7.5
Table Of Contents
- Copyright Information
- Table of Content
- Overview
- Getting Started
- The PlanetPress Design Program
- Start PlanetPress Design
- The PlanetPress Suite Button
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Design Ribbon
- Document Structure Area
- Add a Metadata Field
- Data Pane
- Object Inspector
- Workspace Area
- Detailed Directions
- Debug an Object or Group
- Select Objects and/or Groups
- Lock and Unlock Objects and Groups
- Reposition Objects and/or Groups
- Resize Objects and/or Groups
- Delete Objects and/or Groups
- Align Objects and/or Groups
- Rotate Objects and/or Groups
- Duplicate Objects and/or Groups
- Snap or Unsnap Objects and/or Groups
- Copy Values of Properties between Objects and/or Groups
- Adding image resources to your document
- Messages Area
- PlanetPress Design Preferences
- Notification Messages Preferences
- Image Resources Preferences
- Color Preferences
- Object Duplication Preferences
- Miscellaneous Preferences
- Editor Preferences
- Display Preferences
- Color Preferences
- Ribbon Preferences
- Object Inspector Preferences
- Document Structure Area Preferences
- Rulers Preferences
- Form Pages Preferences
- Compiler Messages Preferences
- Document and Pages Preferences
- Image Resources Preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- Data Selector Display Preferences
- PlanetPress Capture Preferences
- Dock and Undock Areas of the Program Window
- Minimize and Customize the Ribbon
- Show or Hide Areas of the Program Window
- Resize the Program Window Area
- Data in PlanetPress Design
- Setting Up a Document
- Setting Up Pages
- PlanetPress Design Objects
- Fonts and Styles
- Create a Style
- Apply a Style
- View or Edit the Properties of a Style
- Delete a Style
- Set the Default Style for New Objects and Groups
- Create a MICR Style for Account Information on Cheques
- Arabic Content in PlanetPress Design Documents
- CID-Keyed Fonts
- Double-byte Character Sets
- Encoding Tables
- Text and Box Object
- Data Selection Object
- Postal Address Object
- PlanetPress Talk Object
- Shape Object
- Picture Object
- Supported Barcodes
- Business Graphic Object
- Capture Field Object
- Capture Field Masks
- Document Resources
- Conditions
- Conditions
- Global Conditions
- Local Conditions
- Line Conditions
- Create or Remove a Line Condition
- PlanetPress Supports Global Variables in the Global Function Library Manager
- Create a Global Condition
- View or Edit the Properties of a Global Condition
- Apply or Remove a Global Condition
- Use a Global Condition as a Variable
- Combine Global Conditions
- Override a Global Condition
- Delete a Global Condition
- Create, Edit, or Delete Local Conditions
- Verify a Condition
- Add a Global Function
- View or Edit a Global Function
- Delete a Global Function
- PlanetPress Talk
- Variable PlanetPressTalk Properties
- The PlanetPress Talk Editor
- PlanetPress Talk Editor Features
- Debugging Features
- Code Execution in the Editor
- Enter a New Program in the Editor
- Import or Export a Program
- Save a Program
- Print a Program
- Exit the PlanetPress Talk Editor
- Show or Hide the Commands Area or Spy List
- Adjust the Sizes of the Commands Area, Code Area and Spy List
- Expand or Collapse Command Groups
- Enter Commands in the Editor
- Use Command and Variable Name Completion
- Dynamic Images
- PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference Image Resources
- PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference External Images
- Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images
- Creating and using Runpages
- PlanetPress Talk Basics
- Assumed Knowledge
- PlanetPress Talk
- PlanetPress Talk Terminology
- The Elements of PlanetPress Talk
- PlanetPress Talk Syntax
- Data Types
- Variables
- Create a Global Variable
- View or Edit a Global Variable
- Delete a Global Variable
- System Variables with Local Scope
- System Variables with Global Scope
- System Objects with Global Scope
- Current System Object
- Code Samples
- Language Reference
- Language Reference (Alphabetical)
- % (procedure)
- Current (system object)
- ¤titeration (variable)
- &Document (system object)
- &EOJob (system variable)
- &FirstSide (system variable)
- &Height (system variable)
- &iterationcount (variable)
- lastoverflowcount (variable)
- &Metamode (variable)
- Physical (system object)
- &PrinterMode (system variable)
- Script (system object)
- &Str (system variable)
- &system (system object)
- &watch (system object)
- &Width (system variable)
- @ (function)
- @name (function/procedure)
- @page (procedure)
- $element (procedure)
- + (operator & function)
- – (operator)
- Asterisk (*) operator
- / (operator)
- Greater than (>) operator
- Greater or equal to (>=) operator
- Less than (<) operator
- Less or equal to (<=) operator
- = (operator)
- <> (operator)
- Add (function)
- And (Boolean operator function)
- Arc and ArcN (procedures)
- BeginDocument/EndDocument (procedure)
- BeginGroup/EndGroup (procedure)
- BeginParagraph … EndParagraph (procedure)
- BeginUTF8Paragraph … EndUTF8Paragraph (procedure)
- BitmapWidth/BitmapHeight (function)
- Breakpoint (procedure)
- C128 (function)
- CallPPD (procedure)
- Ceil (function)
- Char (function)
- CharPath (procedure)
- ClearPage (procedure)
- ClipPath (procedure)
- ClosePath (procedure)
- Cos (function)
- CRLF (procedure)
- CurToStr (function)
- CurToFloat (function)
- CurveTo/RCurveTo (procedure)
- Date (function)
- Define (procedure)
- DefineData (procedure)
- DefineImageIndex (procedure)
- Definemeta (function)
- Div (function)
- DoForm (procedure)
- endpageset (procedure)
- EPSWidth/EPSHeight (function)
- Eq (function)
- ExecPage (procedure)
- ExecScriptFile (function)
- Exit (procedure)
- ExpandString (function)
- Field (function)
- FieldCount (function)
- FieldName (function)
- Fill (procedure)
- Find (function)
- FloatToCur (function)
- FloatToInt (function)
- FloatToStr (function)
- For… EndFor (procedure)
- Function @name (procedure)
- GE (function)
- Get (function)
- GetBlack (function)
- GetCyan (function)
- GetMagenta (function)
- Getmeta (function)
- Getmetacount (function)
- GetNextDataPage(procedure)
- GetYellow (function)
- GRestore (procedure)
- GSave (procedure)
- GT (function)
- If (function)
- If … ElseIf… EndIf (procedure)
- InStream... EndInStream (procedure)
- IntToCur (function)
- IntToFloat (function)
- IntToStr (function)
- IsNumber (function)
- IsPageEmpty (function)
- LE (function)
- Left (function)
- Length (function)
- LineTo/RLineTo (procedure)
- LowerCase (function)
- LT (function)
- MapUTF8 (function)
- Margin (procedure)
- Mid (function)
- Mod (function & procedure)
- MoveTo/RMoveTo (procedure)
- Mul (function)
- NE (function)
- Neg (function)
- Not (Boolean operator function)
- Object $name()... EndObject (procedure)
- Or (Boolean operator function)
- Ord (function)
- OutputDebugString (procedure)
- PassThrough (procedure)
- PDFPageCount (function)
- PDFWidth/PDFHeight (function)
- Pie (procedure)
- PixelHeight (function)
- PixelWidth (function)
- Pos (function)
- Put (procedure)
- Random (function)
- Rectangle (procedure)
- RectFill (procedure)
- RectFillStroke (procedure)
- RectStroke (procedure)
- Region (function)
- Regionline (function)
- Repeat... Until (procedure)
- ResourceType (function)
- Right (function)
- RunPS (procedure)
- Scale (procedure)
- Search … EndSearch (procedure)
- SelectMedia (procedure)
- SelectPrinter (procedure)
- Set (procedure)
- SetAngle (procedure)
- SetBodyText (procedure)
- SetDash(procedure)
- SetDataPage(procedure)
- SetEmailAddress (procedure)
- SetEmailSubject (procedure)
- SetEmulation(procedure)
- SetUserCRLF (procedure)
- SetFaxInformation (procedure)
- SetFaxNumber (procedure)
- SetFillColor (procedure)
- SetImageIndex (procedure)
- SetLineWidth (procedure)
- SetLPP(procedure)
- SetPDFBookmark (procedure)
- SetStrokeColor (procedure)
- SetStyle (procedure)
- SetStyleExt (procedure)
- Show / ShowCenter / ShowRight (procedure)
- ShowBarCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcode2of5(procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAustPost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAztec (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodabar (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodablockF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode11 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode128 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode16k (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode39 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode49 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode93 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeDatamatrix (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN8 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN13 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeFIM (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeI2of5 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeISBN (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeJapanpost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMaxicode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroPDF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroQR (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMSI (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeOnecode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePDF417 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePlessey (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePostnet (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeQRCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRoyalMail (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRSS (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCA (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCE (procedure)
- ShowBitmap (procedure)
- ShowCaptureUserArea (procedure)
- ShowEPS (procedure)
- ShowLeftRight (procedure)
- ShowPage (procedure)
- ShowPDF (procedure)
- ShowUTF8 (procedure)
- ShowUTF8Left / ShowUTF8Right / ShowUTF8Center (procedure)
- Sin (function)
- StopJob (procedure)
- Store (procedure)
- StringReplace (function)
- StringWidth (function)
- StringWidthUTF8 (function)
- Strip (function)
- Stroke (procedure)
- StrokeAndFill (procedure)
- StrToCur (function)
- StrToFloat (function)
- StrToInt (function)
- Sub (function)
- SubRecCount (function)
- Time (function)
- Translate (procedure)
- Trim (function)
- TrimLeft (function)
- TrimRight (function)
- UpperCase (function)
- xmlCount()
- xmlGet()
- XOr (Boolean operator function)
- Language Reference (by element type)
- System Variables
- &EOJob (system variable)
- &FirstSide (system variable)
- &Height (system variable)
- &PrinterMode (system variable)
- &Str (system variable)
- &Width (system variable)
- System Objects
- Current (system object)
- Physical (system object)
- &system (system object)
- Assignment Operator
- = (operator)
- Mathematical Operators and Operator Functions
- + (operator & function)
- Add (function)
- – (operator)
- Sub (function)
- Asterisk (*) operator
- Mul (function)
- / (operator)
- Div (function)
- Neg (function)
- Cos (function)
- Sin (function)
- Random (function)
- Ceil (function)
- String Operator
- + (operator & function)
- Boolean Operator Functions
- And (Boolean operator function)
- Not (Boolean operator function)
- Or (Boolean operator function)
- XOr (Boolean operator function)
- Comparison Operators and Operator Functions
- GT (function)
- Greater than (>) operator
- GE (function)
- Greater or equal to (>=) operator
- LT (function)
- Less than (<) operator
- LE (function)
- Less or equal to (<=) operator
- Eq (function)
- = (operator)
- NE (function)
- <> (operator)
- Conversion Operator Functions
- FloatToCur (function)
- FloatToInt (function)
- FloatToStr (function)
- IntToCur (function)
- IntToFloat (function)
- IntToStr (function)
- StrToCur (function)
- StrToFloat (function)
- StrToInt (function)
- Loop Structures
- For… EndFor (procedure)
- Repeat... Until (procedure)
- Search … EndSearch (procedure)
- Exit (procedure)
- Condition Structures
- If … ElseIf… EndIf (procedure)
- If (function)
- Procedures
- % (procedure)
- @name (function/procedure)
- @page (procedure)
- $element (procedure)
- Arc and ArcN (procedures)
- BeginDocument/EndDocument (procedure)
- BeginGroup/EndGroup (procedure)
- BeginParagraph … EndParagraph (procedure)
- BeginUTF8Paragraph … EndUTF8Paragraph (procedure)
- Breakpoint (procedure)
- CallPPD (procedure)
- CharPath (procedure)
- ClearPage (procedure)
- ClipPath (procedure)
- ClosePath (procedure)
- CRLF (procedure)
- CurveTo/RCurveTo (procedure)
- Define (procedure)
- DefineData (procedure)
- DefineImageIndex (procedure)
- DoForm (procedure)
- endpageset (procedure)
- ExecPage (procedure)
- Exit (procedure)
- Fill (procedure)
- For… EndFor (procedure)
- Function @name (procedure)
- GetNextDataPage(procedure)
- GRestore (procedure)
- GSave (procedure)
- If … ElseIf… EndIf (procedure)
- InStream... EndInStream (procedure)
- LineTo/RLineTo (procedure)
- Margin (procedure)
- MoveTo/RMoveTo (procedure)
- Object $name()... EndObject (procedure)
- OutputDebugString (procedure)
- PassThrough (procedure)
- Pie (procedure)
- Put (procedure)
- Rectangle (procedure)
- RectFill (procedure)
- RectFillStroke (procedure)
- RectStroke (procedure)
- Repeat... Until (procedure)
- RunPS (procedure)
- Scale (procedure)
- Search … EndSearch (procedure)
- SelectMedia (procedure)
- SelectPrinter (procedure)
- Set (procedure)
- SetAngle (procedure)
- SetBodyText (procedure)
- SetDash(procedure)
- SetDataPage(procedure)
- SetEmailAddress (procedure)
- SetEmailSubject (procedure)
- SetEmulation(procedure)
- SetUserCRLF (procedure)
- SetFaxInformation (procedure)
- SetFaxNumber (procedure)
- SetFillColor (procedure)
- SetImageIndex (procedure)
- SetLineWidth (procedure)
- SetLPP(procedure)
- SetPDFBookmark (procedure)
- SetStrokeColor (procedure)
- SetStyle (procedure)
- SetStyleExt (procedure)
- Show / ShowCenter / ShowRight (procedure)
- ShowBarCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcode2of5(procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAustPost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAztec (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodabar (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodablockF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode11 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode128 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode16k (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode39 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode49 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode93 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeDatamatrix (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN8 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN13 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeFIM (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeI2of5 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeISBN (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeJapanpost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMaxicode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroPDF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroQR (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMSI (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeOnecode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePDF417 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePlessey (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePostnet (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeQRCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRoyalMail (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRSS (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCA (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCE (procedure)
- ShowBitmap (procedure)
- ShowCaptureUserArea (procedure)
- ShowEPS (procedure)
- ShowLeftRight (procedure)
- ShowPage (procedure)
- ShowPDF (procedure)
- ShowUTF8 (procedure)
- ShowUTF8Left / ShowUTF8Right / ShowUTF8Center (procedure)
- StopJob (procedure)
- Store (procedure)
- Stroke (procedure)
- StrokeAndFill (procedure)
- Translate (procedure)
- Functions
- @ (function)
- @name (function/procedure)
- BitmapWidth/BitmapHeight (function)
- C128 (function)
- Ceil (function)
- Char (function)
- Date (function)
- Definemeta (function)
- EPSWidth/EPSHeight (function)
- ExecScriptFile (function)
- ExpandString (function)
- Field (function)
- FieldCount (function)
- FieldName (function)
- Find (function)
- Get (function)
- GetBlack (function)
- GetCyan (function)
- GetMagenta (function)
- Getmeta (function)
- Getmetacount (function)
- GetYellow (function)
- IsNumber (function)
- IsPageEmpty (function)
- Left (function)
- Length (function)
- LowerCase (function)
- MapUTF8 (function)
- Mid (function)
- Mul (function)
- Ord (function)
- PDFPageCount (function)
- PDFWidth/PDFHeight (function)
- PixelHeight (function)
- PixelWidth (function)
- Pos (function)
- Random (function)
- Region (function)
- Regionline (function)
- ResourceType (function)
- Right (function)
- StringReplace (function)
- StringWidth (function)
- StringWidthUTF8 (function)
- Strip (function)
- Sub (function)
- SubRecCount (function)
- Time (function)
- Trim (function)
- TrimLeft (function)
- TrimRight (function)
- UpperCase (function)
- xmlCount()
- xmlGet()
- System Variables (by data type)
- Functions (by return value data type)
- Currency
- Add (function)
- FloatToCur (function)
- IntToCur (function)
- StrToCur (function)
- Integer
- Add (function)
- Ceil (function)
- Div (function)
- FieldCount (function)
- FloatToInt (function)
- Get (function)
- GetBlack (function)
- GetCyan (function)
- GetMagenta (function)
- GetYellow (function)
- Getmetacount (function)
- If (function)
- Length (function)
- Mod (function & procedure)
- Mul (function)
- Neg (function)
- Ord (function)
- PDFPageCount (function)
- PixelHeight (function)
- PixelWidth (function)
- Pos (function)
- ResourceType (function)
- StrToInt (function)
- Sub (function)
- SubRecCount (function)
- xmlCount()
- Measure
- Add (function)
- BitmapWidth/BitmapHeight (function)
- Cos (function)
- CurToFloat (function)
- Div (function)
- EPSWidth/EPSHeight (function)
- Get (function)
- If (function)
- IntToFloat (function)
- Mul (function)
- Neg (function)
- PDFWidth/PDFHeight (function)
- Random (function)
- Sin (function)
- StringWidth (function)
- StringWidthUTF8 (function)
- StrToFloat (function)
- Sub (function)
- String
- @ (function)
- C128 (function)
- Char (function)
- CurToStr (function)
- ExpandString (function)
- Field (function)
- FieldName (function)
- FloatToStr (function)
- Get (function)
- If (function)
- IntToStr (function)
- Left (function)
- LowerCase (function)
- Mid (function)
- Right (function)
- StringReplace (function)
- Strip (function)
- Trim (function)
- TrimLeft (function)
- TrimRight (function)
- UpperCase (function)
- xmlGet()
- Boolean
- Add (function)
- Eq (function)
- Find (function)
- GE (function)
- GT (function)
- If (function)
- IsNumber (function)
- IsPageEmpty (function)
- LE (function)
- LT (function)
- NE (function)
- Not (Boolean operator function)
- Or (Boolean operator function)
- XOr (Boolean operator function)
- Procedures (by category)
- Debugging
- Breakpoint (procedure)
- OutputDebugString (procedure)
- Variables
- Define (procedure)
- Put (procedure)
- Set (procedure)
- Global Functions
- @name (function/procedure)
- Function @name (procedure)
- Comments
- % (procedure)
- Graphics State
- GRestore (procedure)
- GSave (procedure)
- Scale (procedure)
- SetAngle (procedure)
- SetDash(procedure)
- SetFillColor (procedure)
- SetLineWidth (procedure)
- SetStrokeColor (procedure)
- Translate (procedure)
- Path
- Arc and ArcN (procedures)
- ClosePath (procedure)
- CurveTo/RCurveTo (procedure)
- Fill (procedure)
- LineTo/RLineTo (procedure)
- MoveTo/RMoveTo (procedure)
- Pie (procedure)
- Rectangle (procedure)
- RectFill (procedure)
- RectFillStroke (procedure)
- RectStroke (procedure)
- Stroke (procedure)
- StrokeAndFill (procedure)
- Paragraphs and Text
- BeginParagraph … EndParagraph (procedure)
- BeginUTF8Paragraph … EndUTF8Paragraph (procedure)
- CRLF (procedure)
- Margin (procedure)
- ShowLeftRight (procedure)
- Show / ShowCenter / ShowRight (procedure)
- Styles
- SetStyle (procedure)
- SetStyleExt (procedure)
- Objects
- Object $name()... EndObject (procedure)
- Bar Codes
- ShowBarCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcode2of5(procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAustPost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeAztec (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodabar (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCodablockF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode11 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode128 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode16k (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode39 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode49 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeCode93 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeDatamatrix (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN8 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeEAN13 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeFIM (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeI2of5 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeISBN (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeJapanpost (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMaxicode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroPDF (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMicroQR (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeMSI (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeOnecode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePDF417 (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePlessey (procedure)
- ShowBarcodePostnet (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeQRCode (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRoyalMail (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeRSS (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCA (procedure)
- ShowBarcodeUPCE (procedure)
- Resources
- InStream... EndInStream (procedure)
- ShowBitmap (procedure)
- ShowEPS (procedure)
- ShowPDF (procedure)
- Elements
- $element (procedure)
- Emulation, Data File, and Data Pages
- ClearPage (procedure)
- DefineData (procedure)
- DoForm (procedure)
- GetNextDataPage(procedure)
- SetDataPage(procedure)
- SetEmulation(procedure)
- SetLPP(procedure)
- Store (procedure)
- Data Destined for PlanetPress Image, PlanetPress Fax and PlanetPress Search
- DefineImageIndex (procedure)
- SetBodyText (procedure)
- SetEmailAddress (procedure)
- SetEmailSubject (procedure)
- SetFaxInformation (procedure)
- SetFaxNumber (procedure)
- SetImageIndex (procedure)
- SetPDFBookmark (procedure)
- Document Pages
- @page (procedure)
- ExecPage (procedure)
- ShowPage (procedure)
- PPDs and PostScript
- CallPPD (procedure)
- PassThrough (procedure)
- RunPS (procedure)
- SelectMedia (procedure)
- Program Control
- Exit (procedure)
- For… EndFor (procedure)
- If … ElseIf… EndIf (procedure)
- Repeat... Until (procedure)
- Search … EndSearch (procedure)
- StopJob (procedure)
- Conversion Tables
- ASCII Conversion Table
- Points to Inches or Centimeters
- Line Height as a Function of Lines Per Unit (LPU)
- Variable PlanetPressTalk Properties
- Tools and Utilities
- Document Output and Preview
- About Previewing and Printing
- Install a Document
- Perform a Batch Conversion and/or Installation
- How a Variable Content Document Runs on a Printer
- Techniques for Inserting Triggers
- Trigger Syntax
- Trigger Syntax for Documents Installed on a Hard Disk
- Trigger Syntax for Documents Installed in RAM
- Trigger Syntax for Documents Installed in Flash Memory
- Run a Document Installed on a Printer
- Run a Document Installed in a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool
- Run a Document that Uses a Database Emulation
- Run Several Documents as a Single Job
- Troubleshoot Execution Problems
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- PlanetPress Design General
- Exit PlanetPress Design
- Use the Help System
- Show or Hide Areas of the Program Window
- Work with Hierarchies
- Work in the Document Structure Area
- Work with Documents
- Preview and Install Documents
- Work with Pages
- Adjust the Zoom
- Use Basic Editing Commands
- Work in the Data Pane
- Work with the Data File
- Work with Data Selections
- Use the Hex Viewer
- Work with Objects
- Work in the Text Properties of a Text Object
- PlanetPress Talk Editor
- General
- Show or Hide Areas of the Editor
- Expand or Collapse Groups in the Commands Area
- Work in the Code Area
- Use Command Name Completion/Argument Insertion
- Undo Commands
- Work with Selections
- Add/Remove Comments
- Indent Code
- Search
- Jump to a Specific Line
- Use Bookmarks
- Execute a Program
- Debug Code
- Print the Script
- Converted Document
- About Documents
- About Data Selections
- About Objects
- PPD File
- PlanetPress Design General
Shape Object
Shape objects are used to add a variety of lines, arrows, or geometric shapes to your document. Add shapes one at a time.
You can also group one or more shapes that you add to the document and manipulate the group as a single shape.
In addition to the common object properties, shape objects have the following properties:
Type Tab
l Shape type: Select the type of style of the shape you want from the list of Box, Line, Circle, Ellipse, Arrow or Triangle.
l Style: Select the style for the lines in the shape.
l Width: Enter the width, in units of points, for lines in the shape.
l Color box: View the current color for the lines in the shape.
l Color button: Click to select a color for the lines in the shape using the Color Picker.
l Arrow (available when the Shape type is Arrow):
l Start Style: Select a style for the arrowhead at the start of the arrow.
l End Style: Select a style for the arrowhead at the end of the arrow.
Color Tab
l Fill:Click to fill the object with a specific color or gradient. This enables the properties in the Fill group
l Color box: View the current fill color for the background box.
l Color button: Click to select the fill color for the background box using the Color Picker.
l Gradient fill
l Gradient fill: Select to use a gradient fill for the background box. The start color for the gradient is the fill
color. Use the controls in this area to set the end color for the gradient, the number of gradations the gradient
uses, and the direction of the gradient. Gradients are not available if the background box you select for the
text/box object has one or more rounded corners.
l Color box: View the end color for the gradient.
l Color button: Click to select the end color for the gradient using the Color Picker.
l Steps: Enter the number of gradations you want to use in the gradient, or use the spin buttons to set the
value. The number of gradations determines how obvious the transition is between the Fill color and the
Gradient fill color. The maximum number of gradations is 100.
l Gradient direction: Select the direction for the gradient.
l Reverse: Select to reverse the start and end colors for the gradient.
l Shadow: Select to display a drop shadow with the background box.
l Color box: View the current color for the drop shadow.
l Color button: Click Color to select a color for the shadow using the Color Picker.
l Width: Enter the width for the drop shadow. Units are typographical points.
l Scale ratio: Enter the percentage by which you want to scale the text object to create the drop shadow.
l X shift, Y shift: Select the X and Y offsets respectively for the center of the drop shadow. The coordinates
(0,0) align the center of the drop shadow with the center of the text object. Positive X values move the shadow
to the right of the center of the text object, and negative X values move it to the left of the center of the text
object. Positive Y values move the shadow below the center of the text object, and negative Y values move it
above the center of the text object.
N-Up Object
The N-Up Object is used to execute a virtual page N-Up. N-Up refers to executing a page such that two or more instances of it
print on one side of a sheet of paper.The page you execute N-Up must be of type virtual, however it overlays can be asso-
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