Contents 1. Welcome ............................................................................... 1 Welcome!......................................................................................................2 New features ...............................................................................................3 Installation ...................................................................................................6 2. Getting Started ......................................................
Contents 5. Text ....................................................................................... 43 Understanding text frames ................................................................ 44 Flowing text through frames............................................................. 51 Fitting text to frames ............................................................................ 51 Linking text frames ................................................................................
Contents Gradient and bitmap fills .................................................................. 100 Working with transparency .............................................................. 106 9. Publishing and Sharing ............................................... 111 Preflight check ...................................................................................... 112 Interactive Print/PDF Preview ......................................................... 114 Printing basics ..................
Welcome
2 Welcome Welcome! Welcome to PagePlus X9, the award-winning Desktop Publishing (DTP) solution from Serif that lets you create, publish and share designs as outstanding printed documents, stunning PDFs, PDF slideshows, tables/charts, modern eBooks or via web page. PagePlus comes with an impressive selection of design templates, creative content, and styles for you to use.
Welcome 3 New features New features are fully described in PagePlus Help, with many also being covered in written and video tutorials in the Startup Assistant's Learn feed. Here's a summary of PagePlus X9's new features.. • PDF Publishing enhancements Now compatible with PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5, which support transparency, PagePlus keeps up to date with the latest PDF standards. • Placed PDF pass-through Any placed PDF in your publication is honoured with absolute fidelity using pass-through.
4 Welcome identification. Any iCalendar file can be imported; you can export your calendar events too! Ease of Use • Easier ruler guide control For precision placement, use the Transform tab to position guides. For quicker guide setup, the Guide Tool offers selectable guides which lets you move, duplicate, copy/paste (to another page), distribute or delete multiple guides simultaneously. Ruler guides can now be viewed independently of margin, row/column and bleed area guides.
Welcome • 5 EPS export Supports export to EPS files including settings for compatibility, colour properties and overprinting. Text • Copy text properties with Format Painter As well as copying an object's formatting, any selected text's formatting can now be applied to other artistic and frame text. • Convert frame text to table PagePlus can detect different text deliminators (commas, tab marks, and more) in text frames and convert selected delimited text to tables with no fuss.
6 Welcome Installation Installing PagePlus follows different procedures depending on whether you are installing from disc or via download. You can install your new version alongside previous versions and use them independently. 32 or 64-bit PagePlus X9 installs to respective 32 or 64-bit computers. Installation procedure (from disc) • Insert your purchased disc into your disc drive. • If AutoPlay is enabled on the drive, this automatically starts the Setup Wizard.
Welcome System Requirements Minimum: • Windows-based PC* with mouse or equivalent input device • Operating systems: Windows® 10, 8, 7, Vista (32 or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows® XP SP3 (32 bit) • 512MB RAM (Windows® XP) 1GB RAM (Windows® Vista and 32-bit Windows 7® and 8) 2GB RAM (For 64-bit Windows® 7, 8, 10) • 564MB free hard disk space for physical media install (and a DVD drive) 1.
8 Welcome Optional: • Windows-compatible printer • TWAIN-compatible scanner and/or digital camera • .NET 2.0 for text import filters (Word 2007/2010 + OpenOffice) (installed by default)* • Internet account and connection required for accessing online resources * On Windows 8/10, also requires an extra 1GB of free hard disk space.
Getting Started
10 Getting Started Startup Assistant Once PagePlus has been installed, you're ready to start. • For Windows Vista/7/10: Use the Windows Start button to pop up the Start menu, click on All Programs (All apps) and then click Serif PagePlus X9. • For Windows 8: Use the Windows Start button to pop up the startup screen, and then click the PagePlus icon.
Getting Started 11 The options are described as follows: • The default home page keeps you in touch with Serif promotions and showcases articles (tutorials, etc.) You can also view the PagePlus Overview and Quick Start video • Open - to access PagePlus publications, PDF files, or BookPlus files; also provides recent file history. • Learn - for online video/written tutorials, help, tips & tricks, and more—all via a learn feed that can be filtered by article Type.
12 Getting Started Once you've clicked on a new article the "new" indicator changes to a "read" indicator. Don't forget to use the keyword Search box at the top-right of the Startup Assistant. This is an incredibly powerful tool for filtering specific publication names, Learn articles, page sizes, theme layout names, or news articles.
Getting Started 13 Theme layouts offer a choice of themes (e.g., Ribbon) on which to base your publication (Brochure, Business Card, Flyer, Forms, Letterheads, Newsletter, ePublication, etc.); you'll get picture placeholders instead of actual pictures. Simply add your own pictures to placeholders and personalize placeholder text, then publish. You can also choose which page layouts you want to base your new publication on.
14 Getting Started To create a publication from a design template: 1. Open PagePlus, or select Startup Assistant from the File menu. 2. Click Templates. 3. From the pane, select a Theme Layout or a design template from the Pro Template Packs category. Select from the tree menu in the lefthand pane. Alternatively, scroll down to choose a publication type from the same list, e.g. Brochures, Business Cards, ePublications, etc. 4.
Getting Started 6. Pick a colour scheme from the drop-down list at the top of the dialog. The page thumbnails refresh to reflect the new page's appearance. 7. Click OK. The pages are added to your new publication. 15 Starting a new publication from scratch Although design templates can simplify your design choices, you can just as easily start out from scratch with a new, blank publication.
16 Getting Started 2. From the Publication Setup dialog, select a publication type, size, and orientation. 3. Click OK. Choosing an Intent from File>Publication Setup which will help PagePlus more accurately represent how your publication will look when published or printed. Choose between the two Print/PDF and eBook/Web output types, preferably before you start creating content. You can also choose a colour mode (RGB or CMYK) that suits either onscreen viewing or printed output, respectively.
Getting Started i. For other PagePlus publications, PDF files, or BookPlus files, select from the Browse My Computer pane. ii. From the dialog, locate and select your file, then click Open. To open existing publications (without Startup Assistant): • Click Open on the Standard toolbar.
18 Getting Started Cutting Cut Standard toolbar Delete Key Delete Distributing Space Evenly Across Align tab Space Evenly Down Duplicating - - Flip (horizontally) Flip horizontal Arrange menu Flipping (vertically) Flip vertical Arrange menu Grouping Under selected objects Group/ Ungroup Joining Locking/ Unlocking Moving Ordering Join Outlines Arrange toolbar Arrange menu>Lock Object Arrange menu>Unlock Objects - Pointer Tool Bring to Front Send to Back Forward One Back One Tools too
Getting Started Pasting Paste Placing Place Multiple Selecting Pointer Tool Standard toolbar Context toolbar Tools toolbar Lasso Tool Replicating Edit menu - Resizing Pointer Tool Rotating Pointer Tool Rotate Left Tools toolbar Tools toolbar Arrange toolbar Rotate Right Saving your publication To save your work: Save on the Standard toolbar. 1. Click 2. To save under a different name, choose Save As from the File menu.
20 Getting Started Updating and saving defaults Object defaults are the stored property settings PagePlus applies to newly created objects such as: • lines and shapes (line and fill colour, shade, pattern, transparency, etc.) • frames (margins, columns, etc.) • text (i.e., font, size, colour, alignment, etc.). Defaults are saved separately for artistic, shape, frame and table text.
Getting Started 21 To view and change default text properties: 1. From the Format menu, select Text Style Palette. 2. Double-click Default Text, then from the expanded list of text types, choose an option (e.g., Artistic Text). 3. Click Modify to view current settings for the selected text type. 4. Use the dialog to alter character, paragraph, or other properties. To save all current defaults as global settings: 1. From the Tools menu, select Save Default Settings. 2.
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Pages
24 Pages Setting up a publication A publication's page size, orientation and intent settings are fundamental to your layout, and are defined when the new publication is first created, either using a design template or as a new publication. To adjust size/orientation of the current publication: Publication Setup from the Pages context toolbar. 1. Select 2. Ensure the Paper menu option is selected.
Pages 25 Once you've set up your publication, you can optionally include repeated page elements on every page by creating master pages (p. 29). Intent Setting the intent for your publication determines how text is composed and rendered, so should be decided at the start of your project. Changing intent after you've finished designing can alter the appearance of your publication and can affect text flow. You may need to adjust text frame sizes and layouts. 1.
26 Pages Uniform and mixed page orientations If you've changed your mind about the page orientation chosen at page setup, you can change the page orientation uniformly across your publication at any time. To change all publication pages from portrait to landscape (or vice versa): • On the Pages context toolbar, click the down arrow on the Publication Orientation button, then select Landscape Publication (or Portrait Publication) from the flyout.
Pages 27 - or From the Pages context toolbar, click the down arrow on the Page orientation button, then select Landscape Page (or Portrait Page) from the flyout. You can repeat the procedure for any other selected page. Adding, removing, and rearranging pages Use the Pages tab to add/delete standard or master pages, assign master pages to standard pages, and rearrange standard pages using drag-and-drop. You can also change page orientations. To add a single page: 1.
28 Pages To delete a single page/master page: 1. On the Pages tab, select the page (or master page) to delete on the appropriate window by clicking its thumbnail. 2. Click Delete Page/Remove Master Page. To rearrange pages: • On the Pages tab, in the lower Pages window, drag a page thumbnail over another page thumbnail in the page sequence. The page is added after the hovered over page thumbnail.
Pages 29 Understanding master pages Master pages provide a flexible way to store background elements that you'd like to appear on more than one page—for example a logo, background, header/footer, or border design. (A) Page, (B) Master Page The key concept here is that a particular master page is typically shared by multiple pages, as illustrated below.
30 Pages Master pages are available in every publication, but in a simple publication you may not need to use any master pages—or you may need only one master page. Facing pages and multiple master pages prove valuable with longer, more complex publications. If you're starting with a design template you may encounter one or more master pages incorporated with the design.
Pages 31 To swap one page's master page for another: • From the expanded Master Pages window in the Pages tab, drag a master page onto a target standard page in the lower window. Click Page Identifiers to indicate the master pages used on the currently selected page(s). The master page is represented as a letter on the Page, e.g. A, B, C, etc. To swap multiple page's master page for another: 1.
32 Pages Assigning multiple master pages You can assign additional master pages to your page for more powerful page design. In the example above, both master page 'A' and master page 'B' contribute to the page design (shown at top). An additional master page needs to be created first. See Adding, removing, and rearranging pages on p. 27.
Pages 33 Facing pages and dual master pages If you're using multi-page regular/booklet publications, you can assign different master pages to the left and right publication pages (also called spreads) if necessary—master pages are assigned per page and not per spread. For example (see below), a left-hand "body text" page might use the left-side component of one master page (A), while a right-hand page could use the right side of a different master page (B).
34 Pages • Click Edit on Master Page to jump to the master page and edit the object there. • Promote from Master Page to disconnect the object Click from the master page and make it independently editable on the publication page. Using page numbering Page number fields automatically display the current page number.
Pages 35 You can also specify the First Page Number in the sequence (this will appear on the first page of the publication). For example, Chapter Two of a long publication might be in a separate file and begin numbering with page 33. To set the first page number: 1. Uncheck Continue from previous chapter. PagePlus keeps this checked by default so that number continuation is maintained if your publication is to be part of a book. 2. Enter a different First Page Number.
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Assets for Creativity
38 Assets for Creativity Using assets An asset is a general term for any object or page element that can be added to your page to enhance its appearance, increase efficiency, or personalize your design. Assets range from graphics, logos, pictures, picture frames, and backgrounds (as shown below), to more complex page content and entire pages. To use assets, PagePlus provides the Assets tab, powered by both an Asset Browser (p. 41) and Asset Manager.
Assets for Creativity 39 Using the Assets tab The Assets tab is a powerful design resource that exclusively hosts your browsed assets, ready for adding to your publication page. Assets can be placed into the following categories. • My Designs: Stores custom assets dragged from the page. • Graphics: Stores professional clipart from Asset Packs. • Pictures: Stores added pictures from your hard disk (or from Asset Pack, if containing pictures). • Picture Frames: Stores picture frames from Asset Packs.
40 Assets for Creativity The tab also lets you create custom designs for reuse globally or just in your publication. You'll be able to: • Store your own designs to the tab's My Designs category for global use. • Store your own designs to any other tab's category for current publication use. • Create custom picture frames from drawn shapes. • Create custom page backgrounds from pictures or filled page objects. • Create custom page content (combinations of assets).
Assets for Creativity 41 Browsing The Asset Browser offers a whole range of professional ready-to-go designs that you can use directly in your publication. These designs are provided in categorized Asset Packs installed with PagePlus. You can browse these packs and preview their contents, before adding assets to your workspace. There are two ways to browse assets—by category or by Asset Pack.
42 Assets for Creativity 4. (Optional) To narrow your search, filter assets by entering an asset name in the Search box at the top-right of the main pane. Adding assets to your Assets tab To add a specific asset: • Select the category or pack file in the Asset Browser, and then simply click the asset. A check mark shows on the thumbnail. To add all assets: • from the upper-right corner of each Asset Pack's Click Add All thumbnail gallery. Check marks will show on all thumbnails.
Text
44 Text Understanding text frames Typically, text in PagePlus goes into text frames, which work equally well as containers for single words, standalone paragraphs, multipage articles, or chapter text. You can also use artistic text (see p. 57) for standalone text with special effects, or table text for row-and-column displays.
Text 45 Creating text frames You add text frames and position them on the page as you would any other object, in advance of adding text content. To create a frame: Standard Text Frame on the Tools toolbar. 1. Select 2. Click on the page or pasteboard to create a new frame at a default size. - or Drag out to place the text frame at your chosen dimensions. To delete a frame: • Select the frame—click its edge until a solid border appears—and then press the Delete key.
46 Text Typing into the frame: Select the Pointer Tool, then click for an insertion point to type text straight into a frame, or edit existing text. (See Editing text on the page on p. 58.) Pasting via the Clipboard: At an insertion point in the text, press Ctrl+V. Drag and drop: Select text (e.g. in a word processor file), then drag it onto the PagePlus page. Frame linking Text frames can stand alone or they can be linked so that a single story continues from one frame to another.
Text • between linked frames on different pages. • from one column to another in the same frame.
48 Text Frame properties and layout The frame layout controls how text will flow in the frame. The frame can contain multiple columns. When a frame is selected, its column margins appear as dashed grey guide lines if set in Frame Properties. Note that unlike the page margin and row/column guides, which serve as layout guides for placing page elements, the frame column guides actually determine how text flows within each frame. Text won't flow outside the column margins.
Text (1) (2) 49 (3) The frame edge is clicked to show a selected bounding box (1), after dragging inwards the column margin can be adjusted (2), and after dragging downwards, the top margin blind can be moved (3). To edit frame properties using a dialog: Text Frame Properties on the Frame 1. Select the frame and click context toolbar. 2. From the dialog, use the three menu options to set up your frame.
50 Text To apply the same values across all columns in the dialog, hover over a column header, then select 'Make Values Equal', 'Set Values to Lowest', or 'Set Values to Highest' using the drop-down menu. Adding pictures into a text frame Pictures can be placed inline at any point in your story in a text frame, with PagePlus prompting you to resize the picture to fit with the text frames dimensions if it is too large.
Text 51 Flowing text through frames If you have more text than will fit in one text frame, you have the following options to accommodate the text: • Shrink the text to fit the frame • Manually create and link multiple frames (p. 53) • Use AutoFlow to automatically create new frames (p. 55) • Use Auto-frame to dynamically, continually add or remove text frames (p.
52 Text Enlarge Text Click to increase the story's text size one increment (approx. 2%). Shrink Text Click to reduce the story's text size one increment (approx. 2%). Each frame's story text can adopt its own individual autofit setting as follows: The AutoFit Options flyout offers three autofit options which continuously act upon a selected frame's story text.
Text 53 Linking text frames When a text frame is selected, the frame includes a Link button at the bottom right which denotes the state of the frame and its story text. It also allows you to control how the frame's story flows to following frames: No Overflow The frame is not linked to a following frame (it's either a standalone frame or the last frame in a sequence) and the frame is empty or the end of the story text is visible.
54 Text • You can import the text into a single frame, then create and link additional frames into which the text automatically flows. When frames are created by the AutoFlow option (for example when importing text), they are automatically linked in sequence. To create a link or reorder the links between existing frames, you can use the Link button under the frame. Remember to watch the cursor, which changes to indicate these operations.
Text 55 AutoFlow If your text frames are not set to Auto-frame (see p. 56) and there's too much story text to fit in a frame sequence, PagePlus stores it in an invisible overflow area. To indicate this overflow, the Link button on and an AutoFlow button the last frame of the sequence displays appears next to it. The AutoFlow feature will automatically flow text into available, empty text frames, or create text frames on new pages, for you.
56 Text Automatic text frame creation using Auto-frame Auto-frame is an option which can be set on any frame in your publication. Once this is set, PagePlus will automatically create new text frames on new pages if there is too much content to fill the initial frame. Furthermore, it will automatically remove empty text frames (and empty pages) if content is reduced. This, alongside WritePlus, could be considered PagePlus's 'word processing mode'.
Text 57 Using artistic text Artistic text is standalone text you type directly onto a page. Especially useful for headlines, pull quotes, and other special-purpose text, it's easily formatted with the standard text tools. To create artistic text: Artistic Text Tool from the Tools toolbar. 1. Choose the 2. Click on the page to make an insertion point from where you'll begin typing. 3. Set initial text properties (style, font, point size, etc.) using the Text context toolbar. 4.
58 Text To resize or reproportion an artistic text object: • To resize while maintaining the object's proportions, drag the resize handles. • To resize freely, hold down the Shift key while dragging. To edit artistic text: • Drag to select a range of text, creating a blue selection. You can double- or triple-click to select a word or all text. Now you can type new text, apply character and paragraph formatting, edit the text in WritePlus, apply proofing options, and so on.
Text 59 Selecting and entering text The selection of frame text, artistic text, and table text follows the conventions of the most up-to-date word-processing tools. The selection area is shaded in semi-transparent blue for clear editing. Double-, triple- or quadruple-click selects a word, paragraph or all text, respectively. You can also make use of the Ctrl-click or drag for selection of non-adjacent words, the Shift key for ranges of text. To edit text on the page: 1.
60 Text To start a new line within the same paragraph (using a line break or soft return): • Press Shift+Return. To flow text to the next column (Column Break), frame (Frame Break) or page (Page Break): • Press Ctrl+Return, Alt+Return or Ctrl+Shift+Return, respectively. The first two options apply only to frame text. You can use these shortcuts or choose the items from the Insert>Break submenu. To switch between insert mode and overwrite mode: • Press the Insert key.
Text 61 To apply basic text formatting: 1. Select the text. 2. Use buttons on the Text context toolbar to change text style, font, point size, attributes, paragraph alignment, bullets/numbering, or level. To apply paragraph formatting: • From the Paragraph tab, select options to control paragraph-level alignment, indent, line spacing, auto-hyphenation, and alignment to baseline grid. To clear local formatting (restore plain/default text properties): 1. Select a range of text with local formatting.
62 Text Styles can be applied to characters or paragraphs using either the Text context toolbar or the Text Styles tab. Both paragraph and character styles can be managed from the Text Style Palette. Paragraph and character styles A paragraph style is a complete specification for the appearance of a paragraph, including all font and paragraph format attributes. Every paragraph in PagePlus has a paragraph style associated with it.
Text 63 As both paragraph and character formatting can be applied to the same text, all of the current text's formatting is displayed in the Current format box on the tab. In the example below, currently selected text has a 'Strong' character style applied over a 'Body' paragraph style. To update a named style using the properties of existing text: 1. Make your desired formatting changes to any text that uses a named style. 2.
64 Text Wrapping text PagePlus lets you wrap frame text around the contours of a separate object. Usually, this means wrapping text to a picture that overlaps or sits above a text frame. But you can wrap frame text around a shape, artistic text, table, or another frame. Wrapping is accomplished by changing the wrap setting for the object to which text will wrap. To wrap text around an object: 1. Select the object around which you want the text to wrap. 2. Click the 3.
Text 4. 65 Choose which side(s) the chosen wrapping method will be applied, again by clicking a sample. The examples show tight wrapping applied to the right of the object only. 5. Click OK. You can manually adjust the wrap outline using the Curve context toolbar for more precise text fitting. Creating a bulleted or numbered list You can turn a series of paragraphs into bulleted, numbered or multilevel lists.
66 Text Lists can be applied to normal text (as local formatting) or to text styles equally. To create a simple bulleted or numbered list: 1. Select one or more paragraphs. - or Click in a paragraph's text. 2. Select Bulleted List or context toolbar. Numbered List from the Text To create a bulleted or numbered list (using presets): 1. Select one or more paragraphs. - or Click in a paragraph's text. 2. Select Bullets and Numbering from the Format menu. 3.
Tables, Charts, and Calendars
68 Tables, Charts, and Calendars Creating tables Tables are ideal for presenting text and data in a variety of easily customizable row-and-column formats, with built-in spreadsheet capabilities. Rather than starting from scratch, PagePlus is supplied with a selection of pre-defined table formats, called AutoFormats, that can be used. Simply pick one and fill in the cells with content. PagePlus lets you: • Edit the pre-defined format before adding a new table to the page.
Tables, Charts, and Calendars 69 2. Click on the page or pasteboard, or drag to set the table's dimensions. The Create Table dialog opens with a selection of preset table formats shown in the Format window. 3. Step through the list to preview the layouts and select one. To begin with a plain table, select (Default). 4. Set the Table Size. This is the number of rows and columns that make up the table layout. 5. Click OK. The new table appears on the page.
70 Tables, Charts, and Calendars Using charts For any small business, club, or school project, the ability to present important data professionally will impress your audience and potentially gain support for your activities. Tables and charts are intrinsically linked in PagePlus. If you need a recap on tables, see Creating tables on p. 68. PagePlus also lets you create multiple charts from the same table data using the Chart Data tab. See Manipulating chart data (in PagePlus Help) for more information.
Tables, Charts, and Calendars 71 Area chart Bar chart Column chart Line chart Pie chart Scatter chart (XY) Creating charts from scratch PagePlus provides the Chart Tool to place a chart onto your page. Initially a placeholder chart, it can be populated with real chart data from the Chart Data tab. The tab lets you store and develop your chart data "off-page" without cluttering up your page design.
72 Tables, Charts, and Calendars At this point, the chart is just a placeholder, using sample data automatically added to the Chart Data tab. You can edit this sample data using your own data, name your row/column headers, and even add extra rows and columns to suit additional chart data—by default, each row represents a separate colour-coded series component. To edit data in the Chart Data tab: 1. Click Chart Data under the selected chart. The Chart Data tab displays temporarily in the workspace. 2.
Tables, Charts, and Calendars 73 To display the Charts tab: • At the bottom of your right-hand tab group, click Charts. The tab offers three buttons called Chart, Axes, and Series. • Chart: Used for title and series legend control and positioning. Other options are the same as provided on the Chart context toolbar. • Axes: The Axes section adds axis-specific titles, labels, guides, and any other chart elements that aid the interpretation of chart data.
74 Tables, Charts, and Calendars The calendar is created as a scalable text-based table so you can edit text using the standard text tools. The properties of a selected calendar are similar to those of a table, and can be modified identically (see Manipulating tables in PagePlus Help). Like custom table formats you can create your own custom calendar formats. To insert a calendar: 1. Click the Table flyout on the Tools toolbar and choose Calendar. 2.
Tables, Charts, and Calendars 75 Adding calendar events You can add events to your calendar by using the Calendar Event Manager; click the Calendar Events button on a selected calendar's context toolbar to access. The Calendar Event Manager adds events to a month-to-view calendar display. They show automatically on your calendar under the chosen date and with a colour code that indicates the calendar category. New categories have unique colours assigned to them on creation.
76 Tables, Charts, and Calendars To create a calendar: 1. From the Calendar Event Manager, click New Calendar on the top toolbar. A new calendar entry (named 'New Calendar 1, 2, 3, etc.) appears in the My Calendars box. 2. Type a name for the calendar (e.g., 'Business') and press Return. To add an event to the selected calendar: 1. Navigate to a chosen month in your calendar using the month navigator at the top of the calendar, then double-click the event day. 2.
Pictures
78 Pictures Adding picture frames Picture frames let you present your pictures in a decorative surround, much like you'd show off your favourite picture in a picture frame in your home. You can select from an impressive collection of professionally designed picture frames, and simply drag them onto your publication page before filling them with pictures.
Pictures 3. 79 Navigate the themed sub-categories to locate a picture frame, then to include all the select an individual frame or click Add All frames from the sub-category. A check mark will appear on selected thumbnails. 4. Click Close. The frame(s) appears in the Assets tab (Picture Frames category). 5. Drag a chosen frame thumbnail to your page. Empty picture frames are shown as envelope-shaped placeholders on the page. To add a borderless picture frame: 1.
80 Pictures • To set the size of the frame, drag out a region and release the mouse button. If needed, use the Shift key while dragging to maintain aspect ratio (to a square). Picture frames can also be applied to objects such as text frames and tables. To add a picture to a frame (and vice versa): • From the Assets tab (Pictures category), drag and drop a picture directly onto the picture frame.
Pictures 81 To store the picture frame for reuse globally or just in the publication, drag to the Assets tab's My Designs or Picture Frames category. For the latter, if you close the publication, you'll be asked if you want to save the frame to an asset pack. See Storing designs in PagePlus Help. Adding pictures The Assets tab (Pictures category) acts as a "basket" for initially gathering together and then including pictures in your publication.
82 Pictures Adding pictures to the Assets tab To add pictures to the tab: 1. Select the Assets tab's Pictures category, and click Add. 2. From the dialog, navigate to a folder, and select your picture(s). 3. Click Open. Your pictures appear as thumbnails within the Assets tab's Picture category. Adding pictures to the page Pictures can be added to your publication from the Assets tab by dragging directly onto your page.
Pictures 83 Cropping pictures PagePlus includes the Square Crop Tool and Irregular Crop Tool which are used typically for cropping pictures on the page. Cropping discards unwanted "outer" regions of a picture while keeping the remainder visible. To crop a picture (square crop): 1. Select a picture and then on the Attributes toolbar, click the Square Crop Tool. 2. Hover over an edge or corner handle until you see a appear. 3. Drag the cursor inwards (down, left or right) on your picture. 4.
84 Pictures 5. (Optional) From the context toolbar, set a Feather value to add a soft edge to your picture. To crop a picture (irregular crop) 1. With the Square Crop Tool selected, select the Crop Tool above your workpace. Irregular 2. The Curve context toolbar appears on its right, which lets you control the displayed nodes and connecting segments that define the object's crop outline. • To move a node (control point) where you see the the node.
Pictures 85 If you add picture frames to your publication, you can position your placed picture using pan and zoom instead of using the Square Crop Tool. Cropping pictures to shapes The Crop to Shape command lets you create shaped pictures from drawn closed shapes (below) or silhouettes placed over your picture. The picture gets clipped to the outline of the shape, leaving a shape equivalent to the overlapping region. To crop a picture using shapes: 1.
86 Pictures Using Cutout Studio Cutout Studio offers a powerful integrated solution for cutting objects out from their backgrounds. The initial green background is discarded, from which another image can be used as a more attractive background. A red tint on the second image's background is used to indicate areas to be discarded. To launch Cutout Studio: 1. Select a picture to be cut out. 2. Select Cutout Studio from the displayed Picture context toolbar. Cutout Studio is launched.
Pictures 87 The choice you make really depends on the picture. A vector-edged bitmap is better for cutting out pictures with well defined edges. Selecting areas to keep or discard A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to "paint" areas of the image. The tools are called Keep Brush and Discard Brush, and are either used independently or, more typically, in combination with each other. To select image areas for keeping/discarding: 1.
88 Pictures selection). It's OK to repeatedly click and drag until your selection area is made. The Undo button reverts to the last made selection. 5. If you're outputting an alpha-edged bitmap, you can refine the area to be kept/discarded within Cutout Studio (only after previewing) with Erase and Restore touch-up tools. Vector-cropped images can be cropped using standard PagePlus crop tools outside of the Studio. 6. Click OK to create your cutout.
Pictures 89 (A) Main toolbar, (B) Main workspace, (C) Filter stack, (D) Filter tabs, (E) Images tab To launch PhotoLab: 1. Select the picture that you want to apply a filter to. 2. Click PhotoLab on the Picture context toolbar. Applying a filter Filters are stored in PhotoLab's Favourites, Adjustments, and Effects tabs which group filters logically into categories (e.g., Quick Fix for fast and commonly used correction filters).
90 Pictures To preview, fine tune, and apply a filter: 1. Click a filter thumbnail. 2. As soon as a filter is selected it is temporarily added to Trial Zone which lets you experiment freely with your own settings for that filter; the picture automatically refreshes to preview your new settings. 3. Adjust sliders (or enter input values) until your filter suits your requirements. Some filters offer check boxes, drop-down lists, and additional controls (e.g., Advanced settings).
Pictures 91 Adding QR codes QR codes (Quick Response codes) are machine-readable matrix barcodes that can be added to your page. The QR code can be programmed to provide appropriate information or services when the code is scanned by intelligent mobile device or scanner. To add a QR code: 1. From the Insert menu, select QR Code. 2. Click on the page at the location you want the QR code to be placed (this positions the top left corner of the QR code). 3.
92 Pictures To modify a QR Code: • Using the Pointer Tool, double-click the QR code. To scan QR codes, you'll need QR Code reader software installed on your mobile device. Search for 'QR Code Reader' using your favourite search engine or download from your online software store. QR codes and mail merge Mail merge uses the data from a data source (e.g.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency
94 Colour, Fills, and Transparency Applying solid fills PagePlus offers a number of ways to apply solid colour fills to objects of different kinds: • You can apply solid colours to an object's line or fill. As you might expect, QuickShapes and closed shapes have both line and fill properties, whereas straight and freehand lines have only a line property. • Characters in text objects can have a background fill, line, and text colour (i.e., for highlighting, text outlines, and the text fill itself).
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 95 Alternatively, use Format>Fill to apply colour via a dialog. Using the Colours toolbar, you can reapply the last applied fill, line, or text colour and also predefine these colours for future objects. By default, the toolbar is always in view thus aiding design productivity. To apply the last applied solid colour: 1. Select the object(s) or highlight a range of text. On the Colours toolbar, select the Fill, Line, 2. or Text button.
96 Colour, Fills, and Transparency From the Swatches tab, you can convert any colour in your palette into a spot colour. Right-click a fill, select Edit Fill, then check Spot Colour in the dialog. To change the current palette: • Palette button to view and On the Swatches tab, click the adopt colours from a Standard RGB, Standard CMYK, or selection of themed palettes. Colours can be added, edited, or deleted from the Publication Palette but not from other palettes.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 3. Choose the new colour using one of the many colour models, palettes, pickers, and scheme colours available in the Colour Selector dialog. 4. Click OK to apply the new colour in place of the old. 97 Using colour schemes In PagePlus, a colour scheme is a cluster of eleven complementary colours (of which five are mainly used) that you can apply to specific elements in one or more publications.
98 Colour, Fills, and Transparency For example, imagine a line drawing coded with the numbers 1 through 5. To fill it in, you'd use paint from jars also numbered 1 through 5. Swapping different colours into the paint jars, while keeping the numbers on the drawing the same, would produce quite a different painting. In PagePlus, the "paint jars" are numbers you can assign to objects in your publication. They're known as "Scheme Colour 1," "Scheme Colour 2," and so on.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 99 Applying scheme colours to objects When you create publications from pre-defined design templates (see p. 12), you can choose the starting colour scheme that you want to adopt; you can always change it later from the Schemes tab.
100 Colour, Fills, and Transparency 2. Select the object and choose a Fill, Line, or Text button at the top of the Swatches tab depending on the desired effect. 3. Click on the scheme colour that you want to apply to the fill, line, or text. If an object's fill uses a scheme colour, the corresponding sample in Swatches tab will be highlighted whenever the object is selected. PagePlus also allows you to modify any existing colour scheme and create your own scheme from a colour spread.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 101 You can apply preset gradient and bitmap fills from the Swatches tab to the fill or outline of a shape or text frame. Table cells as well as artistic, frame, and table text can also take a gradient or bitmap fill. The fill's path on an object's fill or line can also be varied for different effects (see PagePlus Help). Applying a gradient or bitmap fill There are several ways to apply a gradient or bitmap fill: using the Swatches tab, the Fill Tool, or the Fill dialog.
102 Colour, Fills, and Transparency To apply a preset gradient or bitmap fill using the Swatches tab: 1. Display the Swatches tab and ensure either Fill, Line, or Text is selected (for an object's fill, outline, or text fill respectively). The colour of the underline reflects the colour of your selected object. 2. For gradient fills, select a gradient category, e.g. Linear, Elliptical, etc., from the Gradient button's drop-down list.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 103 3. Display the Swatches tab and ensure Fill, Line, or Text is selected (for an object's fill, outline, or text fill respectively). The colour of the underline reflects the colour of your selected object. 4. Click and drag on the object to define the fill path. The object takes a simple Linear fill, grading from the object's current colour to monochrome white. If the object is white already (or has no fill), grading is from white to black.
104 Colour, Fills, and Transparency • From the Start Colour drop-down list, select a colour or click More Colours to display the Colour Selector dialog. You can also apply an End Colour in the same way. - or For Three or Four Colour only, select an object's fill handle and select a colour from the Fill Colour drop-down list.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 105 To adjust the gradient fill path on a selected object: 1. Display the Swatches tab and ensure Fill, Line, or Text is selected (for an object's fill, outline, or text fill respectively). Note that the colour of the underline reflects the colour of your selected object. 2. Click the Fill Tool on the Attributes toolbar. The fill path appears on the object's fill, outline, or text content. 3.
106 Colour, Fills, and Transparency Working with transparency Transparency effects are great for highlights, shading and shadows, and simulating "rendered" realism. They can make the critical difference between flat-looking publications and publications with depth and snap. PagePlus fully supports variable transparency and lets you apply solid, gradient, or bitmap transparency to an object's fill or outline easily.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 107 Just as a gradient fill can vary from light to dark, a transparency can vary from more to less, i.e. from clear to opaque, as in the illustration: (A) Linear Transparency, (B) Path, (C) Effect on Object Transparency types available in the Transparency tab are as follows: • Solid transparency distributes the transparency uniformly. • Gradient transparencies include linear, elliptical, and conical effects, ranging from clear to opaque.
108 Colour, Fills, and Transparency - or For gradient transparency, choose the pick your thumbnail. - or - Gradient button and For bitmap transparency, choose the a thumbnail from a range of categories. Bitmap button and pick The transparency is applied to the object's fill or outline. 3. Alternatively, drag the desired thumbnail from the gallery to an object, and release the mouse button. To apply gradient transparency with the Transparency Tool: 1.
Colour, Fills, and Transparency 109 Editing transparency Once you've applied a gradient transparency, you can adjust or replace its path on the object, and the level of transparency along the path. You can even create more complex transparency effects by adding extra handles to the path by clicking and assigning different levels to each handle.
110 Colour, Fills, and Transparency The higher the percentage value assigned to a transparency handle, the more transparent the effect at that point. Note: The hue of the colour doesn't matter, only its percentage value—so it's much easier just to choose from the set of gallery thumbnails. 4.
Publishing and Sharing
112 Publishing and Sharing Preflight check Preflight is an essential process to ensure that your PagePlus output, whether PDF, HTML or eBook (both EPUB and EPUB 3 Fixed Layout), is published as intended. You can run a preflight check at any time during your design process to fix issues as they occur. In addition, when a problem is encountered on publishing, the preflight check will report the problem in the Preflight tab automatically, allowing you to check, locate, and fix the problem.
Publishing and Sharing 113 Manual preflight check Checking your publication as you design is particularly useful when working toward a specific output which must comply with a rigid layout and style, such as HTML or eBook. You can then resolve problems as they arise, saving you time when you finally come to publish your publication. To run a manual Preflight check: 1. Click Preflight at the bottom of your workspace to view the Preflight tab. 2.
114 4. Publishing and Sharing Modify the object as appropriate. - or Click Fix to resolve the publishing problem automatically (not valid for all warnings). 5. (Optional) Click Check to run the preflight check again. This is useful once you've resolved a problem and you need to verify your fix before republishing. Automated preflight check PagePlus will automatically run a check of your document when you publish.
Publishing and Sharing 115 (A) Imposition toolbar, (B) Mail and Photo Merge toolbar (hidden by default), (C) Page Marks toolbar, (D) Margins toolbar, (E) Page Navigation tools, (F) Hintline toolbar, (G) View tools, (H) Printer toolbar, (I) Close toolbar, (J) View toolbar (hidden by default). The Preview is interactive—its main feature is to provide dynamic print-time imposition.
116 Publishing and Sharing To preview the page: 1. Click Print/PDF Preview on the Standard toolbar. In Print/PDF Preview, your first printer sheet is displayed according to your printer's setup. 2. (Optional) Choose an installed printer from the Printer toolbar's drop-down list. 3. (Optional) Adjust printer margins from the Margins toolbar. 4. Review your publication using the page navigation controls at the bottom of your workspace. To print via Printer toolbar: 1.
Publishing and Sharing 117 Document imposition in Preview mode During preview, you can enable imposition of your document, choosing a mode suited to your intended final publication (book, booklet, etc.). Each mode displays different toolbar options on the context-sensitive Imposition toolbar. Document imposition is not limited to desktop printing—it can also be used when creating a press-ready PDF for professional printing.
118 Publishing and Sharing Printing basics Printing your publication to a desktop printer is one of the more likely operations you'll be performing in PagePlus. The easy-to-use Print dialog presents the most commonly used options to you, with a navigable "live" Preview window to check your print output. The dialog also supports additional printing options via the More Options button including Double-sided Printing, Mail Merge, Rasterize, and many other useful printing options.
Publishing and Sharing 119 If you modify a profile’s setting, an asterisk appears next to its name. 3. Select the number of copies to print, and optionally instruct the printer to Collate them. 4. Select the print Range to be printed, e.g. the Entire Publication, Current Page, Current Selection (if selected text or objects in step 1), or range of pages. For specific pages or a range of pages, enter "1,3,5" or "2-5", or enter any combination of the two.
120 Publishing and Sharing Trimmed Mode Trimmed Mode is similar to Print/PDF Preview, letting you view your page exactly how it will appear in print. Visible guides, objects partly on the pasteboard, text marks, and special characters will all be hidden so your preview is realistic. To enter trimmed mode: • From the View menu, click Trimmed Mode. You can select the option again to exit Trimmed Mode. Objects are cropped by the page boundaries, not the print boundaries.
Publishing and Sharing 121 (A) PagePlus Publication, (B) Preflight and Publish, (C) web-ready PDF, (D) Press-ready PDF (professional). In PagePlus, ready-to-go PDF profiles are available for both uses, making PDF setup less complicated. Preflight checking To assist you as you design, you can perform a manual preflight check as you go. On publishing, a preflight check is also run automatically, alerting you to any design problems that would result in sub-optimal published results.
122 Publishing and Sharing Publishing to PDF To publish as a PDF file (using a profile): Publish as PDF on the Standard toolbar. 1. Click 2. Select a profile for screen-ready or professional output from the Profile drop-down list. The dialog updates with the selected profile's new settings. The Compatibility is set according to the profile and doesn't need to be changed. 3. Select the Range to be published, e.g. the Entire Publication, Current Page, or range of pages.
Publishing and Sharing 123 Publishing as eBooks In PagePlus, you can be your own publisher and create flowing eBooks in both EPUB and Kindle mobi formats, and fixed-layout eBooks in EPUB 3 format. Like publishing to PDF and HTML, the process of eBook publishing is straightforward, with the added benefit of manual and automatic preflight checking to ensure your file conforms to eBook standards. (A) PagePlus Publication, (B) Preflight and Publish, (C) Smart phone, (D) Computer, (E) Kindle/EPUB readers.
124 Publishing and Sharing Publishing Different approaches can be taken depending on whether you are publishing flowing or fixed-layout eBooks, and which file format you wish to publish, i.e. EPUB or Kindle mobi. All the eBook publishing processes are similar, except that they create different files (i.e., *.mobi, *.epub (v2), and *.epub (v3)). Kindle publishing additionally requires the KindleGen program to be installed on your computer. To publish a flowing or fixed layout eBook: 1.
Publishing and Sharing 125 To publish an eBook for Kindle: 1. Install the KindleGen program (download from Amazon Kindle publishing). 2. Follow the procedure for publishing flowing or fixed-layout eBooks above, choosing a Kindle publishing profile. 3. In the Publish as eBook dialog's Kindle section, click Browse to navigate to (and select) the kindlegen.exe file from the installed folder above and click Publish. 4.
126 Publishing and Sharing
Additional Information
128 Additional Information Contacting Serif Help with your Product On the web community.serif.com Get answers and ask questions in the Serif community! Additional Serif information On the web Serif website www.serif.
Additional Information 129 Credits This User Guide, and the software described in it, is furnished under an end user License Agreement, which is included with the product. The agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses. Trademarks Serif is a registered trademark of Serif (Europe) Ltd. PagePlus is a registered trademark of Serif (Europe) Ltd. All Serif product names are trademarks of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
130 Additional Information The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine © 2000 Wintertree Software Inc. The ThesDB Thesaurus Engine © 1993-97 Wintertree Software Inc. WGrammar Grammar-Checker Engine © 1998 Wintertree Software Inc. Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) Copyright © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. ICC Colour Profiles © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Index
132 Index address labels, 12, 15 adjustment (picture), 88 artistic text, 57 Artistic Text Tool, 57 Asset Browser, 38, 41 Asset Manager, 40 Asset Packs, 38 assets, 38 adding to page, 42 browsing, 41 Assets tab, 39 for pictures, 82 AutoFit, 52 AutoFlow of frame text, 55 AutoFormats (table/calendar), 68 AutoFrame, 52 automatic gradient fills, 101 background (master page), 29 backgrounds, 39 bitmaps (see pictures), 81 booklets, 120 printing, 117, 118, 120 setting up, 24 books, 120 printing, 117, 118, 120 broc
Index filters, 88 applying, 89 flyers, 12 folded publications, 15 setting up, 24 fonts setting, 60 frame text, 44 frames (text) fitting text to, 51 flowing, 51 inline pictures in, 50 linking, 46, 53 setup and layout, 48 gradient colour fills, 100 applying, 101 editing, 104 gradient transparency, 107 greeting cards, 15 highlighter effect, 94 holidays (public), 75 images (see pictures), 81 imposition, 117 interactive print/PDF, 117 of folded publications, 24 Increase level, 65 Increase Paragraph Indent, 63 i
134 Index PDF files preflight check for, 112 publishing, 120 PhotoLab, 88 photos.
Index named, 62 support, 128 Swatches tab, 94, 101 system requirements, 7 tab Assets, 39 Chart Data, 70 Charts, 72 Colour, 94 Pages, 27 Swatches, 94, 101 Transparency, 107 Table Tool, 68 tables, 68 from text, 69 technical support, 128 templates, 12 text adding to text frame, 45 artistic (standalone), 57 changing colour or shading of, 94 editing on the page, 58 fitting to frames, 51 formatting, 60 frames, 44 gradient and bitmap fills on, 100 selecting, 59 setting default properties, 20 to table, 69 text fra
