table using the Sort button from the context toolbar. See Sorting tables. • Characters as part of table text can take line, gradient, and bitmap fill properties.
Working with Text 141 without affecting the overall table width by adjusting the column heading with Ctrl-drag. • To distribute rows or columns, select the entire table or just a selection of rows or columns, then choose Evenly Distribute>Rows or Evenly Distribute>Columns from the Table menu. To honour table width, a cell's text may wrap when distributing columns. button To evenly distribute rows in a column, click the column's and choose Evenly Distribute Rows.
142 Working with Text • To merge cells into larger cells that span more than one row or column (for example, a column head), select a range of cells and choose Merge Cells from the Table menu. The merged cell displays only the text originally visible in the top left selected cell. The original cells and their text are preserved, however—to restore them, select the merged cell and choose Separate Cells from the Table menu.
Working with Text 143 You can modify a table format at any time, saving it for future use. See Creating custom table formats for more information. Setting Cell Properties To customize the appearance of one or more cells "by hand": 1. Select the cell(s), row(s) or column(s). 2. Click the Cell Properties button on the Table context toolbar. - or For a whole column or row only, click the column or row header's button, choosing Cell Properties.... 3.
144 Working with Text Event Manager lets you add personal events before or after adding a calendar to the page. If you have adopted a calendar-based design template, you'll be initially prompted to configure global calendar details via a User Details dialog. This updates all calendar details throughout your PagePlus document—in the same way that you'd set up the date (along with the time) on some alarm clocks.
Working with Text 145 To view and edit a selected calendar's properties: 1. Click 2. Choose an appropriate tab and make your modification, then press OK. on the Calendar context toolbar.
146 Working with Text Adding personal events You can complement your public holiday listings (e.g., Easter holidays) by adding personal events such as birthdays, anniversaries, and bill payments (unfortunately!) so that the events show up on your calendar—simply use the Calendar Events button on a selected calendar's context toolbar. Events show automatically on your calendar under the chosen date. To add an event: 1. Select your calendar's bounding box. 2. Click 3.
Working with Text 147 Hyperlinking an object Hyperlinking an object such as a box, Quick Button, a word, or a picture means that a reader of your PDF document can trigger an event by clicking on the object. The event might be a jump to a different page, the appearance of an email composition window, the display of a graphic, text, or media file, or a jump to an anchor attached to a target object. To hyperlink an object: 1. Use the Pointer Tool to highlight the region of text, or select an object. 2.
148 Working with Text For a "birds-eye" view of all the hyperlinks in your publication, use the Hyperlink Manager (Tools menu). Creating a table of contents The Table of Contents Wizard (Insert>Table of Contents...) helps you create a table of contents with up to six levels of headings and sub-headings derived from named styles in your publication. If you're exporting to PDF format, PagePlus can automatically build a bookmark list using the same style markings in your text.
Working with Text 149 When the table of contents is created, PagePlus formats it using built-in Text styles (p. 120) intended specifically for table of contents preparation: "Contents-Title" and "Contents-1st" through "Contents-6th". You can easily change the look of your table of contents by changing the style definitions for these built-in "Contents" styles. Creating an index An index is a valuable reader aid in a longer document such as a report or manual.
150 Working with Text • 4. You can also specify a bold and/or italic page number format. Click Mark to insert the new entry mark or update a selected mark. To build an index: 1. First mark the entries as described above. 2. Choose Index... from the Insert menu. 3. Run through the Index Wizard, choosing where to place and how to format your index. Repeat at any time to update the information.
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Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 153 Adding picture frames Not to be confused with a decorative border, a picture frame is a shaped container similar to a text frame. You can select either: • Bordered picture frames from the Gallery tab (opposite). - or - • Shaped borderless frames from the Tools toolbar. Either option lets you import a picture directly into the frame or drag a picture into it from the Media bar. Empty picture frames are shown as envelope-shaped placeholders.
154 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To add a borderless picture frame: 1. For an empty square frame, choose Picture>Empty Frame... from the Insert menu. - or For a frame of a particular shape, e.g. Elliptical Picture Frame, choose a shape on the Import Picture flyout on the Tools toolbar. 2. The mouse pointer changes to the Picture Paste cursor. What you do next determines the initial size and placement of the picture frame. 3. To insert the frame at a default size, simply click the mouse.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes • Click the button to rotate the photo in 90 degree counterclockwise increments. • Click the 155 button to zoom in/out of the photo. - or 1. Right-click on a picture frame and choose Properties>Frame Properties.... - or Select the picture frame and choose Frame Properties on the Picture context toolbar. 2. In the dialog, you can scale to maximum/minimum, Stretch to Fit, or use the original image's size (No Scale). 3.
156 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Importing pictures PagePlus lets you insert pictures from a wide variety of file formats, including bitmaps, vector images, and metafiles, and in several different ways. Here's a quick overview: • Bitmapped pictures, also known as bitmaps or raster pictures, are built from a matrix of dots ("pixels"), rather like the squares on a sheet of graph paper.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 157 To import a picture from a file: 1. To place the picture: • inline with the text - click for an insertion point in a text object. • detached from the text - make sure all text objects are deselected. • into a frame - create the frame and then select it. 2. In the main window: Click the flyout. Import Picture... button on the Tools toolbar's Picture In WritePlus: Choose Picture File... from the Insert menu. 3. Use the dialog to select the picture to open. 4.
158 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To set the size of the inserted picture, drag out a region and release the mouse button. To populate a template picture placeholder or replace a picture: • Click the - or - • Double-click the placeholder/picture. button shown under the selected frame. Embedding vs. linking Embedding means the picture in PagePlus is now distinct from the original file.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 159 You can even use the AutoFlow feature to add all photos sequentially into available empty picture frames with one click. The bar can be used as a temporary storage area before placing photos in your document, or it can be used to create more permanent photo albums from which you can retrieve stored photos at any time. By default, photos are added to a temporary album but remember to click the New Album button if you want to save your album for later use.
160 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Photo thumbnails can be dragged from the Media Bar directly onto your page, into an existing standalone photo, or into an empty or populated picture frame. To view the Media Bar: • Unless already displayed, click the your workspace. handle at the bottom of To add photos to a temporary album: 1. With the Media Bar visible and a temporary album loaded, click on the Media Bar's workspace to reveal an Import Picture dialog. 2.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 161 To include a temporary album's photos in an existing saved album, click the Add To button and choose a named album from the menu. To load a saved album: • Select a saved album name from the bar's top-right drop-down menu. The album's photos will display in the workspace. To rename or delete an album: • Right-click an existing album name in the top-right drop-down menu and choose Rename Album... or Delete Album....
162 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To automatically flow your photos: • Click the button to the right of the bar's workspace. The photos are placed sequentially in your document's available picture frames in the order they appear in the Media Bar. A dialog will display if you've more picture frames than you have photos and vice versa. To resolve, either remove extra pages or add more frames then add any remaining photos by drag and drop.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 163 The white initial background is discarded, leaving interim checkerboard transparency, from which another image can be used as a more attractive background. A red tint on the second image's background is used to indicate areas to be discarded. To launch Image Cutout Studio: 1. Select an image to be cut out. 2. Select from the displayed Picture context toolbar. Image Cutout Studio is launched.
164 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Output Type Description and use Alpha-edged Bitmap Use when cutting out objects with poorly defined edges. Transparency and pixel blending are used at the outline edge to produce professional results with negligible interference from background colors. The term "alpha" refers to a 32-bit image's alpha transparency channel. Vector-cropped Bitmap Use on more well-defined edges.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 165 Selecting areas to keep or discard A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to "paint" areas of the image. The tools are called Keep Brush and Discard Brush, and are either used independently or, more typically, in combination with each other. When using either tool, the brush paints an area contained by an outline which is considered to be discarded or retained (depending on brush type). A configurable number of pixels adjacent to the outline area are blended.
166 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 2. (Optional) Pick a Brush size suitable for the area to be worked on. 3. (Optional) Set a Grow tolerance value to automatically expand the selected area under the cursor (by detecting colors similar to those within the current selection). The greater the value the more the selected area will grow. 4. Using the circular cursor, click and drag across the area to be retained. It's OK to repeatedly click and drag until your selection area is made. The 5.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 167 Refining your cutout area (alpha-edged bitmaps only) If a vector-cropped image is created via Image Cutout Studio it's possible to subsequently manipulate the crop outline using crop tools. However, for alphaedged bitmaps, Erase and Restore touch-up tools can be used to refine the cutout area within the Studio before completing your cutout. The latter can't be edited with crop tools.
168 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Applying PhotoLab filters Filters can be applied and managed in PhotoLab, a powerful studio for applying adjustment and effect filters to pictures individually or in combination—all instantly applied and previewed! PhotoLab offers the following key features: • Adjustment filters Apply tonal, color, lens, and sharpening filters. • Effect filters Apply distortion, blur, stylistic, noise, render, artistic and various other effects.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 169 Pictures present in your publication will show in your Images tab (above) if the tab is expanded. This tab is hidden by default in PhotoLab but can be viewed by clicking the button at the bottom of your workspace. To launch PhotoLab: 1. Select the picture that you want to apply a filter to. 2. Click on the Picture context toolbar.
170 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Applying a filters Filters are stored in PhotoLab's Favorites, Adjustments, and Effects tabs which group filters logically into categories (e.g., Quick Fix for fast and commonly used correction filters). The Favorites tab offers some commonly used filters (individual and in combination).You can complement these with your own user-defined filters. To apply a filter with trialling: 1. Click a filter thumbnail. 2.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 171 Any filter can be temporarily disabled, reset, or deleted from the trial zone. To disable: Click To reset: . Any changes to settings are reverted back to Click the filter's defaults. To delete: Click , then click to enable again. . Once you're sure that you want to keep you filter, you'll need to commit the filter to your filters stack. To commit your filter: • Click Commit to accept your changes.
172 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Retouching PhotoLab offers some useful retouching tools on the main toolbar, each commonly used to correct photos before applying color correction and effects. Selective masking Rather than apply a filter to uniformly change the appearance of your picture, you can change only selected regions instead. PhotoLab lets you mask picture areas by painting areas to be either affected by filters or simply left alone. To apply a mask: Mask drop-down menu, select New Mask. 1.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 3. 173 Adjust the settings to suit requirements, especially adjusting Brush Size to paint larger or more intricate regions. Change the Mode drop-down menu from Select to Protect to protect painted regions from masking (i.e., the inverse of the Add Region option). 4. Using the on-screen cursor, paint regions (in green for adding; red for protecting). If you've not been as accurate as you'd like while painting, you can click regions. 5.
174 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes It's also possible to create additional masks for the same filter as above, and then choose between masks accordingly. You can only have one mask applied at any one time. By using the menu's New From> option you can also base the new mask on another mask applied to the current or any other filter in the filter stack. This is useful when using favorites containing multiple adjustments. To edit a mask: • Click the down arrow on the and select Edit Mask.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 175 Importing TWAIN images If your scanner or digital camera provides TWAIN support, you can import pictures directly into PagePlus using the TWAIN standard. Or, save the scanned image separately and then import into PagePlus. To set up your TWAIN device for importing: • See the documentation supplied with your scanner for operating instructions. To import a scanned image: • Choose Picture... from the Insert menu, then select TWAIN and Acquire...
176 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes • For grayscale photographic images, scan using grayscales and save as a grayscale TIFF file. If you have a color scanner, save a color TIFF. You can resize these images and still maintain reasonable quality, provided you don't make them significantly larger than the original. In general, the number of grayscales or colors is a more important issue than the actual resolution (dpi).
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 177 The Pencil Tool lets you sketch curved lines and shapes in a freeform way. The Straight Line Tool is for drawing straight lines (for example, drawn in the column gutter to separate columns); rules at the top and/or bottom of the page; or horizontal lines to separate sections or highlight headlines. The Pen Tool lets you join a series of line segments (which may be curved or straight) using "connect the dots" mouse clicks.
178 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To draw a straight line (with the Straight Line Tool): Straight Line Tool from the Tools toolbar's Line 1. Choose the flyout. 2. Click where you want the line to start, and drag to the end point. The line appears immediately. To constrain the angle of the straight line to 15° increments, hold down the Shift key as you drag. (This is an easy way to make exactly vertical or horizontal lines.) 3. To extend the line, position the cursor over one of its red end nodes.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 179 Smart segments appear without visible control handles, using automatic curve-fitting to connect each node. They are especially useful when tracing around curved objects and pictures. (Shortcut: Press 3) 2. Select a segment type, then click where you want the line to start: • For a Straight segment, click again (or drag) for a new node where you want the segment to end. Shift-click to align the segment at 15° intervals (useful for quick right-angle junctions).
180 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Setting line properties All lines, including those that enclose shapes, have numerous properties, including color, weight (width or thickness), scaling, cap (end), join (corner), and stroke alignment. You can vary these properties for any freehand, straight, or curved line, as well as for the outline of a shape. Note that text frames, pictures, tables, and artistic text objects have line properties, too. In PagePlus, you can control the position of the stroke (i.e.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 181 Several techniques offer additional ways to customize lines: For dotted/dashed lines, select from one of five dashed line styles (see above). - or (tab and dialog only) Drag the Dash Pattern slider to set the overall pattern length (the number of boxes to the left of the slider) and the dash length (the number of those boxes that are black).
182 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Drawing and editing shapes QuickShapes are pre-designed objects of widely varying shapes that you can instantly add to your page. Once you've drawn a QuickShape, you can morph its original shape using control handles, and adjust its properties—for example, by applying gradient or bitmap fills (including your own bitmap pictures!) or transparency effects.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 183 To create a QuickShape: 1. Click the QuickShape flyout on the Tools toolbar and select a shape from the flyout. The button takes on the icon of the shape selected. 2. Click on the page to create a new shape at a default size. - or Drag across the page to size your shape. When the shape is the right size, release the mouse button. To draw a constrained shape (such as a circle): • Hold down the Shift key as you drag.
184 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Closed shapes As soon as you draw or select a line, you'll see the line's nodes appear. Nodes show the end points of each segment in the line. Freehand curves typically have many nodes; straight or curved line segments have only two. You can make a shape by extending a line back to its starting point. To turn a selected line into a shape: • Select the line with the Pointer Tool and then click the Curve button on the Curve context toolbar.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 185 To break open a line or shape: 1. With the Pointer Tool, select the node where you want to break the shape. 2. Click the Break Curve button on the Curve context toolbar. A line will separate into two lines. A shape will become a line, with the selected node split into two nodes, one at each end of the new line. 3. You can now use the Pointer Tool to reshape the line as needed. See online Help for more information on editing shapes.
186 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Applying 2D filter effects PagePlus provides a variety of filter effects that you can use to transform any object. "3D" filter effects let you create the impression of a textured surface and are covered elsewhere (see p. 190). Here we'll look at 2D filter effects exclusively. The following examples show each 2D filter effect when applied to the letter "A.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 187 The Studio’s Styles tab offers a range of 2D filter effects that are ready to use. Its multiple categories each offer a gallery full of predefined effects, such as Shadows, Bevels, Reflections, Blurs, and more. Each category offers subtle variations of the category effect. Click any thumbnail to apply the effect to the selected object. PagePlus additionally provides the Shadow Tool for applying a shadow to an object directly in your publication.
188 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Creating reflections A simple way to add creative flair to your page is to apply a vertical reflection on a selected object. The effect is especially eye-catching when applied to pictures, but can be equally impressive on artistic text, such as page titles or text banners. A combination of settings can control reflection height, opacity, offset and blurring.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 189 Basic (left) and skewed shadows (right) applied to a basic square QuickShape Adjustment of shadow color, opacity, blur, and scaling/distance is possible using controllable nodes directly on the page (or via a supporting Shadow context toolbar). Nodes can be dragged inwards or outwards from the shadow origin to modify the shadow's blur and opacity. For a different color, pick a new color from the Color or Swatches tab while the tool is selected.
190 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Using 3D filter effects 3D filter effects go beyond 2D filter effects (such as shadow, glow, bevel, and emboss effects) to create the impression of a textured surface on the object itself. You can use the Filter Effects dialog to apply one or more effects to the same object.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 191 Overview • 3D Effects is a master switch, and its settings of Blur and Depth make a great difference; you can click the "+" button to unlink them for independent adjustment. • 3D Lighting provides a "light source" without which any depth information in the effect wouldn't be visible. The lighting settings let you illuminate your 3D landscape and vary its reflective properties. To apply 3D filter effects: Filter Effects on the Attributes toolbar. 1. Click 2.
192 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Use zoom in/out buttons or a percentage magnification for detailed work. • Check a 3D effect in the 3D Effects list which reflects the 3D effect you can achieve. 3D Bump Map The 3D Bump Map effect creates the impression of a textured surface by applying a mathematical function you select to add depth information, for a peak-and-valley effect. You can use 3D Bump Map in conjunction with one or more additional 3D filter effects—but not with a 2D Bump Map.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 193 transparency on reflective (edges) and non-reflective (flat) areas of the object (see front heart shape below). 3D Reflection Map The 3D Reflection Map effect is used to simulate mirrored surfaces by selection of a pattern (i.e., a bitmap which possesses a shiny surface) which "wraps around" a selected object. Patterns which simulate various realistic indoor and outdoor environments can be adopted, with optional use of 3D lighting to further reflect off object edges.
194 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Adding dimensionality (Instant 3D) Using the Instant 3D feature, you can easily transform flat shapes (shown) and text into three-dimensional objects. PagePlus provides control over 3D effect settings such as: • beveling: use several rounded and chiseled presets or create your own with a custom bevel profile editor. • lighting: up to eight editable and separately colored lights can be positioned to produce dramatic lighting effects.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes X rotation Y rotation Z rotation 195 X and Y rotation Transform about your 3D objects' axes instead of your pages' axes by holding the Ctrl key down as you transform using the nodes. You can also adjust the angle and elevation of each "active" light on the page by dragging the light pointer to a position which simulates a light source. After any transformation, the underlying base object remains editable. To add dimensionality: 1.
196 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To edit base properties of a 3D object: • Select the 3D object, then click the Edit button at the bottom righthand corner of the 3D object, i.e. The original object's shape is shown, allowing its selection handles to be manipulated for resizing and rotating. Using object styles Object styles benefit your design efforts in much the same way as text styles and color schemes.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 197 • Any time you want to alter some aspect of a style (for example, change the line color), you simply change the style definition. Instantly, all objects in your publication sharing that style update accordingly. • Object styles you've saved globally appear not only in the original publication but in any new publication, so you can reuse exactly the same attractive combination of attributes for any subsequent design effort.
198 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To unlink an object from its style definition: • Right-click the object and choose Format>Object Style>Unlink. If you've applied a style to an object but have lost track of the thumbnail—or want to confirm which style is actually being used on an object—you can quickly locate the thumbnail from the object. To locate an object's style in the Styles tab: • Right-click the object and choose Format>Object Style>Locate in Studio.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 199 2. Click to expand or collapse sections within the attributes tree. Check any attributes you want to include in the style definition, and uncheck any you don't want to include. 3. If you want to change any of the current object settings, double-click an attribute (or select it and click the Edit button). This will bring up a detailed dialog for the particular attribute. 4.
200 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes Designs are stored in categories such as Business, Education, Fun, Picture frames, logos, and flashes. The Gallery has two parts: an upper Categories drop-down menu and a lower Designs window showing a list of thumbnails representing the designs in the selected category. You can adopt a design by dragging the thumbnail onto the page. The Gallery tab can store your own designs in the ready-to-go My Designs category—the design is made available in any PagePlus project.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 201 To view your Gallery: 1. Click the Studio's Gallery tab. 2. Select a category from the drop-down menu. The items from the first listed subcategory are displayed by default. To add, delete, or rename custom categories: 1. With the Gallery tab selected, click Tab Menu and choose Add category..., Remove category, or Rename category... from the dropdown list. 2. Use the dialog to enter and/or confirm your change.
202 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To rename or delete a custom design from the Gallery: • Click on the drop-down button in the bottom-right corner of a thumbnail (shown by hover over) and choose from the menu. Using connectors Two Connector tools let you create dynamic link lines between any two objects. These connectors remain anchored to the objects, even if either or both of them are moved or resized.
Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 203 To create a connector: 1. For a straight-line connector, select the Connector Tool on the Connector Tools flyout (Tools toolbar). - or For an elbow connector, select the Elbow Connector Tool from the same location. 2. Either: • Hover over an object so that default connection points become visible, e.g. for various shapes. - or - • 3. Hover over an object's edge until you see a red square.
204 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes To add a custom connection point (with tool): 1. Select an object. 2. Select the Connection Point Tool on the Connector Tools flyout (Tools toolbar). 3. Click at a chosen location to place the custom connection point (inside or outside the object). The custom connection point appears in blue. To view the connection points again you have to hover over the object which was selected while the connection point was created.
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Color, Fills, and Transparency 207 Applying solid colors PagePlus offers a number of ways to apply solid colors to objects of different kinds: • You can apply solid colors to an object's line or fill. As you might expect, QuickShapes and closed shapes (see Drawing and editing shapes on p. 182) have both line and fill properties, whereas straight and freehand lines have only a line property. • Characters in text objects can have fill color or highlight color.
208 Color, Fills, and Transparency To apply a solid color via the Swatches tab: 1. Select the object(s) or highlight a range of text. 2. Click the Swatches tab. 3. Click the Fill, Line, or Text button at the top of the tab to determine where color will be applied. 4. Select a color swatch from the Publication palette (commonly used colors and those previously applied to your publication) or standard Palette (supplied preset swatches). Alternatively, use Format>Fill... to apply color via a dialog.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 209 Using schemes In PagePlus, a color scheme is a cluster of five complementary colors that you can apply to specific elements in one or more publications. The Schemes tab displays preset schemes which can be selected at any point during the design process. Each publication can have just one color scheme at a time; the current scheme is highlighted in the Schemes tab.
210 Color, Fills, and Transparency To select a color scheme: 1. Click the Schemes tab. The currently assigned scheme is highlighted in the list. 2. Click a different color scheme sample. Objects in the publication that have been assigned one of the five color scheme numbers are updated with the corresponding color from the new scheme. You can repeat this selection process indefinitely. When you save a publication, its current color scheme is saved along with the document.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 211 PagePlus lets you create your own color scheme either from scratch or by modifying an existing scheme. See online Help for more information. Modifying and creating color schemes If you've tried various color schemes but haven't found one that's quite right, you can modify any of the colors in an existing scheme to create a new one, or create your own named scheme from scratch. To modify or create a color scheme: 1. Select Scheme Manager... from the Tools menu.
212 Color, Fills, and Transparency Working with gradient and bitmap fills Gradient fills provide a gradation or spectrum of colors spreading between two or more points on an object. A gradient fill has an editable path with nodes that mark the origin of each of these key colors. A bitmap fill uses a named bitmap— often a material, pattern, or background image—to fill an object.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 213 - or For bitmap fills, select a drop-down menu category from the Bitmap button. 3. Select the object(s), and then click the appropriate gallery swatch for the fill you want to apply. - or Drag from the gallery swatch onto any object and release the mouse button. 4. If needed, adjust the fill's Tint at the bottom of the tab with the tab slider or set a percentage value in the input box. To apply a gradient fill with the Fill Tool: 1. Select an object. 2.
214 Color, Fills, and Transparency - or Click the 2. Fill button on the Attributes toolbar's Fill flyout. Choose the fill type and the desired fill category. Note that you can also use the dialog to apply a solid fill. • For gradient fills, select Gradient from the Type drop-down menu, and pick a gradient preset. A two-color gradient has two nodes, one at each end of its path. - or Click the From and To buttons to specify the gradient's start and end colors.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 215 Editing the fill path When you select a fillable object, the Fill tool becomes available (otherwise it's grayed out). If the object uses a gradient fill, you'll see the fill path displayed as a line, with nodes marking where the spectrum between each key color begins and ends. Adjusting the node positions determines the actual spread of colors between nodes. You can also edit a gradient fill by adding, deleting, or changing key colors (see online Help).
216 Color, Fills, and Transparency Working with transparency Transparency effects are great for highlights, shading and shadows, and simulating "rendered" realism. They can make the critical difference between flat-looking publications and publications with depth and snap. PagePlus fully supports variable transparency and lets you apply solid, gradient, or bitmap transparencies easily. Transparencies work rather like fills that use "disappearing ink" instead of color.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 217 In PagePlus, transparency effects work very much like grayscale fills. Just like fills... • Transparency effects are applied from the Studio—in this case, using the Transparency tab. (Transparency is also an option with the 3D Pattern Map filter effect.) • The Transparency tab's gallery has thumbnails in shades of gray, where the lighter portions represent more transparency. To apply transparency, you click thumbnails or drag them onto objects.
218 Color, Fills, and Transparency 3. For gradient transparency, choose the your thumbnail. - or - Gradient button and pick For bitmap transparency, choose the thumbnail from a range of categories. Bitmap button and pick a The transparency is applied to the object(s). Alternatively, drag the desired thumbnail from the gallery to an object, and release the mouse button. To apply gradient transparency with the Transparency Tool: 1. Select a colored object. 2.
Color, Fills, and Transparency 219 Editing a gradient transparency path is similar to editing a comparable fill path. Adding a level of transparency means varying the transparency gradient by introducing a new node and assigning it a particular value. For transparencies with multiple nodes, each node has its own value, comparable to a key color in a gradient fill. Note that you cannot alter the values in a bitmap transparency. To edit a gradient transparency directly: 1.
220 Color, Fills, and Transparency Setting the default transparency The default transparency means the transparency that will be applied to the next new object you create. Local defaults only affect objects in the current project. For information on setting defaults in PagePlus, see Updating and saving defaults on p. 24.
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Printing and Publishing 223 Previewing the printed page The Print Preview mode changes the screen view to display your layout without frames, guides, rulers, and other screen items. Special options, such as tiled output or crop marks, are not displayed. A Trimmed Page mode can be entered which is similar to Print Preview mode but lets you continue designing without layout aids having to be displayed. To preview the printed page: • Click Print Preview on the Standard toolbar.
224 Printing and Publishing Working in Trimmed Page Mode Trimmed Page Mode lets you toggle between the page you're currently working on (complete with visible guides, pasteboard objects, text marks, special l characters, etc.) and a preview page which shows how your page will appear in print. You can still edit page content while in Trimmed Page mode. To enter Trimmed Page mode: • Click Trimmed Page Mode on the Hintline toolbar.
Printing and Publishing 4. 225 Select the print range to be printed, e.g. the whole document, the selection area, a specific page, or range of pages. PagePlus also lets you choose odd or even sheets to print, and also various double- or single-sided options that override your current printer settings. Whichever option you've chosen, a drop-down list lets you export all sheets in the range, or just odd or even sheets, with the option of printing in Reverse order. 5.
226 Printing and Publishing Manual duplex printing Printing to duplex printers can give your greetings cards and other documents the edge. It can also save money by allowing you to use less paper. However, not all printers have this built-in duplexing function and are considered simplex (supporting single-sided printing only).
Printing and Publishing 227 To print (using manual duplex): 1. Go to File>Print... 2. In the Print dialog, set your printing options and choose Manual Duplex printing from the Double-sided options drop-down menu. 3. Click Print. 4. The first page should print. Place the paper back in the tray as instructed, then press continue to print the other side. 5.
228 Printing and Publishing Even if the publication isn't set up as a poster or banner, you can use tiling and scaling settings (see "Tiling" below) to print onto multiple sheets from a standard size page. Each section or tile is printed on a single sheet of paper, and the various tiles can then be joined to form the complete page. To simplify arrangement of the tiles and to allow for printer margins, you can specify an overlap value.
Printing and Publishing 229 The multiple page options are enabled when you are working with a page from the Small Publications category in Page Setup. You can select the number of times to repeat each page, and tell PagePlus to skip a certain number of regions on the first sheet of paper. Skipping regions is useful if, for example, you've already peeled off several labels from a label sheet, and don't want to print on the peeled-off sections. Check the Preview window to see how the output will look.
230 Printing and Publishing 3. (Optional) To create pop-up annotations, insert PageHints as needed. 4. (Optional) Once the publication is final, prepare a bookmark list (see below). Note: Bookmarks appear as a separate list in a special pane when the PDF file is viewed. They can link to a specific page or to an anchor (for example, a piece of text or a graphic object) in your publication. 5. Click 6. From the dialog, check your export settings.
Printing and Publishing 231 A Bookmark Manager enables you to view all your bookmarks at a glance, organize them into a hierarchy of entries and subentries, and create, modify or delete existing bookmarks as needed. To use styles to automatically generate bookmarks: 1. Decide which named styles you want to designate as headings at each of up to six levels. 2. Check your publication to make sure these styles are used consistently. 3. Choose Bookmark Manager... from the Tools menu and click Automatic..
232 Printing and Publishing 3. In the Create Bookmark dialog, the Text field shows the range of text you selected if any (for example, a section heading). You can leave this if it's suitable for the bookmark text or edit it as needed; otherwise enter new text if the field is empty. 4. Click to select the bookmark destination type, then enter the destination. • To bookmark a specific location, choose An anchor in your publication.
Printing and Publishing 233 Sharing by email PagePlus lets you share your publication as native PagePlus publication (.ppp) via an email file attachment. To share your PagePlus publication: 1. With your publication open and in the currently active window, select Send... from the File menu. If you have multiple email programs and they are not loaded, a Choose Profile dialog lets you select your email program of choice, then a new email message is displayed with document attached.
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Index 2D filter effects, 186 3D filter effects, 190 Instant 3D, 194 Styles tab for effects, 190 adjustment (of pictures), 168 Adobe PDF files bookmark lists in, 230 exporting, 229 albums photo, 160 searching Media Bar, 162 alignment of line stroke, 180 of objects, 65 using dynamic guides, 61 anchoring (objects), 73 anchors creating, 75 properties, 77 artistic text, 103 creating, 104 editing, 105 on a path, 105 resizing, 104 Artistic Text Tool, 104, 106 AutoCorrect, 132 AutoFit to table row/column cell cont
238 Index closing PagePlus, 23 publications, 23 color applying gradient, 212 applying solid, 207 schemes, 209 Color tab, 180, 207 column and row guides, 45 blinds, 96 margins, 96 Combine Curves, 73 Conical transparency, 217 connection points, 202 editing, 204 Connector Tool, 202 connectors, 202 creating, 203 types of, 202 constraining movement of objects, 63 correction lists, 132 Crop object to wrap outline, 127 Crop to Shape, 71 Crop tools, 70 cropping objects, 70 curves.
Index exporting as PDF, 229 objects as a picture, 67 extracting images, 162 facing pages, 30 features key, 4 fill properties, 180 Fill Tool, 213 fills bitmap, 213 gradient, 212 solid, 207 filter effects, 186, 190 filters, 168 applying, 170 masking with, 172 Find & Replace, 112 Fit Text to Curve, 107 flashes, 86 flipping objects, 69 folded publications, 29 printing, 227 setting up, 20 fonts assigning, 115 dynamic installation of, 119 FontManager, 119 previewing, 115 replace common, 116 setting, 113, 114 sub
240 Index importing paint- and draw-type images, 156 text, 91 TWAIN images, 175 imposition of folded publications, 227 Increase level, 122, 130 indents setting, 110 index creating, 149 installation, 10 interface rulers, 47 setting units, 47 view options, 32 Join setting (lines), 181 joining objects, 78 jpg importing, 156 key features, 4 layers, 38 adding, 40 assigning master pages to, 42 deleting, 40 ordering, 40 properties of, 43 selecting, 40 selecting objects on, 41 viewing, 40 layout theme, 17 layout
Index masking (for picture adjustment/effects), 172 master pages adding and removing, 36 and layers, 41 assigning, 37 headers and footers on, 50 overview, 31 page numbers on, 50 viewing and editing, 35 measuring objects, 47, 49 Media Bar, 158 mesh warp, 80 metafiles exporting, 67 importing, 156 Serif, 67 moving objects, 63 multi-level lists, 129 multilingual spell-checking, 133 Multi-page view, 34 multiple pages print preview, 223 printing, 228 viewing, 34 multiple selections, 56 named styles, 121 navigati
242 Index pages, 50 adding, removing, and rearranging, 36 viewing, 32, 35 Pages tab, 35, 36 paint-type images importing, 156 paragraphs, 113 alignment, 113 setting indents for, 110 setting tab stops for, 111 styles, 120 Paste Format, 60 Paste Format Plus, 60 pasteboard area, 33 path text, 105 paths (around objects), 180 Pattern Map effects, 192 PDF files adding bookmarks, 230, 231 publishing, 229 PhotoLab, 168 photos.
Index displaying, 32 layout guides, 45 master pages, 31 opening existing, 21 saving, 22 setting dimensions, 29 sharing by email, 233 starting from scratch, 20 swapping between, 22 working with multiple, 22 publishing PDF files, 229 QuickShape Tool, 182 raster images importing, 156 readability checking with Proof Reader, 134 reapply styles, 125 reflection maps (filter effect), 193 reflections (filter effect), 188 registration, 3 replicating objects, 59 resizing, 63 using dynamic guides, 61 retouching (pictu
244 Index sticky guides, 47 story text, 92 flowing in frame sequence, 93, 98 Straight Line Tool, 178 stroke alignment, 180 style (of font) setting, 113 Style Attributes Editor, 60, 198 styles object, 196 text, 120 assigning numbers to, 131 named, 121 previewing, 120 reapply, 125 substituting fonts, 117 Swatches tab, 180, 208, 212 switching between publication windows, 22 system requirements, 10 tab stops, 111 table of contents creating, 148 for PDF file, 230 Table Tool, 138 tables anchoring, to text, 73 A
Index Text Style Palette, 25 text styles, 120 numbering, 131 remove formatting, 124 replace common, 125 text wrap, 126 theme layouts, 17 Thesaurus, 135 thumbnails printing, 228 tiling printing effect, 229 tinting, 208 Tool Artistic Text, 104 Connection Point, 202 Connector, 202 Fill, 213 Irregular Crop, 71 Pointer, 55 QuickShape, 182 Rotate, 55, 68 Shadow, 188 Square Crop, 70 Table, 138 Transparency, 218 Transform tab, 63, 64 transparency applying, 217 filter effect, 192 gradient, 218 Transparency tab, 217
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