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l Select Both to permit moving along both the X and Y axes.
l This object can be selected on the page: Select to permit selection of the object/group with the mouse in the
Page area. Clear to lock the object/group. When you lock an object/group, you cannot select it using the mouse in the
Page area, or resize or move it using the mouse or keyboard shortcuts. This option applies only to selecting, moving
and resizing the object/group in the Page area and does not affect selecting the object in the Structure area, or using
the Object Inspector to resize or move the object/group. Note that when you clear this option, PlanetPress Design auto-
matically sets both Scalable orientation and Movable orientation to None to also prevent moving and resizing the object
or group using the mouse or keyboard shortcuts. You can also use the items in the Tools menu to lock and unlock
objects/groups.
PlanetPress Talk Before and PlanetPress Talk After
Both the PlanetPress Talk Before and PlanetPress Talk After options are discussed in the PlanetPress Talk Chapter. See Plan-
etPressTalk Before and After.
Preview options
At the bottom of the object property window, two options are available to control the Object Preview window (see Use the
Object Preview):
l Show/Hide Object Preview:This button controls whether or not the object preview appears.
l Data page selector:Controls which data page to use for the preview. Enter a data page, or use the up/down arrows
to navigate through the pages.
Line Repeat and Data Overflow
The Repeat properties of an object or group are useful when you want to create a row, column, diagonal, or table from that sin-
gle object or group. PlanetPress Design repeats the object or group to create the structure you specify. The Repeat properties
can speed up the document design process and in some cases make the document more efficient to execute by optimizing the
PostScript code for the resulting structure as a whole.
There are two types of repeats: static and line. In a static repeat, data selections remain static; the data selections in each
repeat are identical to those in the source object or group. In a line repeat, data selections change with each repeat.
A line repeat is meaningful only with an object whose data selection exists on a single line. When PlanetPress Design performs
the repeat, it advances to the next line of the data page after each repeat of the object. The data selection thus changes with
each repeat. In the case of a group, each of the data selections referenced by objects in the group must exist on a single line
(or in the case of a database emulation or XML file, in a single record). Note that when using Line repeat with a Repeat choice
of Vertical only with a Vertical displacement, an initial displacement will be performed before the first item.
Note that in both cases, the specific line number you define in the Data properties of the object or objects is not important. You
determine the start and end lines for the repeats when you set up the line repeat. When you do this, PlanetPress Design auto-
matically sets the values of the From line and To line boxes in the Data properties of each object to &current.line. This
ensures the data selection changes with each repeat. If you use a Custom data selection, you must manually adjust the ref-
erences to the line (or record) to &current.line; if you do not make this adjustment, the Custom data selection remains the
same for all repeats.
The start and end lines you define in the Repeat properties also determines the total number of repeats. In the Repeat prop-
erties you also define the layout you want to create, the horizontal and/or vertical order in which you want the data selection
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