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1. 41 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Insert Paper Dialog Print Label 1 of 1 Insert 1 sheet of Aver CD 5692 and click Print to continue Cancel Skip This dialog will prompt you to insert one or more sheets of the paper types you ve chosen for the labels you ve chosen to print The buttons on the dialog will behave as follows e Print print the label s e Cancel cancel the entire printing operation e Skip don t print this label if you ve selected more than one label to print the dialog will advance to the next label e Help launch this help page If you re printing more than one of your labels the dialog will appear multiple times If you re printing say a CD disc and a jewel case back the dialog will appear twice once to prompt you to insert your CD disc label paper and again to tell you to insert the jewel case back paper If you re printing the jewel case front inside on a paper type that has a single face instead of a book arrangement you ll get prompted to insert the paper for it and then you ll be asked to reinsert the paper upside down so the program can print the jewel case inside on the back of the paper Make sure the fronts have finished printing and you ve reinserted the labels before you click the Print button on the reinsert upside down dialog Printing for the First Time If you re printing with a new type of label stock for the first time we
2. Cancel Apply Help This page which only appears on the properties dialogs of tracks text objects lets you choose between fixed and variable field widths In fixed width mode all rows of a field will be the same width If you set the track name field to be 2 5 centimeters wide every track will have a 2 5 centimeter wide track name All rows will line up exactly underneath each other like the rows in a spreadsheet or a table in a word processor 31 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual In variable width mode each field of each row will be exactly as wide as required to display the amount of text The title field for You ve Certainly Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts will be wider than the title field for Louie Louie The rows in the text object will not line up directly underneath each other unless all their text fields happen to be exactly the same length In variable width fields mode there will be a fixed amount of space between fields If you specify 1 2 centimeters after the track number field every row will have 1 2 centimeters of blank space between its row number and the field that follows it no matter how wide individual track numbers may be When you re in variable width fields mode and you drag the field borders in the header bar you re actually editing the width between the fields rather than the widths of the fields themselves Fixed width fields work well for left justified text or cases wher
3. Buy now and register item from the Label Maker s Help menu If you re not running Imagemixer Label Maker right now you can go directly to our website and purchase a code Just click on this link BUY NOW And thanks for registering Wel be proud to have you as a customer Support If you need additional support for the CD Label Maker please visit our support Web site See the FAQ page on our Web site for answers to other frequently asked questions 57 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Credits Imagemixer Label Maker is sold under license from Acoustica Inc Copyright 2001 2005 Acoustica Inc All Rights Reserved Programming and design by Russ Cary Joseph Clarke and Brian Hughes Featuring art by Rich Powell Tim Ibbotson Ramona Clarke amp Ronnie Nijmeh Extra thanks to Ronnie Nijmeh Lois Clarke Donda Bird Greg Birkel and the Beta Team Avery and all Avery brands product names and codes are trademarks of Avery Dennison Corporation For more information on Avery r products call 800 462 8379 in the U S or 888 462 8379 in Canada or visit www avery com Lorenz Bell and all Lorenz Bell products product names and codes are trademarks of Lorenz Bell Ltd For more information about the products visit www lorenzbell com Website www pixela 1 com About Imagemixer Label Maker 58
4. If you don t have the Apply changes as soon as make them checkbox checked changes you make won t take effect until you click the OK or Apply buttons Clicking the Cancel button will close the dialog and reverse any changes you ve made unless you ve clicked the Apply button in that case clicking the Cancel button will still close the dialog but it will only reverse changes you ve made since the last time you clicked the Apply button 18 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Apply button will be disabled if you ve got the Apply changes as soon as etc box checked because your changes will already be getting applied as soon as you make them The Font Page Font Text Angle Text Color Size amp Position Font Size Margins Comic Sane MS 14 Background Ss P Color Transparency Justification Word Wrapping L BS Sample F italig Sample T Underline T Strikeout h Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Sopy Help This page lets you change the fonts used for displaying the text in your text object Bring this page up by clicking on the Font line in the listbox on the left side of the text properties dialog If you had a section of text selected when you launched the text properties dialog changes on this page will only affect the text you ve got selected If there s no text selected your font changes will apply to all the text in the text object You
5. This will close the wizard and discard all the wizard decisions you re apparently starting to regret 48 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Preferences Dialog Main Toolbar Options for Printing Fold Lines Auto Run Options Printer Alignment Bae Stretch Labels Solid Lines Fold Lines Dashed Lines Miscellaneous Print Lines Outside the Label Only Color Re Change Color Cancel Help This dialog collects a bunch of program settings that generally don t nicely fit into other categories and lets you edit them You can launch the Preferences dialog by selecting the Preferences option from the File menu The dialog contains several pages Select which page you want to view and edit by clicking on the page names in the listbox on the left side of the dialog e Main Toolbar e Auto Run Options e Printer Alignment e Stretch Labels e Printing Fold Lines The Miscellaneous Page Main Toolbar Miscellaneous options Auto Run Options Printer Alignment Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines Miscellaneous Create a log file not recommended Cancel Help This page lets you set miscellaneous options The label maker isn t very miscellaneous yet there s only one option on this page Create a log file f you check this box the program will log various events to a special text file This will slow down the label maker so we don t recommend using it except under speci
6. can use this dialog to tell the program to always print labels one millimeter to the left of where they d normally go which will cancel out the printer s imprecision and make things print just where they ought to be Here s a summary of the controls on this page e When printing on Lets you select the printer for which you want to set offsets e Move labels by There s one of these sections each for horizontal and vertical paper alignment Enter the amount of space in millimeters by which you need to move labels horizontally and vertically respectively for the printer you ve chosen e To the left To the right Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer s horizontal printing errors If your printer always prints stuff too far to the right check the To the left box If it always prints too far to the left check the To the right box e Up Down Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer s vertical printing errors If your printer always prints stuff too far down the page check the Up box If if prints too high check the Down box If your printer doesn t align correctly but isn t consistent about it you can correct it by telling the program to stretch labels when it prints them You can set the stretch amount on the Stretch Labels page 52 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Stretch Labels Page Main Toolbar Stretch Labels When Printing
7. removes the currently selected row e Edit ets you edit the text of the currently selected item e Move Up moves the currently selected row one row up e Move Down moves the currently selected row one row down e Import this button will only be visible if you re working on an audio CD label It lets you import tracks from a playlist file When you burn a CD you usually create a playlist file that lists the songs you burned to the CD Imagemixer Label Maker can read most types of playlist files and will automatically create a song list for you e Read CD this button will only be visible if you re working on an audio CD label and you have a CD drive attached to your computer It will attempt to get tracks information from a CD in your CD drive If your CD has an entry in cdplayer ini or cdburner ini the program will use it if not it will try to look up a tracks listing for your CD over the Internet e Done closes the window e Display tracks on current label f you check this box your tracks will be displayed on whichever label you ve got currently visible If you uncheck it they ll be hidden Tracks Formatting Dialog The Tracks Formatting dialog lets you quickly set the formatting including visibility font color and layout for your various tracks fields It also lets you save your favorite combinations as presets that you can access later with just a click or two Changes you make in this dialog apply only to the curren
8. Artist H Length m 9 xl vw Transparent I Appl changes as soon as make them Cancel You can do a surprising number of things to the text in a text object and aside from editing the text itself you can do them all from the text properties dialog You can access the text properties dialog by right clicking on a text object and selecting Properties or by clicking the properties button the one with the three little dots on it on a text object s toolbar RI USR l Help This dialog consists of a series of pages for editing different aspects of a text object Clicking on different lines in the list on the left side of the dialog will select different pages If you check the Apply changes as soon as make them checkbox any changes you make will be reflected in the text object as soon as you make them This is not completely conventional behavior for dialog windows which normally require you to press the OK button before showing you your changes But we hate the blundering around we have to do when we make changes in a dialog but we can t really tell what we ve done until we close the dialog and then we have to relaunch the dialog if it turns out it wasn t what we wanted It s like flying an airplane by instruments alone it takes a lot of expertise to do it well and most people including us don t have that kind of expertise So we added the Apply changes checkbox We think you ll like it
9. check the To the left box If it always prints too far to the left check the To the right box 43 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual e Up Down Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer s vertical printing errors If your printer always prints stuff too far down the page check the Up box If if prints too high check the Down box The Stretch Labels section If your printer doesn t align correctly but isn t consistent about it you can correct it by using the brute force method of stretching all the labels by a millimeter or two which will result in the label being slightly larger in every direction So even if your printer prints too high one pass and too low the next or likes to feint left and print right you ll be set We generally recommend setting the stretch labels amount at one to two millimeters We also recommend that you don t put important stuff such as text within a millimeter or so of your label borders or the CD hole unless you have a fabulously reliable printer because otherwise it stands a good chance of getting chopped off when you print it The Your Label s Too Darn Big Dialog If you re printing a label on plain paper and it s so big that it overlaps your printer s unprintable area or even the edges of the paper itself you ll get to soend some time with this dialog You can t print your label full size in all its glory but the Label Ma
10. disc label because there s nothing to fold on a disc label The Fold Line Options e Solid Lines f you check this radio button the program will print solid fold lines e Dashed Lines f you you check this radio button the program will print dashed fold lines e Print lines outside the label only f you don t check this box the program will print fold lines on your labels to indicate where you need to fold them If you check this box the program won t print fold lines on your labels it will print short lines just outside your label boundaries to indicate where you should fold your labels If you use this option there won t be lines on your label but you ll have to eyeball things a bit to get your fold lines right e Color This option lets you choose what color you want your fold lines to be The colored rectangle to the right of the color text will display your currently chosen fold line color You can click on this rectangle or the Change Color button to choose a new color 54 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Other Useful Dialogs Save as Theme This dialog lets you save your current project as a theme that will show up in the Instant Label Wizard New Theme Name Enter a name for your new theme here It will appear under this name in the Instant Label Wizard after you ve saved it Stuff to Save Text Objects H you check this box any text objects on the labels in your project will get save
11. playlists You can just scroll through click on the one you want and click OK and the label maker will automatically import that playlist for you Here s what all the buttons on this dialog mean e OK close the dialog and import tracks from the playlist file you ve selected e Cancel close the dialog without importing any tracks e Help Given your presence here we suspect you already know what this button does e Stop tells the program to stop searching for playlist files Once the search is complete this button will become disabled e Replace Existing Files H you check this box before importing a playlist file from this dialog the tracks that get imported from that playlist will replace any existing track information If this box isn t checked tracks you import here will get appended to the end of your existing track information 38 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Colored Shapes In case clip art background images and text objects aren t enough to satisfy your creative needs we offer a small assortment of colored shapes that you can plaster all over your labels Click on the Shapes button on the main toolbar and a dialog will pop up that will let you add a rectangle ellipse a round thingy or diamond to your label You can move and resize these shapes just like any other objects move them by clicking on their title bars or the shapes themselves and then dragging them resize them by clicking on a
12. show the subdirectories that the folder or drive contains Click on the name of a folder or drive and the Art Explore pane s lower window will fill with the images that are in that folder not including the images in any subdirectories it may have should it have any Changing the Explorer Tree amp Thumbnail Window Sizes You can change the amount of space devoted to the explorer tree window vs the thumbnails window by clicking on the border between them and dragging it up or down The mouse cursor will change into a little vertical resizing arrow when it s over the resizing border About the Clip Art Cache The program caches the thumbnails of any clip art images it finds Or translated into English the first time the program displays the thumbnail of a clip art image it will take longer to display than it will any time from then on That s because the first time through it has to create the thumbnail that gets displayed But it saves the thumbnail in a special cache so anytime the program displays that thumbnail from then on it can retrieve the thumbnail from the cache instead of creating it so it will be much faster 11 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Note the program bases the thumbnail size on your current video resolution so that thumbnails will occupy roughly the same amount of your available screen space no matter what resolution you re running in If you change your screen s resolution Such as from 800 by 6
13. t remove all the choices owing to the difficulty of licensing mind reading technology but the ones that remain aren t too hard Those of us who ve had some experience with the wizard have been known to get through it in under fifteen seconds Every page of the wizard contains a series of buttons that let you navigate through the wizard They are e lt Back go to the previous page e Next gt go to the next page e Cancel exit the wizard discarding everything you ve done in it e Help launch this help page or a related one The evidence would indicate that you already know about this one e Finish only shows up on the last page Closes the wizard and retains all the choices you ve made You can launch the wizard by choosing the Instant Label Wizard option from the File menu If you want the wizard to launch every time you run the Label Maker program you can specify as much from the Auto Run Page of the Preferences Dialog 46 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Choose Label Type Page Choose whether you want to make your labels for an audio CD or a DVD The only difference between them is that an audio CD s contents consist of tracks each containing a track name artist name and length while a DVD s contents consist of chapters each containing a chapter name and length Once you ve chosen your label type click tne Next button to go to the Choose a Theme page The Instant Label Wizard Help Co
14. the different boxes described above You ll catch on in no time If you set your text to any angle other than 0 degrees normal right side up text you won t be able to edit the text by just clicking on the text object Instead its toolbar will grow a new button L that opens a text editing window For more information see The Edit Text Window for Angled Text 20 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Text Color Page Test Properties EG Font Text Color Test Color Size amp Position Margins Background Color Transparency Justification Word Wrapping D cu 2 CO Cl E cd C a D Cl a pan EE TERT EE TRUTO EE HURT EE LBE A AR a I Apply changes as soon as make them x j caj o This page lets you change the color in which your text is displayed If you had a section of text selected when you launched the Text Properties dialog changes you make here will only affect the color of the text vouve got selected If you didn t have any text selected your changes will affect the color of all text in the text object Help EE TETE The program displays selected text in the standard Windows selection colors so if you change the text color of a text selection you won t actually be able to see the color change until you close the dialog and unselect the text In the current incarnation of Imagemixer Label Maker yo
15. track number fields hiding and showing the tracks objects field which you can do from the Tracks Window will cause the tracks to get renumbered 16 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Tracks List Header Bar When you select a tracks text object you should see in addition to the traditional title bar sizing frame resize bars and toolbar a columns header bar The header bar has these functions Left clicking on a header bar column will select all the text in that column so that you can apply whatever column wide effects strike your fancy Left clicking on the border between columns and dragging it will allow you to resize columns in fixed width columns mode or the space between columns if you re in variable width columns mode Right clicking on the header bar will pop up a menu that lets you hide and show individual columns and toggle between fixed width columns and variable width columns modes Fixed Width vs Variable Width Fields In fixed width mode all rows of a field will be the same width If you set the track name field to be 2 5 centimeters wide every track will have a 2 5 centimeter wide track name All rows will line up exactly underneath each other like the rows in a spreadsheet or a table in a word processor If variable width mode each column of each row will be exactly as wide as required to display the amount of text The title for You ve Certainly Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts wi
16. your printer manufacturer supplies this dialog we can t predict precisely what will be on it or give you detailed help with it e Alignment Launches the Printer Alignment Dialog which lets you set printer offsets and label stretch amounts in case your printer like most printers doesn t print at precisely the locations it s supposed to The Labels Section e The row of tabs Clicking on these lets you bring up a tab for choosing paper type and sundry other options for particular labels If you ve chosen to print a label it will have a little printer icon in its tab e Paper Type Lets you choose the type of paper you want to print on Whenever you choose a different paper type from this list the thumbnail underneath the Click on labels to use heading will display the layout of the paper you ve chosen e Print a border around label H you check this box the program will print a thin black border around the label This can be handy if you re printing on plain paper and your background has lots of white in it e Print fold lines f you check this box the program will print fold lines to help you fold your labels You don t need to check this box unless you re printing on plain paper most stock paper forms have folds built into the paper If you check this box for the jewel case back the program will print lines indicating where to fold the two spines If you check this box for the jewel case front inside the progr
17. 00 to 1 024 by 768 the absolute thumbnail sizes will change so the program will have to create new thumbnails for any clip art that it displays Stuff You Can Do with Clip Art When you see a clip art image in this program you will be looking either at a hopeful thumbnail under the Art Search or Art Explore tabs or a proud happy clip art image that you have added to one of your labels The actions you can take differ depending on which of these two situations you re facing We ll start with Stuff You Can Do with a Clip Art Thumbnail in the Art Search or Art Explore Tabs You can drag your mouse cursor over it and just let it sit there This will cause a tooltip to pop up and tell you the clip art image s name folder location size and date and time when it was last modified You can left click on it and drag it onto your label You can double click it This will make it your label s background image You can right click it which will pop up a menu with these options Set as Background this will bring up a submenu with these options 1 Centered overlap make the selected clip art image your background image and center it on the label This will cover the entire label with the selected image while preserving the image s aspect ratio If the image s aspect ratio differs from the label s aspect ratio a portion of the image will get clipped 2 Centered underlap Like the centered overlap option except that if the imag
18. Auto Run Options Printer Alignment Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines When printing increase label heights and widths by Miscellaneous 20 millimeters x 2 0 Tal millimeters v Iw But don t stretch plain paper labels Cancel Help This dialog lets you account for printer alignment errors by stretching all your labels when they print H your printer doesn t print precisely where it s supposed to but it s always off in exactly the same way you can use the printer alignment dialog to fix it If it s not wrong consistently enough however you ll need to use the brute force method of stretching all the labels by a millimeter or two which will result in the label being slightly larger in every direction So even if your printer prints too high one pass and too low the next or likes to feint left and print right you ll be set We generally recommend setting the stretch labels amount at one to two millimeters We also recommend that you don t put important stuff such as text within a millimeter or so of your label borders or the CD hole unless you have a fabulously reliable printer because otherwise it stands a good chance of getting chopped off when you print it But don t stretch plain paper labels This checkbox lets you specify whether or not you want to apply your stretch settings to labels you print on plain paper By default this box will be checked which is our recommendation The stretch labels setti
19. Wrapping Speech Balloon Balloon T ail Location Columna A E E O r Left D Number TTT F Song Title Thought Balloon C Right Artist T Mone i Top Length Ce Bottom IY Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help This page lets you choose the shape of your text object You can select from these categories Shape Rectangle or Round Choose rectangle and your text object will have a rectangular background Choose round and its background will be roundish to be precise it will be an ellipse Speech Balloon This feature lets you make your text object into a speech or thought balloon such as you have probably seen thousands of times in the newspaper comics pages or in comic books or on billboards or perhaps in an imaginative moment in the clouds Select Speech Balloon and your text object will have a triangular tail that you can drag around and resize until it points wherever you wish Select Thought Balloon and your text object will trail a series of little thought balloonlets which you can likewise drag and resize Select None for a traditional balloon free text object You can t resize or move your thought or chat balloons from inside the Text Properties dialog To resize or move your chat thought balloons you need to exit the dialog and click on your text object s chat tail or one of its little thought balloonlets This will cause three size markers to appear You can drag these about to move or
20. a creative trance you re in those all the time right For more details on our approach to tools and general program layout see Getting Around in the CD Label Maker Our Process The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas Linus Pauling My colleagues loved it when brought in a new version of the program with some important new feature They seemed to think it was one of those carnival booths where you throw darts at the rows of balloons until you pop the one with the prize behind it I don t think this is clear one of them might say Pop It s too hard to find this button might say another Pop You need to be a techie to figure this out a third might add Pop Pop Pop Eventually having reduced the program to rubble we d agree on what seemed to be the clearest simplest way to access whatever feature we were adding and d head back to my code editor soon figured that could shorten this process by making us all argue over how to add a feature before wrote a version to try This would be like having my Acousticohorts help set up the booth so that they knew beforehand which balloon hid the prize Surely this would reduce the carnage But you know what It didn t change a thing The same people who swore oaths over the best way to arrange the tabs in the print dialog would violently disagree as soon as they saw it in action Some things it would seem like program interfaces and li
21. abel Wizard EE 46 The Choose Label Type Page sessseesssesssessnessnessnnssnnetnnetnnetnnesnnetnnetnnstrnsennssnnstnnenasennnnns 47 The Choose Theme Page iiv v dit eevee aie nd aie Ee deeg eee 47 The Tracks PADE nnee calle dele ciel iti dna iil ciel edna rede ini 47 The Additional Text Fields Page A 48 The Funk Pagi sees Geesen e Oe oral sli led al ci ot eden ants 48 The Preferences Dialog csjssncces ces ceca es EEN OEe GENEE EEGENEN NEEN NEEN 49 The MiscellameOus Page cesccccccsscceceeseceeeeeeeceeeeneeceeeeneeeeceenaeeeeeaaecesneneeeeeseeaeeesteneeeennaes 49 The Main Toolbar d Le CN 50 The Auto Run Options Page 50 The Printer Alignment Page sessar aa AO AATE ETAR EE 52 The Stretch Labels Page 53 The Printing Fold Lines Pagesos rr aa E EEEE ERASER LEER 53 Other Useful Dialogs EE 55 e ER En EE 55 SUMO NEE 55 Tiled Background Geittngs tenn tetnntnutnnntnnstnnstnnstnnstnnstnnnnnsnnsnnnstnnsnnn nnt 55 NEW TEE 56 Registration Ee 57 Why e TEE 57 Ne EE 57 SUPPOM eae en A asa ee Se ieee rea ie ae uh A A eee 57 Re 58 WG SINC oon ish ege EE ee ee 58 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Welcome This section is more or less a philosophical overview of the ImageMixer Label Maker If you re leaning forward in your chair right now pupils dilated mouse in a deathgrip all because of something you haven t been able to figure out how to do see the If you re reclining peacefully with a comfort
22. al circumstances You should only need to check this box if something freakish is occurring with the program and someone in our technical support department has asked you to turn logging on 49 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual and send us the file so we can try to figure out what s going on In all other circumstances leave this box unchecked The Main Toolbar Page Main Toolbar Appearance Auto Run Options Printer Alignment Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines Miscellaneous Big icons with text Big icons no text c c e Small icons with text C Small icons no text r No toolbar OK Cancel Help ok This page lets you choose how you want the program s main toolbar which runs across the top of the program s main window to look These are your options e Big icons with text each toolbar button will have a 32 by 32 icon plus text describing what the button does e Big icons no text each toolbar button will have just the 32 by 32 icon e Small icons with text each toolbar button will have a 16 by 16 icon plus text describing what the button does e Small icons no text each toolbar button will have just the 16 by 16 icon e No toolbar the toolbar will not be visible at all If you use this setting please dont tell our artist The Auto Run Options Page Main Toolbar Auto run options Printer Alignment Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines Remember last used project type
23. am will print a line indicating where to fold the front inside booklet in half The box will be disabled for the front inside label if you re not printing on a paper type that prints both the front and inside labels on the same side of the paper This checkbox will always be disabled for the CD disc label You can set a variety of options for fold lines in the Preferences Dialog You can decide whether you want your fold lines to be solid or dashed lines whether you want them to be inside or outside the label and what color you want them to be e Click on labels to use H you ve chosen a paper type that can print more than one label of the type you re printing you can click on the the labels on the thumbnail to choose which of the paper s labels you want to print on e Sheets required Tells you how many sheets you ll need of the paper you ve selected based on how many copies you re printing and how many of your selected paper type s labels you ve chosen to use e That black arrow pointing leftwards ndicates which edge of the paper displayed in the thumbnail image you should feed into the printer first e Print Disc Print Front Inside Print Back These checkboxes let you choose which labels you want to print If you check the box for a label it will print If not it won t Once you ve selected what you want to print and what you want to print it on click the Print button to proceed The next thing you see will be
24. and check the box and see It takes almost no effort after all you ll consume less than half a calorie in our judgment to uncheck the box again if it doesn t look good New File Label type Cancel DWO Help This dialog lets you start fresh with a brand new blank set of labels All you have to do is decide what sort of new label you want an audio CD or a DVD The only difference between them is that an audio CD s contents consist of tracks each containing a track name artist name and length while a DVD s contents consist of chapters each containing a chapter name and length 56 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Registration Purchase amp Support With the trial version of Imagemixer Label Maker the program will be fully functional until your trial expires Once your trial expires you won t be allowed to print labels again until you register your software Why Register e you can print as many labels as you want e tech support e free art If you re registered you get access to more than 700 free backgrounds and 100 themes all designed exclusively for Imagemixer Label Maker e with your support we can afford to add new features and make more high quality easy to use software e it s easy Purchase You can buy a registration code now over the Internet and receive the code via e mail within minutes Just click the Buy button on the Label Maker s main toolbar or select the
25. ap around it at all Wrap on left side Wrap text to the left side of the hole If your text object lies entirely to the right side of the hole this setting may produce unhappy results 28 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Wrap on right side Wrap text to the right side of the hole If your text object lies entirely to the left side of the hole this setting may produce unhappy results Wrap on widest side Wrap text on whichever side of the hole has the most room within the text object s boundaries Wrap on both sides Wrap on both sides of the hole Print as much text as will fit on the left side of the hole then skip over to the right side of it and print text there as well Skip to bottom of hole Go around the hole entirely and don t resume printing until you ve gotten to the bottom of it Text Properties x Font Columns Test Angle Text Color Size amp Position Margins Column Type Background Fixed Column Widths Color Transparency Justification C Yariable Column Widths Word Wrapping Columna Number Song Title Artist Length E Apply changes as soon as make them OF Cancel Apply Help u specify a margin that will appear between each column in centimeters 29 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The other controls on this page apply to particular columns They ll be disabled unless you ve set th
26. ar a frame and a set of resizing bars If you only wanted to move the object don t release the mouse button you can drag the object anywhere you like until you release the mouse button Once you release the mouse button the program will insert a text editing caret next to the text you clicked on Once a text object is selected it s got the title bar and resize bars clicking on the text will no longer let you move the object instead it will place the text editing caret next to the text you clicked on If you want to move the object once it s selected you can do so by clicking on the text object s title bar and dragging it around Clicking on a text object s title bar will not just let you move it it will also cause the object to go into object mode The editing caret will disappear and any keystrokes you make will apply to the object itself instead of the text inside it If you press the Delete key while you re in object mode the entire text object will disappear If you press C rl x or Ctrl c the object will get cut or copied respectively Pressing the arrow keys will move the object Clicking anywhere inside the text object will take you out of object mode and back into the normal text editing mode Regardless of what mode a text object s in once it s selected you can resize it by clicking on any of the little red resize bars scattered around its border and then dragging them 15 Imagemixer Label Maker Us
27. at program startup Miscellaneous F Always run the instant label wizard at program startup When converting a text object to a round background C Always center the text C Never center the text Always ask me OK Cancel Help DE 50 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual This page lets you decide whether or not to launch the the new label wizard every time you start the program and whether or not the program should automatically change the text justification when you switch a text object to a round background The Always run the new label wizard at program startup checkbox If you check the Always run the new label wizard at program startup box the wizard will automatically run whenever you start the program If you uncheck the box the wizard will never run unless you explicitly tell it to by choosing the Instant Label Wizard option from the File menu Of course there s an exception If you launch the program by double clicking on a label file in Windows Explorer or by dragging a label file onto the Label Maker s program icon the wizard won t run at startup even if you have the always run checkbox checked Our logic was that the wizard is used for creating a brand new label and if you re launching the program by double clicking a label file you don t want a new label you want to edit the one you just double clicked We hope we have not erred in this assumption The Remember last used project type at pr
28. centered wallpaper 3 Stretched Sets the clip art image as stretched wallpaper 4 Stretched without Changing Aspect Ratio Sets the clip art image as stretched wallpaper without changing the image s aspect ratio This means that the image won t get funhouse mirrorified if it s not the same aspect ratio as your Windows desktop but it may leave a blank vertical or horizontal band on the desktop If you try to set as your Windows wallpaper an image of a type that Windows can t automatically set as wallpaper or it needs to be stretched in some way that Windows can t handle automatically the program will save the image in the correct size and format as a file called wallpaper bmp in your computer s Windows directory and tell Windows to set this new file as your wallpaper Remove from list Removes the selected clip art image from the thumbnails list It doesn t delete or modify the actual clip art image s file in any way Rename file Lets you change the clip art image s file name This will affect any other programs that expect to find the image under its old file name Delete file Deletes the actual clip art image file Use this option with caution Stuff You Can Do to a Clip Art Image That You ve Added to a Label We re assuming you didn t add your clip art image to a label as the label background If that s what you ve done check out Editing Background Images in the Backgrounds section instead You can click o
29. d in the theme Images lf you check this box any images in your project both foreground and background will get saved in your theme Colored Shapes H you check this box any shapes you ve added to your project will get saved in your theme Background Color If you check this box the background colors you ve selected for the labels in your project will get saved in your theme Tiled Background Settings This dialog lets you set an image from your computer as a tiled label background and control a variety of settings for how the image gets tiled Here s what all the controls do Real Time Preview f you check this box any changes you make will display on the label immediately so you can see how well they work If you uncheck it you won t be able to see your changes until you click the OK button to exit the dialog 150 DPI This option will tile the image at 150 dots per inch It s the default option for bitmap based images For vector based images such as WMF files dots per inch effectively has no meaning so you ll have to set custom rows and columns If you tile at resolutions lower than 150 DPI there s a good chance the image could begin to look grainy or distorted when you print it 300 DPI This option will tile the image at 300 dots per inch Custom DPI This option will let you tile the image at the dots per inch resolution of your choice Custom Rows Columns This option will let you choose your tiling resolu
30. e and label aspect ratios are different the image will underlap the label instead of overlapping cropping it This means that if the image amp label aspect ratios aren t the same a portion of the label won t be covered by the background image 3 Stretched make the selected clip art image your background image and stretch it to cover the entire label This will make the selected image cover the label exactly but it could change the image s aspect ratio If the image s aspect ratio is dramatically different from the label s aspect ratio this option could make the image appear stretched or scrunched 4 Tiled make the selected clip art image your background image but instead of stretching it tile it to cover the label Add to Label add a copy of the clip art image to your label s foreground This has the same effect as clicking on a clip art thumbnail and dragging it onto a label Show Full Size pop up a window that displays the selected clip art image at its actual size You can t edit the image or take any other useful actions with this window It s just there so you can take a closer look at it 12 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Set as Wallpaper Lets you set the selected clip art image as your Windows desktop wallpaper It has nothing to do with creating labels It pops up a submenu with these four options 1 Tiled Sets the clip art image as tiled wallpaper 2 Centered Sets the clip art image as
31. e can improve the program As long as you tell us that is If you notice a way to make the program simpler or there s a feature you really really really want let us know Your suggestion might find its way into the program That sort of thing doesn t happen in many places No matter how many touching letters you write to William Shakespeare he won t change Romeo amp Juliet to let the poor kids wake up in time and get married after all No matter how much you threaten Leonardo Da Vinci he won t add a moustache to the Mona Lisa With us you have a chance We make no guarantees but we do listen to our users and we like to hear from them Without them after all we wouldn t be here Enjoy the program we hope it helps you find your inner CD label making artist eo Fi Daer Ne j fAY G ee SR e ere Ee Russ Cary Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Frequently Asked Questions Can print a label directly onto a CD Where can I get label paper There are a few printers available that can print directly onto a CD Imagemixer LabelMaker currently supports the Epson Stylus Photo 900 the Epson Stylus Photo 960 and the Primera Signature series For direct to CD printing you can t use regular CDs you need to buy printable CDs instead These are usually labeled as printable CDs and have a white surface Several companies make CD label paper you can find it at most large electronics stores and some large discou
32. e how many columns control to be 2 or more Column Number specifies which column the Horizontal Orientation and Hole Wrapping controls apply to Horizontal Orientation specifes the horizontal orientation for text in the currently selected column Hole Wrapping specifies the hole wrapping mode what to do when the text encounters the CD hole for the currently selected column 30 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Paragraph Page Line Spacing This control lets you set line spacing for a text object 1 0 means single spaced text 2 0 means double spaced text etc Extra Indentation These controls let you specify extra text indentation on a per paragraph level If your text is left justified the extra indentation will be on the left if your text is right justified the extra justification will be on the right if your text is centered extra indentation doesn t apply and these controls will be disabled 1st Line cm Lets you specify in centimeters extra indentation for the first line of every paragraph Other Lines cm Lets you specify in centimeters extra indentation for all non first lines of paragraphs The Fields Page Font Columns Test Angle Text Color Size amp Position Margins Column Type SE Fixed Column Widths ColorTransparency Justification Variable Column Widths Word Wtappm Gong Title Artist Length h Appl changes as soon as make them
33. e putting it on If your image is twice as wide as it is high for instance and you try to make it the background for the jewel case front which is square your image may appear squished To avoid this you can either use images that are roughly the same shape and aspect ratio as the labels you want to put them on or you can add them to the label as regular clip art rather than as backgrounds so you can resize them however you like You can do this by just clicking on the image s thumbnail and dragging it onto the label You can then move amp resize it so that it covers the entire label It will keep its original aspect ratio unless you right click on it and uncheck the maintain aspect ratio option You can click the send to back button on its toolbar to make sure it appears behind everything else I printed and nothing happened If nothing came out of the printer it s likely that you selected a different printer than the one you expected to print on Click the Print toolbar button to launch the Print dialog then check to see what printer is listed at the top of the dialog in the name field Is this the printer you meant to print on If not set it to the correct one If you got a blank page from the printer you probably either tried to print a blank label one you hadn t added any images shapes or text to or your hard disk is nearly full If your hard disk doesn t have at least 200 megabytes of free space your printer dri
34. e the same aspect ratio as the label you re putting it on it may appear stretched or squished It that s the case you can left click the image s thumbnail drag it onto the label and release the mouse button then click on the sizing bars to make it big enough to overlap the label without altering its aspect ratio and click on its title bar or the image itself to position it where you want it If you ve found an image you want to add to your label as a piece of clip art rather than as the label background just left click on its thumbnail drag it onto your label and release the mouse button The program will place the image where you dropped it As soon as you drop it it should be in selected mode with sizing bars and a toolbar You can click on the image s sizing bars to resize the image you can click on the image s title bar or the image itself to move it You can also right click on the image to pop up a menu with a variety of editing options You can also drag image files from Windows Explorer and drop them onto your label aah Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual I imported my own graphic for a label background and the art looks squished or stretched Your background graphic may look squished or stretched if it has a dramatically different aspect ratio from the label you re putting it on When you insert a picture as a label background it will get either stretched or compressed to fit the dimensions of the label you r
35. e you ve got more than two fields visible The variable width fields setting can have a nice effect on centered or right justified tracks listings Line Break After Each Row lf this box is checked each track listing will start on a new line If it s unchecked multiple tracks will appear on each line space permitting Space After Each Row cm If there s not a line break after each track this control specifies how much space should appear between tracks that display on the same line This control will be disabled if the Line Break After Each Row control is checked e Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Individual Field Pages Song Title Column Properties Fort Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position W Column is visible Margins Background width Color Transparence Column width for fixed width columna Justification Word Wrapping 3 20 Jem Columns Humber Space after column for variable width columna 0 10 Jem W Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help When you launch the text properties dialog for a tracks text object you ll see one of these pages for each field in the text object For an audio CD they ll be labeled Number Song Title Artist and Length respectively This page lets you edit properties of whichever tracks field you ve selected If you check the Field is visible checkbox the field will be displayed on the label U
36. er Manual The Text Object Toolbar Times Mew Homan fio Li B f Sei II When you click on a text object a toolbar should appear directly underneath it If it doesn t click on the T button on the object s toolbar The buttons on the toolbar serve these functions from left to right e Setting the typeface e Setting the font size e Setting the text color e Toggling the bold text effect on and off e Toggling the italics text effect on and off e Launching the text properties dialog which lets you edit a veritable encyclopedia s worth of text properties e Editing the object s text only shows up on the toolbars of text objects with text angles other than 0 degrees Except for the last two buttons which launch dialogs all these buttons apply to whatever text you ve currently got selected If you don t have any text selected changes you make with these buttons will apply to all the text in the text object This is a different behavior from the majority of text editing programs which assume that if you don t have any text selected changes you make don t apply to any text at all a behavior that quite frankly baffles us If you put a CD into the stereo and press the play button without selecting a particular track to play your CD player doesn t ignore you it starts at the beginning and plays the whole CD If you walk into a bar and ask for a beer the bartender won t pretend he didn t hear y
37. f you check the Always print this way don t ask me again box before clicking the OK button the program will use your choice to handle printer overlap from now on without asking you so you ll never see this dialog box again 44 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual e OK click this button when you ve made your choice and you re ready to move on e Cancel click this button if you ve decided you don t want to print this label after all e Help we suspect you ve already got some experience with this button But if you enjoy this help page feel free to click it whenever you want What else If you ve got more than one printer try em all You might find that another of your printers has a small enough unprintable margin that the entire label will print on it without being shrunk 45 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Instant Label Wizard Creatie a row label Welcome to the I need to make a lahel at rn in a big harry wizard This izad ell guide you through the a ee oe Press me Hew buton bo continue If you re in a label making race or you don t trust your label design skills or you just can t be bothered to plunge in up to your elbows among the muck of backgrounds and text and clip art then the wizard is for you We ve done all we can to remove as many choices as possible so that all you have to do is make a few mouse Clicks and proceed to the printing We couldn
38. focus you can also move from field to field by using the arrow keys or the tab key There are several other ways to get a field into edit mode Here s the lot e press the Enter key selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text e press F2 selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text e click the Edit button selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text e double click the text field selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text e just start typing replaces the contents of the field with whatever you re typing You can t edit the contents of the number field We couldn t see the value of identifying song 3 as 7 or 12 or bx but if you think you can convince us otherwise send us an e mail If you want to change a track s position in the list you can click the Move Up or Move Down buttons or just click on the song and drag it up or down This page has several buttons along the right side of the window e Add Row adds a new row to the end of the list 47 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual e Remove remove the currently selected row e Edit jete you edit the text of the currently selected item e Move Up moves the currently selected row one row up e Move Down moves the currently selected row one row down e Import this button will only be visible if you re working on an audio CD
39. ght When you set your text to be sideways or upside down the text object s toolbar will grow a new button away off to the right side Times Mew Homan jig Li E D aa TI Click on the bmct edit text button bp button and the program will launch a window like this one u Edit Text azz Foster ICG You can edit your text in this window Any changes you make will show up back on your label as soon as you close the window You can close the window by clicking on the X in the upper right hand side of the window s title bar 34 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Working with CD Tracks The Tracks Window Label Contents x N Song Title Amabhonga Sekusile Dark City Sisters EA SE La Guyanaise Sylviane Cedia ADF Zulu Selivaduma Juba Dr Ab Edit Turm Me Loose Mohammed Malc 7 08 Voodoo Child Angelique Kidjo ENK Femmes d Afrique Bell Muana Diab 4 29 Pole Marna Somo Domp 04 _Move Up Hapo Zamani Dorothy Masuka 4 50 Lamara M bilia Bel 6 52 Move Down Mon Coeur Balan Daouda D A0 Babalac Angelique Kidjo 4 31 ei IT Display tracks on current label Import Done Help This dialog lets you type in and edit your tracks listing either your song list for an audio CD or your chapter list for a DVD If you re editing an audio CD you can also import your tracks from a playlist and save yourself all that tedious typing To type in the contents for a field in the contents l
40. he File Advanced menu OF New Layout Name Cancel squiggles amp spota Help FEE Add to layout all he Text objects Labels this layout wall work with T Dis IT CO Jewel Case Front kg CD Jewel Case Inside IT CO Jewel Case Back hd Images I Colored shapes Selecting this option will bring up a dialog that lets you save the current label as a layout You can save whichever elements you like text fields colored shapes and or images You can also specify which label types you want to be able to use this new layout with Once you ve typed in a name for your new layout and clicked the OK button your new layout will show up under the Layouts tab along with all the pre built layouts that we supplied with the program We hope your marvelous new layout won t mind slumming it with all our comparatively pedestrian pre supplied ones Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Adding your own images to labels Finding Images to Add to a Label Imagemixer Label Maker provides two ways to find images on your computer that you can add to your labels 1 Click on the Art Search tab enter some text that s in the file or folder names of the art you re looking for and click the Search button Thumbnails of all supported image files matching your search terms will appear in the window underneath the search button We support jpg bmp png and pcx graphics types 2 Click on the Art Explore tab and pa
41. he image without getting the dreaded funhouse mirror effect If you uncheck it you can streeeetch or scrunch the image as much as you like Hide Show Toolbar Hides or shows the little image toolbar that normally displays just underneath the image whenever you select the image Any of these changes that you make to a clip art image will change the way the Label Maker displays the image but will not affect the clip art image s original file in any way If you apply any of these changes to an image and decide you don t like them you can click the Undo button to retract them Adie Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Displaying Text To display text on a label create a text object You can do this by clicking the new text button on the toolbar or selecting the Create a new text object item from the Text menu One of the biggest quandaries we faced when we were designing the text object control was how to tell whether you clicked on the text control because you wanted to edit the text or because you wanted to move the whole blooming object somewhere It s a sticky issue We didn t want to make you go through a series of contortions to switch between object moving and text editing modes We wanted text editing and object moving and resizing to be available at the same time Here s how we dealt with it When you left click on an unselected text object it will select the object The object will grow a title b
42. hen once it s selected click the OK button If you re energy conscious and you re trying to conserve mouse mileage you can double click on the drive letter instead If you don t remember which drive holds the CD but you re sure one of them does you won t do any terrible damage by picking the wrong drive The program will either import tracks for the wrong CD or display an error message indicating that there s no CD in the drive you picked In either case you can just click the Import button on the Tracks dialog again to rerun the process and select the right drive this time Choose a Disc ID Dialog If FreeDB finds multiple potential matches for your CD they ll all be displayed here Choose the one that looks right to you If it turns out to be wrong click the Import button on the Tracks Dialog again and repeat the process and choose another one When FreeDB finds multiple matches they re usually multiple copies of nearly identical playlists with slight variations in genre year or other fields that Ilmagemixer Label Maker doesn t really care about As long as the artist and album names are correct you probably won t go wrong Playlist Search Dialog If you ve got a playlist file that you want to import song names from but you can t remember where the file is then this dialog is for you It will automatically search your hard drive and display a list of all the files it finds that appear to be
43. ing beverage beside you and perhaps one hand thoughtfully stroking your chin read on Our Goals The ImageMixer LabelMaker s mission is to be fun quality easy to use software We want to be a program that never makes you want to swear at your computer or throw your monitor out the window We want to help you get your labels made quickly and enjoy doing it And we want to help you bring out your creative side even if you don t think you have one One of the first things we realized is that if you want to be able to get where you need to go and try all the things you want to try you need to have your tools handy You don t want to have to weed through menus and nested subdialogs and hieroglyphic laden randomly arranged toolbars to get at the image or tool you re looking for When you were four years old and you set out to color a picture you set your paper in front of you and dumped all your crayons out beside it Everything you needed was in easy reach You didn t put all your red crayons in one of the kitchen drawers your blue crayons in a box in the attic and your green crayons under the bed at your friend s house across town That would have been stupid That would have been the sort of thing and blush to say so because belong to this category that a programmer would do We ve tried to avoid the programmer s way and instead keep all your tools just a click away so the program doesn t get in the way when you re in
44. ist Song Title Artist Chapter etc click on the field and start typing Once the contents list has the keyboard focus you can also move from field to field by using the arrow keys or the tab key There are several other ways to get a field into edit mode Here s the lot press the Enter key selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text press F2 selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text click the Edit button selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text double click the text field selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text just start typing replaces the existing contents of the field with whatever you re typing 35 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual If the contents of a field are too wide to fit in the available space in the tracks list you ll see a row of periods like so at the end of the field If you drag the mouse cursor over the field and let it sit there a tooltip will pop up that displays the unabbreviated contents of the field You can adjust the widths of the different columns in the tracks list by clicking on the borders between the columns and dragging them This doesn t affect how wide the columns will be on any actual labels Like many another dialog this one has a bunch of buttons Here s what they all mean e Add Row adds a new row to the end of the list e Remove
45. ker will help you make the best of things Here are your options e Scale the entire label down to fit This will make the entire label smaller so that it will fit on your paper If you ve got a DVD movie box label that s 10 millimeters too wide this option will shrink the entire label to make it 10 millimeters narrower The advantage is that everything you put on your label will still print if at a slightly smaller size The disadvantages are that the label will get shrunk both horizontally and vertically even though the paper was too small in only one of those directions and because the label is getting rescaled any fold lines that get printed might be slightly off This option is probably the best available though e Chop some millimeters off each side f your label is 10 millimeters too wide the program will chop 5 millimeters off each side This is good because your label will still be symmetrical and it will only get chopped in one direction e horizontal or vertical but not both But it s bad because it chops off some of the label you worked so hard to create It s a good option if you don t have any interesting content near your label edges e Ignore the overlap You can always pretend the overlap doesn t exist If your label is 10 millimeters too wide and you choose this option the rightmost 10 millimeters will get chopped off We don t think this is your best choice but you may have your reasons We won t pry e
46. label It lets you import tracks from a playlist file When you burn a CD you usually create a playlist file that lists the songs you burned to the CD Imagemixer Label Maker can read most types of playlist files and automatically create a song list for you e Read CD this button will only be visible if you re working on an audio CD label and you have a CD drive attached to your computer It will attempt to get tracks information from a CD in your CD drive If your CD has an entry in cdplayer ini or cdburner ini the program will use it if not it will try to look up a tracks listing for your CD over the Internet Once you ve got all your tracks info just the way you want it click the Next button to go to the Additional Text Fields page The Additional Text Fields Page Depending on which theme you chose in the Choose a Theme page your CD or DVD label set may display text for titles dedications artist names etc This page lets you type in the text you want for each of these fields One you re satisfied with all your text fields click the Next button to advance to the last page of the wizard The Finish Page Once you get to this page your wizard is done All you need to decide is whether you want to keep it or not If you like what you ve done click the Finish button This will close the wizard and keep all the label d cor you picked out in the wizard If you re having second thoughts click the Cancel button
47. le kA 9 Finding Images to Add to al abel eeeecceeeeececeeeeeneeeeeenaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeeeaeeeeneaas 9 Using an Image You ve Found as a Label Background A 9 Adding an Image You ve Found as Clip At 10 C e E a biedes Ate ereaeiaten tered 11 Clip Art Search ce hea neia ea ee aia e 11 Glip Art Explore eiiieaen tea eo et gesteet gek ieee Dese ae ial evbear tte ene ege geh iereg Meute 11 stuff VGU Can Do with Clip Atterio an e aaan E Seege Eege eegen Eed 12 GM techn ais ee ee dee Eege 15 Displaying TEx eee e eerren eE Era EEEE ERRA ETE AAEE A E O 15 The Text Properties Dialogys irau anra ar E EEEa ERNE TEA EAEE 18 TE FONE PAG aes E T ET N ati ihe ol ee 19 AAEE na Ge EE 29 The Paragraph Pagea SE E eg ed dee RS 31 BAG EN PAGO EE 31 Working WER Eege eege eege DEE See desg 35 The Tracks Window ee CNN ee i ae ee ae en 35 Tracks Formatting Dialog Nee eatin Nin ANTAR EEA eset nese E tenets 36 Choose a CD Drives Eeer ger dee EE ee 38 Choose a Dees Dialogues inienn n ai iiag EEN ege 38 Playlist Search RTE EE 38 COlOred SHAPES eege gt pa ENER EEN E EEEE E ENEE 39 ERR EE ee ete aaa 40 LhesPrint DOG ari cas ee ee oats E A A DEE eet A 40 Lhe nsert Paper Ulee eal ate eee aa ee ee a At ee 42 Printing forthe First HMO EE 42 toe Printer Alignment Dialogs ach dake a anna An eis 43 The Your Label s T00 Darn Big Dialog 0 cceeeeseeeeenneeeeeeaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeneaas 44 The Instant l
48. lip the image horizontally make a mirror image of it Edit Image Pops up a submenu with these four options 1 Convert to Black amp White Technically we should describe this as convert to grayscale 2 Invert make a negative Reverse the color of every pixel in the background image if this doesn t make sense to you just try it 3 Make Brighter Make the image a little bit brighter 4 Make Darker Make the image a little bit darker Reload Reloads the image from its original file discarding any edits you may have done to it Top left pixel is transparent color lf you ve checked this option the program will treat the color in the image s top left pixel as the transparent color Any pixels in the image with this color will be transparent Lots of clip art images are designed to be displayed with a transparent background this option lets you do so Note this setting usually has little effect on JPEG files because the JPEG compression algorithm will change background pixels to colors that are similar to but not quite the same as the designated transparent color Remove Removes the image from the label Cut Image Removes the image from the label but puts it on the clipboard so you can paste it back onto the label or onto any other label if you wish Copy Image Copies the image to the clipboard without removing it from the label Maintain aspect ratio If you ve checked this option you can resize t
49. ll be wider than the title for Louie Louie The rows in the text object will not line up directly underneath each other unless all their text fields happen to be exactly the same length However in variable width columns mode there will be a fixed amount of space between columns If you specify 1 2 centimeters after the track number column every row will have 1 2 centimeters of blank space between its track number and the field that follows it no matter how wide individual track numbers may be When you re in variable width columns mode and you drag the column borders in the header bar you re actually editing the width between the columns rather than the widths of the columns themselves Fixed width columns work well for left justified text or cases where you ve got more than two columns visible The variable width columns setting can have a nice effect on centered or right justified tracks listings If the header bar has a blank section before the first column it s nothing to worry about It just means that you ve got the text object in centered or right justified mode 47e Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Text Properties Dialog Background Color amp Transparency Font Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Margins Background co gu CH C d ei T IR DR TRIER TE oe TERE Word Wrapping EE EUNN Columns Number Song Title Custom Colors
50. ly go clockwise Starting Angle Use Horizontal Orientation The software will use your horizontal orientation setting to determine where the text should start If you ve chosen left orientation the text will start at the leftmost edge of your text object If you ve chosen right orientation it will end at the rightmost edge of your text object If you ve chosen centered orientation the text should both start and finish an equal distance from the center of your text object Note that if your text is in spiral mode and it fills more than one complete revolution the text will be treated as if it s left justified regardless of your horizontal orientation setting Fixed Angle The text will begin at the angle you choose 0 degrees is directly to the right 3 o clock The angle increases in a counterclockwise direction so 12 o clock is 90 degrees 9 o clock is 180 degrees and 6 o clock is 270 degrees If you ve got the Fixed Angle setting checked you can click on the circle to the right of the Fixed Angle radio button to choose a start angle or you can use the spin control on the edit box underneath the Fixed Angle radio button to adjust your start angle by one degree at a time 24 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Background Page Background Fort Test Angle Test Color Shape Size amp Position BEES Margins g Y Ellipse Color Transparence Justification Word
51. mage You ve Found as Clip Art Once you ve found an image you want to add to your label just left click on its thumbnail drag it onto your label and release the mouse button The program will place the image where you dropped it As soon as you drop it it should be in selected mode with sizing bars and a toolbar You can click on the image s sizing bars to resize the image you can click on the image s title bar or the image itself to move it You can also right click on the image to pop up a menu with a variety of editing options You can also drag image files from Windows Explorer and drop them onto your label For more details on using your own images see the Clip Art topic 10 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Clip Art Clip Art Search If you want to search for clip art images on your computer s hard drive s click on the Art Search tab near the top of the program s main window Then follow these steps Type something to search for into the Search for field The search will find any file names containing the text string you ve entered here If a directory name contains the string you ve typed in the search will find any images in that directory and its subdirectories If you leave the Search for field blank the search will find all images in all directories Choose the image types that you want to search through in the File types combo box If you select All the search will fi
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53. n it This will select it so that you can move or resize it Once you ve selected a clip art image you can Move it Do this by left clicking on the image or its title bar dragging it to where you want it and releasing the mouse button Resize it Do this by clicking on one of the red resize squares located around the image s border dragging to whatever size you want and releasing the mouse button alo Ar Click on one of its toolbar buttons When you click on a clip art image and select it a toolbar will appear underneath it You can hide or show the toolbar by clicking the little T button on the image s title bar The toolbar has buttons that let you move the image to the front or back of all the other objects you ve put on your label or rotate it 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise Right click it This will pop up a menu with these options Bring to Front Display the image on top of all other objects you ve added to your label Send to Back Display the image behind all other objects you ve added to your label except the background image 13 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Rotate Flip Image Pops up a submenu with these five options 1 90 degrees clockwise Rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise 2 90 degrees counterclockwise Rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise 3 180 degrees Rotate the image 180 degrees 4 Flip Vertical Flip the image vertically 5 Flip Horizontal F
54. ncheck it to hide the field The Field width edit control lets you decide how wide you want the field to be provided you ve got the text object in fixed width fields mode you can set this on the fields page If you re not a numbers oriented sort of person you can also do this outside the text properties dialog by clicking on the text object to select it and then dragging the field boundaries in the header bar to resize them The Space after field lets you decide how much blank space you want between this field and the next one provided you ve got the text object in variable width fields mode you can set this on the fields page You can also do this outside the text properties dialog by clicking on the text object to select it and then dragging the column boundaries in the header bar to resize the spaces between them For an explanation of fixed vs variable width fields modes check out the fields page The Text Properties Dialog ee Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Edit Text Window for Angled Text When you set a text object to an angle that s sideways or upside down you won t be able to edit it by just clicking on the text object the way you normally do While was writing the program tried editing text sideways and upside down but had a roaring headache within a minute don t wish to cause pain to any of our users so added a right side up editing window to use when your text isn t upri
55. nd Images Selecting the Edit Background Image option from the Label menu will bring up a list of things you can do to your background image Here s the lot e 90 degrees clockwise Rotate the background image 90 degrees clockwise e 90 degrees counterclockwise Rotate the background image 90 degrees counterclockwise e 180 degrees Rotate the background 180 degrees e Flip vertical Flip the image vertically e Flip horizontal Flip the image horizontally make a mirror image of it e Convert to black and white Technically we should describe this as convert to grayscale e Invert make a negative Reverse the color of every pixel in the background image if this doesn t make sense to you just try it e Make brighter Make the background image a little bit brighter e Make darker Make the background image a little bit darker e Reload Reload the background image in its original form discarding any of the editing options in the above list that you may have performed e Ofcourse if you try any of these edits and you dont like them you can always click on the Undo button to get rid of them More Backgrounds We ve got lots more background art than we could fit into our download file Open the Help menu and click on the Check for new art option and we ll launch your browser with the URL of our extra art page If there isn t any art there which is the case at the time of writing this help file because we haven
56. nd any image types that the program supports Currently this includes file extension types omp dib jpg jpeg png and pcx Click the Search button The button will change into a Stop button Clicking on it again will stop the search Once the search has finished it will revert back to a Search button Any images that the search finds will show up in the thumbnails list The search will only find files on your computer s fixed drives it will skip floppy drives CD ROM drives Zip drives etc If you need to search on a removable drive you ll have to click on the Clip Art Explore tab and use our explorer control to find the clip art you re looking for Clip Art Explore If you want to use the traditional Windows Explorer style interface for finding clip art on your computer click on the Art Explore tab near the top of the program s main window This will bring up our explorer tree clip art window Instead of a list of file names though our explore tab displays thumbnails of all the images in whatever folder is currently selected Call us crazy but we think it s easier to find the pictures you want by looking at the actual pictures than by deciphering their file names The Art Explore tab pane contains two windows The top window is a Windows Explorer tree Use it to find the folders where your clip art resides Click on the sign beside a folder or drive you want to dive into and the tree will expand to
57. nd dragging any of the little red resize bars scattered around the shape s borders These borders should add are only visible when the shape is in a selected state meaning that you ve clicked on it and haven t clicked on anything else in the meantime Once you click on a shape that you ve added to a label you should see a little shape editing toolbar appear beneath it If there s no toolbar click on the little T button in the shape s titlebar These buttons taken from left to right let you e change its shape e change the shape s background color e move the shape in front of all other objects on the label e move the shape behind everything else on the label except the background image if any diamond D EC Eifel One of our favorite ways to waste time with shape objects is to drag them around the screen a little bit at a time as if we were creating slow motion pong games or sunsets and then play them back like movies by holding down the Ctrl Z undo key until everything comes to a stop then playing them back in the other direction by holding down the Ctrl Y redo key This accomplishes absolutely nothing and will not help you create labels But you might enjoy that sort of thing 39 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Printing When you re ready to print your label click the Print button on the main toolbar or select the Print item from the File menu This will launch the Print dialog unless
58. ngs are designed to overcome problems with your printer s alignment so that you can fit labels onto premade forms But since plain paper doesn t have any pre perforated labels that you need to line your labels up with stretching isn t necessary and in fact will only make your labels bigger than they need to be The Printing Fold Lines Page Main Toolbar Options for Printing Fold Lines Auto Run Options Printer Alignment e Solid Lines i C Dashed Lines Miscellaneous Print Lines Outside the Label Only Color KS Change Color Cancel Help This page lets you set options for printing fold lines on your labels You can turn fold line printing on and off from the Print Dialog If you turn them on the program will print lines on your labels to help you fold them correctly You don t need to check this box unless you re printing on plain 53 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual paper most stock paper forms have folds already built into the paper If you check this box for the jewel case back the program will print lines indicating where to fold the two spines If you check this box for the jewel case front inside the program will print a line indicating where to fold the front inside booklet in half The box will be disabled for the front inside label if you re not printing on a paper type that prints both the front and inside labels on the same side of the paper You won t be able to check this box for the CD
59. nt stores If you re just starting out printing CD labels we also recommend you buy a CD label applicator It s a little plastic device usually selling for a few dollars that makes it much easier for you to get your labels aligned correctly on your CD If you don t want to print jewel case labels on plain paper you can buy premade jewel case label stock at the same places you find CD label paper It s usually perforated and is thicker than typical printer paper How can I import my own graphics and put them on labels Imagemixer LabelMaker provides two ways to find images on your computer that you can add to your labels 1 Click on the Art Search tab enter some text that s in the file or folder names of the art you re looking for and click the Search button Thumbnails of all supported image files matching your search terms will appear in the window underneath the search button We support jpg bmp png and pcx graphics types 2 Click on the Art Explore tab and parse through the explorer tree to see thumbnails of all the supported image files in a particular folder If you ve found an image you want to make your background you can do it one of these ways 1 Double left click on the image s thumbnail to make it the background or 2 Ctrl double click the thumbnail to make it a tiled background or 3 Right click on the image s thumbnail and select one of the Set as background options If the image you ve selected doesn t hav
60. ntents The Choose Theme Page Just by clicking on a theme in this list you ll choose the background image text fields fonts tracks format and general all around layout of all the labels for your CD or DVD We think that for efficiency and far reaching power this mouse click ranks right up there with the self destruct this entire vast underground complex buttons that the villains are always pressing in James Bond movies Each of the themes in the list on this page displays three pictures representing approximately what your labels will look like if you choose that particular theme The first picture starting from the left will be your disc label the second will be your jewel case front booklet and the third will be your jewel case back Once you ve chosen your theme click the Next button to go to the Label Contents page The Tracks Page If you ve gotten this far you re rapidly getting the hang of this wizard business This page lets you type in your tracks listing either your song list for an audio CD or your chapter list for a DVD If you re running the audio CD wizard you can also import your tracks from a playlist if you have one which will save you all that tedious typing To type in the contents for a field in the contents list i e Song Title Artist Chapter etc click on the field and just start typing Once the contents list has the keyboard
61. ogram startup checkbox By default the software creates a blank CD project when it starts If you check this box it will remember the project type CD DVD or mini CD you were working on the last time you used the software and create a blank project of that type when you start the program So if you were working on a DVD project the last time you ran the software the next time it launches it will create a blank DVD project for you to work on The When changing a text object s shape to round buttons Lots of people think that if you display text within a round shape the text will look goofy unless it s centered Others say that non centered text within a round shape can add dash and spice to an ordinary design and can rouse people to rethink their placid assumptions about the natural order of things much like Stravinsky s Rites of Spring or the shower scene in Psycho For our part we ve tried to remain agnostic about this To accommodate all sides of this raging debate we ve added this set of buttons e Always center the text when you change a text object to have a round shape the program will automatically convert the text to centered justification e Never center the text when you change a text object to have a round shape we ll just pretend it never happened at least from a text justification point of view e Always ask me when you change a text object to have a round shape well ask you whether or not you want us to cen
62. ore Label Edges If you check this box you can drag a text object partially off a label and it won t affect how the text object word wraps The result will be that some of the text in the text object won t be visible because it will be off the label If you uncheck this box dragging a text object partially off a label will cause the text to word wrap when it reaches the label boundary instead of waiting until it reaches the text object s margin Line Breaks If you select Best fit text will try to word wrap on spaces If this isn t possible it will try to word wrap at punctuation marks such as dashes and semicolons If this isn t possible the text will word wrap wherever it can Best fit is the default and is best for most situations If you select Break on spaces only text will only word wrap at spaces The drawback of this approach is that if there are no spaces in a line the text can t word wrap so the text won t display at all However this setting can be useful when you re displaying text near the circular border of a CD label and you don t want the text to get wrapped in the middle of a word Hole Handling These options let you choose how you want your text to word wrap when it encounters the hole in the middle of a CD label Your choices are Ignore Holes The default Pretends the hole isn t even there If you select this option text that crosses the hole will be invisible because the text object won t try to wr
63. ou just because you didn t tell him how full you wanted the glass And if you click the bold button without any text selected were pretty sure you don t mean act as if don t exist You mean to change text to bold And that s what we do for you Special Stuff You Can Do With Tracks Contents Text Objects Track lists lists of the track names artist names etc on your CD are a special type of text object You don t need to create new text objects to display them Instead either select a layout that has a tracks list or open the tracks dialog by clicking the tracks button on the toolbar and check the Display tracks on current label button When you edit the text in a tracks list object the changes will get relayed to all the other label faces in your current file So if you ve got tracks list text objects on all your labels editing the disc label to change the title of song 1 from Let the Good Times Ambulate to Let the Good Times Roll will cause the title to change on the front inside and back labels as well Changes you make to the text by editing it in the Tracks Window will also get sent to all the labels Formatting changes fonts italics etc will not get sent to other labels Only changes to the actual text will get passed on to the other labels In addition changes to the track number field won t get sent to the other labels If you make a mistake and mess up one or more of the
64. ow take up the entire screen Once you do this the left arrow button will turn into a right arrow button clicking on it will bring the tools window back again Making the Tools Window Bigger or Smaller Perhaps you want like me to have your tools window visible but you find the cosmic balance between the yin of tools and the yang of labels or vice versa is a little off and you d like a little more or less of the tools window This is easily solved When you want your tools window to be bigger or smaller you can click on the border between the tools and labels windows and drag it to size things however you want them The mouse cursor will change into a little horizontal resizing arrow whenever it s over the border Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Label Tabs Ia Disc TEL Front EU Inside DA Back If you ve ever wondered How do edit all the different labels that a CD has or What s that row of tabs along the upper right hand side of the window for then you ve come to the right paragraph The row of tabs above the labels window corresponds to the different label faces you can design Clicking on a tab will bring its respective label to the foreground so you can play with it Clicking on a label tab will also change the tools ingredients windows to display the available backgrounds and layouts for the new foreground label The Display Tracks Button Display Tracks We presume that your CD or DVD ha
65. recommend that you feed plain paper into the printer instead even though the insert paper dialog has told you to insert sheets of your label stock This way you can check your printer s alignment before using up any of your relatively expensive label stock Once it s printed on plain paper you should be able to see if it s aligned correctly by putting a sheet of your label stock on top of your freshly printed sheet of plain paper making sure they line up exactly on top of each other and then holding the two sheets in front of a light so that the printed label on the plain paper underneath is visible This should help prevent you from wasting custom paper stock tracking down your printer s alignment problems 42 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Printer Alignment Dialog Stretch Labels Increase label widths and heights by Cancel 2 0 millimeters Help Printer Offsets HF OfficeJet A Seres Move labels by Move labels by KS WE E og E millimeters foo E millimeters To the left Up Ge To the right Ce Down Printers are imprecise beasts You can tell them to print something exactly 1 2 inches from the top of the paper but chances are it ll end up being more like 1 1 or 1 28 inches from the top The older your printer gets the more likely this is to occur as all the little mechanical bits that escort paper into and out of the printer get worn out You re not likely to notice thi
66. rectory select an image and close the dialog That s way too much work to repeat for every single background we might want to look at We want our backgrounds and clip art and so forth available all the time so we can try out new ones without having to organize a search party A Layouts A Backgrounds a Art Search E Art Explore Consequently there s a row of tabs along the top left side of the program labeled respectively layouts backgrounds art search and art explore Clicking on one of the tabs brings up one of the categories of stuff you can add to your label Clicking on backgrounds for instance brings up a list of little thumbnailed images of all the built in backgrounds you can add to your currently selected label Click on a background and it becomes your label s background Click on another one or use the arrow keys to select another one and now it becomes your label s new background We think that s pretty straightforward Hiding the Tools Window Of course you may be the type who can t abide distractions How can concentrate on perfecting the elements I ve already chosen for my label you may say if I ve got all these other backgrounds and clip arts tempting me know tend to be this way in chocolate shops So if you want the tools window to go away altogether you can click on the left arrow button at the bottom of the window This will make the labels wind
67. resize your text object s chat or thought tail If you want to move the chat or thought tail to another side of your text object altogether direct your attention to 25 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Balloon Tail Location This group of radio buttons will be enabled if you ve chosen the Speech Balloon or Thought Balloon options on this page These buttons let you select the side of your text object on which you want to display your chat or thought balloon tail The Color Transparency Page Tent Properties 0 OOOO OE Background Color amp Transparency Font Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Margins Background co gu CH C a ei Word Wrapping Columns EE DEUT HE TEHE EE EEIT EE EUNN Number Song Title Custom Colors Artist TI Length ZZ 9 xl vw Transparent h Appl changes as soon as make them Cancel This page lets you choose your text object s background color It s quite simple click on a color and your text object s background will become that color Or if you d prefer your text object to have a transparent background you can check the Transparent box Help RI USR l 26 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Justification Page Text Properties x Font Justification Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Margins Background ColorTran
68. rn underlining on and off for the currently selected field e Text Color This pair of controls lets you control the color in which the text for the currently selected field gets drawn The text color button displays the current text color Click on it to change the color The which tracks combo box lets you set the text color for all tracks or just for odd or even numbered tracks If you select the even numbered tracks option and then click on the text color button for instance the text color you choose will apply only to the current field in even numbered tracks If you ve chosen different colors for odd and even numbered tracks and you select the All Tracks option the text color button will display the odd tracks color on the left side of the button and the even tracks color on the right side Selecting a color when the All Tracks option is chosen will set the color for both odd and even numbered tracks Using different colors for odd and even numbered tracks can make the tracks listing easier to read when it contains a large number of tracks Make sure that both colors show up well against your chosen background art though 37 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Choose a CD Drive The Imagemixer Label Maker wants to know which of your many CD drives holds the CD that you re trying to read track information from Your job is to tell it Just click on the drive letter of the drive that holds your CD and t
69. rse through the explorer tree to see thumbnails of all the supported image files in a particular folder The Art Search and Art Explore tabs should be near the top left corner of your program window They look like this A Layouts A Backgrounds Ei Art Search A Art Explore If you re running at a low video resolution or you ve resized your tools window to be very narrow the clip art tabs might not be visible FA Backgrounds A Att Search FI a A 1 In this case you ll need to click the right arrow to scroll the clip art tabs into view before you can select one of them and start adding your own clip art Using an Image You ve Found as a Label Background Once you ve found an image you want to make your background you can either 1 Double left click on the image s thumbnail to make it the background or 2 Ctrl double click the thumbnail to make it a tiled background or 3 Right click on the image s thumbnail and select one of the Set as background options Note that if the image you ve selected doesn t have the same aspect ratio as the label you re putting it on it may appear stretched or squished It that s the case you can drag the image s thumbnail and drop it onto the label then click on the sizing bars to make it big enough to overlap the label without altering its aspect ratio and click on its title bar or the image itself to position it where you want it Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Adding an I
70. s flaw when you re printing say a resum And if your interviewer is measuring the margins on your resum you may be happier elsewhere anyway But when you re printing a CD label on a pre cut form every millimeter matters That s why millimeters would rather be on a CD label than a plain sheet of paper they like to feel important If your printer is a millimeter awry on a CD label you ll get a millimeter of white unprinted space on your label It won t look good H your printer is consistently wrong which is often the case you can use the Printer Offsets section of this dialog to correct it If the printer always prints a millimeter to the right of where it s supposed to you can use this section to tell the program to always print labels one millimeter to the left of where they d normally go which will cancel out the printer s imprecision and make things print just where they ought to be Printer Offsets controls e When printing on Lets you select the printer for which you want to set offsets e Move labels by There s one of these sections each for horizontal and vertical paper alignment Enter the amount of space in millimeters by which you need to move labels horizontally and vertically respectively for the printer you ve chosen e To the left To the right Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer s horizontal printing errors If your printer always prints stuff too far to the right
71. s something on it Not many people make labels for blank CDs although if that s what you re doing we certainly have no objections And not many people want to type in their tracks list once to display on their disc label and once again for the front of their jewel case and once again for well you get the idea We ve created a special Tracks list so that you can just type in your tracks list once or let the program import it for you if you ve got a playlist file and then display it on whichever labels you like If you click the Show Tracks button the program will display your tracks list on the current label If you click it again the program will hide your tracks information For more information see the Displaying Text section Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Backgrounds Click on the Backgrounds tab along the top left side of the program s main window and you ll see thumbnails of all the pre built background images that we ship with the program Click on any one of the thumbnails and it will become your label s background image If you want to edit your background image or heaven forbid remove it altogether you ll need to escort your mouse over to the label window and right click on the background image which will popup a menu with various options for taking care of your background editing needs If you re not a right clicker you can alternatively select the Label option on the main menu Editing Backgrou
72. sparency Justification Word Wrapping Columns Humber Song Title Artist Length Vertical Top Ge Center Bottom IY Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help This page lets you choose your text s horizontal and vertical justification It works as follows Horizontal Left Text will be left justified within the text object s boundaries Center Text will be centered horizontally within the text object s boundaries Right Text will be right justified within the text object s boundaries Vertical Top Text will be top justified within the text object s boundaries Center Text will be centered vertically within the text object s boundaries Bottom Text will be bottom justified within the text object s boundaries 27 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Word Wrapping Page Text Properties wl Font Word Wrapping Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Hole Handling Margins CN e Background Pererrrrrrrrr errr rrr irri irs P Ignore label edges Color T raneparericy Wrap on left side Justification Line Break Wrap on right side Bi a i anes Wrap on widest side Best Song Title Skip to bottom of hole Break on spaces only Artis Length bh Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help This page contains some esoteric stuff that affects how your text will word wrap Ign
73. t This combo box contains a list of quick layout options for the current label It contains the same options as the auto format combo box that appears on the tracks object s toolbar after you select it Selecting an option from the Arrangement combo box will cause the software to format the layout of your tracks text to match the option you ve selected e Fields This list box contains a list of all your tracks fields To edit the font formatting visiblity and text color for a particular field select it in this list box and the dialog will update itself to display the current font color visiblity settings for that field You can use the up and down buttons next to the Fields list box to change the order in which fields display If you want the Artist field to display before the Song Title field for instance select the Artist field then click the Up button e Field is Visible Check or uncheck this box to hide or show the currently selected field e Font The font typeface combo box lists the font in which the currently selected field will display e Size Use this combo box to change the font size in which the currently selected field will display e Bold Check or uncheck this box to make the currently selected field display with either bold or normal weighting e Italic Check or uncheck this box to toggle the currently selected field between italicized and non italicized display e Underline Check or uncheck this box to tu
74. t foreground label so you can edit the formatting of your disc label without affecting the jewel case inserts etc Here s what all the controls on this dialog do e Presets This combo box contains all the system presets the ones that ship with the software and user presets presets you saved yourself for quick access Selecting a preset will cause the software to format your tracks text with all the font properties and optionally the layout information from the Arrangement combo box stored in that preset To create presets of your own click the save button It s directly adjacent to the Presets combo box and has a little picture of a disk on it This will launch a file save dialog in which you can choose a name for your preset and decide whether you want your preset to store just font information or both font and layout information If you choose to save layout information the preset will save the layout information from the Arrangement option you currently have selected 9B Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Changed your mind about a preset you ve created To delete it select it then click on the Delete button This one is next to the Save button amp has a picture of a pair of scissors on it It will be disabled unless you ve selected a user created preset Before deleting your preset the software will prompt you so it can make sure you didn t click the Delete button by accident e Arrangemen
75. t gotten around to making an install program for all our extra art yet check back later Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Layouts The layouts feature is a way to take advantage of other people s creativity We re not always in the mood to lay out each of our labels and decide where we want to put the tracks listing and how to arrange it and whether we want a title on the label or a dedication or any number of other things We want the program to do it for us So we added layouts to the program If you click on the Layouts tab near the top left of the program s main window you ll see thumbnails of pre built layouts you can try Just click on one and the program will rearrange your label to match the layout you ve selected A layout can include text fields including tracks arrangements colored shapes and or images If you don t like a layout you ve selected you can either click on another layout click the Undo button or click on the roll your own layout which will remove all layout specific elements from your current label Creating Your Own Layouts Creative genius that you are you probably won t have played with the program for very long before you wind up inventing a label design of such majesty that you want to save it to reuse on future labels When this happens open the File menu click on Advanced and select the Save Current Label as Layout option You can t miss it it s currently the only entry on t
76. ter the text for you 51 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Printer Alignment Page Printer Alignment When printing on hp deskjet 940c e Main Toolbar Auto Run Options Printer Alignment Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines Miscellaneous Move labels by Move labels by 0 0 millimeters 1 1 millimeters C To the left Up e To the right Down OK Cancel Help DE Printers are imprecise beasts You can tell them to print something exactly 1 2 inches from the top of the paper but chances are it ll end up being more like 1 1 or 1 28 inches from the top The older your printer gets the more likely this is to occur as all the little mechanical bits that escort paper into and out of the printer get worn out You re not likely to notice this flaw when you re printing say a resum And if your interviewer is measuring the margins on your resum you may be happier elsewhere anyway But when you re printing a CD label on a pre cut form every millimeter matters That s why millimeters would rather be on a CD label than a plain sheet of paper they like to feel important If your printer is a millimeter awry on a CD label you ll get a millimeter of white unprinted space on your label It won t look good However if your printer is consistently wrong which is often the case you can use this dialog to correct it If the printer always prints a millimeter to the right of where it s supposed to you
77. this page will be just your pace In that case you can just type your favored location and width and height into the provided fields Note distance from label top and distance from label left refer to distance from the top and left of your label s bounding rectangle So if you re editing the position of a text object on a CD label which you have probably noticed is circular the left and top distances measure from the spot you would get if you made an imaginary rectangle completely enclosing the label 99 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Margins Page Hl argins Font Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Lett 0 00 ki Background H Color Transparency Right 0 00 Jer ki Justification Word Wrapping i Column Top 0 30 fem S Number Song Title Bottom 0 30 Jem ki Artist Length W Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help This page lets you change your text object s horizontal and vertical margins Setting these fields lets you increase or decrease the amount of space between your text object s borders and where the text will be allowed to print Setting a left margin of 1 centimeter for instance means that text will start printing 1 centimeter to the right of the text object s left border not 1 centimeter to the right of the label s border The Curving Page This page lets you make your text curved or not and lets yo
78. tion in rows amp columns instead of dots per inch Keep Aspect Ratio This option only applies to the Custom Rows Columns tiling mode If it s checked the image will always maintain its original aspect ratio so if you change the number of rows the number of columns will automatically change to keep the aspect ratio constant and vice versa If you uncheck this option you can set both rows and columns precisely but if you change the aspect ratio the image could appear stretched or squished Cropping Controls The cropping options let you crop the image so that portions of it don t get displayed The cropping amounts you specify in these controls are measured in pixels The default is 0 pixels no cropping at all 55 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Justification These options let you control horizontal and vertical justification for your image You can align your image to the left or right edges of your label or center it You can align it vertically to the top of bottom edge of the label or make it centered vertically on the label Blend Edges This option will blend the edges of the image together so that there s not a visible seam between the tiles This option generally works best on images that don t have sharply defined contours or objects on them a photograph of clouds for instance would be a good candidate for the blend edges effect If you re not sure whether or not it will work for your image go ahead
79. u can t create new custom colors from this page This ability will be arriving in a not too far off future version In the meantime you can create new custom colors by clicking on the color button on a text object s toolbar Although you can t yet create new custom colors in this page you can use existing custom colors you created elsewhere in the program Aside from these caveats using this page is pretty simple Click on a color and your text will become that color 21 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Size amp Position Page Size and Position Font Test Angle Test Color Size amp Position Margins Distance from label top 0 00 Jem D Background Color Transparency D euhestan Distance from label left UU Jem Word Wrapping Columna Width 1 2 00 Jem D Humber Song Title Height 12 02 Jem D Artist Length IY Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Apply Help This page lets you change the size and position of your text object This is probably easier to do outside the text properties dialog simply by clicking on a text objec s title bar and dragging it to move the object or by dragging one of the text object s red resize bars to resize it However if you re the punctilious sort or you believe that the dimensions of all elements in your labels must be factors of the Fibonacci sequence or of the lotto numbers that made you a millionaire then
80. u set various properties for how curved text should behave Text Curving Straight With this setting your text will display in a straight line Since most of the other options on this page all relate to curved text they ll be disabled if you ve selected the straight text setting Curved With this setting your text will display in a circle or an ellipse to be more exact Spiral With this setting you text will display in a spiral Fit Curve to Label f you check this box the ellipse that your curve follows will automatically be centered on the label and will have the same aspect ratio as the label It s the default option Check this box if you want your text to curve around the edges of the label If you uncheck this box your text will fit itself to the bounding rectangle of your text object and you can resize the text object to change the dimensions of the ellipse that your text follows sIf Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Curve Direction Clockwise Curved text will circle your label in a clockwise direction Anti Clockwise Curved text will circle your label in an anti clockwise direction Auto Choose Curved text will circle in a clockwise direction if it s primarily on the top half of the label and anti clockwise if it s primarily on the bottom half For spiral text it will always go clockwise If you have the Fit Curve to Label option checked your text object will be centered on the label so it will usual
81. ve probably seen controls resembling all the ones on this page before The Font dropdown list lets you choose a different typeface The Size dropdown list lets you choose your font size The Bold Italic Underline and Strikeout checkboxes let you apply or not these effects 19 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Properties Text Angle Page Text Angle Text Color Size amp Position 7 Ge O degrees normal ackgroun Color Transparency C 90 degrees straight up Justification 270 degrees straight down Word Wrapping 180 degrees upside down h Apply changes as soon as make them Cancel Spp Help This page lets you change the angle at which your text displays Bring this page up by clicking on the Text Angle line of the listbox on the left side of the text properties dialog If you click the 0 degrees normal checkbox your text will display in normal right side up fashion just like you re used to seeing it If you click the 90 degrees straight up checkbox your text will climb straight up the label If you click the 270 degrees straight down checkbox your text will climb straight down the label If you click the 180 degrees upside down checkbox your text will display upside down starting at the bottom of your text object If you re having a hard time picturing any of this check the Apply changes as soon as make them box and then start checking
82. ver is likely to have trouble creating the temporary files it needs to print with How can import the song titles from the CD I burned so I don t have to type them all in If you burned an audio CD the Imagemixer Label Maker can usually import your song information from the playlist file you created with your CD Burner program When you burned the CD your CD burning software should have created a file storing the names of all the song files that you were burning onto the CD If you didn t save this list please do so from now on it will save you lots of typing If you click the Tracks button on the Imagemixer Label Maker s toolbar to launch the CD Contents dialog and then click the Import button on that dialog the Label Maker will pop up a dialog that lets you find amp select the playlist file you used to create your CD Once you select the file the Label Maker will scan the playlist file load your song information from it and display it in the CD Contents dialog Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Getting Around in ImageMixer Label Maker We ve split the program s main window into two pieces on the left tools or ingredients on the right your actual labels or if you like the ingredients metaphor stew It s set up this way because it s hard to concentrate when the tools you need aren t handy When we want to try out a new background on my label we don t want to launch a file open dialog search for the right di
83. ving room paint colors just have to be tried out before you know what works Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual And so at least partly because of this it s taken more than a year to bring this program to you Not that I m complaining The painstaking process we ve gone through has helped us create a program that think makes it easier quicker and more fun than it s ever been for you to create labels you like Without the feedback and ideas received throughout the process the program would be nowhere near what it is today So thanks Joseph Ronnie Lois Brian Donda and the beta team Please ask your nearest neighbor to pat you on the back So It s All Done Now Think back to all the bestselling novels you ve written Once they hit the bookshelves you were done with them Perhaps you received fan mail that said I just adored your book I d mow your lawn with tweezers if could only have a tithe of your talent And by the way if Kermit the Pirate had a peg leg in chapter three shouldn t he have succumbed to the pack of rabid unicycle beavers in chapter eleven And you d think Hey that s right But there was nothing you could do about it now It was out of your hands We don t have that problem We can keep releasing new versions as long as enough of our users register the software that we can afford to keep doing so If one of our users you for instance find a bug or have a great idea w
84. you ve used up all your free labels If that s the case register and then come back The Print Dialog The Print dialog consists of printer specific information at the top of the dialog and label specific information at the bottom of the dialog m Printer Name hp deskjet 940c series v Copies Properties l 1 g Paper Bin Auto X zl Ali Es T Print to File Alignment E disc front inside back Paper Type Avery 5931 or 8931 CD DYD jit Print a border around label 4 0 E Print Fold Lines Sheets Required 1 Cancel Help Click on labels to use IV Print disc IT Print front inside TTT KT The Printer Section Name Gives you a list of all the printers attached to your computer Choose the one you want to use Paper Bin Lets you choose which bin you want the printer to grab paper from should your chosen printer have multiple paper bins Print to File If checked printing won t go to the printer instead it will go to a file ina format that your chosen printer can recognize so that you can in theory print it later although you could always just run the Label Maker again instead e Copies Lets you choose how many copies of each label you want to print 40 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual e Properties Launches a dialog that lets you set options print quality for instance specific to the printer you ve chosen Since

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