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Contents Contents Copyright 2 Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Welcome to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Page & Layout Designer terminology 11 11 12 Getting Help Support Document info About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Tooltips 14 15 16 17 17 Getting Started Program Layout Objects On The Page Object Based Design Drawing Tools The Selector Tool Right-click menus Using Templates & Clipart Theme Colors Photos Text Page Size Layers Saving & Exporting Your Work.
Normal/full screen modes Opening a second window Changing the zoom value Sliding the document within the window Changing the page size Multi-page Documents Saving the document Closing the document Automatic Backups On-screen grid Rulers Measurement units View quality slider The constrain key Galleries The Name Gallery Naming objects Undo and Redo 44 44 44 46 46 49 55 55 56 58 59 60 62 63 64 73 75 77 Drawing Lines and Shapes Drawing a line or shape The Freehand & Brush Tool Editing lines/shapes with the
Contents Selecting Objects The Selector Tool Selecting objects Double-click shortcuts to tools 98 98 99 102 Object Handling Moving objects Removing objects from the document Duplicating and cloning Moving objects forward and backwards Rotating objects Scaling (resizing) objects Flipping objects Snapping Guide Objects and Guidelines Grouping and ungrouping objects Editing inside groups Other types of groups Soft Groups Alignment Copying Styles: Paste Attributes ClipView Repeating Objects 103 103 106 107 1
Page & Layer Gallery The Page & Layer Gallery Pages Layers Layer Operations Special Layers Hiding Layers and Objects Locking Layers and Objects Solo Mode Show All & Unlock All Moving Objects Between Layers 149 149 152 152 154 156 156 157 157 157 158 Color Handling The color line Applying fill & line colors by drag & drop Editing an object’s color The Color Editor in detail Specifying colors in the Color Editor The color models Colors on the screen and on the printer Local colors and Theme colors Theme c
Contents Synchronising text across multiple text objects Tabs, Margins and Indents Repelling text objects Anchored Graphics Embedding Graphics Applying text attributes Text Styles Indents and Outdents Copying text appearances Copying/Pasting formatted text (RTF) Seeing fonts in use Changing text into editable shapes The Fonts Gallery Fonts and PDF Document Font embedding Adding Hyperlinks 189 189 192 194 197 197 203 206 207 207 208 208 208 210 211 211 Fills The Fill Tool Changing the colors in a fill Movi
Removing a bevel 232 Shadows The Shadow Tool Applying a shadow Changing the shadow color or fill effect Converting shadows to shapes Removing a shadow Copying shadows onto other objects 233 233 233 235 235 236 236 Contours The Contour Tool Contouring objects Converting contours to shapes Removing a contour 237 237 237 240 241 Blends Blends Using the Blend Tool Removing blends 242 242 242 248 Photo Handling Introduction Photo Objects Photo Groups Importing Photos Photo resolution Zero-memory Copies
Contents Viewing a scaled photo at its full size Making a photo its full size Optimizing Photos and Bitmaps Converting objects or drawings to bitmaps Photo Documents Editing Photo Files 269 269 270 273 273 274 The Photo Tools Using the Photo Tools Common photo functions Enhance Tool Clip Tool 276 276 276 277 280 3D Extrude Tool Extruding a shape Extrude Tool InfoBar Copying 3D extrude attributes 282 282 282 285 Printing Show print borders Selecting and setting up a printer The print dialog box Print O
Working with Templates Replacing photos Adjusting a photo in its frame Editing photos Changing text Changing colors Adding Pages 340 340 341 341 342 343 344 Customizing Page & Layout Designer Changing the blank template document Options in the Utilities menu General tab Grid and Ruler tab Internet tab Mouse tab Page Size tab Backups Tab Photo Editing Tune-ups tab Units tab View tab Control bars 345 345 345 346 348 349 351 353 354 355 356 357 358 360 Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Introduction File menu
Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Welcome to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is the ideal solution for creating a successful business image. You can design your own company logo, create marketing and advertising material, and present your business in the best possible light.
All functions are on one screen: Quick layout design, convenient text and image editing tools and print-ready proofs are all at your fingertips. Features • Comprehensive template catalog with license-free designs for all your business needs: Business documents, presentations and much more. • Quick formatting of text blocks and large amounts of text: Format your headers, text blocks or footnotes and easily transfer the formatting to other texts.
Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Lines, shapes, and objects A line can be straight, curved or a mixture of both. A line must have a start and an end, thus it is always open. You can apply a thickness and color to a line. These are all lines These are all shapes A shape is a solid or closed object. The difference between a line and a shape is that a shape has no start or end. Because a shape is a closed object, you can fill it with a color or leave it empty with no color.
Getting Help If you need some help using this program, here are some sources of information that may be of use: • Program help - Choose "MAGIX PAGE & LAYOUT DESIGNER 2013 HELP" from the "HELP" menu to open MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Help (containing hundreds of pages of information). • Status bar - Try reading the text on the status bar at the bottom of the main MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 window.
Getting Help Support Dear MAGIX customer, Our aim is to provide convenient, fast and solution-focused support at all times. To this end, we offer a wide range of services: • Unlimited web support: As a registered MAGIX customer, you have unlimited access to web support offered via the convenient MAGIX service portal on http://support.magix.net, including an intelligent help assistant, high-quality FAQs, patches and user reports that are constantly updated.
Mail (North America): MAGIX Customer Service, 1105 Terminal Way #302, Reno, NV 89502, USA Please make sure you have the following information at hand: • Program version • Configuration details (operating system, processor, memory, hard drive, etc.
Getting Help About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Choose "HELP" > "ABOUT MAGIX PAGE & LAYOUT DESIGNER 2013". This displays general information about the program. If you contact the support, you may be asked for this information. Tooltips When you move over a button, the tooltip tells you the function of the button.
Getting Started This section gives an overview of the main functionality of Page & Layout Designer. Later sections go into more detail about each tool. Program Layout Info Bar - changes with each tool Zoom Designs Gallery Page & Layer Gallery Selector Tool Photo Editing Tool Drawing tools Text Tool Shadow Tool Color line Tabs for all open documents - icon identifies document type. www.xara.
Getting Started Objects On The Page Whether you customize a template or create your own graphics from scratch, you can rotate, resize and position anything on the page, anywhere you like. You can easily resize the page to be any required size and add new pages as required. Certain features, such as changing color schemes, work across all pages simultaneously.
You can also create text columns, by clicking and dragging horizontally in the Text Tool, or text boxes by dragging horizontally. See the Text section (on page 36) below for more details and the Chapter Text Handling (on page 178) for a complete reference of text functions of MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 You can use the drawing tools to create rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles and ellipses, and just about any shape you like using the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL .
Getting Started Page & Layout Designer provides vector drawing tools, which means you can resize, edit the outline shape and re-color with no loss of quality. You can zoom in to see almost infinite detail, and all edits can be undone. For details on drawing rectangles/squares, circles/ellipses and other shapes, see Drawing Lines and Shapes and Shape Handling. The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL allows you to create detailed vector based shapes, and also to edit the outline of any shape.
This allows you to use existing objects as a ‘palette’ of available styles. Click an object to select it, then draw new objects in that style. You can turn off this behavior in the GENERAL TAB (on page 346) of the "UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS" dialog. Select the GIVE NEW OBJECTS MOST RECENT ATTRIBUTES checkbox. Now the current attributes will only change when you set them manually, as described above.
Getting Started Fill Tool You can easily put a graduated color fill onto a shape using this tool (and a lot more besides). Select the tool and just drag across your object. The fill arrow can be adjusted by dragging the ends to alter the direction, angle and extent of the graduation. Rounded rectangle with a graduated fill. Note: If you drag with the FILL TOOL across a grouped item, such as a text panel, then everything in the group takes on the same fill style.
Transparency Tool You can adjust the transparency of any graphic or photo to make it see-through. More than this, Page & Layout Designer supports graduated transparency. It works very like the graduated color fill. In the Transparency tool just drag across your shape and you can see the transparency fades. You can adjust the degree of transparency of each end of the fill arrow, by clicking on either end of the arrow, and adjusting the Transparency slider.
Getting Started The SHADOW TOOL lets you add a soft shadow to any object, text, graphics or photo. Select the SHADOW TOOL and just drag on the object. You can adjust the shadow blur and transparency using InfoBar controls. Some text with a soft shadow. To adjust the position of an existing shadow, go into the SHADOW TOOL and drag on the shadow.
The Selector Tool This tool is a general purpose tool that allows you to select, move, resize and rotate all objects on your page. You can do all these things by just dragging on the objects on the page, or on the selection handles around the object, or you can enter precise numeric values. The selected object is shown with 8 handles around the outside, and the status line at the bottom of the screen also tells you what is selected. Drag on any corner handle to resize an object.
Getting Started You can enter numeric values into any field. e.g. to reduce the size of an object by 20% you can enter 80% into the W field (which is a % size). The little padlock selects whether both the width and height change together. Copying Objects You can use the usual "EDIT" > "COPY" ("Ctrl + C") and "EDIT" > "PASTE" ("Ctrl + V") options or right click an object and choose COPY , but a really quick way to copy any item is drag on it with the right mouse button.
The Designs Gallery The Designs Gallery contains thousands of professionally designed graphics and templates. This includes small pieces of graphical ‘clipart’ you can drag onto any page design, whole page templates or complete multi-page templates for newspapers, flyers, brochures, calendars, etc. Opening the Gallery By default the Designs Gallery is available as a flyout near the top right corner of the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 window.
Getting Started To open a folder in the gallery, click the folder icon, or double click on the folder name. To open a design as a new document, double click on the design thumbnail. To import a design into your current open document, drag it from the gallery onto your page. If it’s a whole page template, a new page will be added to your document, after the currently selected page.
You can delete pages using the same EDIT > PAGES menu or the flyout bar. Or right click a page and choose CUT PAGE . You can also use the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (on page 149) to add, delete or duplicate pages. Theme Colors Most templates use a small set of theme colors, and various shades of those theme colors (also referred to as 'Named colors').
Getting Started When editing a color you can drag the eye dropper to pick colors off screen, even from other open windows Select the color to edit: Fill color/Line color of the selected object or any of the named theme colors Click the label icon to create a Named Color Click to show extended color controls Previous Color Actual color Drag here to select any shade of the selected hue Drag here to select any hue The Color Editor provides easy way of choosing any color.
first. You can do this by holding "Ctrl" down when clicking on the object in the SELECTOR TOOL . Another way of directly selecting the photo is to click on it in the PHOTO TOOL . Page Background Color To set the page background color, right click a page, choose CHANGE PAGE BACKGROUND and click a color in the COLOR EDITOR . Alternatively you can drag a color from the Color Line over the page and drop it on an empty part of the page.
Getting Started If you create the main green color as a named color, and then make a lighter or darker shade of the color, as a linked shade, when you now edit the named color the shades change as well, so you get simple re-coloring of complex shaded objects. To create a linked shade, open the extra controls in the Color Editor and select the 'NORMAL COLOR ' drop-down menu and choose 'SHADE OF ANOTHER COLOR '. Click this button to reveal the extra controls.
Photos You can replace any photo by dragging and dropping it from your File Explorer onto any photo in Page & Layout Designer. If you drop it onto the background then it is imported and placed on the page where you dropped it. All imported photos are shown as 500 pixels wide, but you can of course change this to be any size in the usual way with the SELECTOR TOOL . Drag and drop your photo over any existing picture to replace it.
Getting Started Drag on photo to re-position inside its frame. Drag on end of arrows to resize and rotate. The Photo Tool The Photo Tool provides a range of ways to enhance and crop any photo. To crop a photo, just drag across the photo while in the ENHANCE PHOTO TOOL . You can adjust the crop edges by dragging on the crop handles around the outside of the photo. Or use the CLIP TOOL for more control over crops.
Text You can edit the text by selecting the TEXT TOOL and clicking on the text. You have all the usual word processing facilities, and can paste text from the system clipboard. Double click will select a word, triple click will select a whole line - which can be useful for selecting all the text in a button. As usual the InfoBar provides a wide range of controls for this tool. Alternatively you can right click within text and choose ADVANCED TEXT PROPERTIES .
Getting Started The font menu offers live font selection. As you traverse the menu, the selected text changes font allowing you to immediately preview what the font will look like in the document. Creating New Text Objects There are three types of text object - a single line of text, a column of text or a rectangular text area. To create a simple line of text, select the TEXT TOOL and then you can click anywhere on the background and start typing.
Anchored Objects If you want a graphical object to appear next to a particular part of a block of text, you can anchor the object to the text so it moves with it. Right click the object and choose ANCHOR TO TEXT. Using the SELECTOR TOOL click and drag the anchor symbol that appears in the top left of the object to the location in the text where you would like the object anchored. Now if you edit or move the text, the anchored object moves with the anchor point.
Getting Started Layers As mentioned earlier all objects have a stacking order on the page - from the backmost to the frontmost item. These objects are stacked over each other. In addition, all items can be placed into named layers. Each layer can have any number of objects, and has the ability to be turned on or off. When the layer is turned off all objects on that layer become invisible. The layers are controlled from the PAGES & LAYER GALLERY on the Galleries bar to the right of the workspace.
Document handling Starting a new document Choose FILE > NEW This opens a sub menu with several pre-defined but blank template documents to start from. You’ll find a range of blank templates under the FILE > NEW menu for creating them. Primarily, there are two different types of documents in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. Icon Document type Print Photo Menu option A4 PORTRAIT A4 LANDSCAPE US LETTER BLANK PHOTO Use for..
Document handling • Or to open a recently used file, select it from "FILE" > "OPEN RECENT" • Or select "FILE" > "OPEN" (shortcut "Ctrl + O"). • Or click the OPEN button on the standard control bar. The open dialog will be displayed. The dialog allows multiple file selection, "Ctrl + click" to select several files or "Shift + click" to select a range of files.
InfoBar This is a special control bar. Its contents change when you select different tools. InfoBars specific to certain tools are described in their relevant chapters. You cannot customize the InfoBar. The InfoBar for the Selector Tool Main toolbar This is a control bar that initially contains all the tools available in Page & Layout Designer (see left). You can customize the toolbar, or move tools to other control bars.
Document handling The status line Selected objects Available options Indicators Mouse pointer X-Y This appears at the bottom of the window. The status line tells you about the selected objects, available options, live drag/snapping indicators, and the X/Y position of the pointer. The indicators These appear on the right of the status line: Live drag indicator This indicator shows whether live drag is active or not (it is active by default). Double click the indicator to toggle live drag on/off.
Normal/full screen modes In normal screen mode part of the window is occupied by the title bar, menu bar, and scroll bars. This can be inconvenient if you want the maximum possible editing area. Page & Layout Designer has a second screen mode, fullscreen, which displays a more streamlined screen. You can configure each screen mode as you wish. For example, each can have its own configuration of the control bars. The configuration is remembered and applies whenever you swap between screen modes.
Document handling • Or press "Alt + Z" to toggle between the current tool and the ZOOM TOOL . • Or press and hold down "Alt + Z" to temporarily swap to the ZOOM TOOL (release "Alt + Z" to return to the previous tool). • Or press "Shift + F7" to select the ZOOM TOOL . Changing the zoom value using the mouse If you have a mouse wheel: • Hold "Ctrl" and scroll your mouse wheel to change the zoom level. You can also configure a mouse button to zoom in or out.
Shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + Z". Click the ZOOM TO SELECTION button. The selected object or objects fill the window. Type a value into the text box. Press "" to implement the change, or select preset zoom values including those above (page, drawing, selected, previous) in the drop-down menu. Sliding the document within the window The quickest and easiest way to move around the document is to use the middle mouse button (normally the mouse wheel) if you have one.
Document handling 2. Choose the required paper size. "Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345)" has full details of the options dialog box. Paper size You can either choose the CUSTOM option from the paper size list and then enter the width and height, or choose a standard size. Attention: If you plan to print your design in a printing company please put attention to the Bleed setting as well! Orientation • Portrait orientation displays the longest sides vertically.
Outer margin This lets you set the width of the pasteboard around the page or spread. Bleed To produce format filling print results printing shops use a larger format paper and crop it to the target format after it has been printed. Due to mechanical tolerances inaccuracies can happen while this process. For this reason, printing shops recommend including an additional "safe area" around the actual print motif. This is often referred to as the "bleed".
Document handling make sure that all important page elements are a safe distance from the page borders. This distance should have at least the size of the bleed area. The background image was extended to the end of the bleed area (red frame) and the header was made smaller. If a cropping error does occur, the background will still cover the entire format and the heading will not be affected. Double page spread Your illustration may run across two facing pages in a multi-page publication.
Double page spreads in multi-page documents Your illustration may run across two facing pages. This is called a doublepage spread. Single Double page You can have single pages or double-page spreads in your multi-page document, as illustrated above, but only one or the other within a document. To switch between single or double-page spreads, right click the page and choose "PAGE OPTIONS" , and then check or uncheck the "DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD" option.
Document handling Note: it is possible for objects to overlap the pages of a spread (i.e. on pages 1 and 2 in the illustration above) but not over separate pages or spreads (i.e. 1 and 3; if you did want to do this, you would need to copy the object from page1 and paste it on to page 3 so that it appears there as well). The current page If you click a page in a multi-page document it will become the current page.
The new page will be the same as the original page, including its size and orientation, and will include all its content so that you can use it as a template for new content. You can also use the Menu items under "EDIT" > "PAGES" In addition, the standard toolbar has a flyout bar which allows you to add, duplicate and delete pages quickly. Hold the mouse pointer over each icon in the bar to see a tooltip for each available operation.
Document handling Duplicate a page To create a copy of the current page after the page, right click the page and choose "DUPLICATE CURRENT PAGE" . You can also use this toolbar button: The new page will be the same as the original page, including its size and orientation, and will include all its content so that you can use it as a template for new content. You can also duplicate a page using the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY . Select the page in the Page & Layer Gallery and click the DUPLICATE button.
Removing pages from your document To delete the current page from your document right click and choose "DELETE CURRENT PAGE/DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD" or to cut the current page, right click an empty part of the page and choose CUT PAGE . Or select the page in the PAGES & LAYER GALLERY and click the DELETE button. The current page and all its content will be deleted. In the case of a spread, the entire spread will be deleted along with its content.
Document handling Page & Layer Gallery You can also use the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY to conveniently manage the pages in your document. It allows you to view, add, duplicate, delete, re-order and rename pages all from a single view. For more information see PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (on page 149). Saving the document This section covers saving in Page & Layout Designer’s own format (native format). Refer to Importing and Exporting (on page 304) for details of exporting in other formats.
Automatic Backups MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 will optionally save regular backup copies of your open documents while you work. To turn automatic backups on or off, open the "UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS" dialog and choose the BACKUPS tab. Backup open documents To turn backups on select this checkbox and choose how often you would like backups to be taken.
Document handling Backup location User the BROWSE button if you want to change the folder where your backups are stored. You can access the backup documents saved here at any time using the "FILE" > "OPEN RECENT" > "BACKUPS" menu option. This opens a file dialog onto your backup folder so that you can browse, open, or delete any of your backup files. Revisions By default up to 10 revisions of each design are kept in your backups folder, but you can choose to change this number in the revisions field.
Recovering from abnormal program closures If you have automatic backups turned on and the program closes abnormally (perhaps due to a power failure for example) the program should detect this when it is next restarted. It will then offer you the chance to restore the most recent backup version of each document that was open at the time of the last backup. Abnormal closure will not be detected if no automatic backup completed since the last normal program closure.
Document handling You can even use this to align the centers of objects, or align objects to the center of the page, or align them horizontally and vertically anywhere in the middle of the page or edge of the page. To toggle object snapping, click the SNAP TO OBJECTS button or right click and choose "SNAP TO" > "SNAP TO OBJECTS" . You can also choose "WINDOW" > "SNAP TO GRID" . Refer to Object Handling for details on snapping to grid and snapping to objects. Rulers Rulers are turned off by default.
Changing the ruler zero points It is often easier to measure objects if you align the origin (0,0) point of the rulers with the object. To move the origin (0,0) point, drag the square at the intersection of the two rulers. You can drag vertically or horizontally along the rulers or over any part of the Page & Layout Designer editing window. As you do, a dotted line will outline the new position. This also moves the grid origin so that divisions on the ruler always align with the grid.
Document handling Changing the default display units Display the options dialog box. If necessary, click the units tab. Font units are used for text sizes. Page units are used for other measurements. Creating a new unit You may want to specify measurements in units not provided as standard. For example, racecourses are measured in furlongs (220 yards). Or a financial diagram may use US$. Display the OPTIONS dialog box. If necessary, click the UNITS tab. 1. 2. 3. 4. Click NEW UNIT.
1. 2. Choose the unit you want to delete from the UNIT DEFINITION list. Click DELETE UNIT. Applying a scaling factor For example, you may want to specify dimensions in kilometers when drawing a map. You can apply a 1:10,000 scaling factor to kilometers. A line 10cm long on the map is reported as a dimension of 1km. 1. 2. 3. Choose "Utilities -> Options". If necessary, click the SCALING tab. Select USE SCALE FACTOR . Type in the appropriate scaling. For example, 10cm to 1km.
Document handling OUTLINE ONLY . This is now fully anti-aliased for higher quality screen display. OUTLINE WITH BLEND STEPS. FULL COLOR (no anti-aliasing). HIGH QUALITY (full anti-aliasing and image smoothing) VERY HIGH QUALITY Bi-cubic photo display considerably improves the quality of scaled down photos. The default quality level is VERY HIGH QUALITY which means the document is displayed on screen exactly as it will be printed (except that the monitor is lower resolution than a printer.
Galleries MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 uses galleries to provide convenient access to external libraries of content like templates, fonts, colors, clip-art, line attributes, and bitmaps/photos. This section of the manual gives general information on features which are common to multiple galleries. Individual sections of this manual describe features specific to a particular gallery.
Document handling Displaying a gallery To display a gallery: 1. 2. 3. Click or hover the mouse pointer over the vertical tab for the gallery to the right of the workspace (the gallery bar). The gallery opens automatically. When you move the mouse pointer away from the gallery, it automatically closes. To keep a gallery open while you work, click the Auto Hide (pin) button in its top right corner.
To move a gallery: 1. 2. Open a gallery and click the Auto Hide button to pin the gallery. The button changes to a downward-pointing pin to indicate that the gallery can be moved and pinned elsewhere. Click and drag on the gallery’s title bar to move it around. You can either leave the gallery ‘free floating’ anywhere in the workspace or dock it in a new location. If you move any of the following galleries, the others accompany it as a group.
Document handling Example of a gallery that has been docked to the left of the workspace To dock a gallery: 1. 2. 3. 4. Click and drag the gallery to the arrow pointing towards the location where you want to place the gallery. For example, if you want the gallery at the top of the screen, move it to the upward pointing arrow at the top of the workspace. When the mouse pointer reaches the arrow, a gray transparent box highlights the gallery’s new location. Let go of the mouse button to dock the gallery.
Example of a gallery group with gallery tabs at the bottom - click and drag to add a gallery to or remove a gallery from the group. To group galleries: • Disable the AUTO HIDE button (pin) on one of the following galleries: Bitmap, Line, Fill, Font, Color and Name gallery.The gallery is automatically grouped with the other five galleries, displayed as tabs at the bottom of the group. Click on a tab to open a gallery in the group.
Document handling 2. you want to add over the group you want to add it to, the four docking arrows now appear in the center of the gallery group. Drag the gallery to the center of the arrows within the group. The gallery is added to the group and its tab displayed at the bottom of the group. When you dock a gallery group, all galleries within the group are also docked. To remove a gallery from the group, click its tab and drag to move it away.
The buttons along the top depend on the gallery (e.g. FILL and TRANSP are specific to the BITMAP GALLERY .) However, most galleries have these buttons: APPLY applies the selected item in the gallery. Click on an item to select it. MORE opens a menu where you can then choose: • • • is described later in searching for an item name. SORT is described later in re-ordering items in a gallery. PROPERTIES provides control over size of the icons and amount of information displayed in the gallery.
Document handling 1. 2. 3. 4. Copy the files you want to add into a new directory (folder) using the Windows Explorer. For the DESIGNS GALLERY these files can be any of a wide range of vector or bitmap file types. - For the FILL GALLERY they can be any of the bitmap formats supported by Page & Layout Designer (listed in importing and exporting (on page 304)). - For the FONTS GALLERY they can be Adobe Type 1 or TrueType fonts. In the appropriate gallery, click the "DISC DESIGNS /FILLS /FONTS" button.
Note: To remove a gallery completely, choose GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the gallery you want removed. Moving content from previous versions of MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Sometimes when MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is updated from one version to another, some content is dropped from the Designs Gallery to make space for new content.
Document handling • Choose GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the gallery you want removed. The selected gallery disappears from your workspace. If you want to reinstate a gallery, choose GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the gallery you want to reinstate. • Choose CONTROL BARS from the WINDOW menu and scroll down the list of available control bars to find GALLERIES . Click the GALLERIES box to show the Galleries toolbar. Click CLOSE .
With the commands on the buttons you manipulate names, for some commands to work, a name, a property like color or font and/or an object has to be selected: • • • • • • • • is used to give names to objects. opens the NAMES dialog (on page 75) to apply a new or existing name to the selected object(s). DELETE deletes a name from the NAME GALLERY and from any objects using that name. INTERSECT selects the objects that have all the selected items (name, font, bitmap or color).
Document handling options, and that it doesn't save a bitmap; do this by exporting the image with the MORE > EXPORT option. (Extension displayed depends on the file format chosen.) Click the box to open the according "Export dialog (on page 333)" to specify more details. Click "APPLY" to store the selected options.
• Record information about the objects, e.g. what they are used for; • Select the objects. This is particularly useful if the objects are widely separated in the drawing or in a complicated drawing. One click and you can select just those objects that share a name; • For linked stretching where one named object can automatically stretch another named object. For example, changing the text over a colored background shape can automatically change the size of the shape.
Document handling Undo and Redo The undo command "UNDO" cancels the effects of the last operation. To undo an operation: • Click UNDO on the standard control bar. • Or choose "EDIT" > "UNDO" (the exact wording tells you what the next undo step is, i.e. undo scale). • Or press "Ctrl + Z". • Or press the comma key (in any tool except the TEXT TOOL ). You can repeat the undo command to step back through the sequence of previous operations. The redo command Redo cancels the last undo command.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Drawing a line or shape You can use any of these tools to draw lines and shapes: • The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL ("F3"). • The STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL • The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL ("F4"). The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL is the easiest way to draw simple lines, curves, and shapes, and it acts rather like a pencil. The STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL is best if you want to draw single segment straight lines, or add arrow heads and tails to any types of lines.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Low values make the line follow your mouse movement more closely by creating more control points, and higher values produce smoother curves with fewer control points. Low values are less smooth Higher values produce a smoother curve You can change the smoothing at any time until you make further edits to the line (the re-fit indicator on the InfoBar tells you when you can still change the smoothing.
Editing lines/shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool You cannot directly modify shapes created by the Quickshape, Rectangle, or Ellipse Tools. First convert them to editable shapes using "ARRANGE" > "CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPES ". See "Shape handling (on page 142)" for more information. You can use the FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL to edit lines (or outlines of shapes) by simply redrawing the section of line you want to replace. For example: To edit the object: Select the object that you wish to edit.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Trace mode Trace mode helps you to draw lines which follow visible edges in photo images. For most photos it’s best to turn smoothing down from the default value, so that the line more closely follows complex edges with less smoothing of the line as you draw. Trace mode on/off Turn on trace mode using the toggle button on the infobar. Draw with the Freehand tool over a photo and you should see that the line tries to follow edges in the image.
Once you’ve cut out a piece of a photo, it’s often a good idea to apply a small amount of feather to blur the edge slightly. Brush styles The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL can also be used to apply different brush stroke styles along the path of the line. Instead of being a solid, fixed-width line, you can change it to be a variable-width line, or one of a near-infinite range of fancy brush styles, like airbrush, felt tip marker, and many more.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Reverse path Press the REVERSE PATH button on the infobar to switch around the head and tail of the selected line. The Shape Editor tool The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL is the main tool used for both creating precise curves, lines, and shapes, as well as editing or altering lines and shapes.
The sections or segments of a line are marked by small black point handles. You can drag, add and delete these handles to manipulate the shape of the line or outline. Some objects such as quickshapes, rectangles, ellipses, and text have to be converted into editable shapes before you can use the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL on them. Select the "ARRANGE" > "CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPE" menu ("Ctrl + Shift + S") to do this. To draw a straight line segment Using the SHAPE EDITOR Tool, start a straight line: 1. 2.
Drawing Lines and Shapes 3. Either click or drag (as described for straight lines) to create a second point handle, and a curve segment will be added to the line. A curve segment has CURVE HANDLES associated with the selected point handle. You can drag these to adjust the angle and radius of the curve. Extending the line Make sure an end point handle is the selected handle (red outline) and then just click again to add a new line or curve section.
2. Position the pointer and click to add a new section. To the middle of a line: Make sure the line is selected, then; 1. Click on the line to add a new point handle into the line Drag the point handle to the required position. 2. To the start of a line: If the end point is selected, clicking on the start point closes the shape (this is described in "Closing a shape (on page 133)” ). To add a new control handle to the start of a line: 1. 2. 3. Finish the line using "Shift + click".
Drawing Lines and Shapes Deleting points Select the point handle(s) as described above and either click the DELETE POINTS button (SHAPE EDITOR TOOL InfoBar), or press "Del". Moving point handles—Shape Editor Tool You can move one or more selected handles: • Drag the handles using the mouse. • Or use the arrow keys on the keyboard. Or to move a single handle, type new values into the text boxes on the InfoBar (see below).
Length and angle for straight line Position of selected point Position of curve handle Smoothing a line Imported shapes or shapes from tracers may have unnecessary points on a line. Lines with too many points can be unwieldy and can slow down rendering. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 can smooth the line to remove unnecessary points. Select all the points on the part of the line you want to smooth (see above).
Drawing Lines and Shapes Changing curves Using the curve handle Dragging the curve handle will adjust the curvature of the adjoining curve segments. Move the curve handle towards or away from the point handle to pull the curve in the required direction. Dragging the line segment You can also change the curve by dragging the line segment between points. Notice the difference between dragging the line to change its shape, and clicking on the line to add a new point handle.
Click the SMOOTH JOIN button, or "S". The two curve handles become linked and move to opposite sides of the point handle. This may change the shape of the curve. Balancing curves Balancing makes the two curve handles the same distance from the point handle, which gives smoother, more symmetrical curves. To balance a curve, select the point handle, then drag one of the curve handles with "Shift" held down.
Drawing Lines and Shapes into the SELECTOR Tool, "Shift + click" to select the second line, then "Alt + S" again to return to the SHAPE EDITOR Tool). Selecting objects is described fully in "Selecting objects (on page 98)". Once both objects are selected, in the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL or the PEN TOOL , drag the end handle of one line over the end of the other line. As you drag the mouse pointer will show a + symbol to indicate that the lines will be joined..
If you split a line, there is no visible change. However, if you move the point handle, then only part of the line moves. If you split a shape, it changes to being a line. Any fill disappears. Note: "Slice shapes" (part of "ARRANGE" > "COMBINE SHAPES ") also lets you split shapes into two separate shapes. This is described in "Shape handling (on page 136)".
Drawing Lines and Shapes Variable width lines From the FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL InfoBar you can select a drop-down menu that shows a selection of alternative variable line thickness profiles. As you move the mouse over the selection, an enlarged preview is shown on the right. Selecting one of the styles will change the line (or outline of a shape) from being a constant thickness line, to a variable thickness. This is great for creating pen and ink style artwork, and is often used in the creation of cartoons.
The LINE GALLERY is split into sections. To open or close any section, click on the small folder icon in the gallery window. Line Width Join type Line cap To apply any line style or attribute from the gallery you can: • Drag and drop the required style from the gallery onto the shape or line. • Or double click on the required style in the gallery. • Or select the style and then click the APPLY button. Line width The text box at the top of the gallery duplicates that on the standard control bar.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Arrowheads The best way to apply an arrowhead is to use the STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL (on page 82), as described earlier in this chapter. However you can also use the line gallery. Drag and drop the arrowhead from the gallery onto the appropriate end of the line. Alternatively, to apply an arrowhead: • Double click on the arrowhead in the gallery. • Or select the required arrowhead and click APPLY . Page & Layout Designer has two types of arrowhead designs: beginning and end.
To change an existing line, select the line. To change the default line cap, deselect all lines. Select the required type from the menu. Brushes Brush strokes control the appearance of lines (for example, to apply an air-brush effect). Select a brush preset Select a preset for a stroke shape/pressure profile Using an existing brush To use an existing brush type for a line: 1. 2. 3. Click to select an existing brush.
Drawing Lines and Shapes Brushes are stored in the document. If you want to re-use a brush in another document, you have to load the document containing your custom brush first. Only the default brushes are always available. Editing a brush To access advanced editing options for a brush: 1. 2. Select the brush that you wish to edit. Click EDIT BRUSH . Here you can alter: • • • • • • SPACING : Gap between the objects in the brush.
Selecting Objects The Selector Tool The SELECTOR Tool is the main tool for selecting, moving, scaling, and rotating objects. It is typically used more than any other tool and is the central tool for manipulating documents.
Selecting Objects The InfoBar All the buttons on the InfoBar are described in the following sections except: • • • which is described in "Drawing lines". SHOW FILL HANDLES which is described in "Fills". APPLY, REMOVE OR INSPECT NAMES OF OBJECTS which is described in "Document handling (on page 75)". SHOW EDIT HANDLES The first two buttons let you edit the outlines and fills of objects without the need to switch tools.
the way selection works in other applications, whereby the objects touching the rectangle outline also become selected. Hold down "CTRL" while dragging to include those objects touching the selection rectangle in the selection. The "UTILITIES -> OPTIONS " (on page 346) dialog (General Tab) enables you to change the default setting for marquee selection. So you can choose to have objects touching the selection rectangle selected, without having to hold down "Ctrl" during the drag.
Selecting Objects want to select. This also works in conjunction "Shift" for extend selection (on page 100) and "Ctrl" for select inside (on page 100). Moving objects selected under or inside If you need to move a selected object that’s either under others or inside a group, then just dragging doesn’t work as it will select and drag a different object. To overcome this hold "Ctrl + Alt" and start dragging. This will always drag the existing selected object.
Double-click shortcuts to tools For some types of object, double-clicking on them will take you into the tool which is most applicable to that object. So for example if you want to edit some text, double click on it to go into the Text Tool, so you can start editing it immediately.
Object Handling Object Handling Moving objects To slide an object across the page 1. 2. Choose the SELECTOR TOOL . Drag the object to the required position. Hold down "Ctrl" to restrict the direction of movement to one of the constrain angles. The constrain angles are user definable. Refer to "Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345)" Hold down "Ctrl + Alt" and you can drag the selected object even if the pointer is not over it.
You can also hold down the right mouse button and drag a copy of the object. Left click to leave a copy at the current mouse position. Fills Usually, moving an object also moves the fill with it: Normal move left to right with a linear filled object. This also applies to rotating, skewing, scaling and stretching objects. Page & Layout Designer can also move the object but not the fill origin. To do this click the "−" key on the numeric keypad during the move.
Object Handling 2. 3. To remove the object, choose "EDIT" > "CUT" (or "Ctrl + X"). To copy the object but not remove it, choose "EDIT" > "COPY " (or "Ctrl + C"). Either option puts the object (or a copy of it) onto the clipboard. Choose "EDIT" > "PASTE", "Ctrl + V", or "INSERT". This pastes the clipboard contents into the document.
If multiple items have been copied to the clipboard, Page & Layout Designer treats them as if they are a group and moves the currently selected object to the position of the copied group as a whole. The currently selected object is pasted or moved into the center position of the copied object or group of objects. Paste size This option applies the size of a copied object on the clipboard to a currently selected object, which resizes around its center to the exact size of the copied object.
Object Handling Deleting objects Right click and choose DELETE or choose DELETE from the EDIT menu, or press the "Delete" key, or click the DELETE button on the STANDARD control bar. In this case the deleted objects are not put onto the clipboard. If you accidentally delete an object, undo retrieves it. Duplicating and cloning Both these options create a copy of the selected object. The original object is deselected and the duplicate or clone becomes the selected object.
Cloning Choose "Edit" > "Clone", or press "Ctrl + K". This places a copy exactly on top of the original. Cloning is an easy way to create concentric shapes. This example uses an original large letter "A" with a black fill and a 4pt thick white outline and a clone with no fill and a 1pt black line. Moving objects forward and backwards Complex documents have objects stacked on top of each other, such as this target: The target on the left is made from three circles stacked on top of each other.
Object Handling And you can change the stacking order of objects using the Page & Layer Gallery by simply dragging them up and down. So for example in the target design, dragging the blue circle in the Page & Layer Gallery, and dropping it above the green circle will bring the blue circle to the front. The ARRANGE menu gives you four options: • BRING TO FRONT ("Ctrl + F"): This makes the selected object the front object, and it will hide any other object it covers.
Rotating objects This is part of the SELECTOR Tool. When in rotate mode, the transformation center (around which the object rotates) initially appears in the center of the object, as shown by a small target like this. Simply click on a object again to put the selector into rotate mode, or click the ROTATION HANDLES button on the InfoBar. To move the transformation center: • Drag the transformation center target where required. • Or use the 3x3 matrix on the InfoBar for accurate positioning.
Object Handling Hold down "Ctrl" to restrict rotation to the constrain angles. Note that the set of constrain angles includes those rotations which align the object with the screen. This makes it very easy to ‘straighten’ any object with a straight edge – just hold down the Ctrl key and rotate until the object snaps to the screen-aligned rotation you want. The constrain angles are user definable. Refer to "Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 347)".
Scaling (resizing) objects This is part of the SELECTOR TOOL . Scale Line Widths button The SCALE LINE WIDTHS button on the SELECTOR TOOL infobar is used in many operations where the width and height of the selected objects are important. It controls whether the line attributes (not just line widths) are taken into account when working out the size and position of the selected object(s). With the SCALE LINE WIDTHS button set, scaling an object also scales its line widths.
Object Handling Lock Aspect button With the LOCK ASPECT button set, the width/height aspect ratio remains constant as you scale the object. In other words, the shape remains in the same proportions as the original. It’s recommended that this button remains selected most of the time in order to ensure that when you resize objects they do not become squashed.
If LOCK ASPECT is set, you can type into either text box to resize the object by the desired percentage. If this button is unset, you can enter separate values for both the width and height. Alternatively, type the required size of the object into the W or H text boxes. If the LOCK ASPECT button is on, this scales the object and maintains the aspect ratio. You can enter the size in any unit, such as 1 cm. Scaling with the InfoBar buttons (or number boxes) always scales around the transformation center.
Object Handling Snap to grid When SNAP TO GRID is selected, grid points act like magnets. Right click on the pasteboard and choose "SNAP TO" > "SNAP TO GRID" or use the menu option "WINDOW" > "SNAP TO GRID" , (or press "." (decimal point) on the numeric keypad). You can control the grid spacing from the options dialog (right click and choose PAGE OPTIONS or use the menu command "UTILITIES " > "OPTIONS ") on the Grid and Ruler tab. When dragging objects the edges will snap to grid points.
With scale line widths on, the width of the outline is deemed to be important and so ‘snap to grid’ will snap the bounds of objects, including outlines, to the grid. Snap to objects will allow you to snap using the bounds or the outline center lines. If the outlines as they appear on screen are small, so there is little difference between these two snapping positions, bounds snaps are favored. So zoom in if you want to snap outline centers in this case.
Object Handling Snap indicators are shown whenever a snap occurs. That is whenever a point of interest on the object you are dragging comes in range of a point of interest in the document (which could be on another object or be part of the page). Page & Layout Designer snaps to the point of interest and the mouse pointer changes to show a magnet symbol so you know a snap has happened. Also further indications are shown dynamically on screen to help you see what snap has occurred.
point value larger than the line value, so that it's easier to snap to the end points of lines. Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345) has full details of the Options dialog. Snapping modes You can change the behavior of snap to objects while dragging by tapping a key to toggle different modes on and off. These mode changes are effective only for the duration of the current drag. S G A Toggle ‘snap to objects’ on and off. This temporarily overrides the Windows>Snap to objects setting.
Object Handling Note: When snapping text to text, the baseline of the text is favored over any other snaps that are within snapping distance. This makes it easy to vertically align one text object to another with matching baselines, which is normally more useful than snapping the centers or bounding boxes of text for example. Guide Objects and Guidelines Guide objects and guidelines are objects on a special layer, the guides layer.
and MOVE TO LAYER BEHIND on the ARRANGE menu (or right click and choose "ARRANGE" > "MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT/BEHIND") will skip the guides layer and so cannot be used to move objects onto the guides layer. MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT Creating a guideline Guidelines are vertical or horizontal lines and are a quick and easy way to align a series of objects on the page. • Turn rulers on ("Ctrl + L"). • Drag from a ruler onto the page.
Object Handling To create a group 1. 2. Select all the objects you want in the group. Right click and choose GROUP or choose GROUP from the ARRANGE menu (or "Ctrl + G") to create the group. Ungrouping objects 1. 2. Select the group. Right click and choose UNGROUP or choose UNGROUP from the ARRANGE menu (or "Ctrl + U"). After this, all the individual objects in the group remain selected. To add more objects to a group 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the group. Ungroup ("Ctrl + U") Select the extra objects.
Selecting inside If you hold down Ctrl and click on an object in the Selector tool, that object will be selected even if it’s inside one or more groups. That’s called a "select inside" operation. Also some tools will let you directly select objects relevant to them inside groups, just by clicking on them. For example in the Photo Tool you can just click on a photo to select it, even if it’s in a group.
Object Handling Similarly a group can’t contain multiple pages and so any pages you add while editing will be ignored and lost when you save back – only the first page is relevant. The Automatic Backup facility does not save modifications to open sub-documents. Only the parent main document is saved when a scheduled backup runs, in its current state without the unsaved group edits. For this reason it’s recommended that you save group edits back to the parent document regularly.
Removing Soft Groups To disband a Soft Group, select it and choose “ARRANGE" > "REMOVE SOFT GROUP ” (or press “Ctrl + Alt +U”). The objects don’t get deleted, they are just no longer linked together by a Soft Group. Text Synchronization Any text objects which have the same text value and which are members of the same Soft Group are kept synchronized if any of those text objects are edited.
Object Handling The small diagram at the top of the dialog box shows you the effect of selecting each option. The selected objects in the document do not change until you click APPLY . The alignment dialog is a non-modal dialog, which means you can keep it on screen and continue to work on the document at the same time. So you can change tools, draw, and change your object selection, and then easily select from the various alignment options.
PAGE(S) : If the objects are on a single page, the boundaries are the edges of the page. (This lets you, for example, center objects on the page or align against the page edge.) SPREAD : The boundaries are the outer edges of the spread. In most cases, this is the same as page(s) unless you have a double page spread, in which case it will use the bounds of both pages. Aligning To align objects, for example, so their left edges are aligned to the left. 1. 2.
Object Handling • "+ mouse click" leaves the vertical position unchanged and arranges the objects in a left, centrally, or right-aligned column. Distribute The distribute options will position all the selected objects evenly across the "Within" area (usually within the selection bounds, but it could be the page or spread). Again all the distribute options work in a similar way.
Copying Styles: Paste Attributes This lets you copy attributes (such as line pattern or fill color) between objects. It is a quick way of applying multiple attributes to an object. The square has a specific color, shadow, line and fill style. Copying it and then pasting its attributes on to the circle in the middle, results in the circle to the right. 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the object from which you wish to copy the attributes. Copy the selection to the clipboard. ("EDIT" > "COPY", or "Ctrl + C".
Object Handling Select clipping shape This selects only the shape that you used to do the clipping. Effectively this is the ‘window’ through which you see the other object(s) in the clipview. Once it’s selected you can move it around or otherwise transform it, to adjust your clipview. Select clipped objects This selects all the objects in the clipview that are being clipped.
The red box highlights the repeating object symbol, shown on every instance of the repeating object If you don't want a copy of the repeating object on a page, just delete it from that page. When edited, the repeating object is only automatically updated to those pages that already have it. This means you can choose which of the pages in your document should have the repeating object and which should not. If you want a repeating object on just a few pages of a large document, you can: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Object Handling Page & Layout Designer places each repeating object inside a repeating group If you want to edit an item inside this repeating group, press "Ctrl + click" on the item to select it inside (on page 100) the repeating group. Alternatively if you go into a specific tool you can usually click directly on any object that is applicable to that tool and it will be selected inside its repeating group (or any other type of group).
You’ll be asked whether you want to just stop the selected object repeating or all copies of the object in the document. Choose the ALL option. Now the different copies of that object can be independently edited and the next time one is changed it won’t update any of them. Use this if, for example, you’ve used REPEAT ON ALL PAGES to copy an object to all pages of your document, but then you want to make those objects different on each page so that they are no longer tied together.
Shape Handling Shape Handling Closing a shape A shape is a closed object with no start or end handle. Only shapes can be color filled. To close a shape: 1. 2. 3. Create an open object with the end point handle close to the start handle. All the point handles (except the end handle) should be in their required positions. Position the pointer over the end handle. Drag the end handle over the start handle and release the mouse button. The two handles snap together. Or: 1. 2. 3.
Closing a freehand shape You can directly create a closed shape by ending a line back at the beginning over the start handle. A + by the pointer shows when it is positioned over the start handle. Joining shapes "Arrange -> Join shapes" lets you create holes in solid shapes. Because overlapping parts of the same shape are drawn with no fill color (i.e. you can see through the overlapping parts), you can use this effect to create holes in shapes but retain the ability to break them apart later.
Shape Handling The joined shape on the left shows the number of segments which overlap. On the right are the original three circles shown unjoined. Breaking joined shapes Choose "Arrange -> Break shapes". This breaks the joined shape into separate objects, but the original attributes will not be restored to the separated objects. You can also break several joined shapes in one operation.
• The number of overlapping shapes has no effect. Merging several shapes into one For example, to produce the shape on the right from the three shapes on the left: 1. 2. 3. Create the two circles and the rectangle. Select all three shapes. Right click and choose "COMBINE SHAPES" > "ADD SHAPES" . The new shape takes line attributes and colors from the top shape (in this case the rectangle in the illustration).
Shape Handling 1. 2. 3. 4. Create a circle and put a triangle on top. Select them both. Right click and choose "COMBINE SHAPES" > "SLICE (CUT) SHAPES" . The edges of the triangle cut the circle into two shapes. The triangle disappears. You can now drag the segment out from the circle: You can also use a line to cut an object: The line should be drawn completely though the object and extend beyond it (as shown in the illustration). If the line is too short, this operation cuts out a thin slice.
To create the polygon drag: Radius Diameter Bounds creation • From the center outwards (RADIUS button), • Or from an outside edge (DIAMETER button), • Or diagonally to create an imaginary rectangle enclosing the polygon (BOUNDS CREATION button) letting you distort the polygon. Polygons with rounded corners Select the ROUND CORNERS button or double click on a corner point. The polygon has extra handles (radius handles) where the rounding starts.
Shape Handling To move: • Drag the handle in the center of the polygon. • Or use the arrow keys on the keyboard. • Or select "Center" in the EDITABLE ITEMS" menu. Type the required X/Y values into the text boxes. Apply or remove rounded corners by clicking the ROUND CORNERS button. Change the polygon to an ellipse by clicking the CREATE ELLIPSE button (ellipses are described later) or double clicking the polygon's center.
Or double click on a side. Left: polygon with starred off. Right: starred on. Removing stellation Click the STARRED SHAPES button. Or double click on the star handle. Note: double click on the star handle, not the control handle. Editing stars You can edit stars in the same ways as ordinary polygons (described earlier). To increase or decrease the depth of stellation: Drag a star handle or select STELLATION RADIUS & OFFSET on the EDITABLE ITEMS menu. Type the required values into the text boxes.
Shape Handling Creating rectangles and squares To create a rectangle: Use the RECTANGLE TOOL ("Shift + F3", or "M"). Click and drag on the canvas to draw a rectangle. Creating a square To create a square rather than a rectangle, hold down "Ctrl" while dragging. Creating and Editing rounded corner rectangles To give your rectangle rounded corners, select it and then press the “Curved corners” button on the RECTANGLE TOOL infobar.
Radius Diameter Bounds creation With the BOUNDS CREATION button selected, drag on the canvas to draw an ellipse. Hold down "Ctrl" while dragging to create a circle rather than an ellipse. Select the RADIUS option to draw circles. The start point of a drag determines the circle’s center. Select the DIAMETER option. Now the start point of a drag determines the position of the edge of the circle. You can convert an ellipse into a circle at any time by double clicking on a control handle.
Distorting Objects Distorting Objects Stretching and squashing objects This is similar to scaling objects except that the object is scaled in one direction only. Stretching and squashing are basically the same action — stretching makes the object larger, squashing makes it smaller. Stretching/Squashing using the mouse The SELECTOR Tool must be in scale mode. (The selection handles are squares.) If necessary, click on the object to change to scale mode. Drag one of the side handles.
Drag a side arrow to skew the object. As you drag, the object skews in the direction of movement (vertical or horizontal). The InfoBar shows the current skew angle. "Shift + drag" to skew the object around its center. Hold down "Ctrl" to restrict the skew to the constrain angles. Right click, or press "+" on the numeric keypad as you drag to create a copy, leaving the original where it was. Or right-drag with the mouse to create instant copies, additional copies by left clicks.
Distorting Objects Paste envelope mold Perspectivizing Paste perspective mold The InfoBar contains two sets of preset mold shapes. Just click a button to apply the preset mold. The left-hand button in each group is the default "no distortion" mold which you can then manually edit after applying it. Perspective The MOLD TOOL lets you perspectivize shapes to give an impression of depth. You can perspectivize all types of objects including text and bitmaps.
All three object share a common vanishing point at the small cross. The perspective mesh This button paints a faint series of dots in a grid to preview the degree of perspective distortion of an object. Using molds You may want to apply the same perspective to several objects. To do this you create a mold shape, copy it to the clipboard and then use it to perspectivize the other objects.
Distorting Objects 1. 2. 3. Select the object or objects. Select the MOLD TOOL (shortcut "Shift + F6"). Choose one of the envelope options: The right-hand button is similar to paste perspective described earlier. The left-hand button does not initially alter the object. The other buttons immediately alter the object. After applying the mold, to edit it: 1. 2. Drag any of the corner handles. Or click on a corner handle and then drag the curve handles.
Feathering Sometimes you want to blur the edges of an object so it blends, or fades, into a background object. This is called "feathering". An example is merging two bitmaps together when you want to avoid a sharp edge between them. The feather control is on the right side of the top bar. To feather an object: 1. 2. Select the object or objects you want to feather. Either enter a numeric size for the feather into the text box Or Click the arrow to show the pop-up slider.
Page & Layer Gallery Page & Layer Gallery The Page & Layer Gallery By default the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY is displayed open on the right hand side of the Page & Layout Designer window when you open or create a new document. If you prefer, you can unpin, move, dock or close the gallery - see Galleries (on page 64) for more information. If you have previously closed the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY, which is open by default, you can reopen it by clicking the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY tab on the Galleries bar, or press F10.
• Solo a layer - turn all other layers off Object control Display a list of all items (objects) on the page in the stacking order they appear on the page, bottom to top.
Page & Layer Gallery This shows the MouseOff layer has been expanded to show the contents of that layer. This shows a navbar group and other various groups, text line and text column items, and a couple of shadow group items. Hovering the mouse pointer over the tiny thumbnails will display a larger one so you can easily identify each object on the page.
Pages Clicking the PAGES button on the top of the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (or right clicking in the gallery and choosing SHOW PAGE LEVEL ) will open pages mode, displaying only the pages in the document and collapsing all other opened levels. When in pages mode and the gallery is docked, the width of the gallery is reduced to its minimum, to take up as little space as possible. Also the number of buttons at the top of the gallery is cut down to just those applicable to pages.
Page & Layer Gallery You can change the current layer simply by clicking on its row in the PAGE & LAYER It's important to understand that you can have a selected object on any layer or even multiple layers, and these need not be the current layer. The current layer, with the arrow, only indicates where new items will be placed. GALLERY . This example PAGE & LAYER GALLERY shows the current layer is called MouseOff (the current page is called news).
Four layers are hidden (called Holiday photo 4, Holiday photo 3, Holiday photo 1 and MouseOver). The 'Page background' layer is locked. Make the current layer always visible It's possible that the current layer can be hidden or even locked. Just clicking on a layer to select it and making it the current layer does not normally change its visible or locked state.
Page & Layer Gallery You can re-order the layers, that is, the stacking order on the page, by using drag and drop on the layers in the Page & Layer Gallery. You can rename a layer by performing a second (slow) click on the layer name. (The first click would select the layer.) This is very like file renaming in Windows Explorer. Alternatively right click the layer and choose RENAME LAYER . Clicking the small right arrow or double clicking anywhere on the layer row will expand the layer to show its contents.
Creating layers and editing layer properties Using the Layer tab you can: • • • • Create a new layer or edit an existing one. Make the layer editable and visible by default. Define the layer as a page background that will not appear when printed. Specify that all objects in the layer will only repel text objects (on page 192) within the same layer. This prevents text on the layer being repelled by objects in other layers.
Page & Layer Gallery Alternatively you can click the MORE... button and select SHOW ALL ON PAGE option, which un-hides all items on the current page. Locking Layers and Objects Clicking the open padlock icon on the right end of an object or layer row will lock the layer or object (icon changes to a closed padlock ). Now you cannot select this object or any object on that layer. Any clicks on locked items will go straight through it, as if it's not there, and select items underneath.
When either button is selected (the buttons are shown pressed in), then it's not possible to change the state of individual items. Un-select the buttons to enable the normal operation of the layer visibility and locking state. Clicking the MORE button will display menu options to SHOW ALL ON PAGE and UNLOCK ALL ON PAGE . Moving Objects Between Layers There are several ways to move objects between layers.
Color Handling Color Handling MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 gives wide control over applying, creating and altering the colors of objects. For simple documents, you can just choose colors from the on-screen color palette, the Color Line. More advanced color operations are described later. The color line The Color Line is displayed at the bottom of the window.
Colors on the color line NAMED COLORS: First comes the Named Colors with its according Linked Colors (if present in the document, see below). LINKED COLORS are represented differently on the color line by smaller rounded rectangles. When editing templates, to change the color scheme of the design you should only normally edit the Named Colors (large squares) and leave the Linked colors unchanged.
Color Handling If the selected object is a bitmap, the fill and line color options are replaced with SET CONTONE DARK COLOR / SET CONTONE LIGHT COLOR. See Bitmap coloring (on page 217) for more information. When right clicking the “no color” swatch, the fill and line color options are replaced by: CLEAR FILL COLOR / CLEAR LINE COLOR . This sets the selected object's relative attributes to "no color". When applied to a contoned photo/bitmap, this restores the original image colors.
To set a fill or line to no color (clear), perform the operations as outlined above but use the "No color" option instead of a color. Editing an object’s color To edit the fill color of the selected object(s): • • • • Choose "UTILITIES" > "COLOR EDITOR" ("Ctrl + E"). Or click the EDIT COLOR icon on the Color Line. Or right click the object and choose FILL COLOR Or double click on the current line and fill color icon on the Color Line (the edge of the leftmost panel).
Color Handling The Color Editor in detail Shows what you are editing New named color Show/hide advanced options Eye dropper color picker Previous color Current color Color panel (Color model dependent) HSV hue selector Numeric values (Color model dependent) RGB hex color value Color model (HSV, RGB, CMYK or grayscale) 3D editor mode option (only RGB & CMYK) No color patch (only available when editing local color) Make Named Color local to Frame/Layer Rename named color Color editor help Type of color: Nor
Using the eye-dropper to pick colors Instead of selecting hues and shades on the COLOR EDITOR you can instead pick a color from any part of the document or any part of the computer screen—even from other windows and programs. To do this just click and drag on the eye dropper icon. As you drag you see the color editor continuously picks up the color under the eye dropper. Release the mouse button when you have the desired color.
Color Handling Percentages are used by default, but Page & Layout Designer allows you to change which format is used. To do this: 1. 2. 3. Display the UNITS tab of the OPTIONS dialog box (UTILITIES -> OPTIONS ). Click the appropriate radio button in the COLOR UNITS section. Click OK to close the dialog box. The color models Color models let you define a color in terms of different color components. RGB and HSV are typically used for screen use.
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides the ability to simulate how printed colors will look. Select the "WINDOWS -> SHOW PRINTER COLORS -> SIMULATE PRINT COLORS" menu to get a better idea of how your colors will look when printed. This is an approximation only since printers vary slightly, but it is far more accurate than normal screen colors. Local colors and Theme colors Page & Layout Designer has two types of color: • LOCAL COLORS are used in only one place in the document.
Color Handling mixed results doing this and some schemes will not work acceptably with some themes. So for best results stick to the color schemes of the theme that you used to create the site. One of the color schemes provided with each theme matches the default colors used by that theme. This allows you to easily return to the original colors if you prefer, after experimenting with the alternate schemes. Of course you don’t need to use the provided color schemes to re-color your website.
Editing named colors There are three ways to display the color in the COLOR EDITOR so it can be edited: • Choose from the menu in the COLOR EDITOR. • Or right click on the color on the COLOR LINE and choose EDIT from the menu that appears. • Or drag & drop a color from the Color Line onto the COLOR EDITOR . • Or drag & drop a color from the COLOR GALLERY (described later) onto the COLOR EDITOR . You can then edit the color as required.
Color Handling 1. 2. In the COLOR GALLERY , select the color or colors you want to delete. Click DELETE in the COLOR GALLERY . or: Right click on the color on the Color Line and choose DELETE. Importing named colors When a design is imported into the current document (e.g.
For example, import a red graphical button from the DESIGNS GALLERY , change its main theme color from red to green, then import a red logo graphic of the same theme and choose the “MATCH” option. When the logo appears in your design, instead of being red it will have picked up your chosen green theme color automatically. Since most themes have their main theme color named “Theme color 1”, you will also usually get good results when importing graphics from different themes and matching the colors.
Color Handling Any changes you make to the parent color also change tints based on it. For example, you might define the color pink as 50% of a red parent color. Changing the parent color to orange automatically changes pink to light orange. Shades These allow both lighter and darker colors to be created all based on a parent color. Changing the color of the parent changes all associated shades. For example, a drawing of a car might use shades for the highlight and shaded regions of the car body.
On the left you can see the new color is a tint of the parent "yellow" and so the editor provides only paler tints of the parent color. On the right, if you select a shade, you get to choose any lighter or darker shades of the parent color. If you want to use this color in many places in the document it’s recommended that you also make this a Named Color, so it appears on the Color Line, for easy picking. Just click on the NEW NAMED COLOR label icon on the top of the Color Editor and give it a name.
Color Handling The Color Gallery The COLOR GALLERY displays all the NAMED COLORS used in the current, and other open documents. It also lets you create, edit, copy and delete NAMED COLORS. To access the COLOR GALLERY : • Choose UTILITIES -> GALLERIES -> COLOR GALLERY ("F9"). • Or click the COLOR GALLERY button on the GALLERIES bar. The Color Gallery shows colors for all documents currently loaded.
PANTONE® Colors PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE gives access to a wide range of standard pre-defined colors that you can use when creating materials that will be professionally produced using litho printing. Using PANTONE color numbers enables a more reliable way of reproducing known colors. For example, the Scottish Parliament has defined that the blue color used in the Scottish flag be PANTONE 300. This means anyone reproducing the flag can be sure to get the correct shade of blue.
Color Handling color is not as reliable as using a solid pure ink of the required color. However it provides a way of ensuring much more accurate color reproduction than judging colors by eye or assuming your computer monitor screen or inkjet printer is accurate (computer screens and desktop printers vary quite considerably). MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 also supports both type of PANTONE color system.
Layout Designer 2013 will then create the color with the exact CMYK colors specified by the PANTONE system and not adjust it in any way when printing. This option is cheaper than using the PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE as no additional plates are required, and the print company does not need a special ink — all colors are created using the normal CMYK color process.
Color Handling Viewing print colors on screen There is a huge difference between screen and printed colors. Computer monitor screens can reproduce a much wider, much brighter range of colors. Printers use CMYK inks instead of RGB colors, and so the method of reproducing color is entirely different. As an example, pure bright RGB green on screen is completely impossible to reproduce on any printer. Technically speaking the screen color gamut is much larger than available on printers.
Text Handling The Text Tool Use the TEXT Tool ("F8") to enter or edit text. Text Tool InfoBar Left Side Font Font Size Style Bold Italic Underlined Text Tool InfoBar Right Side Justify Subscript/Superscript Line Spacing Bulleted Lists Numbered Lists Outdent Indent Spell Checker Text Tool InfoBar flyout www.xara.
Text Handling Space before paragraph Space after paragraph Baseline shift Tracking Aspect ratio MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 supports three basic type of text objects • Simple text lines: Click on the page, and type. • Text columns: Click and drag to create a column, and type. • Text areas: Click and drag diagonally to create a rectangular area, and type.
The Font Menu The font menu lists all installed fonts, and is split into three sections. The top section displays those fonts that are currently used in the document. The second section shows the “web safe” fonts. These are the fonts you can safely use in web pages, because all commonly used web browsers will support these fonts. See Web Safe Fonts section. The final section displays an alphabetical list of all other installed fonts.
Text Handling menu is displayed, you can move the mouse pointer over it to select the desired font variant. Instant font menu navigation While the font menu is displayed, you can type the initial characters of the font name, and the menu will be scrolled to that section of the list. E.g. if you type "ver" it will instantly scroll and locate the Verdana font.
Text in a column If you are entering larger amounts of text, over multiple lines, using a column is more useful. Changing the width of the column will automatically re-flow the text. To type a column of text: 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the TEXT TOOL . Move the mouse pointer where you want the column to start. Drag right to create a horizontal line the width of the column. This red line just shows you the width of the column. It is never exported or printed. Type in the text.
Text Handling Changing the width of the column Drag either of the two red handles at the ends of the line. Changing the angle of the column "+ drag" either of the red handles at the end of the line to change the angle of the column. Alternatively, "Ctrl + drag" to restrain the line to the constrain angles. Or alternatively you can use the SELECTOR TOOL to rotate the object in the usual way. For more on constrain angles, see Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 (on page 63).
Tip: You can flow text from one area to another on any page, even earlier pages. If you need to flow into an area many pages away, it’s probably easier to use the above method, although if you zoom out to a small page size you can drag the overflow arrow across pages. To disconnect one text area from another, just drag on the overflow indicator and drop it away from any text area.
Text Handling Text flow is unaffected if you rotate any of the text areas Hold down "Ctrl" while rotating to constrain the text rotation angle to 90° angles and screen aligned angles. Word count The word and character count total of the current text is shown in the status line. This also shows the number of overflowing words. If any region of text is selected, it shows the count of this selection instead. Text along a curve To place text along a curve of your choice: 1. 2. 3.
Adjusting the left and right margin of text on a curve If you just start typing or place a column of text on a curve, you can change the start and end position of the red handles. Just drag them along the curve as required. If you center text it will be between these two margins. Swapping sides of the line Right click on the text and select the REVERSE TEXT ON CURVE menu option.
Text Handling For example, to change the font size of the whole text object, just press "ESC" and select the new size from the InfoBar. Swap case Pressing "Ctrl + W" will swap the case of the character after the cursor and move the cursor on. So, if you've accidentally typed a section of text with the caps lock key on, just place the cursor at the start and press and hold "Ctrl + W". You can swap the case of a selected region of text, the same way. The cursor will not be moved.
replace the word. Language selection The menu shown when you click on the Spell Checker icon on the infobar lists all the languages for which you have dictionaries installed. By default the language corresponding to the current locale setting is selected. To change the language associated with a text object, select the text object, then in the TEXT TOOL choose the required language from the Spell Checker menu. Now the text object will be checked against the dictionary for the language you chose.
Text Handling Enter the search string and it's shown highlighted in the text. You can choose to search just the current text story, page or the whole document (all text flows on all pages). The WHOLE WORD option will only search for whole words that match the search string. E.G. searching for 'met' will not find 'metro'. The CASE SENSITIVE option will match only the exact case. E.g., with this option on, searching for 'aBc' will not find 'abc'.
The enhanced text features will only appear on the ruler when you are using the TEXT TOOL and when the text cursor is in a text story or the text object is selected when in the TEXT TOOL . In the TEXT TOOL when you drag the margins or tabs on the ruler, you get a temporary vertical guide to make it easier to align the tabs or margins to objects elsewhere on the page.
Text Handling Standard tabs, indicated by faint "L"s Custom tabs To create a custom tab position, just click on the ruler where you wish to place the new tab. It will replace default tabs up to that point on the ruler. For example: The triangle indicates a custom tab • To set more than one tab click multiple times on the ruler. • To move a custom tab drag it along the ruler. • To remove a tab drag it off of the ruler (default tabs will come back).
Center align: The text will be centered on the tab. Decimal point align: The decimal points in the text will be aligned with the tab. This is useful for lists and, however long the number, the decimal points (periods) will be tab-aligned. How to creating hanging indents Hanging Indents, as they are known, are where the first line of a paragraph has a negative margin or a margin that hangs to the left of the normal left margin. Numbered or bulleted lists are examples of hanging indents.
Text Handling Making an object repel To make an object repel text, right click it and select the REPEL TEXT UNDER option. Any text in the same layer underneath the object will be repelled with a default margin of 5 pixels between the text and object. Note that repelling text objects only repel text that is underneath the objects, not any text that is on top. Alternatively right click on the object and select REPELLING & ANCHORING to display the Text repelling & anchoring dialog.
symbol and enter the margin height in the H (horizontal) box and width in the V (vertical) box. Click OK . To turn off repelling right click the object and choose the REPEL TEXT UNDER option again to deselect it. Or right click and select REPELLING & ANCHORING to display the Text repelling & anchoring dialog again. Click the REPEL TEXT AROUND THIS GRAPHIC checkbox to deselect it and click OK . Note that single lines of text do not respond to repelling objects, only text areas and text columns do.
Text Handling An anchored object displays an anchor symbol and an arrow pointing to the anchor point, shown as a red caret mark.These disappear as you type, unless you're close to the anchor point. Note: If you drag the anchoring arrow to a place on the page where there is no text, the arrow turns into a red anchor that indicates the object's anchoring properties will be lost if it's dropped here. This also happens when the arrow is dropped on the object itself.
It's possible to anchor any graphic object or group, including groups containing text, such as the example side-panel, shown above. It's also possible to anchor objects to appear on top of, or below the text. The example pale blue flower graphic, shown above, is anchored this way and will flow with the text. NOTE : If an anchored object is also set to repel, only the text that the object is anchored to is repelled.
Text Handling Removing an anchor To remove an anchor from an object, right click it and choose ANCHOR TO TEXT again to disable the option. Now when you click the object in the SELECTOR TOOL or in the text in the TEXT TOOL , the anchor symbol is no longer displayed. Embedding Graphics You can insert any object into text so that it behaves just like a character in the text.
Condensing and expanding characters (aspect ratio) The aspect ratio is the ratio between the height and width of the text. Ratios over 100% make the text wider than normal; under 100% make the text narrower. To change the aspect ratio: Type a new value into the ASPECT text box on the InfoBar and press "". Or use the SELECTOR Tool to stretch or squash the complete line of text. It is not recommended to use values below 80% or above 130%.
Text Handling When using simple text the initial click position on the page is taken as the origin for text justification. Subscript & superscript Click the appropriate button on the InfoBar. Normal text superscript subscript Bulleted Lists You can turn any text into a bulleted list by selecting the text and then selecting the bulleted list button on the infobar. Each paragraph of text becomes a separate bullet.
You can also choose the numbering scheme to be used for each list, using the LIST dialog. Place the text cursor in one of the numbered list points, press the right mouse button and choose ‘LIST PROPERTIES… " from the context menu. PROPERTIES In the dialog you can choose from a variety of numbering schemes and also enter the value that should be used for the very first entry in the list. Then the number is automatically incremented for the second and subsequent entries in the list.
Text Handling Line spacing is measured in percentages (120%) or points (12pt). You can either type the line space value in the text box or click the arrows to nudge the values. A percentage setting has the benefit of scaling accordingly if you change your font size. If a percentage is applied to a line of text with more than one font size, the largest font size is used. For example, if a line contains 90% and 100% text, the line spacing is calculated on 100%.
Select the characters for which you wish to change the baseline shift then enter a value in the BASELINE SHIFT text box. The effect of selecting AG and then applying a downwards baseline shift (i.e. -5pt). Baseline shift is measured in points but you can use any of Page & Layout Designer’s standard measurement units. Note that baseline shift is an absolute value, in points, and does not change if you change the font size.
Text Handling Text Styles TEXT STYLES are a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout a document with a few clicks. A TEXT STYLE is a named collection of attributes, such as font, size, color, line spacing and other text attributes. For example, the main heading at the top of this document might have a style called ‘Heading 1’, the smaller sub-heading, such as for this section, and all other equivalent section headings, a Style called ‘Heading 2’.
to a single word within a paragraph. If you try, then the whole surrounding paragraph will take on this Style. Just place the text cursor anywhere on the line and select a Paragraph Style from the Style menu, and the whole paragraph will take on that Style. Character Styles, on the other hand, can be applied to any selection of text, from a single character upwards. For example, if you wanted to highlight certain words in your text in a different color a Character Style would be ideal.
Text Handling the text color and nothing else, applied to a single word, then when you altered the Paragraph Style of the paragraph, this word would change to match, except its color. Creating new Styles To create a completely new Style, change a selection of text to appear how you want and then select the CREATE STYLE menu from the Style list drop-down on the TEXT TOOL INFOBAR .
This dialog shows I am creating a NewStyle2, that is a Paragraph Style and based on no other style. The lower section lists all the attributes that make up this Style, so you can see I’ve used Palatino font, 12px in size and it has a margin indent. The remaining attributes listed here have also been taken from selected text, so this Style consists of a complete definition, listing all possible text attributes. In this case when entering text in this Style, the ‘Next paragraph’ (i.e.
Text Handling Copying text appearances It’s easy to copy the style of any text to any other region of text using the PASTE FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES feature: • Select the source region from where you want to copy the style. This can be as little as a word (just double click). • Select "EDIT" > "COPY " ("Ctrl + C"). • Select the region of text to which you want to apply the style. • Select "EDIT" > "PASTE FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES" ("Ctrl + + A").
Some applications, such as Microsoft Word, have a "Paste special" menu option that provides a wider range of paste options. These applications will sometimes allow you to choose the format of the pasted object (text or graphic). Seeing fonts in use It is sometimes useful to see what fonts are used in your document, particularly if you are sharing files with other Page & Layout Designer users who may not have the same fonts installed.
Text Handling • You can apply fonts by drag-and-drop To display the FONTS GALLERY click its tab in the galleries bar to the right of the Page & Layout Designer window. Or you can toggle display of the FONTS GALLERY by choosing UTILITIES > GALLERIES > FONTS GALLERY or pressing "Shift + F9". The fonts are grouped into several categories: • At the top are fonts installed on the computer (i.e. all the fonts in your Windows/Fonts folder).
• Or drag & drop the font name onto any text (selected or not). The pointer changes shape when in position. If you apply a font that is not installed it asks if you want the font installed. Installing or uninstalling a font The first part of the gallery shows fonts already installed. Remaining sections show fonts on the CD (either from the CD or from the hard disc made at install time). 1. 2. Click on a font name to select it.
Text Handling PDF Export options This is only possible for those fonts that are marked by their creators as having permission for embedding. You are warned if it’s not possible to embed fonts. Document Font embedding MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 stores the character shapes of all the fonts used in your document.
required when you click OK or APPLY . For example, if you enter "www.example.com" it will correct it to "http://www.example.com/". When you have created a link to an object you can quickly change its behavior by just clicking on the object. A Pop-up will appear with the link's details and options to Change or Remove the link. www.xara.
Fills Fills The Fill Tool Creating a graduated color fill The process of creating a different fill is almost identical for all the fill types: 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the object or objects to which you want to apply the fill. Select the FILL Tool ("G"). Select the fill type from the dropdown menu. Click-drag across the object to create the fill. Or, drag one of the fill handles to adjust the fill size and position.
• without a selected object, sets the current fill type which will then be used for newly drawn objects. is used when applying bitmap and fractal fills. The options are described later in bitmap fills. Fill tiling changes the repetition of the fill effect. The options are: FILL TILING • Simple-the fill is used only once, regardless of the size of the object. • Repeating/repeating tile-repeats the effect so that it fills the entire object.
Fills Show three different black-to-white graduated color fills and the corresponding profile dialogs. The center, default, is a linear black-to-white transition. FILL HANDLE : Indicates if the start or end handle is selected. This field is blank for flat fills. RESOLUTION (bitmap and fractal fills only)-shows the resolution of the bitmap (as long as you don't have a fill handle selected). You can type in a new resolution to change the size of the bitmap.
The Color Line is described in Color handling (on page 159). Each method changes the color of one handle only; they do not change any other selected fill handles, or: 1. 2. 3. Select the required handle (or handles, also works with multiple objects). Choose the required color from the Color Line. This changes all selected fill handles. Moving the start or end handle of the fill To change the direction and extent of the fill: 1. 2. Move the pointer over the handle you want to move.
Fills • Drag any bitmap from the BITMAP GALLERY or from your Windows File Explorer over any shape, hold "Shift" and drop, or • Drag any fill from the FILL GALLERY onto the shape (there is no need to hold "Shift" to drop in this case) • Select 'Bitmap' from the left side drop down menu of the FILL TOOL INFOBAR , and then select the required bitmap from the dropdown menu of bitmap names (this only shows bitmaps that are or have been previously loaded).
To cancel any applied color, apply NO COLOR to either fill handle. This restores the bitmap to its original bitmap colors. The RESOLUTION box on the INFOBAR shows the resolution, which can be altered by moving the fill handles or typing in a value. Resizing and re-positioning bitmap fills If you hold down Shift and click and drag on a shape which already has a bitmap fill, a new bitmap fill is created centered on the click point.
Fills Fractal clouds fill. On the left a grain of 1, on the right a grain of 50. Fractal plasma fill. On the left a grain of 5, on the right a grain of 50. Note the difference between grain and resolution. Grain controls the flow of the pattern. Resolution sets the size of the fractal bitmap and how noticeable the individual pixels are. You can change the start and end colors of a fractal fill. Select the center or outer handles and then apply a color using either the Color Line or COLOR GALLERY .
To remove a fill stage handle, just click on it to select, and press "Del". The Fill Gallery The FILL GALLERY contains bitmap textures suitable for use as bitmap fills. Only when you use a fill is it copied into the document. To display the FILL GALLERY : To display the FILL GALLERY click its tab in the galleries bar to the right of the Page & Layout Designer window. Or you can toggle display of the FILL GALLERY by choosing UTILITIES > GALLERIES > FILL GALLERY or pressing "Shift + F11". www.xara.
Fills IMPORT - imports the selected bitmap into the document. A copy of the bitmap then appears in the BITMAP GALLERY . You can also drag-and-drop the bitmap onto a blank part of the page. This is usually easier than clicking IMPORT. FILL - imports and applies the selected bitmap as: • A bitmap fill to the selected object (if any). • Or, if no objects are selected, it inserts the bitmap into the document as a new photo object. You can also drag-and-drop the bitmap onto an object to apply a bitmap fill.
Transparency The TRANSPARENCY Tool lets you specify how much of the underlying colors and objects appears through an object. Shape Transparency type Tiling Bitmap name Profile Handle/Resolution Amount of transparency You have control over the level of transparency from fully opaque to fully transparent. Page & Layout Designer goes further than other drawing packages by offering a wide range of different graduated transparencies.
Transparency Applying flat transparency It's called "flat" transparency because all parts of the objects have the same transparency, as opposed to graduated transparency. 1. 2. 3. Select the object or objects Select the Transparency Tool ("F6") Drag the transparency slider on the InfoBar MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides live-preview. As you drag the transparency slider the objects on the document are changed so you can see the effect immediately.
Transparency types The most common type of transparency, and the only type that many other applications understand is called "Mix transparency". But MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 supports different type that affect the objects in different ways. Page & Layout Designer has these types of transparency: Mix The color of the object mixes with the color of underlying objects. The effect is similar to spraying a thin coat of color (or paint) over underlying objects.
Transparency • Gray (above a 50% tint of black) & Black - make underlying colors duller (towards gray). • Other colors - convert the color to the equivalent shade of gray. (Yellow gives light gray, Red dark gray.) Then increase or decrease the contrast of underlying objects. Saturation Usually you would use Saturation on a separate object to modify the color of underlaying objects (that is, you would use an object as a filter).
Luminosity uses the grayscale equivalent of the color to control the luminosity (or Value) of underlying objects. Note that Luminosity has no effect on gray, white or black underlying objects. The color of the object with Luminosity applied: • Gray & White - increase the luminosity of underlying objects. White has the greatest effect, producing saturated color. • Black - remains as a black object. • Other colors - convert the color to the equivalent shade of gray.
Transparency Applying Enhance transparency To apply enhance transparency:- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Draw or select the shape to which you want to apply the enhance transparency effect. Go into the TRANSPARENCY TOOL and select "ENHANCE" from the TRANSPARENCY TYPE list on the infobar. The shape seems to have disappeared from your page! That’s because it will only apply enhancements to objects underneath it, and you’ve yet to specify the enhancements it will apply. The object should still be selected however.
By default, the lighter colors in a bitmap are the most transparent (you can, of course, alter the relative amounts of transparency later). Handle/resolution If you have a handle selected, this box tells you what handle it is. With no handles selected, and when using a bitmap transparency, it controls the DPI. Applying transparency to several objects If you group objects and apply transparency, the whole group is treated as one object and the entire group is made transparent.
Bevels Bevels The Bevel Tool The BEVEL Tool (shortcut "Ctrl + F3") gives objects an appearance of depth instead of being flat on the page. Bevels are resolution-independent so you can scale them without losing quality. Bevel type Slider type list Slider and numeric value for selected parameter Outer bevel Inner bevel Join style You can apply bevels to most types of object. The exceptions are: • Part of a block of text (such as a single letter)-the bevel is instead applied to all the text.
Bevel direction Bevels can be inside the object or outside. Outside bevels make objects larger; inside bevels do not change the object size. To change bevel direction: 1. 2. Select the object. Click either the INNER or OUTER button. Changing the bevel light source The bevel effect is created by a light shining across the object and highlighting the shape (profile) of the bevel. You can change the direction and height of the light and its strength (the contrast).
Bevels Changing the light elevation (vertical angle) This lets you move the light anywhere from immediately above the object (90º) to the side of the object (0º). 1. 2. Select the object. Select LIGHT ELEVATION from the SLIDER TYPE list. Then drag the slider or type into the text box. For rounded bevels we recommend a light elevation of 30º. At this angle the bevel blends smoothly with the object. Changing the bevel size How to change the bevel size: 1. 2. Select the object.
• The easiest way is to drag-and-drop a color from the Color Line onto the bevel (make sure you drop the color onto the bevel and not the object.) Alternatively, this method is slightly more complex but you have full control over the color: 1. 2. Select the bevel using the SELECTOR Tool (make sure you select the bevel and not the object.) Use the COLOR EDITOR to edit the color. Changing the bevel join style After applying a bevel to an object, you can change the shape of the corners (joins).
Shadows Shadows The Shadow Tool The SHADOW Tool (shortcut "Ctrl + F2") lets you apply, remove, and modify semi-transparent (or "soft") shadows. The transparency of soft shadows increases towards the edges, which gives a very realistic effect. Shadows are resolution independent so you can scale them without losing quality.
1. 2. 3. 4. Select the object. Choose the SHADOW Tool. Select the WALL, FLOOR OR GLOW button on the SHADOW Tool InfoBar. You can drag the shadow away from or towards the object to create more or less distance between the object and the imaginary wall. Alternatively to create a wall shadow you can: 1. 2. 3. Select the object. Choose the SHADOW Tool. Drag from the center of the object in the direction of the shadow. Blur the edges of the shadow This changes the size of the shadow.
Shadows 3. On the SHADOW Tool InfoBar, drag either the transparency slider or type a value into the text box on the right. Changing the shadow profile After applying a shadow, you can change how the shadow transparency changes across the blur. You can have a linear transition (which is the default profile and usually gives the most realistic results) or a profiled transition. To change the shadow profile: 1. 2. 3. Create the shadow. In the SHADOW Tool, click PROFILE. This opens the PROFILE dialog box.
To convert a shadow to shapes: 1. 2. Select the shadow or the object (or objects) casting the shadow. Choose ARRANGE -> CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPES . Or to convert a shadow quickly, right-click on the shadow or the object (or objects) casting the shadow. This opens the pop-up menu. Choose CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPES . Removing a shadow To remove a soft shadow: 1. 2. 3. Select the object Choose the SHADOW Tool. Select the NO SHADOW button on the SHADOW Tool InfoBar.
Contours Contours The Contour Tool The CONTOUR Tool ("Ctrl + F7") lets you create interesting effects around the edges of objects. The CONTOUR Tool creates a series of concentric outlines either on the inside or the outside of a selected shape. Edit distance between steps Number of steps Remove contour Color effect Contour width Outer contour Inner contour Position profile Attribute profile Inset path Join types Contouring objects To contour an object: 1. 2. 3. Select the object.
To swap the contour direction: 1. 2. 3. Select the contoured object. Choose the CONTOUR Tool. Then: • Drag any of the eight handles that surround the selected objects (drag the handles inside or outside the objects to swap). • Or click the INNER or OUTER contour buttons. Note that objects cannot have both a contour and a bevel. Changing the number of steps in a contour Contours are initially created with five intermediate steps. You can increase the number of steps to make each step less obvious.
Contours 2. Use the COLOR EDITOR to edit the color. Note that you can also select the contour using the CONTOUR Tool. Click on the contour to select it. Changing the contour join style After applying a contour to an object, you can change the shape of the corners (joins). How to change the contour join style: 1. 2. Select the object. Click the appropriate join button on the CONTOUR Tool InfoBar.
3. You either select a pre-defined profile from the dropdown list or drag the sliders to create a custom profile. The top option in the dropdown list (the straight line) is the default and creates regular spacing. Applying a contour to several objects If the objects are grouped, overlapping contours merge together. The contour color is the same as the rear-most object in the group. If the objects are ungrouped, each object has a separate contour. The contour color is the same as the object color.
Contours To convert a contour quickly, right-click on the contour to open the pop-up menu and choose CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPES . Removing a contour If a contour does not give the desired effect, you can easily remove it: 1. 2. Select the contoured object. Choose the CONTOUR Tool. Click on the Remove button on the CONTOUR Tool InfoBar.
Blends Blends This operation blends one object into another by a series of intermediate objects. This is sometimes known as interpolation, in--betweening, tweening, or morphing. A five-stage blend of a star into an arbitrary shape. Blends have several different uses. This section describes firstly some of the uses and then using the BLEND Tool. A blend is treated like a group and you can move and copy the blend as you would a group. Groups are described in Object handling (on page 120).
Blends Blend color effect Position profile Attribute profile 1:1 node mapping Anti-alias blend steps Blend along a curve Rotate blend steps along the curve is the number of intermediate stages in the blend. At lower settings the individual steps are apparent. This is useful for object transforms. At higher settings the steps merge together. This is more suitable for highlight effects. Experience shows that you rarely need more than 50 steps even in a complex blend.
button prevents extra handles being added. You can still control the start handles by dragging exactly between control handles as previously described. The left-hand example is a normal blend between the rectangles. The right-hand example uses 1:1 Selecting the start or end object After creating the blend you may want to change some attribute of either the start or end object such as its color or line width or position. To change an object’s attributes: 1. 2. 3. Select the SELECTOR Tool.
Blends it allows blends from just about any shape to any other shape, with dissimilar numbers of handles. However, blends between objects with sharp corners can produce unwanted twists in the blend. The two shapes have different numbers of handles, and a blend from one to the other produces the result on the right. It has a twist in the top right corner.
Profiles POSITION PROFILE lets you select how to space the intermediate steps in a blend. You can have regular spacing or closer at one end than the other or closer in the center. ATTRIBUTE PROFILE lets you select how attributes (such as transparency, colors or line thickness) change in a blend. You can have a regular rate of change, greater change at one end, or greater change in the center. Changing profiles To change a profile: 1. 2.
Blends Rotating along a curve If you have blended along a curve, you can make the objects rotate to match the curve. To do this, select the ROTATE ALONG CURVE button on the BLEND Tool INFOBAR . Blends and PDF or PostScript files When printing or exporting to a PDF file, using a large number of blend steps can result in large files (megabytes in some cases) which can be very slow to print or view. If necessary reduce the number of blend steps.
• At HIGH & VERY HIGH QUALITY all the information is shown anti-aliased if the ANTIALIAS button (described above) is active. If not, the intermediate steps are not anti-aliased. With the view quality slider in the second position you can see all the intermediate steps of a blend as outlines. Removing blends Removing a standard blend Select the blend, then click REMOVE on the BLEND Tool InfoBar. Removing blend from a curve Select the blend, then deselect the BLEND ALONG A CURVE button. www.xara.
Photo Handling Photo Handling Introduction Photos are an integral part of almost all creative work nowadays, from websites, to flyers, brochures, DTP work and more. Photo handling in Page & Layout Designer is very different than you may be used to with other graphics programs. In MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 you can color, crop, copy, blend, enhance, clone, feather (fade the edges of) photos as much as you like.
For example with the Red Eye tool, the ellipse shapes that are used to modify the red eye areas of the photo are grouped with the photo itself. This is called a PHOTO GROUP and you’ll see this on the status line when you select such a modified photo. Just like an ordinary group it keeps the photo together with the other objects that have been added to modify it, but unlike a group it is still treated as if it was an ordinary photo by the Photo Tools and other tools.
Photo Handling The easiest way to open an image is to drag the photo or bitmap file from your Windows file explorer onto the Page & Layout Designer Window. The photo is imported at the position you drop it. Or you can select the FILE -> OPEN or IMPORT menu options. You can select multiple photo files in the file dialog by clicking with Shift or Ctrl held down to add to the selection, just as in Windows Explorer, to open or import multiple photos.
The JPEG image format is usually the best choice for photo images, because it maintains high quality with smaller file sizes. So when you import non-JPEG photo files, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 will examine the image to see if it would be more appropriate as a JPEG. If so, a prompt is shown giving you the option to convert it to JPEG on import. This reduces the size of your document files and reduces memory usage when editing.
Photo Handling You can choose a different size to which photos should be scaled, or elect for them to be imported at 96dpi (default screen resolution) so that at 100% zoom they are displayed at 1:1. Or you can choose to have photos imported at the dpi which is indicated in the photo file itself. Note that some digital cameras set this dpi value wrongly and so this third option may not always give you the results you expect.
Photo resolution One fundamental difference between MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 and other photo tools is that when you resize a photo it retains the full resolution. Scaling an image to be smaller, just increases the dpi or ppi (pixels per inch). In other words no pixels are lost, they are just made smaller. 96ppi image on the left when scaled down to half size becomes twice the resolution, 192ppi. The status line shows the resolution of any selected image.
Photo Handling This shows separate copies of the same image, each manipulated in a different way. Each retaining the full resolution of the original imported JPEG, as you can see from the right image. The memory (RAM and file size) is no more than the original JPEG size. The Bitmap Gallery The Document handling chapter (on page 64) has general information about galleries. The BITMAP GALLERY shows all the bitmaps or photos used in any document, along with information about its pixel size and file size.
This shows the BITMAP GALLERY for the above document, and shows the original JPEG image of the girl which is embedded into the native .xar file. As mentioned above, all copies of this image are displayed directly from the one master, so only the single image is shown and not all four variants that appear on the page. The following useful information is displayed about the original image: • Filename of the original JPEG • The file type, in this case a JPEG, and the file size, 1,006K.
Photo Handling page background of the browser, unless you’ve also given the pasteboard (the area around the page) a different background. Save Select the bitmap and click SAVE will save the original image. In the case of an embedded JPEG this will save the original JPEG file. Other bitmap types are best saved as PNG bitmap type. Bitmap Properties The PROPERTIES button will display information about the selected bitmap in the gallery. It also provides a way to stop image smoothing when bitmaps are enlarged.
When you drag and drop a JPEG file (or use the "Open" or "Import" menu options) the JPEG (reduced in size if it was large) is stored in the document, and this is what is saved in the .xar file when you save your document. It's important to understand how this differs from other graphics tools, both vector drawing software and photo editing programs. Other products will typically uncompress the image and store the un-compressed "raw" image in memory and the native file when you save to disc.
Photo Handling By placing the blurred copy with the 'hole' created by the transparency effect over the sharp original, the blended result shows the sharp face area through. Creating copies of any object requires a single key press, or click (drag with right mouse button). Blurring a photo takes a single drag on a blur slider of the PHOTO TOOL , applying a gradated transparency is just another click-drag in the TRANSPARENCY TOOL , and finally positioning the photos on top of each other takes a second.
There is an additional control that allows you to stop all image smoothing or antialiasing on images that are scaled up or zoomed in. In other words, instead of a smoothed image, you see all the pixels when zoomed in. Open the BITMAP GALLERY and right click on the image and select "properties". In the dialog un-check the "Smooth when scaled up" option. Now, no matter what viewing quality you select the image (and all copies) will always show the un-smoothed pixels when enlarged or zoomed in.
Photo Handling • The default exported size of the image will be the size you see on screen at 100% zoom. The Export Preview dialog (on page 333) is described in more detail here. Tip: You can control the JPEG quality in the Export Settings dialog on the Options tab. The default and recommended value is 85% The JPEG system is designed that a setting of 85 is the optimum value.
adjustment, are all just stored on the photo as attributes. See the terminology section (on page 13). Just as you can alter the color of a shape or line without altering the underlying shape, so Photo Tool attributes alter the visible appearance of the photo without affecting the original image (this is called non-destructive editing). Another way of looking at this is that MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 just stores a list of edits applied to your photo, and you can change, remove or add new edits.
Photo Handling Cropping photos The easiest way to crop a photo is to just drag on it when in the ENHANCE TOOL , or you can just drag one of the 8 control handles around the outside to adjust the edge of any selected photo. For more advanced cropping control, select the CLIP BUTTON on the PHOTO TOOL flyout bar which provides aspect ratio control and precise numeric clipping control. This also provides an Un-clip button that will remove any clip rectangle and restore the original image.
Here you can choose the screen area you would like to capture. You can capture the full screen, the active window in its entirety, or just the content of the active window without the window border. SCREEN AREA: OPTIONS: Here you can choose whether or not the mouse pointer is included in the screenshot. Also choose whether you just want to capture one screenshot or whether to keep the utility turned on for the session so you can take successive shots each time you press the assigned key shortcut.
Photo Handling Instead of using a shortcut key to take the screenshot, you can instead use the TIME option. This is useful in cases where any keyboard activity can change the display you want to capture, such as a pop-up tooltip which may disappear if you were to press a key. Select the time option and enter a delay value in seconds. The screenshot will then be taken for you automatically once the specified period of time has elapsed. The timer starts as soon as you click the START button.
Integration with external Photo Editors While MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides a great many photo editing and compositing features, it is not a "pixel editor", and for these purposes you may want to use a separate program. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 makes integration with these easy.
Photo Handling Note: MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 always sends the original un-clipped whole photo to the external editor. Any images that are enhanced (e.g. brightness altered) or clipped with the photo clip, or have any live effects applied, will have these changes missing when you edit them this way. However, when the edited image is returned, the clip and photo attributes are re-applied to the edited image.
• To resize drag on one of the arrow heads away from the center. You can hold "Ctrl" to constrain the angle. • To rotate the image, drag one of the arrowheads around the center. • To re-position the image, drag anywhere on the image. On the InfoBar of the FILL TOOL , you can select the "repeating tile" option which makes the image a tiling bitmap fill. By dragging the fill handles you can now resize and rotate the image tile dimension.
Photo Handling In the FILL TOOL , drag on one of the arrowheads to rotate and resize as required. You can re-position the photo by dragging on the center handle of the fill arrows, or holding "Shift" and pushing anywhere on the image. Viewing a scaled photo at its full size The ZOOM TO 1:1 button on the PHOTO TOOL infobar adjusts the zoom so that the selected image is shown at full size, which is where each pixel of the image is mapped to each screen pixel.
Optimizing Photos and Bitmaps With the ever increasing resolution and file size of digital camera JPEGs, if you have a document containing many images, the file size can quickly become very large. For example, a multi-page document containing 20 full resolution JPEGs, each of 5mb, would produce a .xar file of over 100mb*. Furthermore, these photos are often unnecessarily high resolution.
Photo Handling • Removing invisible parts of photos • Reducing resolution of photos • Converting PNG or bitmaps to embedded JPEGs to optimize file size Selecting this menu option for any bitmap will display the OPTIMIZE PHOTO dialog. By default for JPEG images the settings are such that the photo will be optimized to a 96dpi (normal screen resolution) JPEG at the size that it appears on your page. This is normally what you will want for photos in a website.
You can change the resolution used in this dialog, by either choosing the physical size you want for the optimized image (width/height in pixels), or by entering a different dpi (eg. perhaps 150dpi if you want print quality). If you choose the dpi option the value you enter is remembered and becomes the default just for the current session. You can also maintain the photo's current resolution by choosing CURRENT from the PPI list.
Photo Handling Converting objects or drawings to bitmaps You can easily create a bitmap from any object, or part of your drawing, including from other bitmaps. The bitmaps can be any size or resolution and can contain transparency. You can also create bitmaps with reduced numbers of colors which can be useful for web use. To create a bitmap from objects: 1. 2. 3. Select the object/s on the page.
• The Pasteboard (the area around the photo) is a darker color. This makes it easy to distinguish at a glance between photo documents and drawing documents. • The document zoom is set so that the photo fills the view and the PHOTO TOOL is automatically selected as the current tool. • Dropping additional photo files on top of an existing photo just adds a new photo to the document instead of replacing the photo in its frame. And the view will zoom out so you can see the whole image.
Photo Handling If you then do "FILE" > "SAVE" ("Ctrl + S"), the JPEG file you loaded will be overwritten with the modified image. However by default MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 also saves your photo in its native .xar format. This file is placed into a "Masters" folder alongside your JPEG file. It has the same name as your photo file but with a .xar extension. The .xar file includes within it your original photo without the modifications applied, and of course details of your edits.
The Photo Tools Using the Photo Tools To access the PHOTO TOOLS , move your mouse pointer over the Camera icon in the main toolbar on the left of the window. A flyout bar appears with icons for each of the available photo tools. If you’re in the Selector Tool a double click on a photo will switch into the PHOTO TOOL . Common photo functions The following buttons are available on the infoBar when you are in the ENHANCE or CLIP photo tools.
The Photo Tools Zoom 1:1 Select a photo and click the Zoom 1:1 button. The ZOOM TO 1:1 adjusts the zoom so that the selected image is shown at full size, which is where each pixel of the image is mapped to each screen pixel. Use this option if you want to work on a photo at full size in a document where you have scaled the photo down. Scale photo to 100% The SCALE PHOTO TO 100% operation takes the currently selected photo and scales it to its full size. It also puts the photo onto the pixel grid.
The first six InfoBar buttons to the left (not shown above) are common to all tools and are described above Auto-Enhance Brightness Contrast Color Saturation Color Temperature Hue Blur / Sharpen Compare with original In this tool you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, hue and blur/sharpen. You can either enter values directly into the text fields or use a small pop-up slider for adjusting the values interactively.
The Photo Tools Brightness/Contrast/Color Temperature/Saturation/Hue Brightness Contrast Saturation Color Temperature The image is altered as you adjust these values. The saturation alters the color intensity. At the minimum setting of -100 this will make a picture black and white. The Color Temperature control makes a picture more ‘warm’ or ‘cool’. The Hue control applies a particular color tint to the image and allows you to control the intensity of the selected color.
look at the process is that it just adjusts the picture outlines, but the whole picture remains clipped inside the rectangular outline. This is why it's called a clip, and not crop, although it serves the same goal as a traditional CROP TOOL . You can select different photos while using the photo tools by just clicking on them. This also works for photos inside groups. Clip Tool Alternatively you can enter CLIP TOOL by selecting the Clip icon on the PHOTO TOOL fly-out bar.
The Photo Tools Un-clip Press the UN-CLIP button with any clipped photo selected, to restore the original photo. This restores the clip rectangle, which you can adjust or clear by clicking outside it. The UN-CLIP button in the CLIP TOOL will change the outline of any clipped photo, and also arbitrarily formed shapes with a bitmap fill, to that rectangular outline of the complete photo or bitmap used as the fill.
3D Extrude Tool Extruding a shape To turn a 2D shape into a 3D extruded object, go into the EXTRUDE TOOL on the main toolbar and simply click and drag on your object to rotate it in 3D space. Initially, your extrusion is given a default depth. The face color of the 3D shape is determined by the fill color of the original shape and the color of the extrude (or side) by its line color. After creating an extrude in this way, move your mouse pointer around over the 3D object.
3D Extrude Tool Turning extrudes on and off EXTRUDE ON/OFF Once a shape or other object has been extruded, there are only limited modifications that can be made to the original object with the extrusion in place. For example, if you've extruded a shape, it's not possible to then edit that shape in the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL because it's no longer a simple 2D shape that you can interact with.
Lights LIGHTS ON/OFF You can adjust the lighting of your shape in 3D space by turning on the lights. There are 3 lights, each of which can be given their own color and position in 3D space around the 3D shape. In this example the face color of the shape is set to white. But you can see that it appears green because there is a green light shining almost directly onto the front face of the shape.
3D Extrude Tool Gloss / Matt Use this toggle button to make the surface of a 3D object more or less reflective. With the gloss option on lights placed at the correct position behind the object will "bounce off" the sides to good effect. Mitred corner / Rounded corner You can choose either MITRED or ROUNDED corners for your 3D object. "Mitre" gives square edges, while "Round" produces rounded edges.
Printing Show print borders The "WINDOW" > "SHOW PRINT BORDERS" menu shows a yellow and red line around the page (non-printing) showing the print margins and borders. The page boundary is shown by a yellow rectangle and the printing area by a red rectangle. The printing area is determined by the margins on the currently selected printer. Some printers let you adjust the margins, but few let you print right up to the edge of the page.
Printing Network button If your computer is connected to a network, this lets you connect to shared printers on the network. This dialog box is not controlled by Page & Layout Designer. The print dialog box Choose "FILE" > "PRINT" ("Ctrl + P"). Print button When you have selected the required options click this to start printing. Printer… button This opens the "PRINT SETUP" dialog box (described earlier). Options button This opens a tabbed dialog box that lets you set additional print options.
within the bounds of the selected objects are not printed – only the objects which are actually selected are printed. Hidden objects, objects on hidden layers and the guides layer never print. See Page & Layer Gallery for more details. Allows you specific control over which pages you wish to print. You can type specific pages numbers, separated by commas, or page ranges by typing two numbers with a hyphen in between them. PAGE RANGE: Page range examples: 2 will print just page 2.
Printing Number of copies Sets how many copies of the document to print. Collated This is dimmed except when printing multiple copies of a double-page spread as two separate pages. With this option selected, pages are printed as left-right-left-right, etc. With this option deselected, all the left-hand pages are printed then all the righthand pages. Printers that hold a page image in memory take some time to process the image. The printer can then print multiple copies at its maximum speed.
Note that only foreground layers are printed. Background layers are never printed. Print As NORMAL is suitable for most types of document. However some printers do not reproduce consistent colors when printing bitmaps or vector objects that are the same color (this is a fault with the printer driver). This is noticeable if objects overlap onto bitmaps or onto objects with transparency applied to them. In this case, select BITMAP or ANTI-ALIASED BITMAP and retry.
Printing Print Options: Print Layout tab Most options in print layout are dimmed if you have BEST FIT or AUTOMATIC FIT selected. We recommend using these options as they are the easiest way to print. However you can choose custom options (see “custom fit” below). Best fit Your design will be moved to the center of the page and it will be expanded or shrunk to suit the paper size. This option is best if you have a large or small design and want it to fit on one page.
The ORIENTATION buttons can be used to choose the orientation of the printout. The scale can be altered using the SCALE field. The top and left margin fields can be changed (these set where the top left-hand corner of the page appears on the printer's paper). The WIDTH and HEIGHT fields give you an alternative way of setting the print scale (when you change one of these settings, the other changes to ensure the page is always printed with a 100% aspect ratio).
Imagesetting Imagesetting Spot colors Normally four colors are used when printing, cyan, magenta, yellow and black (key) commonly known as CMYK. But it’s also possible to produce spot colors. Spot colors are not normally printed using the CMYK inks, and are instead additional inks. Spot colors have two uses: • Many simple jobs use only two or three ink colors (for example a simple newsletter with black text and blue headings). Creating a spot color for each ink color can make the job cheaper to print.
Designer 2013 can show a simulation of the CMYK separation process on screen, showing a preview of each printer ink color separation. Normally this would be the four CMYK colors, but if you use spot colors you can preview these as well. To preview any required plate or ink color, select "Window -> Show Printer Colors" and the required ink color.
Imagesetting Output Printer’s Marks This switches selected printer’s marks on or off in one operation. Printer’s marks provide useful information when printing professionally, for example indicating the edge of the document so that it can be cropped to the proper size after printing. The default options that are then selected will be suitable for most print jobs. Only change them if asked to do so by your print company.
2) Plate information This is information such as plate name, file name and date & time. 3) Registration targets Registration targets appear in the same position on each separation so the print company can align the separations when making printing plates and when printing. 4) Registration stars These are a further check that the separations are lined up. 5) Grayscale bar This shows that the imagesetter or printer has rendered the full range of gray tones from 10% to 100%.
Imagesetting Negative: Produces a negative image. This option, if enabled, will only work when outputting to PostScript printers. Leave off if you are asked for "positive" or just "pos". Turn on for "negative" or "neg". Always overprint black: Overprints any objects that are over 95% Key (CMYK black). Black is a relatively opaque ink and overprinting reduces registration problems. This option is particularly useful if you have a lot of black text.
Use printer defaults: Selecting USE PRINTER DEFAULTS uses the standard settings for the selected printer. Generally these give good results, but if you want greater control choose USE CUSTOM SETTINGS. Use custom settings: Selecting USE CUSTOM SETTINGS lets you configure the printer settings to suit your requirements. Note: No check is made whether the settings you choose are suitable for the type of printer; it is assumed you know your requirements.
Imagesetting To change the screen angle and frequency, click on the ink name to select it then click PROPERTIES . This opens the SEPARATION PROPERTIES dialog: Angle: To change the screen angle for this color, type in a new value in degrees. Frequency: To change the screen frequency for this color, type in a new value. This overrides the default screen frequency (described in PostScript options earlier) for this color. Print this ink: This duplicates the check box in the main SEPARATIONS dialog.
If the two plates do not line up exactly during printing, the circle will slightly offset from the knock-out (known as "out of register") and a small white gap can appear. This example is exaggerated to illustrate the out of register printing, but even thin lines can be noticeable with dark colors. Overprinting compensates for this problem. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 has two types of overprinting: object level and ink level.
Imagesetting document has large areas of solid black, overprinting all black can cause problems with over-inking on the press. Printing on all plates PRINT ON ALL PLATES is known in some programs as REGISTRATION BLACK . You sometimes want an object to appear on all separations. To do this, select the object then right click and select "IMAGESETTING" > "PRINT ON ALL PLATES" or choose "UTILITIES -> IMAGESETTING -> PRINT ON ALL PLATES".
• CMYK color values change. This is particularly noticeable with black and grays which will then appear on all four separations rather than just the black separation. • Spot colors (and PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE colors) are separated to CMYK (and color corrected) (see PANTONE Colors (on page 174) for more on PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE). Watch out for: Objects under totally transparent objects. Instead of using 100% transparency you can use NO COLOR (see The color line (on page 159) for how to apply NO COLOR ).
Imagesetting approximately what you see on screen (allowing for differences between screen and printer colors). If you convert the blend to editable shapes, the intermediate shapes lose all spot color information. They separate only to CMYK. Only the final object prints as a spot color. RGB and CMYK Blacks Because shades of black and gray that are defined as RGB or HSV colors will separate into a mix of all four CMYK process colors when printed, you can sometimes get less than perfect gray shades.
Importing and Exporting General notes on exporting and importing You may want to export MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 documents to other applications, or export them for use on a website. Or you may want to import designs from other sources. For easy transfer, Page & Layout Designer offers a wide range of import and export options.
Importing and Exporting MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 cannot support them all, especially if they are recent and non-documented formats. Because other programs do not support all of the features of MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013, for example, the advanced fill and transparency types, these have to be simulated, usually by exporting these objects as bitmaps.
.XAR MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 .XBM X Windows (2 color) .XPM X Windows (256 color) .WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image. Black and white (1-bit) bitmap image format used by mobile devices EPS Import Formats .AI Illustrator EPS .EPS ArtWorks EPS .EPS Illustrator EPS .EPS CorelDRAW 3 & 4 EPS .EPS FreeHand 3.0 EPS .EPS Photoshop EPS (For importing data from Photoshop into MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013, use PSD files instead of EPS files for best results) .EPS XaraX EPS Other Import Formats .
Importing and Exporting .PCT PICT .PNG PNG .RAS Sun Raster .TGA TrueVision TARGA .JP2, .JPX, .J2C, .J2K, .JPF JPEG 2000 image format. An improvement on the standard JPEG format that can compress image files using lossy or lossless compression. .TIF TIFF (RGB and CMYK) .WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image. Black and white (1-bit) bitmap image format used by mobile devices. EPS Export Formats .AI Illustrator EPS .EPS ArtWorks EPS .EPS Illustrator EPS .EPS Xara Xtreme EPS Other Export Formats .XAR CorelXARA .
Attention: Only Xara Designer Pro can import PSD files with 16bit colors or CMYK color model The layers in the PSD file, and the layer visibility setting will be preserved and will become MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 layers. You can view them by opening the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY .
Importing and Exporting PDF is now the recommended way of transferring vector files from Adobe Illustrator to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. Save as PDF and then import the resulting file into MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. The following points are worth noting: • Multi-page PDF files are imported as multi-page documents in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. • Text in PDF files is typically broken into many separate small text objects in the PDF file.
An EXPORT dialog box will appear. Choose a name for your file, and select the required format from the SAVE AS TYPE dropdown list. Some of the supported formats are detailed below. Exporting as PDF The PDF format is an ideal way to distribute your document for a variety of uses. It can be used to supply artwork to a printing company, or it can be used to import in to other programs such as Adobe Illustrator 9 and later. This is described in detail in the next section.
Importing and Exporting The fewer colors you have in a file, the smaller the file and the lower the quality. However, when using 256 colors or less MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides very advanced techniques to simulate a much wider range of colors, and so you can get very high, near photographic quality results using only 256 colors or less. See also GIF, PNG, BMP and JPEG export dialog overview (on page 333).
Text You can export text from MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 to be editable text in Photoshop, but the text must be on a layer on its own (on import you may be asked to update the text objects for them to be editable in Photoshop.) Text that is on a layer with any other graphic objects will be rasterized into that layer, and thus not be editable. Export DPI You will be able to set the DPI of the bitmaps in the exported PSD file.
Importing and Exporting XPS export dialog Font Subset: Any fonts used in your document are automatically embedded into the XPS document to enable the viewer to correctly display all text. Selecting this option embeds fonts containing only those characters used in the document. This can significantly reduce the XPS file size. View XPS when finished: This will automatically open the XPS viewer and display the saved file.
You can therefore choose to resample JPEG photos to a lower resolution more suited for viewing on screen (e.g. 96dpi) or printing (typically not more than 300 dpi)., and thus reduce the size of the XPS file. The JPEG quality slider controls the quality of the resampled JPG. The lower the quality, the smaller the resultant XPS file. A quality of 75 is the recommended setting which is actually very high quality image.
Importing and Exporting MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides very comprehensive controls over many aspects of your PDF output. These are just some of the options and features you can control in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 PDF output. You can: • embed fonts in the file which means all readers can be sure of seeing the file exactly as you intend, but this makes the files larger.
You can export files in PDF version 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 formats as well as the following PDF/X standards: • • • • PDF/X-1a:2001 (ISO 15930-1). PDF/X-1a:2003 (ISO 15930-4). PDF/X-3:2002 (ISO 15930-3). PDF/X-3:2003 (ISO 15930-6). Objects not supported by PDF Some MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 features do not exist in PDF, so the conversion to PDF has to simulate these features, usually by converting to a bitmap or bitmap fill. Transparency PDF version 1.3 does not support transparency.
Importing and Exporting Font embedding The PDF filter includes support for embedding fonts within a PDF document where permission has been granted by the font vendor for this purpose. Where fonts are not embedded, if readers do not have the correct font on their system, then usually a "best guess" font is substituted by the reading application, resulting in loss of fidelity. During the export of a PDF file, you are warned about missing fonts or where required fonts could not be embedded.
Draft quality (96 DPI, no font embedding) The draft setting is typically used when proofing a design and offers the fastest mode of PDF generation. The following settings are used: • PDF version 1.4. • No fonts are embedded. • All bitmaps and photos are embedded as JPEG images at 96dpi.
Importing and Exporting Customizing PDF export using advanced options If you select the ADVANCED OPTIONS button you can customize any of the above presets. Once you have altered any of the preset values, the next time you export a PDF it remembers the last settings, and the CUSTOM option will be shown. The following section provides an overview of this feature.
Note however that because PDF does not natively support groups, clipping masks will appear as part of imported groups in Illustrator CS & CS2. Therefore, when ungrouping you also need to remove the clipping mask. PDF Export Filter Settings: General Options The GENERAL OPTIONS tab in the PDF Export Filter provides a range of settings that can be configured to specify PDF document attributes including version compatibility, how content is encoded, and which pages are to be rendered.
Importing and Exporting Color Model The color encoding standard for the PDF document can be selected from CMYK , RGB, and NATIVE . The NATIVE option represents colors in the PDF file as they are specified in the drawing using RGB and/or CMYK. When CMYK is selected as the color model for a PDF document, an ICC (International Color Consortium) profile can be specified. Please refer to the section on Pre-Press options later in the chapter for additional information.
Page Generation When generating a PDF document from a multi-page design, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 optionally allows a range of pages to be specified. To specify which pages are to be rendered to the resulting PDF document: • • • • Select ALL to export all pages contained within the design Select CURRENT PAGE to export the currently selected page or Select SELECTED OBJECTS to print only those objects that are selected.
Importing and Exporting PDF Export Filter Settings: Objects Options The OBJECTS tab in the PDF Export Filter provides a series of settings that can be used to specify how design elements are rendered in a PDF document. Bitmap Compression Choose the compression scheme for bitmapped images that appear in the document by selecting from the options in the dropdown list. Supported compression schemes include: NATIVE (use the bitmap compression in the document), NONE (do not apply compression), JPEG and FLATE.
JPEG Quality Use the slider control to set the JPEG quality index when using JPEG compression for bitmapped images. Values range from 0 to 100, with higher values specifying increased quality and lower values specifying increased compression and the loss of some image fidelity. The default JPEG quality is 85.
Importing and Exporting PDF Export Filter Settings: Document Options The DOCUMENT tab contains items that can be used to specify authoring information and how a PDF document will be opened within Adobe Reader. Description Within this section, the title, author, subject and keywords for the outgoing PDF document can be optionally added. Select INCLUDE DOCUMENT INFORMATION to embed these details in the resulting PDF file. By default this feature is not selected.
Reader Display Setup When generating a PDF file that is intended for display in Adobe Reader, you can select from among the display setup options in the dropdown list to specify how the viewer is configured when the file is opened. Options are included for displaying only the page, the bookmarks panel and page, the pages panel and page, a full screen version of the document, the layers panel and page (PDF 1.5) and the attachments panel (PDF 1.6).
Importing and Exporting PDF Export Filter Settings: Layer Options The LAYERS tab within the PDF Export Filter provides a means to specify how layers within a drawing are rendered for in the PDF document. General Options Exclude invisible layers. This option can be checked to exclude all invisible layers in the outgoing PDF file.
ENABLE READER LAYERS IN A SINGLE PAGE (PDF 1.5 AND ABOVE ONLY): Layers are rendered within the document on a single page, with layering labels included for display within Adobe Reader's Layer Gallery. GENERATE BOOKMARKS FOR EACH PAGE: Select this option to include bookmarks in the resulting PDF document for each page of your document. A bookmark is generated for each page, using the page name as defined in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY ("Rename page" in the context menu).
Importing and Exporting PDF Export Filter Settings: Pre-Press Options The PRE-PRESS tab includes items for specifying characterization settings and the embedding of ICC (International Color Consortium) color profiles for print production. ICC profiles are files containing data that specifies how colors are to be rendered on a particular output device. The use of an ICC profile is mandatory for PDF/X documents, optional for CMYK-based PDF documents and not applicable for all other types of PDF documents.
America, Europe, and Japan. To specify the use of one of the preset output intent profiles, simply select it from the list. Custom Output Intent Profiles If the output intent profile that is required for print production is not provided in the list provide with MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013, it is possible to enter the desired output by selecting "Custom" in the intent profiles list.
Importing and Exporting PDF Export Filter Settings: Security Options The SECURITY tab provides support for specifying security attributes and permissions settings that determine how the PDF document can be used once it is distributed. These options are only available for standard PDF documents and cannot be used when generating PDF/X files. To include these security settings in the outgoing PDF document, check "Apply security". By default this feature is not selected.
compromise. As a result, file open passwords should only be used as a means of security to prevent inexperienced users from accessing sensitive documents. Document Encryption and Permissions Password To encrypt a PDF document, select an encryption method and specify and confirm a password. This password will be required when a user attempts to make changes to the document, including modifying security and permissions settings.
Importing and Exporting Document assembly (requires 128-bit encryption): Checking this option allows a user to merge or append this document with other documents. By default this option is selected. Content copying or extraction (requires 128-bit encryption): Selecting this option allows a user to copy or extract elements of the document, including text and graphics. By default this option is selected. Note: The PDF document must be encrypted in order for these permissions settings to be applied.
For most commonly used JPEG and PNG formats, at step 2 you can instead use the direct operations available in the FILE MENU : EXPORT JPEG and EXPORT PNG . The export dialog shown includes a “Settings” button which takes you to the export settings dialog shown above. Most export settings are remembered for the next time you export. For example if you adjust the JPEG quality, the next time you export a JPEG it will remember the last quality setting.
Importing and Exporting but may be banded, or ERROR DIFFUSION , which creates higher quality results, but larger files. Color Depth Choose the number of colors your bitmap requires. The more colors, the larger the file (usually), and the higher the quality. The TRUE COLOR option supports up to 16 millions colors. TRUE COLOR + ALPHA includes semi-transparent features such as soft shadows and transparency. For applications that support alpha-channel PNG files this is the recommended format.
Make a Palette Color Transparent Make this color entry transparent. Note the difference between this option, which makes parts of the selected objects transparent, and Make The Image Background Transparent which makes those areas behind the selected objects transparent. Delete a Palette Color Delete this color from the palette. Any areas in the bitmap that use the deleted color then use the nearest color in the palette. The fewer colors in the palette, the smaller the bitmap file.
Importing and Exporting • • DRAWING : The area covered by objects. SELECTION : The area covered by the objects in the selection. Only available when objects are selected. Anti-aliasing Anti-aliasing improves the appearance of graphics by smoothing jagged edges: • MAINTAIN SCREEN ANTI-ALIASING : The exported bitmap uses the exact same positioning as shown on screen, and so has identical anti-aliasing.
Other bitmaps Export dialog box Bitmaps other than GIF, PNG BMP and JPEG (for example TIF) use this EXPORT dialog box. Not all options apply to all types of bitmap: Bitmap size and resolution Lower resolutions produce smaller files but at reduced image quality. The best resolution depends on where the bitmap will be used. For display on screen a resolution of 96 DPI is adequate. For printing, higher resolutions are required.
Importing and Exporting • Save the entire area (the spread). This can create very large files especially if you select more than 256 colors. • Or save the area covered by the drawing. • Or save the area containing all the selected objects. Everything within the area is saved including any unselected objects.
Working with Templates Using the templates available in the Designs Gallery is the quickest and easiest way to create high quality designs such as Photo Albums, Flyers, Calendars, Cards, Newsletters and other Documents. To load a template, open the Designs Gallery and double click on a template thumbnail in one of the design categories. Once loaded, you can customize the template to produce your own personalized high-quality design.
Working with Templates Adjusting a photo in its frame You’ll often want to adjust the position, scale and rotation of a photo in its frame. Select the Fill Tool, then click on the photo. You will see a two-way fill arrow appear on the photo. You can move the photo around inside the frame by dragging on the image away from the fill arrow. By dragging on the ends of the fill arrows, you can rotate and scale the photo within the frame.
Changing text Double click on the text you want to edit to go into the TEXT TOOL , or just click the TEXT TOOL icon on the main Toolbar. You can drag over the text to select it and then type to replace it, just as in a Word Processor.
Working with Templates SELECTOR TOOL. Now as you edit the text and the anchor point moves, the anchored object moves too. See the Text Tool chapter (on page 194) for more details. Changing colors Editing theme colors individually To edit a template’s theme colors, right click on one of the larger square named color patches on the left of the Color Line at the bottom of the window and choose Edit in the menu that appears. This opens the Color Editor.
Once you’ve set the color this way, if you want you can refine it using the color editor. Right click on the page and choose CHANGE PAGE BACKGROUND from the menu. The color editor appears allowing you to edit the page color. To set a repeating background texture, drag the photo or bitmap onto your document. Open the Bitmap Gallery, scroll to the photo you just loaded, click on it to select it, and then click the BACKGROUND button on the Gallery.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Customizing Page & Layout Designer Changing the blank template document The blank template documents are the options available under "FILE" > "NEW" . Pre-designed templates are available from the DESIGNS GALLERY (or "FILE " > "NEW FROM DESIGNS GALLERY "). To add a template document: 1. 2. 3. Open an existing document ("FILE" > "OPEN ", or "Ctrl + O") or create a new one with the NEW button on the Standard control bar or "Ctrl + N".
General tab Current layer always visible and editable With this option selected, selecting a layer in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY automatically makes it visible and editable. With this option unset, the visible and editable states of a layer remain unchanged when you select that layer. Give new objects most recent attributes Examples of attributes are line width, dash pattern, arrowheads, color, fill color and type of fill.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer the "Current attributes" (on page 21) section of the Getting Started chapter for a full description of current attributes and this option. This option is on by default. Ask before setting current attribute This applies when changing a current attribute (this happens when you change an attribute with no objects selected). With this option set, you are asked to confirm whether you want to change the attribute. With this option unset, the change is made without confirmation.
Nudge size This applies when moving objects using the arrow keys on the keyboard. This text box defines how far the object moves for each key press. If the document uses scaled units (for example, 1inch to 1mile), this text box shows the distance in the scaled units. When nudging, "Ctrl" and "Shift" increase the nudge distance by five and ten times, respectively. Duplication distance "EDIT" > "DUPLICATE" (Ctrl + D) creates a duplicate which is offset from the original object.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer spacing. For example entering a major grid spacing of 2CM will set the grid and ruler units to centimeters regardless of the page units specified in the units options. Grid type MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 allows the use of a standard RECTANGULAR grid or an ISOMETRIC grid. Origin (0,0 point) Normally, the origin for the grid and rulers is at the bottom left-hand corner of the page. If you wish to move it to a different location, change the origin value.
CACHE USAGE indicates the amount of cache space currently in use. This gives an idea as to whether the cache size is correct. That is, if cache usage is consistently nearing 100% the cache size should be increased if possible. A larger cache size does not affect the program adversely or take up unnecessary space on the drive. We recommend a cache size of 15 - 20 MB. The minimum cache size is 500KB, the maximum is the free space on the drive when the size is set.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Mouse tab Mouse button function Page & Layout Designer gives you a range of possible actions when you click either the left or right mouse buttons. For example, if you're left-handed, you may prefer to use the right-hand button as the normal button. You would therefore assign the normal click to the right mouse button (you can also set both buttons to have the same action if you wish).
The pop-up menu contains options suitable for the object you click on. For example, for most object types the menu contains CUT, COPY, PASTE, DELETE, DUPLICATE, CLONE (these are described in Object Handling (on page 103)). MOUSE WHEEL MOVEMENT: You can change the mouse wheel action here between Scrolling and Zooming. Click RESET DEFAULTS to return to the original button assignments. This has immediate effect; you don't need to click OK or APPLY NOW.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Page Size tab These options apply only to the selected document. Paper Options relating to setting the page size (paper, orientation, spread) are described in “changing the page size” in Document Handling (on page 46). If the Lock page size option is turned on, you can't resize a page by dragging the bottom or right edges and any PUSH objects that get pushed off the bottom edge of the page will not cause the page to grow.
BLEED determines the bleed area size around your document. This area (typically 13mm) is important for format filling prints in print shops. Read more in the "Changing the page size" section in the chapter Document Handling! SHOW PAGE SHADOW sets whether a shadow is displayed under the page (this is only on-screen, it is not exported or printed). If you select DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD you can create a document consisting of two pages. This option adds a second page to your document.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Photo Editing Photo Editing You can choose what should happen when you save a Photo Document with a modified photo in it. By default the original photo file is preserved in a .xar file in a "Masters" sub-folder and the original opened photo file is overwritten. You can choose to have the original photo file saved in the "Masters" folder instead, or you can choose to not have the original photo preserved at all.
Tune-ups tab Redraw The value set in this option is used when redrawing the document on the screen and during exporting and printing. Normally automatic gives the best results, but if you have an old computer with limited memory you can specify a lower value. This may, however, slow down redraws. Gallery cache When displaying items in a gallery, Page & Layout Designer reads the information off disk into a cache. This speeds up gallery redraw speed for recent items.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer used instead of re-rendering the objects, making redraws and object drags very much faster. The difference is particularly noticeable with complex documents. Since caching involves storing additional bitmaps in memory, it has the potential to increase the amount of memory used by MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 significantly. Therefore in this dialog you can turn caching on and off and you can also control how much memory is used for caching when it's turned on.
View tab Display Show progress bar: During long operations Page & Layout Designer can display a progress bar on the status line. If instead you'd prefer an hourglass to replace the mouse pointer until the operation is completed, uncheck the SHOW PROGRESS BAR setting. The hourglass and progress bar are for information only-they have no effect on the document itself. Interactive fill dragging: Interactive fill dragging allows you to see how fills and transparencies look as you drag the fill handles.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Bitmaps These options apply only to the current document. They have no affect on any other documents currently loaded. NEVER SMOOTH: When MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 scales a bitmap, it usually smoothes (interpolates) between the individual pixels to give a smooth look to the bitmap. Usually this gives the best results. Check this option if you if you do not want this effect. Some features such as shadows and bevels are created using bitmaps.
EDIT LOCAL COLORS IN: This affects the color model displayed when editing a local color. Automatic displays the color model of the original color style that the local color is based upon. For example, the HSV color model for a color style defined in HSV. This is important if you need to ensure your objects are in CMYK, for example. The other options let you select which of the four color models (RGB, CMYK, HSV, grayscale) to always use by default.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Displaying & hiding control bars The display of control bars is controlled by the CONTROL BARS dialog box ("WINDOW" > "CONTROL BARS "). Against the name of each control bar is a check box. A tick in the check box shows that the control bar is currently displayed. Click on the required control bar's check box to display or hide that bar. You can also quickly turn CONTROL BARS on or off if you right-click in any empty area at the top of the program window.
Resizing a control bar Move the pointer over the edge of the control bar. It changes to a double-headed arrow. You can now drag the edge to resize the control bar. Creating new control bars To create a new control bar: • Drag a button onto the editing area or off the window. This opens a new control bar containing the button. Or click NEW on the CONTROL BARS dialog box. This lets you create a new control bar and allocate a name to it. The new control bar is empty. You can then drag buttons to it.
Customizing Page & Layout Designer Hiding buttons and tools Move the unwanted buttons or tools to another control bar and then hide that control bar (described above). If you need the button or tool in the future, use the CONTROL BARS dialog box to redisplay the control bar. You cannot delete buttons or tools. Fly-out menus Some buttons have a small black triangle which indicates that there is a fly-out bar, which appears when the mouse pointer is held over the button for a short period.
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Introduction This chapter describes the operations available on each of the menus and those available via keyboard shortcuts. In many cases the operations described in this chapter apply to the selected object. In most cases, the described action also applies when you have several selected objects. We use selected object as shorthand for selected object or objects. Often you can select options from either a menu, a control bar or a keyboard shortcut.
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Open recent A list of the most recently loaded or saved files. Provides a quick way to reload any of these files. You can change the number of files in this list (refer to Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345) for details). Close (Ctrl+W) Closes the current editing window. Page & Layout Designer remains loaded. You are warned if the file has unsaved changes. Save (Standard control bar or Ctrl+S) Saves the selected document.
Document Info This displays an information box about the selected document, including which fonts and Live Effects plug-ins are used in the current document. Page Options Also right click and choose PAGE OPTIONS . Allows you to edit the page layout, size, etc. Printer Setup Sets options relating to the current printer or print file (refer to Printing (on page 286) for more information).
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Paste (Edit control bar or Ctrl+V) Or right click and choose PASTE. Paste the clipboard contents into the selected document. The wording of this option reflects the contents of the clipboard (refer to Object Handling (on page 104)). Sometimes, when you paste the contents of the clipboard into a document, it could be inserted using several different formats. If this is the case the PASTE SPECIAL dialog box will appear so you can choose a format.
Paste replacing selection This is similar to PASTE POSITION , except that the copied object on the clipboard replaces the currently selected object and retains the deleted item's position. The copied object is pasted into the center position of the deleted object. Paste in current layer The same as PASTE IN PLACE, except your object will only be pasted into the current layer. This is useful if you want to display or hide just your pasted object when layers above or below are displayed.
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Paste replacing selection This is similar to PASTE POSITION , except that the copied object on the clipboard replaces the currently selected object and retains the deleted item's position. The copied object is pasted into the center position of the deleted object. Paste in current layer The same as PASTE IN PLACE, except your object will only be pasted into the current layer.
Copy the selected object placing the copy slightly offset from the original. The copy becomes the selected object. The offset distance can be customized (see Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 348)). Clone (Ctrl+K) Like DUPLICATE copies the selected object, but places the copy directly over the original. The copy becomes the selected object. Pages Or right click and choose PAGES .
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Move To Layer Behind (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+Shift+D) Or right click and choose ARRANGE > MOVE TO LAYER BEHIND . Move the selected object one layer backwards. The selected object becomes the front object in the new layer. Group (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+G) Or right click and choose GROUP . Group the selected objects together to appear as a single object (refer to Object Handling (on page 103)). Ungroup (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+U) Or right click and choose UNGROUP.
Flatten photo group Converts a photo group to a single bitmap. Alignment (Ctrl+Shift+L) Or right click and choose ALIGN . Used to align several objects. Has no effect when a single object is selected (refer to Object Handling (on page 124) for more information). Join Shapes (Arrange control bar or Ctrl +J) Used to create holes within shapes (refer to Shape Handling (on page 134) for more information).
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Repelling and Anchoring Or right click and choose REPEL TEXT UNDER , ANCHOR TO TEXT or REPELLING AND ANCHORING . Make the object repel underlying text, and anchor an object within a column of text. See Repelling text objects (on page 192) and Anchored Graphics (on page 194) for details. Repeat on all pages (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R) Or right click and choose REPEAT ON ALL PAGES . The selected object will be copied to the same place on all pages.
Designs Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F10) Displays or hides the DESIGNS GALLERY (see Importing and Exporting (on page 304)). Fill Gallery (Galleries control bar or Shift+F11) Displays or hides the FILL GALLERY (see Bitmap Handling). Name Gallery (Galleries control bar or Ctrl+Shift+F9) Displays or hides the NAME GALLERY (see Document Handling (on page 73)). Color Editor (Ctrl+E) Or right click and choose FILL COLOR . Opens the COLOR EDITOR (refer to Color Handling).
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Customize Key Shortcuts This command allows you to change the keyboard shortcuts. See Integrated key shortcut utility (on page 384) in Menus and Keyboard shortcuts for details. Options (Ctrl+Shift+O) Or right click and choose PAGE OPTIONS . Opens the OPTIONS dialog box (described in Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345)). Share Menu The share menu includes various facilities for sharing the currently selected image with other MAGIX and third party services.
MANAGE LOGIN DATA If you’ve elected to have your MAGIX Online World login data stored on your computer, this option lets you change the details, or remove them from your computer if you no longer want them stored, by pressing the Delete button. Publish Online - Publish website This initiates a publish operation on the current document - the same operation that’s available from the File menu and web toolbar.
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Control Bars Displays the CONTROL BARS dialog box (described in Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 360)). Bars Menu entries to switch on and off the most important control bars. Quality (Standard control bar) Selects how objects are displayed from wire frame to anti-aliased (see Document Handling (on page 62)). Show Printer Colors Allows you to simulate what the document will look like when printed.
With this option set, an object snaps to any grid point it is dragged close to (see Document Handling). Snap to Guides (2 on numeric keypad) Or right click and choose SNAP TO > SNAP TO GUIDES . With this option set, an object snaps to any guide it is dragged close to (see Object Handling). Snap to Objects (* on numeric keypad) Or right click and choose SNAP TO > SNAP TO OBJECTS .
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts from somewhere other than MAGIX, for example, from a reseller. If you purchased the software from MAGIX directly, and/or registered in the past, you can click "Register Now" to stop any further registration messages appearing. Update program Opens a dialog box giving you access to TalkGraphics, The Outsider http://www.xara.com/outsider/, The XaraXone, The Xara Gallery http://www.xara.com/gallery/, and the Support http://support.magix.net site.
Key shortcuts The tools Selector Tool Freehand & Brush Tool Shape Editor Tool Rectangle Tool Ellipse Tool QuickShape Tool Text Tool Fill Tool Transparency Tool Shadow Tool Bevel Tool Contour Tool Blend Tool Mold Tool Photo Tool Extrude Tool Push Tool Zoom Tool F2 or V or Alt + S F3 or N F4 Shift + F3 or M Shift + F4 or L Shift + F2 F8 or T G F6 Ctrl + F2 Ctrl + F3 Ctrl + F7 F7 or W Shift + F6 P E Shift + F8 or H or Alt + X (or the Space bar when not in the Text Tool) Shift + F7 or Z or Alt + Z The ga
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts You can also zoom and slide the document using a mouse-wheel (Ctrl+MouseWheel zooms in/out). Manipulating documents When in the Text Tool, shortcuts marked with a star (*) have a different action-see below (on page 382).
Cut selection to clipboard Paste object from clipboard Paste object in original position Create bitmap copy Add shapes Subtract shapes Intersect shapes Slice shapes Join Shapes Apply ClipView Remove ClipView Convert to editable shapes Open the alignment dialog box Repeat on all pages Update repeating objects Stop repeating Ctrl + X Ctrl + V Ctrl + Shift + V Ctrl + Shift + C Ctrl + 1 Ctrl + 2 Ctrl + 3 Ctrl + 4 Ctrl + J Q Alt + Q Ctrl + Shift + S Ctrl + Shift + L* Ctrl + Shift + Alt + R Shift + Alt + R C
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl + Shift + L Ctrl + V Ctrl + W Ctrl + Ctrl + Shift + Ctrl + < Ctrl + > Alt + cursor keys Delete Backspace Shift + cursor keys Shift + End Insert 'Lorem ipsum' dummy text Paste text at the text cursor position (if the clipboard contains text). Swap the case of the character to the right of the text cursor. Insert Soft Hyphen (appears only when wrapping at line end). Insert hard hyphen (dash) to prevent a dash being misinterpreted as a hyphen at line end.
Pages Ctrl + C Ctrl + X Ctrl + V Delete Shift + Ctrl + Delete Shift + Ctrl + PageUp Shift + Ctrl + PageDown Copy current or selected pages (with no objects selected) Cut current or selected pages (with no objects selected) Paste page(s) Delete current or selected pages (with no objects selected) Delete current or selected pages (with or without objects selected) Move Page Up Move Page Down Other Color Editor Options dialog MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Help Ctrl + E (opens and closes) Ctrl + Shi
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts menu (e.g. File, Edit, Arrange), so finding a command that is on one of the menus is easy. Choose "All" to display all available commands in the Commands list. Commands The Commands list shows all the commands for the selected category. Where a command already has a key shortcut, that shortcut is shown in the column to the right of the command name. Those commands that don't have any shortcut assigned show nothing in the shortcut column.
Once only two assignments are shown in the Clashes list, deleting one of them will leave you with an empty Clashes list, because there is then only one assignment for the keypress and so there are no longer any clashes. Alternatively you may wish to change the shortcut associated with one of the clashing commands. To do this, select the shortcut in the Clashes list and click the EDIT CLASH button below it.
Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts point. You are strongly advised to go back and fix any clashes because otherwise your chosen shortcuts may not work. Click the Back button on the warning alert to go back. When you do this the first keypress with clashes is automatically selected for you, so you can quickly resolve it. If no clashes are reported when you click the OK button, your new shortcuts have been defined successfully.
These key combinations are deliberately chosen to be near the left hand to make very easy selection. Note: If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel or center button, there is a better temporary shortcut to the Push Tool, namely to press and hold the wheel or button. Release it to return to the previous tool. These three commands are listed at the top of the Tool group and described as Switch to Push tool (Hold Down to Switch and Return), etc.
Index Index 3 3D color editor.........................................................................................................................164 3D Extrude Tool ..................................................................................................................... 282 A About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013..........................................................17, 379 Adding a new point handle .....................................................................................
Auto Enhance..........................................................................................................................278 Automatic Backups.................................................................................................................. 56 Automatic fit ........................................................................................................................... 291 B Backup location...........................................................................
Index Change object selection......................................................................................................... 99 Change the transparency of the shadow......................................................................... 234 Changing a straight line to a curve (and vice versa) ...................................................... 90 Changing colors......................................................................................................................
Color Editor (Ctrl+E) .............................................................................................................374 Color Handling ........................................................................................................................ 159 Color line context menu ....................................................................................................... 160 Color Mode...........................................................................................
Index Creating new Styles ..............................................................................................................205 Creating New Text Objects....................................................................................................37 Creating rectangles and squares .........................................................................................141 Creating regular polygons (the Quickshape Tool).........................................................
Document Info ........................................................................................................................366 Document Permissions Settings ........................................................................................332 Documents Loaded................................................................................................................378 Double page spread..................................................................................................
Index To resize a photo and save as a new JPEG ..................................................................261 Example Graphics.....................................................................................................................25 Exit .............................................................................................................................................366 Export (Ctrl+Shift+E)........................................................................................
G Galleries............................................................................................................................ 64, 373 Gallery cache...........................................................................................................................356 General notes on exporting and importing..................................................................... 304 General Options .............................................................................................
Index Ink-level overprinting............................................................................................................300 Inserting pages into your document .................................................................................... 51 Installing or uninstalling a font ............................................................................................210 Instant font menu navigation...........................................................................................
Magnetic object snapping (snap to objects) ................................................................... 116 Magnetic Snap Radii..............................................................................................................352 Main toolbar .............................................................................................................................. 42 Maintain imported layer names .......................................................................................
Index N Names....................................................................................................................................... 374 Names applied...........................................................................................................................76 Naming objects .........................................................................................................................75 Navigating between pages .......................................................
Outer margin .............................................................................................................................48 Output Intent Profiles ...........................................................................................................329 Output Printer’s Marks .........................................................................................................295 Overprinting ........................................................................................
Index Photo Groups ..........................................................................................................................249 Photo Handling.......................................................................................................................249 Photo Objects .........................................................................................................................249 Photo resolution ..........................................................................
Recent file list size .................................................................................................................347 Recovering backups................................................................................................................. 58 Recovering from abnormal program closures .................................................................. 58 Redo (Standard control bar or Ctrl+Y).............................................................................
Index Save (Standard control bar or Ctrl+S).............................................................................. 365 Save All..................................................................................................................................... 365 Save all (on the File menu).....................................................................................................55 Save As......................................................................................................
Show Guides (1 on numeric keypad) ................................................................................377 Show print borders ................................................................................................................286 Show Print Borders ................................................................................................................377 Show Printer Colors.....................................................................................................
Index Text......................................................................................................................................36, 312 Text along a curve ..................................................................................................................185 Text areas .................................................................................................................................183 Text Handling .................................................................
Tip of the Day..........................................................................................................................378 To add more objects to a group .......................................................................................... 121 To create a group .................................................................................................................... 121 To draw a curved line segment: ........................................................................
Index V Variable width lines..................................................................................................................93 View quality slider ....................................................................................................................62 View tab ................................................................................................................................... 358 Viewing a scaled photo at its full size ..........................................
