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4.1 Key Concepts
To use the PlanetPress Design interface effectively, you should understand the following key concept:
• Toolbars (Page 25)
• User Options (Page 26)
4.1.1 Toolbars
What toolbars are available in PlanetPress Design?
The built-in Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar contain commands that are frequently used and convenient
to keep close at hand. You can minimize the Ribbon, and choose the position of the Quick Access Toolbar,
as well as the commands it displays.
PlanetPress Design’s Ribbon has five tabs: the Home tab, the View tab, the Page Layout tab, the Tools tab
and the Help tab. Each one of these tabs contains a series of groups, each group holding a number of
controls.
• The Home tab includes the Tools, Clipboard, Document and Objects groups.
▪ The Tools group contains:
▪ The Select Tool is used to select objects on the document page.
▪ The Hand Tool is used to move the document page.
▪ The Zoom Tool is used for zooming in and out of the Page area.
▪ The Clipboard group contains the typical Windows-based editing controls: Cut, Copy, Paste,
Select All, Delete.
▪ The Document group contains the document objects controls, used to add objects to the
document: Page, Style, Condition, Global Variable, Global Function, Metadata Field,
Image Resource and Attachment.
▪ The Objects group contains the page objects controls, used to add objects to the selected page:
Text, Data Selection, Picture, PlanetPress Talk, N-Up Printing, Address, Box, Shape,
Barcode and Business Graphic.
Some tools in the Objects controls lead to dropdown menus that let you make selections
among often-used versions of those objects. This is the case with the Box, Shape, Business
Graphics and Barcode objects. These menus can be opened by clicking the arrowhead visible
at the bottom of each control.
• The View tab includes the Zoom, Navigate and Show/Hide groups.
▪ The Zoom group contains the zoom controls: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Factor, as well as Fit
Page Width and Fit in window.
▪ The Navigate group contains a data page box you can use to move forward and backward in the
sample data file, and tools to move forward and backward in your document one page at a time.
▪ The Show/Hide group contains four controls to display or hide any of the four panes; the
Document Structure area, the Object Inspector pane, the PlanetPress Talk Messages pane
and the Data Pane.
• The Page Layout tab includes the Arrange, Lock/Unlock and Duplicate groups.
▪ The Arrange group contains the Alignment and Order controls, allowing to align and reorder
objects on a document page.
▪ The Lock/Unlock group contains controls to lock or unlock a single object on a document page,
or every objects on a document page.
▪ The Duplicate group contains controls to duplicate, and duplicate and pack objects on a
document page.
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