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1. 157 6 Pictures Lines and Shapes 159 Adding picture frames 161 Importing pictures 164 Using the Media Bar 166 Using Image Cutout Studio 171 Applying PhotoLab filters 176 Importing TWAIN images 183 Drawing and editing lines 185 Setting line properties 188 Drawing and editing shapes 190 Applying 2D filter effects 194 Using 3D filter effects 198 Adding dimensionality Instant 3D 203 Using object styles 205 Using the Gallery 208 Using connectors 211 Contents 7 Colour Fills and Transparency 215 Ap
2. 113 Using fonts 114 Contents Substituting fonts 117 Using text styles 120 Wrapping text 127 Creating a bulleted or numbered list 129 Using AutoCorrect 132 Spell checking 133 Automatic proofreading 135 Using the thesaurus 136 Creating text based tables 137 Manipulating tables 140 Inserting a calendar 145 Inserting database tables 148 Creating a table of contents 150 Creating an index 151 Producing a book with BookPlus 152 Using mail merge
3. 70 Anchoring objects 73 Joining object outlines 77 Applying a mesh warp envelope 79 Adding borders 80 Adding logos 83 Adding flashes 85 Hyperlinking an object 87 5 Working with Text 89 Importing text from a file 91 Understanding text frames 92 Linking text frames 99 Fitting text to frames 101 Using artistic text 103 Putting text on a path 105 Editing text on the page 108 Using Find and Replace 112 Setting text properties
4. 44 Using the rulers and dot grid 47 Using headers and footers 50 Using page numbering 50 Contents 4 Working with Objects 53 Selecting an object 55 Selecting multiple objects 56 Copying pasting and replicating objects 57 Snapping 60 Creating groups 62 Moving objects 63 Resizing objects 64 Ordering objects 65 Aligning and distributing objects 66 Exporting as a picture 67 Rotating an object 68 Flipping an object 69 Cropping and combining objects
5. Click Print Preview on the Standard toolbar In Print Preview mode the lower toolbar provides a variety of familiar view options plus the Multisheet button which lets you preview your pages using a page array To arrange multiple pages in the preview window 1 Click the Multisheet button An array selector appears 2 Move the pointer across the menu to choose an array To expand the number of choices move the pointer upwards and to the right 3 Click once to make your selection To return to single page view Click the Multisheet button and select the 1x1 Sheets array To cancel Print Preview mode Click the Close button Printing your Publication 237 Working in Trimmed Page Mode Trimmed Page Mode lets you toggle between the page you re currently working on complete with visible guides pasteboard objects text marks special l characters etc and a preview page which shows how your page will appear in print You can still edit page content while in Trimmed Page mode To enter Trimmed Page mode Click Trimmed Page Mode on the Hintline toolbar Printing special formats Printing booklets PagePlus automatically performs imposition of folded publications when you use File gt Page Setup and select or define a Folded Publications type The settings ensure that two or four pages of the publication are printed on each sheet of paper with pages printed following the bookle
6. 259 11 Producing Web Pages 263 Getting started in web mode 265 Viewing hyperlinks in your publication 267 Adding hotspots 267 Choosing website colours 269 Contents Setting web picture display options 271 Choosing web page properties 272 Adding animation effects 272 Adding sound and video 272 Adding Java applets 274 Publishing a website to a local folder 275 Previewing your website in a browser 276 Publishing to the web 276 Maintaining your website 278 12 Index 279 Contents Welcome 1 2 Welcome Welcome 3 Welcome Welcome to PagePlus X4 the award winning Desktop Publishing DTP solution from Serif PagePlus is the easiest way to get superior publishing results whether
7. Double triple or quadruple click to select a word paragraph or all text To select only the text frame click the frame s bounding box Clicking on a group selects the grouped object Ctrl click to select an individual object within a group Selecting multiple objects Selecting more than one object at a time creating a multiple selection lets you Position or resize all the objects at the same time Create a group object from the multiple selection which can then be treated as a single object with the option of restoring the individual objects later See Creating groups on p 62 To create a multiple selection Drag a marquee box around the objects you want to select Working with Objects 57 Alternatively hold down the Shift key and click each object in turn To add or remove an object from a multiple selection Hold down the Shift key and click the object to be added or removed To deselect all objects in a multiple selection Click in a blank area of the page To select all objects on the page or master page Choose Select gt Select All from the Edit menu or press Ctrl A Display the Layers tab choose the layer name and right click to Select All Objects Copying pasting and replicating objects Besides using the Windows Clipboard to copy and paste objects you can duplicate objects easily using drag and drop and replicate multiple copies of a
8. Opening a data source 158 Working with Text Editing Serif Database files Selecting filtering and sorting the merge list Inserting placeholders for your data Previewing data in the publication Merging and printing Pictures Lines and Shapes 6 160 Pictures Lines and Shapes Pictures Lines and Shapes 161 Adding picture frames Not to be confused with a decorative border a picture frame is a shaped container similar to a text frame You can select either Bordered picture frames from the Gallery tab or Shaped borderless frames from the Tools toolbar Either option lets you import a picture directly into the frame or drag a picture into it from the Media bar Empty picture frames are shown as envelope shaped placeholders At any time you can replace the picture in the frame All selected picture frames that contain a picture will display a supporting Picture frame toolbar under the frame This offers panning rotation 90 degrees anti clockwise zoom in zoom out and replace picture controls To add a bordered picture frame 1 From the Gallery tab select Picture Frames in the drop down list 2 Scroll to a sub category e g Metallic Natural of your choice 3 Drag the frame design thumbnail to your page 162 Pictures Lines and Shapes To add a borderless picture frame 1 For an empty square frame choose Picture gt
9. The examples show tight wrapping applies to the right of the object only 5 Click OK Working with Text 129 In addition you can specify the Distance from text the standoff between the object s wrap outline and adjacent text The wrap outline is a contour that defines the object s edges for text wrapping purposes Different object types have different initial wrap outlines For QuickShapes the wrap outline corresponds exactly to the object s edges while for closed shapes the outline is a rectangle You can manually adjust the wrap outline using the Curve context toolbar for more precise text fitting See PagePlus help for more information Creating a bulleted or numbered list You can turn a series of paragraphs into bulleted numbered or multi level lists Bullets are especially useful when listing items of interest in no specific order of preference numbered lists for presenting step by step procedures by number or letter and multi level lists for more intelligent hierarchical lists with prefixed numbers symbols or a mix of both all with supporting optional text see Using multi level lists on p 131 Bulleted list Numbered list Multi level list PagePlus lets you create simple lists directly from the Text context toolbar or choose from a preset bullet number or multi level lists via dialog If you want to go a step further you can create custom list styles by selecting your own symbols numbers and letter forma
10. 3 Review the choices you ll need to make when you run the Table of Contents Wizard 4 From the Insert menu choose Table of Contents to run the Wizard 5 You can easily modify the look of your table of contents or run the Wizard again to update the information Using styles to prepare a table of contents The Wizard will show you a list of all the style names used in your publication and you will check boxes to include text of a given style as a heading at a particular level 1 through 6 For example you could pull out all text using the Heading style as your first level headings Entries in the resulting table of contents will appear in the order the text occurs in your publication Working with Text 151 When the table of contents is created PagePlus formats it using built in text styles p 120 intended specifically for table of contents preparation Contents Title and Contents 1st through Contents 6th You can easily change the look of your table of contents by changing the style definitions for these built in Contents styles Creating an index An index is a valuable reader aid in a longer document such as a report or manual The Index Wizard helps you create an index with main entries and subentries based on index entry marks you insert in frame table or artistic text To mark index entries 1 Select a portion of text or click for an insertion point before the first word you want to mark and
11. Combine QuickShapes drawn shapes and artistic text together to create more complex outlined objects which can still be edited further Use Add Subtract Intersect and Exclude to produce different and exciting results Create your own table and calendar AutoFormats see p 137 Customize a wide selection of attractive AutoFormats for your very own table designs From an easy to use table design environment edit a table s cell arrangement and modify cell styles for header row or footer areas Once edited save any AutoFormat for future use Ease of Use Dynamic guides see p 61 Align and resize objects with each other using dynamic guide snapping without the need for ruler guides or precise object transforms Managing resources Preview relink export and replace individual pictures and other resources in the more powerful Resource Manager Display a resource s creation modified and accessed date modify a picture s format colour depth and placed resolution Include master page objects or filter out multiple instances of the same object for bulk replacement Preview fonts check if embedded locate fonts on the page and export them Views can be changed by switching columns on or off Managing open publications Open or close multiple publications simultaneously Jump between open publications with the Publications toolbar Learn in PagePlus The Startup Wizard s new Learning Zone helps you get th
12. Synchronizing means imposing consistent styles palettes and or colour schemes throughout the book This is accomplished by using one chapter called the style source as a model for the rest of the book You define attributes in the style source chapter and then select which attributes should be adjusted in other chapters to conform to the style source For example you could redefine the Normal text style in your style source chapter then quickly propagate that change through the rest of the book The Modified and Synchronized columns of the BookPlus chapter list let you keep track of recent file changes To set one chapter as the style source Select its name in the chapter list and choose Set Style Source from the Chapter menu The current style source is identified in the Synchronized column of the chapter list To synchronize one or more chapters with the style source 1 To update just certain chapters make sure their names are selected in the chapter list 2 Choose Synchronize from the File menu 3 In the dialog select whether you want to update All or just Selected chapters Check which attributes should be updated to conform to those defined in the style source file Text styles Object styles Colour scheme and or Colour palette 4 Click OK BookPlus imposes the specified changes and updates the Synchronized time in the chapter list for each selected file If the file was altered in any way the Mo
13. Working with Pages 33 Viewing pages Most of the PagePlus display is taken up by a page or artwork area and a surrounding pasteboard area In PagePlus the Page area is where you put page layout guides and of course the text shapes and pictures that you want to print The Pasteboard area is where you generally keep any text shapes or pictures that are being prepared or waiting to be positioned on the page area If you d like a different pasteboard colour for a different look or more practically if your off page objects don t contrast with the existing colour you can set this via Tools gt Options gt Layout gt Display To move or copy an object between pages via the Pasteboard 1 Drag the object from the source page onto the pasteboard hold down the Ctrl key to copy 2 Use the page navigation buttons on the Hintline to jump to a target page 3 Drag or Ctrl drag to copy the object from the pasteboard onto the target page PagePlus makes it easy to see exactly what you re working on from a wide view of multiple pages to a close up view of a small region For example you 34 Working with Pages can use the scroll bars at the right and bottom of the main window to move the page and pasteboard with respect to the main window If you re using a wheel mouse you can scroll vertically by rotating the wheel or horizontally by Shift scrolling Magnifying pages For magnification options the View toolbar prov
14. 1 Select the Pointer Tool then click or drag in the text object A standard insertion point appears at the click position see below or Select a single word paragraph or portion of text is already selected 2 Type to insert new text or overwrite selected text respectively To start a new paragraph Press Enter Working with Text 109 To start a new line within the same paragraph using a line break or soft return Press Shift Enter The following two options apply only to frame text You can use these shortcuts or choose the items from the Insert Break submenu To flow text to the next column Column Break frame Frame Break or page Page Break Press Ctrl Enter Alt Enter or Ctrl Shift Enter respectively To switch between insert mode and overwrite mode Press the Insert key To show special characters Click the drop down arrow on the View toolbar either for Show Special Characters paragraph marks and breaks see below or Show Spaces Show Special Characters plus tabs non breaking spaces hyphenation points and filled normal spaces Copying pasting and moving text You can easily copy and paste text using standard commands drag and drop of text is also supported 110 Working with Text Setting paragraph indents When a text object is selected markers on the horizontal ruler indicate the left indent first line indent and right indent of the cur
15. 4 In the left tree menu change any character or paragraph attributes tabs bullets and drop caps you want to include in the new style definition 5 Click OK to create the style or Cancel to abandon changes 124 Working with Text To create a new style using the properties of existing text 1 Format the text as desired 2 To define a character style select a range of reformatted text To define a paragraph style deselect text but leave a blinking cursor insertion point within the newly formatted section 3 Type a new style name into the Text context toolbar s Styles box and press Enter The new style is defined with the properties of the selected text To modify an existing style 1 From the Text Styles tab Right click on the character or paragraph style you want to modify and then choose Modify lt style gt or With a style selected pick the button from the Text Styles tab then choose the Modify button 2 From the Text Style dialog define or change the style name base style and any character or paragraph attributes tabs bullets and drop caps you want to include in the style definition 3 Click OK to accept style properties or Cancel to abandon changes 4 Click Apply to update text or click Close to maintain the style in the publication for future use Alternatively choose Text Style Palette from the Format menu to modify styles and to change text defaults
16. General Appearance Options or Actions are common to all the form fields but others such as Format Validation and Calculations are only displayed for text fields and combo boxes Using PDF Forms 259 To access Form Field Properties 1 To view the properties do one of the following Right click on a selected form field and choose Form Field Properties Double click the form field Select the form field and click the button from the Form toolbar 2 Click on one of several tabs for editing General Appearance Options Actions Validate or Calculate 3 Click the OK or Cancel button to exit the dialog Publishing your PDF Form Click Publish PDF on the Standard toolbar See Exporting PDF files on p 243 for more information If you Publish as PDF using PDF X 1 or PDF X 1a compatibility any PDF form fields present will be converted to graphics and will not be available Choose an Acrobat option instead Collecting data from forms Via hardcopy printout This is a simple fill in and print to hardcopy solution This is great if your form recipients are located together perhaps in the same office If using Acrobat Reader any completed form data will be lost when you close your completed PDF form 260 Using PDF Forms Exceptions exist when using Standard or Professional software Within the PDF file Alternatively it is possible to store form data within the PDF Form
17. Serif Database files 158 selecting objects 55 text 108 Serif MetaFile Format SMF 67 164 Serif Web Resources 261 service provider server information 278 Shade Tint slider 218 Shadow Tool 197 shapes 190 anchoring to text 73 applying transparency 226 closing 192 combining 72 fitting text to 107 gradient bitmap fills for 222 solid fills for 217 skewed shadows 197 slideshows PDF 246 248 snapping objects 60 solid transparency 227 sound adding to web page 272 special effects 198 Spell Checker 133 spelling as you type 134 AutoCorrect 132 Spell Checker 133 spelling aids 133 Split Curves 73 stacking order 65 standalone text 103 Start New Publication 17 Startup Wizard 17 22 sticky guides 46 47 story text 93 flowing in frame sequence 93 98 Straight Line Tool 185 186 stroke alignment 188 Style Attributes Editor 60 207 styles object 205 setting font 113 synchronizing books 155 text 120 assigning numbers to 132 named 122 previewing 120 122 reapply 126 Styles tab 206 substituting fonts 117 Swatches tab 188 218 222 switching between publication windows 24 system requirements 13 tab stops 111 table of contents 150 creating 156 for PDF file 244 Table Tool 139 tables anchoring to text 73 cell properties 144 manipulating 140 overview 137 tagging 170 templates design 18 text adding to text frame 96 applying fonts to 114 applying tr
18. X and Y rotation Transform about your 3D objects axes instead of your pages axes by holding the Ctrl key down as you transform using the nodes You can also adjust the angle and elevation of each active light on the page by dragging the light pointer to a position which simulates a light source After any transformation the underlying base object remains editable To add dimensionality 1 Select an object and click the Instant 3D button on the Attributes toolbar The object immediately adopts 3D characteristics with a red orbit circle displayed in the object s foreground 2 Click a 3D effect category from the first drop down menu on the 3D context toolbar the bar s options change dynamically according to the category currently selected See the PagePlus Help for more details To switch off 3D effects Click on the context toolbar You can always click the Attribute toolbar s Instant 3D button at any time later to reinstate the effect Pictures Lines and Shapes 205 To edit base properties of a 3D object Select the 3D object then click the Edit button at the bottom right hand corner of the 3D object i e The original object s shape is shown allowing its selection handles to be manipulated for resizing and rotating Using object styles Object styles benefit your design efforts in much the same way as text styles and colour schemes Once you ve come up with a set of attributes that you
19. animated web 272 masking for picture adjustment effects 180 master pages adding and removing 36 and layers 42 assigning 38 headers and footers on 50 overview 31 page numbers on 50 viewing and editing 36 measuring objects 47 Media bar 166 merge list 158 mesh warps 79 metafiles exporting 67 importing 164 Serif 67 Motion Blur effect 194 moving objects 63 multi level lists 131 multilingual spell checking 134 multimedia web 272 Multi page view 35 multiple pages print preview 236 printing 238 viewing 35 multiple selections 56 named styles 122 navigation of pages 36 new features 10 Normal style 121 Normal view 35 numbered lists 129 numbering pages 50 object styles 205 saving 207 objects aligning 66 anchoring 73 applying mesh warp 79 applying schemes to 220 converting to logos 84 converting to pictures 67 copying pasting and duplicating 57 cropping 70 distributing 66 flipping 69 joining 77 measuring 47 moving 63 ordering 65 pasting formatting of 60 replicating 58 resizing 64 reusing in different publications 208 rotating 68 selecting individual 55 selecting multiple 56 setting default properties 25 snapping 60 Open Saved Publication 17 23 opening an existing publication 23 ordering objects 65 Outer Bevel effect 194 Outer Glow effect 194 Outline effect 194 outlines filter effect 196 outlines object 77 Page Manager 36
20. see p 25 To delete one or more text styles Right click a text style and select Delete lt style gt Working with Text 125 From the dialog click Remove For deletion of multiple styles check multiple style names first For removal of all or unused styles use appropriate buttons Take care when deleting styles Styles based on a checked parent style will be checked for deletion Removing local formatting To return characters and or paragraphs back to their original formatting click on the Clear Formatting option in the Text Styles tab This is great for reverting some formatting which hasn t quite worked out You can clear the formatting of selected characters paragraphs or both depending on what text is currently selected The following table indicates the effects of different types of text selection on clear formatting Selection Clicking Clear Formatting affects Word Character Range of text Character Single paragraph Character and Paragraph Multiple paragraphs Paragraph Story text Character and Paragraph Text frame Character and Paragraph You also have the flexibility to be more explicit about how clear formatting is applied by clicking on the Clear Formatting option s drop down arrow i e 126 Working with Text To remove local formatting 1 Select locally formatted characters or paragraph s as described in the above table 2 Either Select Clear Formatt
21. subcategories based on Retail Celebrations Fun stuff Shapes or Text and Pointers are available When dragging a flash design onto the page three varieties of flash may be encountered those without text with text and those with optional layouts To add a flash 1 From the Gallery tab select the Flashes category 86 Working with Objects 2 Scroll the lower pane to preview flash subcategories collapse unwanted subcategories by clicking the button next to the subcategory name click to expand Select a suitable flash thumbnail from the pane 3 Drag your chosen design to the page 4 From the dialog you can choose design variations edit text and apply colours i e For design variations Select a design from the Designs pane e g offering different text labels and positions For text If the selected design has supporting text you can customize it in the Text or Message field Edit the text accordingly to give your flash meaning Working with Objects 87 For colour To apply the poster s current colour scheme to your design uncheck Apply colour set Alternatively to adopt a colour set independent of your poster s current colour scheme keep Apply colour set checked and pick a colour set option from the drop down list 5 Click OK Design variations may not be available for some designs If you re looking to further customize your flash design or use existing page objects
22. you can use LogoStudio See Adding logos on p 83 Hyperlinking an object Hyperlinking an object such as a box Quick Button a word or a picture means that a reader of your PDF document or visitor to your website can trigger an event by clicking on the object The event might be a jump to a different page the appearance of an email composition window the display of a graphic text or media file or a jump to an anchor attached to a target object To hyperlink an object 1 Use the Pointer Tool to highlight a region of text or select an object 2 Click Hyperlink on the Standard toolbar 3 In the Hyperlinks dialog click to select the link destination type and enter the specific hyperlink target an Internet page a page in your publication website an email address local file or an object s anchor 4 Click OK 88 Working with Objects As a visual cue hyperlinked words are underlined and appear in the colour you ve specified in the Scheme Manager To modify or remove a hyperlink 1 Use the Pointer Tool to select the object or click for an insertion point inside the linked text 2 Click Hyperlink on the Standard toolbar The Hyperlinks dialog opens with the current link target shown To modify the hyperlink select a new link destination type and or target To remove the hyperlink click the Remove button Removing a hyperlink does not remove the underlying object or text For a
23. 1 Choose Web Site Properties from the File menu and select the Background tab 2 Check Use sound file then browse to the sound file you want to add 3 If you do not wish to embed the file in your publication uncheck Embed sound files in site Note If you choose not to embed your source files we suggest you keep them together in a subfolder named Media or the like When you publish your site PagePlus exports and copies both embedded and non embedded files into a common folder 4 To have the sound play back as a continuous loop check Loop sound Otherwise it will play just once The sound file will download and play back when the web page displays in a browser With both linked sound and linked video the basic question is how you want the visitor to be able to trigger the playback of a given media file PagePlus offers the same basic options for both kinds of media 1 From a hyperlinked object or hotspot You start with an existing object in the publication and hyperlink it to the media file or use a hotspot over an image 2 From an icon PagePlus provides an icon pre linked to the media file You then position the icon on your page 274 Producing Web Pages 3 From a picture You select an external picture file which PagePlus then imports and links to the media file 4 Inline A media player will be visible on your published web page rather than appearing after the user clicks a link icon or pictur
24. 234 multiple pages 238 of banners posters booklets and thumbnails 237 PDF files 156 243 previewing the page 236 professional 239 saving print profiles 234 professional printing 239 profiles saving print 234 workspace 17 proofing tools previewing the printed page 236 Proof Reader 135 Spell Checker 133 Thesaurus 136 public holidays calendar 146 Publication Palette 218 publications 18 creating from design templates 18 for web 265 layers in 31 layout guides 45 master pages 31 opening existing 23 producing books 152 saving 24 setting dimensions 29 sharing by email 250 starting from scratch 22 swapping between 24 viewing hyperlinks in 87 working with more than one 24 Publish PDF 240 publishing PDF files 243 as books 156 websites to local folder 275 to web 276 QuickShapes 190 Radial Blur effect 194 raster images 164 readability checking with Proof Reader 135 reapply styles 126 Reflection effect 194 reflection maps filter effect 202 reflections filter effect 196 registration 3 replicating objects 58 resizing 64 using dynamic guides 61 retouching pictures 180 reverting to saved version 23 Rotate Tool 55 68 rotating objects 68 row and column guides 45 46 ruler guides 46 rulers 47 setting units for 48 Save Defaults 26 saving a publication 24 scaling printing effect 238 scanned images 183 schemes colour 219 colour for web 269 SDB
25. Anchor pictures shapes tables artistic text and nested text frames to your publication s artistic or frame text Position horizontally and vertically in relation to anchor point indented text column frame page margin guides or the whole page Flow text around floating objects in your text frame Stroke alignment see p 188 For precise positioning align a shape or text s stroke to the inside outside or centre of its path Creative Theme layout design templates see p 18 Choose a theme on which to base your poster Each theme offers a choice of publication types Brochure Business Card Flyer Newsletter or Poster and differently designed layout options for the theme Pick multiple layouts as your new pages then simply fill picture placeholders with your own pictures Stunning flashes see p 85 Select from a vast range of attention grabbing flashes of varying layout and design Use for advertising on your website on a poster or a greetings card Even create your own flash from scratch or from drawn objects in a powerful LogoStudio design environment Photo based borders see p 80 Exciting new ready to go borders can be applied around text frames tables and pictures alike Create and save custom borders from your own electronic border designs or scanned picture frames The Gallery tab s Picture frames have the same borders already applied Welcome 11 Joining object outlines see p 77
26. Bar 170 alignment of line stroke 188 of objects 66 of paragraphs 113 using dynamic guides 61 anchoring objects 73 anchors creating 75 properties 77 animation effects web 272 artistic text 103 creating 104 editing 105 on a path 105 Artistic Text Tool 104 AutoCorrect 133 AutoFit 101 in tables 142 AutoFlow 101 102 of frame text 102 of pictures 170 AutoFormats tables calendars 144 automatic text fitting 101 background master page 31 background page colour web 271 banners 29 printing 237 bevel effect 194 B zier curves 187 bitmap fills 222 bitmap transparency 227 bitmaps See pictures bleed area guides 45 blurs filter effect 196 BMP images 164 booklets 29 printing 237 bookmarks for PDF files 244 BookPlus 152 books producing 152 borders 80 bulleted lists 123 129 bullets and numbering 129 Bump Map effects 200 business cards 29 Calendar Event Manager 145 Calendar Wizard 145 calendars 145 events for 147 public holidays for 146 calligraphic lines 188 Cap setting lines 189 cell properties tables 144 chapters books 152 character styles 121 characters special displaying 109 Clear formatting 113 125 Clipboard copying and pasting to or from 57 closing PagePlus 24 colour applying gradient 222 applying solid 217 in web publications 269 schemes 219 custom 221 schemes for web 269 Colour Fill effect 194 Colour tab 188 217
27. How to Contact Us Our main office UK Europe The Software Centre PO Box 2000 Nottingham NG11 7GW UK Main 0115 914 2000 Registration UK only 0800 376 1989 Sales UK only 0800 376 7070 Customer Service Technical Support http www serif com support General Fax 0115 914 2020 North American office USA Canada The Software Center 13 Columbia Drive Suite 5 Amherst NH 03031 USA Main 603 889 8650 Registration 800 794 6876 Sales 800 55 SERIF or 557 3743 Customer Service Technical Support http www serif com support General Fax 603 889 1127 Online Visit us on the web at http www serif com International Please contact your local distributor dealer For further details please contact us at one of our phone numbers above This User Guide and the software described in it is furnished under an end user License Agreement which is included with the product The agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses Portions images 1997 2002 Nova Development Corporation 1995 Expressions Computer Software 1996 98 CreatiCom In 1996 Cliptoart 1997 Multimedia Agency Corporation 1997 98 Seattle Support Group Rights of all parties reserved Digital Images 2008 Hemera Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved Digital Images 2008 Jupiterimages Corporation All Rights Reserved Digital Images 2008 Jupiterimages France SAS All Rights R
28. If you d like to build on previous work you ve done with PagePlus you can also take an existing paper publication and convert it to a web publication To turn an existing PagePlus paper publication into a website Open the publication in Paper Publishing mode and choose Switch to Web Publishing from the File menu To adjust size orientation of the current publication 1 Choose Page Setup from the File menu 2 Set page dimensions as Standard for VGA monitors recommended Wide for SVGA or Custom For a custom setting enter page dimensions in pixels As with a paper publication preparing a website means checking and rechecking the content You can use the regular PagePlus checking functions such as Spell checking proofreading using the thesaurus etc In addition the Web Site Layout Checker can inspect and correct a wide range of common problems Producing Web Pages 267 Viewing hyperlinks in your publication The Hyperlink Manager gives you an overview of all the hyperlinks in your publication To display the Hyperlink Manager Choose Hyperlink Manager from the Tools menu The Hyperlink Manager dialog displays both object and text hyperlinks in your publication listed by page number The entries show each link s source object type Text Linked bitmap etc and its destination page or URL plus the target name To display a hyperlink for closer inspection Click to select the link entry
29. PhotoLab filters Filters can be applied and managed in PhotoLab a powerful studio for applying adjustment and effect filters to pictures individually or in combination all instantly applied and previewed PhotoLab offers the following key features Adjustment filters Apply tonal colour lens and sharpening filters Effect filters Apply distortion blur stylistic noise render artistic and various other effects Retouching filters Apply red eye correction spot repair straightening and cropping Non destructive operation All filters are applied without affecting the original picture and can be edited at any point in the future Powerful filter combinations Create combinations of mixed adjustment retouching and effect filters for savable workflows Selective masking Apply filters to selected regions using masks Save and manage favourites Save filter combinations to a handy Favourites tab Viewing controls Compare before and after previews with dual and split screen controls Use pan and zoom control for moving around your picture Locking controls Protect your applied filters from accidental change then optionally apply them to other images on selection PhotoLab hosts filter tabs a main toolbar and applied filter stack around a central workspace Pictures Lines and Shapes 177 Pictures present in your publication will show in your Images tab above if th
30. Region tool to allow you to mask regions by painting Pictures Lines and Shapes 181 3 Adjust the settings to suit requirements especially adjusting Brush Size to paint larger or more intricate regions Change the Mode drop down menu from Select to Protect to protect painted regions from masking i e the inverse of the Add Region option 4 Using the on screen cursor paint regions in green for adding red for protecting If you ve not been as accurate as you d like while painting you can click Remove Regions then paint over the unwanted painted regions 5 Click to save your masking changes The mask button changes to yellow when a mask is applied It s also possible to create additional masks for the same filter as above and then choose between masks accordingly You can only have one mask applied at any one time By using the menu s New From gt option you can also base the new 182 Pictures Lines and Shapes mask on another mask applied to the current or any other filter in the filter stack This is useful when using favourites containing multiple adjustments To edit a mask Click the down arrow on the button choose the mask name and select Edit Mask Saving favourites If there s a specific filter setting or combination of filters you want to keep for future use it s easy to save it as a favourite PhotoLab stores all your favourites together in the Favourites tab You can even c
31. You can rotate single and multiple objects including pictures text objects and groups using the Rotate Tool To rotate an object 1 Select the Rotate Tool on the Tools toolbar s Selection flyout 2 Click to select the object hover over one of its handles until you see the rotate cursor below 3 Hold the mouse button down and drag the cursor in the direction in which you want to rotate the object then release use the Shift key for 15 rotation intervals The Pointer Tool can also be used to rotate objects in the same way with the cursor Working with Objects 69 To undo rotation restore the original orientation Double click the object To restore the rotated position double click again To change the rotation origin 1 Select the Rotate Tool and click to select the object 2 Move the rotation origin away from its original position in the centre of an object to any position on the page The origin can also be moved to be outside the object ideal for rotating grouped objects around a central point 3 Drag the rotate pointer to a new rotation angle the object will rotate about the new pivot To rotate an object 90 degrees left or right Select the object and click Rotate Left or Rotate Right on the Arrange toolbar Flipping an object You can flip objects horizontally left to right top and bottom stay the same or vertically top to bottom left and right stay
32. adjust its properties for example apply gradient or bitmap fills including your own bitmap pictures or apply transparency effects QuickShapes The QuickShape flyout contains a wide variety of commonly used shapes including boxes ovals arrows polygons and stars You can easily turn shapes into web buttons by adding hyperlinks or overlaying hotspots The QuickButton circled at left is especially intended for creating stylish button outlines Pictures Lines and Shapes 191 It s also possible to use the always at hand QuickShape context toolbar situated above the workspace to swap QuickShapes and adjust a QuickShape s line weight colour style and more New shapes always take the default line and fill initially a black line with no fill To create a QuickShape 1 Click QuickShape flyout on the Tools toolbar and select a shape from the flyout The button takes on the icon of the shape selected 2 Click on the page to create a new shape at a default size or Drag across the page to size your shape When the shape is the right size release the mouse button To draw a constrained shape such as a circle Hold down the Shift key as you drag All QuickShapes can be positioned resized rotated and filled What s more you can morph them using adjustable sliding handles around the QuickShape Each shape changes in a logical way to allow its exact appearance to be altered To adjust the appe
33. alignment etc Defaults are saved separately for artistic shape frame and table text Default settings are always local that is any changed defaults apply to the current publication and are automatically saved with it so they re in effect next time you open that publication However at any time you can use the Save Defaults command to record the current defaults as global settings that will be in effect for any new publication you subsequently create To set local defaults for a particular type of object 1 Create a single sample object and fine tune its properties as desired or use an existing object that already has the right properties 2 Select the object with the new defaults and choose Update Object Default from the Format menu 26 Getting Started Or for line and fill colours including line styles 1 With no object selected choose the required line and or fill colours from the Colour or Swatches tab Use the Line tab to set a default line weight style and corner shape 2 Draw your object on the page which will automatically adopt the newly defined default colours and styles View and edit the text default in the Text Style Palette To view and change default text properties 1 Choose Text Style Palette from the Format menu 2 Click Default Text then from the expanded list of text types choose an option 3 Click Modify to view current settings for the selected text type 4
34. are especially useful when tracing around curved objects and pictures Shortcut Press 3 2 Select a segment type then click where you want the line to start For a Straight segment click again or drag for a new node where you want the segment to end Shift click to align the segment at 15 degree intervals useful for quick right angle junctions For a B zier segment click again for a new node and drag out a control handle from it Click again where you want the segment to end and a curved segment appears The finished segment becomes selectable For a Smart segment click again for a new node The segment appears as a smooth best fitting curve without visible control handles between the new node and the preceding node Before releasing the mouse button you can drag to flex the line as if bending a piece of wire If the preceding corner node on the line is also smart flexibility extends back to the preceding segment You can Shift click to create a new node that lines up at 15 degree intervals with the previous node 188 Pictures Lines and Shapes 3 To extend an existing line repeat Step 2 for each new segment Each segment can be of a different type 4 To end the line press Esc double click or choose a different tool Editing lines Use the Pointer Tool in conjunction with the Curve context toolbar to adjust lines once you ve drawn them The techniques are the same whether you re editi
35. as GIFs PNGs or TIFs and preserve transparency effects in both your printed output and your web pages Transparencies work rather like fills that use disappearing ink instead of colour The more transparency in a particular spot the more disappearing takes place there and the more the object s underneath show through Just as a gradient fill can vary from light to dark a transparency can vary from more to less i e from clear to opaque as in the illustration In PagePlus transparency effects work very much like greyscale fills Just like fills Transparency effects are applied from the Studio in this case using the Transparency tab Transparency is also an option with the 3D Pattern Map filter effect The Transparency tab s gallery has thumbnails in shades of grey where the lighter portions represent more transparency To apply transparency you click thumbnails or drag them onto objects Most transparency effects have a path you can edit in this case with the Transparency Tool Colour Fills and Transparency 227 Transparency types available in the Transparency tab are as follows Solid transparency distributes the transparency equally across the object Gradient transparencies include linear elliptical and conical effects each thumbnail s tooltip identifies its category ranging from clear to opaque Bitmap transparencies include categorized texture maps based on the Sw
36. automatically scale throughout the selected text frame possibly leaving partly empty frames at the end of the frame sequence Shrink Text on Overflow If selected extra text added to a selected frame will shrink all frame text to avoid text overflow Autofit If selected the frame will always scale text automatically by adjusting text size compare to Fit Text which fits text once with any additional text causing text overflow AutoFlow When importing text it s a good idea to take advantage of the AutoFlow feature which will automatically create text frames and pages until all the text has been imported This way enough frames are created to display the whole story Then you can gauge just how much adjustment will be needed to fit the story to the available real estate in your publication If you add more text to a story while editing or have reduced the size of frame you may find that an overflow condition crops up In this case you can decide whether to use AutoFit or click the frame s AutoFlow button To AutoFlow story text on the page Click the AutoFlow button just to the left of the frame s Link button If no other empty frames are detected you ll be prompted to autoflow text into a new frame s the same size as the original or to new frame s sized to the page If an empty frame exists anywhere in your publication PagePlus will flow text into that instead before commencing with autoflow Working with Te
37. birds eye view of all the hyperlinks in your publication use the Hyperlink Manager Tools menu Working with Text 5 90 Working with Text Working with Text 91 Importing text from a file Importing text from a word processor file is the traditional way to create text content for Desktop Publishing layouts but you can also create a story using WritePlus If you use your current word processor to create the text file for your publication you can import any number of files into one publication Each file becomes a story consisting of a self contained section of text like a single article in a newspaper which resides in one or more linked text frames As well as the WritePlus format stt a range of popular word processing and text formats can be imported including ANSI text txt Microsoft Word 2007 docx dotx Microsoft Word 2000 2003 doc dot MS Works wps Open Office text odt Rich Text Format rtf Wordperfect wpd Write wri For Microsoft Word formats created in any Windows operating system you don t need to have Microsoft Word installed locally This means you can reuse third party text content in PagePlus without the supporting application PagePlus will preserve the formatting of imported word processor text However if you re using your word processor to create text specifically for PagePlus you ll save time by typing as text only and applying formatting later in PagePlus 9
38. both left and right facing pages For details see Assigning master pages on p 38 You can assign different master pages to the left and right publication pages if necessary For example see below a left hand body text page might use the left side component of one master page while a right hand page could use the right side of a different master page Working with Pages 31 Understanding master pages Master pages provide a flexible way to store background elements that you d like to appear on more than one page for example a logo background header footer or border design The key concept here is that a particular master page is typically shared by multiple pages as illustrated below By placing a design element on a master page and then assigning several pages to use that master page you ensure that 32 Working with Pages all the pages incorporate that element Of course each individual page can have its own foreground elements Master pages are available in every publication but in a simple publication you may not need to use any master pages or you may need only one master page Facing pages and multiple master pages prove valuable with longer more complex publications Using the Pages tab or Page Manager you can quickly add or delete master pages for example you could set up different master pages for title or chapter divider pages For details see Adding removing and rearranging pages on p 36
39. button 3 Set a slide specific Transition and Duration in seconds from the drop down menus 4 Uncheck any layers which you don t want to be part of the slide to make it distinct from other slides 5 Click the browse button and then browse to and select a Media file which will play while the slide is displayed For the slide s duration this will override any default media file set up to play throughout your slideshow 6 Repeat the insert copy and layer control for another slide building up your multi section slide arrangement To undo the slide properties settings reset the content of your slideshow so that there is only one slide per page click the Reset button on the Slides tab 250 Publishing and Sharing Sharing by email PagePlus lets you share publications as native PagePlus publications ppp or as HTML as a file attachment or as HTML within the body of your email respectively Sharing PagePlus publications 1 With your publication open and in the currently active window select Send from the File menu If you have multiple email programs and they are not loaded a Choose Profile dialog lets you select your email program of choice then a new email message is displayed with document attached If already loaded your email program automatically attaches your publication to a new email message 2 Add the recipient s valid email address to the To field or equivalent 3 Select th
40. choosing an alternative style This swaps styles across paragraphs and throughout entire stories all at the same time Working with Text 127 To select and change a style throughout your document 1 Right click a style displayed on the Text Styles tab 2 If the style is used in your document you ll see a Select All n instance s message n is the number of times the style is used If there are no occurrences of the style you ll see a Not currently used message 3 Click the message label text formatted with the chosen style is highlighted 4 Hover over style names in your styles list then click on a chosen style to apply the style to the selected text Wrapping text PagePlus lets you wrap frame text around the contours of a separate object Usually this means wrapping text to a picture that overlaps or sits above a text frame But you can wrap frame text around a picture shape artistic text table or another frame Wrapping is accomplished by changing the wrap setting for the object e g a flower picture below to which text will wrap 128 Working with Text To wrap text around an object 1 Select the object around which you want the text to wrap 2 Click the Wrap Settings button on the Arrange toolbar 3 Select the manner in which text will wrap around the object by clicking a sample i e 4 Choose which side s the chosen wrapping method will be applied again by clicking a sample
41. colour matching we suggest you set up ICC device profiles for image colours and enable colour management so that images in the exported file include correct colour space information You can also specify a device profile for your desktop printer for accurate on screen proofing of desktop printed colours For details see Managing screen and output colours 240 Printing your Publication Unless you re handing off camera ready artwork your print provider will specify the format in which you should submit the publication either PDF PDF X format or PostScript see Online Help Once you ve decided whether to output as PDF or PostScript you ll need to set Prepress options before choosing the appropriate output command The Separation and Pre press options are further described in the PagePlus Help In addition the process for producing colour separations is detailed PDF X PDF is a format developed by Adobe to handle documents in a device and platform independent manner PDF excels as an electronic distribution medium and the reliable PDF X formats are perfect for delivering a publication file to a professional printer Your print partner can tell you whether to deliver PDF X 1 or PDF X 1a PagePlus supports both but from the PagePlus end of things you won t see a difference In either mode all your publication s colours will be output in the CMYK colour space and fonts you ve used will be embedded A single PDF X file will contain all
42. colours web 269 column and row guides 46 blinds 96 margins 96 Combine Curves 73 conical fills 222 Conical transparency 226 connection points 211 editing 213 Connector Tool 211 connectors 211 creating 212 types of 211 correction lists 133 Crop to Shape 71 Crop tools 70 cropping objects 70 curves See lines custom publication setup 29 cutouts 171 dashed lines 188 data sources for mail merge 157 databases inserting into tables 148 Decrease level 131 Default paragraph font 122 default properties 25 deforming Mesh Warp 79 design templates 18 themed 19 designs saving 208 dictionary 133 personal spell checking 135 digital cameras 183 dimensionality Instant 3D 203 dimensions setting for publication 29 distributing objects 66 dot grid 49 setting units 49 snapping to 60 double lines 188 drawing lines 185 draw type images importing 164 Drop Cap 123 Drop Shadow effect 194 duplex printing manual 234 dynamic guides 61 editing text 108 113 effects 2D filter 194 3D filter 198 animation web 272 bevel Instant3D 203 lathe Instant 3D 203 pictures 176 Elbow Connector Tool 211 elliptical fills 222 email sharing publications as HTML by 250 sharing publications by 250 embedding vs linking 166 Emboss effect 194 envelope mesh warp 79 events calendar 147 exporting as PDF 243 objects as a picture 67 extracting pictures 171 facing page
43. create your Table of Contents with up to six levels Indexing documents is simple too use the intuitive tools to select important terms and let PagePlus do the rest Publishing and Sharing PDF Import amp Export Import PDF documents as new PagePlus publications or insert a PDF document s contents into existing publications Either way PDF contents can be easily edited within PagePlus the text and paragraph formatting of the original PDF document is maintained Export your documents to PDF for professional printing PDF X and the web streaming supported Welcome 9 PDF Forms Create your own electronic PDF form requesting information from form recipients Your recipients can type in their responses then save print or submit their form electronically Serif will email you completed forms or you can set up your own web submission service PDF Slideshows Create attention grabbing PDF slideshows with stylish page and layer transitions even add sound and video clips Share with friends family and colleagues ICC Colour Profiling Set up ICC International Color Consortium profiles for your monitor printer and scanner and be confident that your printed colours will closely match their appearance on screen Avoid wasting time paper and ink Printing Print documents professionally on your home printer as several pages on one sheet or for large format printing a single page across multiple shee
44. difference from a word processor is that PagePlus does not normally add or remove frames according to the amount of text The text simply flows until the text runs out and some frames are left empty or the frames run out and some text is left over i e If the text runs out before the last frame you have some empty frames These frames will be filled with text if you add more text to the story or if you increase the size of the story text If there is still more text to go after filling the last frame PagePlus stores it in an invisible overflow area remembering that it s part of the story text If you later add more frames or reduce the size of text in a frame the rest of the story text is flowed in PagePlus keeps track of multiple linked frame sequences and lets you flow several stories in the same publication The Text Manager accessed via the Tools menu provides an overview of all stories and lets you edit any story On text overflow the frame s AutoFlow button can be used to create new frames for the overflowed text To control how the frame text is spread throughout available frames you can use Fit Text Enlarge Text or Shrink Text These options scale a story s text size See Fitting text to the frames on p 101 Working with Text 99 Linking text frames When a text frame is selected the frame includes a Link button at the bottom right which denotes the state of the frame and its story text and which all
45. displayed as a line with nodes marking where the spectrum between each key colour begins and ends Adjusting the node positions determines the actual spread of colours between nodes You can also edit a gradient fill by adding deleting or changing key colours see below To adjust the gradient fill path on a selected object 1 Click the Fill Tool button on the Attributes toolbar s Fill flyout The object s fill path appears 2 Use the Fill tool to drag the start and end path nodes or click on the object for a new start node and drag out a new fill path The gradient starts where you place the start node and ends where you place the end node Each gradient fill type has a characteristic path For example Linear fills have single line paths while Radial fills have a two line path so you can adjust the fill s extent in two directions away from the centre If the object uses a bitmap fill you ll see the fill path displayed as two lines joined at a centre point Nodes mark the fill s centre and edges 226 Colour Fills and Transparency Working with transparency Transparency effects are great for highlights shading and shadows and simulating rendered realism They can make the critical difference between flat looking publications and publications with depth and snap PagePlus fully supports variable transparency and lets you apply solid gradient or bitmap transparencies easily You can also export transparent graphics
46. displays an AutoFlow button appears next to the Link button You might edit the story down or make more room for it by adding an extra frame or two to the sequence Clicking the AutoFlow button adds additional frames and pages as needed see below Once frames are in position it s still possible to control how text is distributed throughout the frame s via tools on the Frame context toolbar The Text Sizing flyout offers three tools for controlling how frame text scales through the text frame These are once off operations compared to the continuous Autofit options shown below Fit Text Click to scale the story s text size so it fits exactly into the available frame s further text added to the frame will cause text overflow You can use this early on to gauge how the story fits or near the end to apply the finishing touch Fit Text first applies small point size changes then small leading changes then adjustments to the paragraph space below value until the text fits Enlarge Text Click to increase the story s text size one increment approx 2 Shrink Text Click to reduce the story s text size one increment Each frame s story text can adopt its own individual autofit setting as follows The AutoFit Options flyout offers three autofit options which continuously act upon a selected frame s story text 102 Working with Text No Autofit This is the normal mode of operation where if selected text won t
47. doesn t provide de screening try using the PhotoLab s Gaussian Blur filter to remove moir Pictures Lines and Shapes 185 Drawing and editing lines PagePlus provides Pencil Straight Line Pen and QuickShape tools for creating simple graphics Using the line tools you can draw single lines connect line segments together or join line ends to close the line creating a shape see Drawing and editing shapes on p 190 for details Use the Pointer Tool and the Curve context toolbar to resize or reshape lines once you ve drawn them The context toolbar appears automatically when you select a line or closed shape and provides a variety of adjustment controls including adding deleting nodes and manipulation of curves The Pencil Tool lets you sketch curved lines and shapes in a freeform way The Straight Line Tool is for drawing straight lines for example drawn in the column gutter to separate columns rules at the top and or bottom of the page or horizontal lines to separate sections or highlight headlines The Pen Tool lets you join a series of line segments which may be curved or straight using connect the dots mouse clicks 186 Pictures Lines and Shapes Drawing lines To draw a freeform line with the Pencil Tool 1 Choose the Pencil Tool from the Tools toolbar s Line flyout 2 Click where you want the line to start and hold the mouse button down as you draw The line appears immediately and follo
48. even show a facing pages view Mail amp Photo Merge With Mail and Photo Merge read data from just about any source tables from HTML web pages database files even live ODBC servers Print to labels and letters equally Welcome 5 Tables and Calendars Choose from a range of preset formats or design your own table Use the convenient Table context toolbar to sort data format cells and choose from a wide range of functions for spreadsheet calculations use absolute cell references Calendars are table based for enhanced functionality and support Year update inline personal events and public holidays BookPlus Treat separate PagePlus publication files as chapters and use the BookPlus utility to link them into a book Assign text styles and colour palettes across publications automatically generate an Index or Table of Contents add page numbering and output your final long document to both print and PDF Pictures Import Pictures Import commonly used standard file formats including all the latest RAW digital camera formats AutoFlow pictures or drag and drop from the always at hand Media Bar into sequential picture frames Import Photoshop files directly into your PagePlus publications Image Adjustments Apply adjustments Brightness Contrast fix red eye and more or use Edit in PhotoPlus which accesses Serif s award winning photo editing package if installed Quick and easy Image Cu
49. file action whether files will be added Add will replace the live files Replace or will not be updated Leave In the dialog select either the Incremental Update or Full upload button Choose the former to upload only files that have altered since the last upload You ll see a message when all files have been successfully copied Click Close Gathering server information If you have an email account your contract with the email service provider may allow you a certain amount of file space e g 25MB on their server where you can store files including the files that comprise a website Or you may have a separate web space arrangement with a specialized Internet service provider It s up to you to establish an account you can use for web publishing Maintaining your website Once you ve published your site to the web you ll need to maintain the pages on your site by updating content periodically adding or changing text pictures and links also file folder deletion or renaming To maintain files and folders on your website 1 Choose Publish Site gt from the File menu and select Maintain Web Site from the submenu See online Help for more information Producing Web Pages 279 Index 12 2D filter effects 194 3D filter effects 198 applying 200 Instant 3D 203 adjustment of pictures 176 Adobe PDF files bookmark lists in 244 exporting 243 importing 23 albums photo 166 168 searching Media
50. graphics also known as vector images are resolution independent and contain drawing commands such as draw a line from A to B Metafiles are the native graphics format for Windows and combine raster and vector information Serif also has it own metafile format Serif MetaFile Format SMF which is optimized for image sharing between Serif applications You can also acquire pictures directly from PhotoCDs or via TWAIN devices scanners or digital cameras see PagePlus help Inserting pictures To insert a picture into PagePlus you can copy and paste it drag a file from an external Windows folder directly onto your page drag a thumbnail from PagePlus s Media bar or import a picture as an embedded or linked image via a dialog even place it into a picture frame Bordered and unbordered shaped picture frames p 161 are a great way to present pictures that can be positioned and cropped within the frame Drag the former from the Gallery tab add the latter from the Tools toolbar You can crop unframed pictures too p 164 Detached pictures float freely on a page while inline pictures are incorporated with the text flow in a text object Pictures Lines and Shapes 165 To import a picture from a file 1 To place the picture inline with the text click for an insertion point in a text object detached from the text make sure all text objects are deselected into a frame create the frame and the
51. headers and footers Headers and footers are layout elements that are positioned at the top and bottom of your master page s and are repeated on every page of your publication The Headers and Footers Wizard lets you create these elements easily To create headers and or footers On the Insert menu choose Headers and Footers and follow the Wizard instructions The header and or footer is automatically applied to the master page and not the current page To edit existing headers and footers On the Insert menu choose Headers and Footers In the Headers and Footers Wizard select Edit header Leave header as it is or Delete header and then complete the Wizard instructions Carry out the equivalent operation for your footer if needed Using page numbering Page number fields automatically display the current page number Typically these fields are added automatically to the master page so they appear on every page with the Header and Footers Wizard but you can insert a page number field anywhere in your text You can change the style of page numbers the page on which numbering begins and number continuation across chapters all via Page Number Format on the Format menu Working with Pages 51 To define a header or footer that includes a page number field 1 Create a header or footer on the master page by choosing Headers and Footers from the Insert menu 2 In the wizard press the Page Number b
52. itself by using the Save or Save As command One condition of this is that the form recipient must be using one of the following versions of Acrobat software Adobe Acrobat 6 0 or later Standard or Professional Adobe Acrobat 7 0 or later Elements Acrobat Reader software 6 0 and above is unable to save form data within the form However for form recipients with Acrobat Reader 7 0 software Reader Extensions software is available from http www adobe com products livecycle readerextensions which will permit form data to be saved locally with the form This is called rights based PDF Form handling Using email If you can save data within the PDF form then it s clear that you can email the completed form to the form originator With the completed form still open use File gt E mail to send the email to the intended recipient Via the web Your PDF Form can be configured to be web ready by passing completed form data to a CGI application on a web server This would typically be a server sided web page designed to process the data and pass it to either a text file database or other storage location As an example new subscriber details collected via a PDF Form can be sent automatically to a previously configured subscribers database All web ready forms have one thing in common they must be submitted to allow data to be collected Typically you may have come across this on web sites when y
53. move table Rotate table 1 Rotate table text in cell 1 Sort table contents Solid fill and border colour Gradient and bitmap fill Transparency 1 Borders 1 Warp 1 2D 3D Filter effects 1 Instant 3D 1 QuickClear QuickFill AutoFormat Edit cell text in WritePlus View cell text in Text Manager Pasting of Excel cell contents 1 If applied will export table as a graphic Web Publishing mode only Table text doesn t flow or link the way frame text does the Frame context toolbar s text fitting functions aren t applicable Rather than starting from scratch PagePlus is supplied with a selection of pre defined table formats i e templates that can be used Simply pick one and fill in the cells with content Working with Text 139 PagePlus lets you Edit the pre defined format before adding a new table to the page Create your own custom formats without creating a table See Creating custom table formats in online Help Edit existing tables to fit a different format pre defined or custom To create a table 1 On the Tools toolbar choose the Table Tool from the Table flyout 2 Click on the page or pasteboard or drag to set the table s dimensions The Create Table dialog opens with a selection of preset table formats shown in the Format window 3 Step through th
54. objects will remain sticky even after sticky guides are switched off you ll have to make them non sticky manually Using the rulers and dot grid The PagePlus rulers mimic the paste up artist s T square and serve several purposes To act as a measuring tool To create ruler guides for aligning and snapping To set and display tab stops see p 113 To set and display paragraph indents see p 113 48 Working with Pages Ruler units To select the basic measurement unit used by the rulers Right click the Ruler Intersection and set the measurement unit from the flyout In Paper Publishing mode the default unit is inches US or centimetres international in Web Publishing mode only pixels can be used Adjusting rulers By default the horizontal ruler lies along the top of the PagePlus window and the vertical ruler along the left edge The default ruler intersection is the top left corner of the pasteboard area The default zero point marked as 0 on each ruler is the top left corner of the page area Even if you have set up bleed area guides and the screen shows an oversize page the zero point stays in the same place i e the top left corner of the trimmed page To define a new zero point Drag the tab marker on the ruler intersection to a new zero point on the page or pasteboard Be sure to click only the triangular marker To move the rulers With the Shift key
55. of Blur and Depth make a great difference you can click the button to unlink them for independent adjustment As for 3D Lighting without a light source switched on the depth information in the effect wouldn t be visible Overview Suppose you ve applied a 3D filter effect preset from the Styles tab and then you bring up the Filter Effects dialog On inspecting the settings used in the preset the first thing you ll notice is that two boxes are checked 3D Effects is a master switch for this group and its settings of Blur and Depth make a great difference you can click the button to unlink them for independent adjustment 3D Lighting provides a light source without which any depth information in the effect wouldn t be visible The lighting settings let you illuminate your 3D landscape and vary its reflective properties 200 Pictures Lines and Shapes To apply 3D filter effects 1 Click Filter Effects on the Attributes toolbar 2 Check the 3D Effects box at the left The 3D Lighting box is checked by default 3 Adjust the master control sliders here to vary the overall properties of any individual 3D effects you select Blur specifies the amount of smoothing applied Larger blur sizes give the impression of broader more gradual changes in height Depth specifies how steep the changes in depth appear The button is normally down which links the two sliders so that
56. of a single word selected text a single story or all stories in your publication You can customize the built in dictionary by adding your own words To help trap typographic errors and fix spelling problems while creating text use AutoCorrect and Check spelling as you type 134 Working with Text Multilingual spell checking is supported by use of up to 14 dictionaries Any language can be enabled globally from Tools gt Options gt Options gt General or applied specifically to text or paragraphs via the Language Selector in the Character tab Spell checking can be turned off temporarily by selecting None as a language type this could be useful when working with text containing lots of unusual terms perhaps scientific or proprietary terminology To check spelling 1 Optional To check a single story first make sure the text or text object is selected 2 Choose Spell Checker from the Tools menu 3 Optional In the dialog click Options to set preferences for ignoring words in certain categories such as words containing numbers or domain names 4 Select Check currently selected story only Check all stories on the current page or Check all stories in my publication to select the scope of the search 5 Click Start to begin the spelling check When a problem is found PagePlus highlights the problem word The dialog offers alternative suggestions and you can choose to Change or Ignore this instance or
57. of selected characters rather than to the whole paragraph 122 Working with Text Typically a character style applies emphasis such as italics bolding or colour to whatever underlying font the text already uses the assumption is that you want to keep that underlying font the same The base character style is shown in the Text Styles tab or palette as Default Paragraph Font which has no specified attributes but basically means whatever font the paragraph style already uses Applying the Default Paragraph Font option from the Text Styles tab or the Text context toolbar s Styles box will strip any selected local character formatting you ve added and will restores original text attributes paragraph styles are not affected As with paragraph styles you can define any number of new character styles using different names and attributes or adopt a pre defined character style Working with named styles The named style of the currently selected text is displayed in either the Text Styles tab or the drop down Styles box on the Text context toolbar A character style if one is applied locally may be shown otherwise it indicates the paragraph style You can preview any style in the tab and then apply it to a word paragraph or story To apply a named style 1 Using the Pointer Tool click in a paragraph if applying a paragraph style or select a range of text if applying a character style 2 Dis
58. on non reflective reflective surfaces Instant 3D Transform your artistic text and shapes into impressive 3D objects directly on the page Apply multiple coloured lighting effects with directional control along with custom bevel and lathe effect profiles to create your very own unique contours Connector Tools Easily design organizational charts family trees and other diagrams connectors will link your boxes circles or other shapes together with links being maintained during any object repositioning Stunning logos Use the Gallery tab for a range of pre designed logo designs alternatively create from scratch in LogoStudio or base your logo on existing PagePlus objects Text Text Frames Compose story text in text frames then easily position rotate or size the frame to suit connected frames host the same story text and can be filled automatically by AutoFlow or manual text fitting Enhanced text wrap options and separate crop and wrap outlines mean you have greater control over where text flows and how it appears Import paste export text in Unicode format design with a foreign language or special fonts and characters Text paths also benefit from intelligent text fitting Text Control Apply text formatting from an on hand text context toolbar apply multi level bullet and numbering schemas to your paragraphs even to your text styles a Text Styles tab for allocating text attributes to cho
59. on your desktop or via professional printing It s simple for anyone to create publish and share their designs as outstanding printed documents stunning PDFs PDF slideshows stylish websites and eye catching emails To make life so much easier PagePlus comes with an impressive selection of design templates creative gallery content and styles for you to use As a result publishing to a professional standard is easily achievable for experienced and inexperienced users alike You ll also be able to reuse existing content by importing PDF documents and word processing documents On the flipside you ll be able to export drawn objects to all the latest graphic file formats PagePlus X4 doesn t stop at superior publishing Its range of design studios makes PagePlus stand out from the crowd Image Cutout Studio for cutting pictures out from their backgrounds LogoStudio for custom logo design and PhotoLab for powerful image adjustment and effect combinations You simply cannot afford to miss them For a more detailed summary of what PagePlus can offer see Key features on p 4 Upgrading If you ve upgraded from a previous version this new edition of PagePlus includes a host of exciting new features p 10 which keeps PagePlus ahead of its competitors and at a fraction of the price We hope you also enjoy the additional power and performance edge Registration Don t forget to register your new copy using the Registration Wizard on t
60. or Insert Bookmark from the right click menu 3 In the Insert Bookmark dialog click the Delete Anchor button 4 From the dialog you can either leave or delete all bookmarks or hyperlinks to the anchor independently of each other Click Yes or No as appropriate Unlike hyperlinks bookmarks also work as actual links within PagePlus publications You can use the Bookmark Manager as a jumping off point to any bookmarked entry Creating a PDF slideshow The creation of PDF slideshows takes PagePlus s PDF publishing a step further While a PDF file shows the exact replication of your original project for electronic distribution or printing the PDF slideshow feature does the same but with the intention of creating automated multimedia presentations These can be shared by email and viewed without the need for special presentation software Publishing and Sharing 247 The main features of PDF slideshow include Advance of each slide manually or automatically Creation of multi section slides from individual PagePlus pages Use of slide specific layer control switch layers on or off Freedom to reorder your slideshow Apply slide specific transition effects Control of slide duration Play a soundtrack for single slides or for the entire slideshow To publish a slideshow 1 Select Publish as PDF Slideshow from the File menu 2 In the dialog on the General tab choos
61. such as Blurs 3D Edge Warps Shadows and more with each category having further subcategories To apply an object style to one or more objects 1 Display the Styles tab 2 Expand the drop down menu to select a named style category e g Blurs then pick a subcategory by scrolling the lower window 3 Preview available styles as thumbnails cog shapes are shown by default in the window 4 Click a style thumbnail in the panel to apply it to the selected object s To remove an object style from a gallery Right click the thumbnail and choose Delete To unlink an object from its style definition Right click the object and choose Format gt Object Style gt Unlink Pictures Lines and Shapes 207 If you ve applied a style to an object but have lost track of the thumbnail or want to confirm which style is actually being used on an object you can quickly locate the thumbnail from the object To locate an object s style in the Styles tab Right click the object and choose Format gt Object Style gt Locate in Studio The Styles tab displays the gallery thumbnail for the object s style Normally a publication s object styles are just stored locally that is as part of that publication they don t automatically carry over to new publications If you ve created a new style you ll want to use in another publication you can save it globally so that it will appear in the Styles tab each time you o
62. switch to a master page from a particular layer From the Layers tab right click a particular layer s name and choose Go to Master Page Layer names and properties The Layers tab lets you rename layers and set a variety of properties for one or more layers To rename the layer Click Layer Options then edit the Name field To set layer properties 1 Display the Layers tab 2 Select desired settings for the selected layer 44 Working with Pages Click in the Master Page s column to optionally assign a master page to the layer Check the box in the Visible column to show the layer and any objects on it uncheck to hide the layer Check the box in the Master Page s visible column to show the layer s master page uncheck to hide it Check the Printable column to include the layer in page printouts uncheck to exclude it Check the box in the Locked column to prevent objects on the layer from being selected edited uncheck to allow editing To set the Selection handle colour click the colour selection button and choose a colour from the palette click More Colours for a wider choice This helps identify which objects belong to which layer Setting guides Layout guides are visual guide lines that help you position layout elements They can include page margins row and column guides bleed area guides and ruler guides Page margin settings are fundamenta
63. the button to zoom in out of the photo or 1 Right click on a picture frame and choose Properties gt Frame Properties or Select the picture frame and choose Frame Properties on the Picture context toolbar 2 In the dialog you can scale to maximum minimum Stretch to Fit or use the original image s size No Scale 3 To change vertical alignment of pictures within the frames select Top Middle or Bottom 4 For horizontal alignment select Left Centre or Right While you can take advantage of PagePlus s preset frames you can create your own shape e g a morphed QuickShape or closed curve then convert it to a picture frame Creating custom picture frames 1 Create the shape as required 2 Right click the shape and select Convert To gt Picture Frame You can then add a picture to the frame as described previously 164 Pictures Lines and Shapes Importing pictures PagePlus lets you insert pictures from a wide variety of file formats including bitmaps vector images and metafiles and in several different ways Here s a quick overview Bitmapped pictures also known as bitmaps or raster pictures are built from a matrix of dots pixels rather like the squares on a sheet of graph paper They may originate as digital camera photos or scanned pictures or be created or enhanced with a paint program or photo editor Typical examples include gif jpg png and wdp Draw
64. the frame was not part of a link sequence its text is merged into the selected text s story Different frame sequences can be combined creating unified story text To link the selected frame to an existing frame Click the frame s Link button showing or Click with the Textflow cursor on the frame to be linked to To link the selected frame to a newly drawn frame As above but instead of clicking a target frame either click on the page for a default frame or drag across the page to create a frame sized to your requirements The latter is ideal for quickly mapping out linked frames across different pages To unlink the selected frame from the sequence Click on then click with the Textflow cursor on the same frame Story text remains with the old frames For example if you detach the second frame of a three frame sequence the story text remains in the first and third frames which are now linked into a two frame story The detached frame is always empty To navigate from frame to frame Click the Previous Frame or Next Frame button on the Frame context toolbar Working with Text 101 Fitting text to frames Fitting story text precisely into a sequence of frames is part of the art of laying out publications If there s too much story text to fit in a frame sequence PagePlus stores it in an invisible overflow area and the Link button on the last frame of the sequence
65. the necessary information fonts images graphics and text your print partner requires To output your publication as a PDF X file 1 Click Publish PDF on the Standard toolbar 2 Review General and Advanced tab settings see Exporting PDF files When preparing a PDF X file for professional printing choose either PDF X 1 or PDF X 1a in the General tab s Compatibility list as advised by your print partner Also inquire whether or not to Impose pages this option is fine for desktop printing of a folded publication or one that uses facing pages but a professional printer may prefer you to leave the imposition page sequencing to them 3 Review Prepress tab settings You don t need to worry about the Compression or Security tabs these only apply to screen ready PDFs Publishing and Sharing 9 242 Publishing and Sharing Publishing and Sharing 243 Exporting PDF files PDF short for Portable Document Format is a cross platform WYSIWYG file format developed by Adobe to handle documents in a device and platform independent manner The format has evolved into a worldwide standard for document distribution which works equally well for online or professional electronic publishing To export your publication as a PDF file 1 Prepare the publication following standard print publishing guidelines and taking the distribution method into account 2 Optional Insert hyperlinks as needed for example to li
66. to snap to a dot guide etc Working with Objects 61 For precise ruler guide placement check Ruler Marks in Tools gt Options to snap guides to ruler marks Snapping with dynamic guides For accurate object alignment and resizing you can use dynamic guides instead of setting ruler guides manually or performing selection transform and alignment operations These magenta coloured guides are shown between the vertices of the last three selected placed page objects and the manipulated object and visually suggest possible snapping options such as snap to the placed object s left right centre top right bottom or to the page centre You can include objects to snap to by dragging over objects For alignment For resizing 62 Working with Objects To switch on dynamic guides Click the down arrow on the Snapping button Hintline and click Dynamic Guides on the drop down menu To snap to page centres as well you must additionally check the Page centre option in Tools gt Options gt Layout gt Snapping Creating groups You can easily turn a multiple selection into a group object When objects are grouped you can position resize or rotate the objects all at the same time To create a group from a multiple selection Click the Click to Group button To ungroup Click the Click to Ungroup button The group turns back to a multiple selection Working with Objects 63 Simply clicking
67. transparency effects by adding extra nodes to the path by clicking and assigning different levels to each node To adjust the transparency path Use the Transparency Tool to drag individual nodes or click on the object for a new start node and drag out a new transparency path The effect starts where you place the start node and ends where you place the end node For bitmap transparencies the path determines the centre and two edges of the effect Editing a gradient transparency path is similar to editing a comparable fill path Adding a level of transparency means varying the transparency gradient simply add a new node and assign it a particular value For transparencies with multiple nodes each node has its own value comparable to a key colour in a gradient fill Note that you cannot alter the values in a bitmap transparency Colour Fills and Transparency 229 To edit a gradient transparency directly 1 Select an object with gradient transparency and click the Transparency Tool button The object s transparency path appears with start and end nodes 2 Display the Studio s Transparency tab 3 To add a transparency node drag from any solid transparency sample in the Transparency tab to the point on the path where you want to add the node The higher the percentage value assigned to a transparency node the more transparent the effect at that point Note The hue of the colour doesn t matter only its percentage
68. vertically as you type to accommodate extra lines of text To enter a Tab character press Ctrl Tab To select a row or column click its header along the left or top of the table To select more than one row or column drag across their headers To select all text all rows and columns choose Select gt All from the Table menu To copy paste and delete selected table text within the same table or between different tables use the Copy Paste and Delete commands as you would for frame text Working with Text 141 Fill Right or Fill Down will respectively replicate the contents of a row or column s first cell across the entire selected row or column Click the row or column header s button and choose the option from the flyout menu To create a sequence of numbers or entries across cells use QuickFill and QuickClear see online Help The copy and paste of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet cell contents into any PagePlus table is also possible To move cell contents within the same table select the cell s and hover over the cell border s until the move cursor is shown click and drag the cell to its new cell location To format selected text apply character and paragraph properties or text styles as with any text from the Text context toolbar or Format menu To rotate selected text right click and choose Table gt Cell Properties On the Orientation tab use the rotation dial to set a ro
69. will display in the workspace To rename or delete an album Right click an existing album name in the top right drop down menu and choose Rename Album or Delete Album To sort photos in your album In the Sort By search box select a sorting criteria Files will be rearranged according to the chosen criteria by Filename Rating or Date Taken Adding photos to the page To add a photo to your page 1 Display the Media Bar s temporary album or load a saved album from the top right drop down menu 2 Drag an album s photo thumbnail onto the page either as a detached photo or directly into a picture frame or Use the AutoFlow feature 170 Pictures Lines and Shapes AutoFlow adding content automatically AutoFlow lets you flow the photos currently displayed in the Media Bar throughout empty picture frames spread throughout your publication you can t reflow photos once frames are populated with content This is especially useful when using Photo Album design templates or other photo rich documents To use this feature you must have multiple picture frames present in your current document as well as a range of photos present in your Media Bar The autoflow process involves a simple click of the mouse button To automatically flow your photos Click the button to the right of the bar s workspace The photos are placed sequentially in your document s available picture frames in the orde
70. 2 Working with Text To import text from a file 1 Optional If using an existing empty text frame select the frame If inserting text into a populated text frame click for an insertion point or select a portion of text to be replaced 2 Choose Text File from the Insert menu 3 From the Open dialog locate and select the file to import 4 Check the Retain Format box to retain the source file s formatting styles Uncheck the box to discard this information In either case PagePlus will preserve basic character properties like italic bold and underline and paragraph properties like alignment left centre right 5 Check the Ignore line wrapping box to ignore returns in the source text that is only if the file has been saved with a carriage return at the end of every line and you want to strip off these extra returns Otherwise leave the box unchecked 6 Click Open 7 The text will be imported into the pre selected text object or a new text frame If all of the imported text cannot fit into the active text frame you ll be prompted via dialog You can either create extra frames to accommodate overflow text click Yes or just overflow the text into a hidden overflow area click No Understanding text frames Typically text in PagePlus goes into text frames which work equally well as containers for single words standalone paragraphs or multipage articles or chapter text You can also use artistic tex
71. 7 importing Adobe PDF files 23 database tables 148 delimited files for mail merge 157 PagePlus files 23 paint and draw type images 164 pictures 164 text 91 TWAIN images 183 imposition of folded publications 237 Increase level 123 131 indents 110 index 151 creating 156 Inner Bevel effect 194 Inner Glow effect 194 Inner Shadow effect 194 installation 13 Instant 3D 203 interface rulers 47 setting units 48 view options 33 Internet Service Provider ISP 277 Java applets for web 274 Join setting lines 189 joining objects 77 JPGs for web 271 importing 164 key features 4 labels 29 layers 38 adding 40 assigning master pages to 42 deleting 40 properties of 43 selecting 40 selecting objects on 41 viewing 40 layout guides 44 setting 44 showing hiding 46 snapping to 60 layout tools 44 47 dot grid 49 guides 45 rulers 47 snapping 60 layouts theme 19 Learning Zone 17 lighting 3D Effect 202 Instant 3D 203 line properties 188 linear fills 222 lines closing to make shapes 192 combining 72 dashed 188 double 188 drawing 185 186 editing 185 188 fitting text to 107 stroke alignment for 188 linking text frames 99 linking vs embedding 166 lists bulleted 129 multi level 131 numbered 129 logos 83 converting objects to 84 LogoStudio 83 mail and photo merge 157 maintaining websites 278 margin guides 45 margins setting 44 marquees
72. Empty Frame from the Insert menu or For a frame of a particular shape e g Elliptical Picture Frame choose a shape on the Import Picture flyout on the Tools toolbar 2 The mouse pointer changes to the Picture Paste cursor What you do next determines the initial size and placement of the picture frame 3 To insert the frame at a default size simply click the mouse or To set the size of the frame drag out a region and release the mouse button To add a picture to a frame From the Media bar s currently displayed album drag and drop a photo directly onto the picture frame or Click Replace Picture directly under the selected frame locate and select an image Click Open Take advantage of the Gallery tab to drag and drop various bordered and basic picture frames onto your page Choose from frames of different orientations and styles The picture is added to the frame using default Picture Frame properties i e it is scaled to maximum fit aspect ratio is always maintained However you can alter the picture s size orientation and positioning relative to its frame To change picture size and positioning Select a populated picture frame and from the accompanying Picture Frame toolbar Click the button to position the photo in the picture frame by panning Pictures Lines and Shapes 163 Click the button to rotate the photo in 90 degree anti clockwise increments Click
73. F of the form is generated When a form recipient enters data into form fields the data can be collected as described below JavaScript is used to allow interactivity in your PDF forms It drives formatting validation calculations and actions all key functions in PDF form development How is data collected Several methods exist for collecting forms once they have been completed 1 By Hardcopy Print 2 You can Save Data to e mail alternatively you can save data within the form 3 You can Submit Data to Web a CGI application by submission to a web enabled server database Using PDF Forms 257 Creating PDF forms Adding form fields A series of form fields can be added to the page depending on the type of form you want to create Typically a mix of form fields will make up your finished form design Fields are created from the Form toolbar or via Insert gt Form Field You assign an internal unique name to each field and then set a variety of properties Each form field has its own set of Form Field Properties which can be modified to suit your form implementation The Form toolbar is turned off by default Display it by going to View gt Toolbars gt Form Form field names can contain _ but no special characters Icon Form Field Name When to use Button Use when specifying an action that can be triggered by a button click Submit button Use when sending the form recipient s
74. JPEG images using a compression quality setting of 10 low compression high detail For these images PagePlus automatically generates file names using incremental numbering IMG1 IMG2 etc that continues each time you export Global export options and setting export formats are described in more detail in the PagePlus Help 272 Producing Web Pages Choosing web page properties There s more to creating a successful website than designing the pages It s a good idea to browse the Site Properties dialog accessible from File gt Web Site Properties and review a variety of settings you might not otherwise have considered Site Properties Page tab Some of the options on the dialog s Page tab pertain just to the current page while others apply to the site as a whole The web page title which will appear in the title bar of the visitor s web browser can serve to unify the pages and focus the site s identity as well as aid navigation Each page in your site can have its own title but you may prefer to use the same title on multiple pages in effect a site title An easy way to do this is to start with a blank page give it a title then replicate that page Copies of that page will have the same title Each page also has a file name when it s published You can specify file names individually otherwise PagePlus automatically generates them Check the instructions from your web service provider as to their naming conventions for Ho
75. Page Setup 29 page size and orientation 29 PagePlus files importing 23 pages adding removing and rearranging 36 numbering 50 153 viewing 33 Pages tab 36 paint type images 164 importing 164 paragraphs 113 alignment 113 setting indents for 110 setting tab stops for 111 styles 121 Paste Format 60 Paste Format Plus 60 pasteboard area 33 pasting object formatting 60 path text 105 Path Text tools 107 paths around objects 188 Pattern Map effects 201 PDF files adding bookmarks 244 publishing 156 239 243 PDF forms 255 collecting data from 259 creating 257 PDF slideshows 246 multi section 248 Pen Tool 185 Pencil Tool 185 PhotoLab 176 launching 177 photos See pictures picture frames 164 pictures adding via Media Bar to page 169 adjustments for 176 anchoring to text 73 borders for 80 colourizing 217 converting objects to 67 custom frames for 163 deforming Mesh Warp 79 effects for 176 exporting objects as 67 extracting parts of 171 for web 271 frames for 161 importing 164 165 Media bar for 166 replacing 166 resizing 65 searching for in Media Bar 170 setting default properties 25 Pillow Emboss effect 194 PNGs for web 271 importing 164 point size 113 Pointer Tool 55 posters 29 printing 237 PostScript output 240 prepress options 240 previewing the printed page 236 websites in web browser 276 printing 233 books 156 manual duplex
76. Use the dialog to alter character paragraph or other properties To save all current defaults as global settings 1 Choose Save Defaults from the Tools menu 2 From the dialog check options to update specific defaults globally Document and object defaults saves current document page size orientation and object settings context toolbar settings Text styles saves current text styles in the Text Style Palette Object styles saves user defined styles from Styles tab Table and calendar formats saves custom table AutoFormats 3 Click Save to confirm that you want new publications to use the checked object s defaults globally Working with Pages 3 28 Working with Pages Working with Pages 29 Setting up a publication A publication s page size and orientation settings are fundamental to your layout and are defined when the new publication is first created either using a design template or as a New Publication choice via File gt New and the Startup Wizard If the Startup Wizard is turned off or you cancel the setup dialog a new publication is created to a default page size To adjust size orientation of the current publication 1 Select from the Pages context toolbar 2 For a Regular Booklet Publication you can select a pre defined paper size printer derived paper size or enter custom values for page Width and Height as well as setting the orientation Portrait o
77. a choice of complementary multiple page designs Once selected the publication is normally all but complete apart from adding your own pictures to placeholders personalizing placeholder text or fine tuning object positioning To create a publication from a design template 1 Open PagePlus or choose New from the File menu and select New from Startup Wizard 2 Click Use Design Template to display the Choose a Design Template dialog 3 In the tree menu on the left select a publication category e g Publications 4 Navigate the main window s categories and sub categories then click a chosen document type s thumbnail 20 Getting Started 5 Examine the page sample s on the right If you re happy with the template page s click Open To create a publication from a themed layout 1 From the dialog s Templates list select Theme Layouts then select a theme name from the list Getting Started 21 2 The adjacent pane updates to show document types for that selected theme Select a thumbnail 3 In the upper right corner of the dialog choose a colour scheme on which to base your publication from the drop down menu the first three schemes are designed specifically for the themed layout As each template is colour schemed you can swap the underlying scheme and the poster s appearance for another scheme at any time 22 Getting Started 4 From the right hand Pages pane select one
78. a of no text will disconnect your anchored object You can also disconnect the anchor point via Anchor Properties dialog To disconnect an anchored object Enable Detach from text The Anchor Properties button and anchor point both disappear Notes Anchored object have all the same properties of unanchored objects you can modify them whilst anchored Frame text can wrap around floating anchored objects as described in Wrapping text p 127 Inline anchored objects do not allow text wrapping Joining object outlines PagePlus includes some powerful tools to carve new shapes out of old overlapping shapes With add subtract intersect or exclude commands you actually produce a permanent new object with a new outline out of any selected objects The joined object can be further edited by adjusting nodes in the new shape 78 Working with Objects To join outlines selected via marquee selection Select an outlines option from the Join Outlines flyout on the Arrange toolbar Add Creates one new object that s the sum of any two selected objects Subtract Discards the overlap between the top and bottom object The bottom object is also discarded Useful as a quick way of truncating shapes and pictures with another object Working with Objects 79 Intersect Retains the overlap and discards the rest Exclude Merges two or more objects into a composite object with a clear t
79. all instances of the problem word with the option of adding the problem word to your dictionary 6 Spell checking continues until you click the Close button or the spell check is completed Check spelling as you type Use the Check spelling as you type feature to firstly mark possible problem words in your text in red and secondly offer a range of alternative correct spellings to replace the problem words Working with Text 135 To check spelling as you type With the Check spelling as you type feature turned on from Tools gt Options gt Options gt General place an insertion point in a marked word by clicking then right click You ll see alternative spellings on the context menu To replace a marked word choose an alternative spelling from the menu To tell PagePlus to ignore leave unmarked all instances of the marked word in the publication choose Ignore All from the right click menu or just Ignore for this instance only To add the marked word as spelled to your personal dictionary choose Add to Dictionary from the right click menu This means PagePlus will subsequently ignore the word in any publication Select Check Spelling to run the Spell Checker described above Automatic proofreading The Proof Reader checks for grammar and readability errors in text in your publication You can use Proof Reader from either PagePlus or WritePlus To start automatic proofreading 1 To c
80. an include one or more transformations to produce an interesting array of rotated and or resized objects It s great for repeating backgrounds or for perfectly aligned montages of an image or object Working with Objects 59 To replicate an object 1 Select the object to be replicated and choose Replicate from the Edit menu The Replicate dialog appears with a preview region at the right 2 To arrange copies in a straight line select Create line For an X by Y grid arrangement select Create grid 3 Specify Line length the number of objects including the original in the arrangement or the Grid size Note that you can use the Line length setting to include an odd number of objects in a grid 4 Set spacing between the objects as either an Offset measured between the top left corners of successive objects or a Gap between the bottom right and top left corners You can specify Horizontal and or Vertical spacing and or an angular Rotation To set a specific horizontal or vertical interval check Absolute uncheck the box to specify the interval as a percentage of the original object s dimensions 5 Click OK The result is a multiple selection Click its Group button if you want to keep the separate objects linked for additional manipulations 60 Working with Objects Pasting an object s formatting Once you have copied an object to the Clipboard you can use Paste Format Edit menu to apply its formatting
81. and click the Display button To remove or modify a hyperlink Click to select the link entry and click the Remove or Modify button To modify the hyperlink select a new link destination type and target Adding hotspots A hotspot is a transparent hyperlink region on a web page Usually placed on top of images hotspots act like buttons that respond when clicked in a web browser They are especially useful if you want the visitor to be able to click on different parts of a picture such as a graphic menu or map of your site To define a hotspot 1 On the Insert menu choose Web Object and then click Hotspot 2 Click and drag to draw a rectangular hotspot region From the dialog click to select the link destination type and enter the specific hyperlink target an Internet page a page in your website an email address local file or an object s anchor 3 Click OK 268 Producing Web Pages To modify a hotspot hyperlink Using the Pointer Tool double click the hotspot and edit the hyperlink or Click to select the hotspot then click the Hyperlink button on the Standard toolbar Editing hotspots You can move and resize hotspots on the page using its outer bounding box An inner outline lets you drag the outline s corner nodes add nodes by clicking on the line and delete nodes to alter the shape of the active hotspot area especially useful for pictures set at different angles To mo
82. and the number of choices drag down and to the right Click Normal View if you change your mind The publication appears in Multi page mode with the specified page array in view To switch between views Choose between Normal or Multi page from the View menu 36 Working with Pages Navigating pages To switch between pages Click the Previous Page Next Page First Page or Last Page button on the Hintline or On the Studio s Pages tab double click the page s thumbnail for the page or master page you want to view The lower Pages window of the tab displays normal pages while the expandable Master Pages window shows only master pages Adding removing and rearranging pages Use the Pages tab to quickly rearrange standard pages using drag and drop add delete standard or master pages or assign master pages to standard pages The tab displays master pages in the upper Master Pages window shown collapsed and standard publication pages in the lower Pages window The Page Manager button provides additional options such as duplicating a particular page assigning a specific master page to a layer or adding deleting multiple pages Working with Pages 37 To add a single page 1 On the Pages tab click once to select a page in the Pages window Note The thumbnail that s shown as selected is independent of the page you re currently working on To work on a particular page double click i
83. ansparency 226 artistic standalone 103 AutoCorrect 133 automatic spelling as you type 134 changing colour or shading of 217 copying 109 editing on the page 108 Find amp Replace 112 fitting to frames 101 formatting in PagePlus 113 importing from file 91 on a path 105 pasting 109 selecting 108 setting default properties 25 setting indents 110 setting tab stops 111 special effects 198 tables overview 137 using gradient and bitmap fills on 222 text frames 92 anchoring to text 73 creating 95 linking unlinking 99 setting default properties 25 Text Manager 98 Text Style Palette 121 text styles 120 remove formatting 125 replace common 126 synchronizing books 155 text wrap 127 theme layouts 19 Thesaurus 136 thumbnails 238 printing 238 tiling 239 printing effect 239 tinting 218 Tool Artistic Text 104 Connector 211 Elbow Connector 211 Fill 222 Irregular Crop 70 Path Text 107 Pen 185 Pencil 185 Pointer 55 Rotate 55 68 Shadow 197 Square Crop 70 Straight Line 185 Table 139 Transparency 228 Transform tab 63 65 transparency applying 227 filter effect 201 gradient 228 Transparency tab 226 Transparency Tool 228 Trimmed Page Mode 237 TWAIN camera scanner source 183 Unicode text 111 unlinking text frames 100 Update Object Default 25 Use Design Template 17 vector images 164 vertical alignment 113 video adding to web page 272 view optio
84. appearance of your publications with a single click You can customize the scheme colours create brand new schemes and apply any scheme to a from scratch publication Ready to use Styles Choose various filter effects glows shadows textures and materials from the Styles tab Customize the preset styles or store your own Transparency Add transparency to your backgrounds text frames tables shapes and text to achieve a truly professional look As with colour fills you can apply solid gradient and bitmap transparencies even create bitmap transparencies from your own image collection Filter Effects Apply eye catching Filter Effects to make your images and text really stand out Easily add shadows glows bevels blurs reflections outlines feathering or embossing effects and alter the flexible settings for exactly the right look your original object remains intact and editable if you change your mind Use the Shadow Tool for on the page control of basic or skewed drop shadows Welcome 7 Astounding 3D Lighting and Surface Effects Advanced algorithms bring flat shapes to life Choose one or more effects then vary surface and multiple coloured light source properties Start with a pattern or a function adjust parameters for incredible surface contours textures fills realistic looking wood water skin marble and much more Combine 3D transparency and Reflection Maps for realistic glass like effects
85. arance of a QuickShape 1 Click on the QuickShape to reveal one or more sliding handles around the shape These are distinct from the inner selection handles Different QuickShapes have different handles which have separate functions 2 To change the appearance of a QuickShape drag its handles To find out what each handle does for a particular shape move the Pointer Tool over the handle and read the Hintline 192 Pictures Lines and Shapes Closed shapes As soon as you draw or select a line you ll see the line s nodes appear Nodes show the end points of each segment in the line Freehand curves typically have many nodes straight or curved line segments have only two You can make a shape by extending a line back to its starting point To turn a selected line into a shape Select the line with the Pointer Tool and then click the Close Curve button on the Curve context toolbar You can go the other way too break open a shape in order to add one or more line segments Pictures Lines and Shapes 193 To break open a line or shape 1 With the Pointer Tool select the node where you want to break the shape 2 Click the Break Curve button on the Curve context toolbar A line will separate into two lines A shape will become a line with the selected node split into two nodes one at each end of the new line 3 You can now use the Pointer tool to reshape the line as needed See online Help
86. atches tab s selection of bitmaps Applying transparency You can apply transparency to shapes text frames table cells and to any artistic frame and table text To apply transparency with Transparency tab 1 With your object selected go to the Transparency tab 2 For solid transparency select the Solid button and pick a thumbnail from the solid transparency gallery The lighter thumbnails represent more transparency expressed as percentage Opacity or For gradient transparency choose the Gradient button and pick your thumbnail or For bitmap transparency choose the Bitmap button and pick a thumbnail from a range of categories 3 The transparency is applied to the object s Alternatively drag the desired thumbnail from the gallery to an object and release the mouse button 228 Colour Fills and Transparency To apply gradient transparency with the Transparency Tool 1 Select a coloured object 2 Click the Transparency Tool on the Attributes toolbar s Transparency flyout or Select Format gt Transparency 3 Drag your cursor across the object and release the mouse button 4 The object takes a simple Linear transparency grading from 100 opacity to 0 opacity fully transparent Editing transparency Once you ve applied a gradient transparency you can adjust or replace its path on the object and the level of transparency along the path You can even create more complex
87. ated with the crop tools You can optionally apply feathering to the image edge but will not remove background colour To create an alpha edged bitmap 1 Select Alpha edged Bitmap from the Output Type drop down menu 2 Optional Drag the Width slider to set the extent to which the alpha blending is applied inside the cutout edge 3 Optional Adjust the Blur slider to smooth out the cutout edge To create a vector cropped bitmap 1 Select Vector cropped Bitmap from the Output Type menu 2 Optional Drag the Feather slider to apply a soft or blurry edge inside the cutout edge 3 Optional Drag the Smoothness slider to smooth out the cutout edge 4 Optional The Inflate slider acts as an positive or negative offset from the cutout edge Pictures Lines and Shapes 173 Selecting areas to keep or discard A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to paint areas of the image The tools are called Keep Brush and Discard Brush and are either used independently or more typically in combination with each other When using either tool the brush paints an area contained by an outline which is considered to be discarded or retained depending on brush type A configurable number of pixels adjacent to the outline area are blended To aid the selection operation several display modes are available to show selection Show Original Show Tinted and Show Transparent buttons respectively display
88. attributes to another object Again from the Edit menu Paste Format Plus displays a master control Style Attributes Editor dialog that lets you optionally select or deselect specific attributes to be included when formatting is pasted See Saving object styles on p 207 for more dialog information Snapping The snapping feature simplifies placement and alignment by magnetizing moved or resized objects to grid dots and ruler guides Objects can also snap to other guides on the page such as page margins rows columns and bleeds see p 44 as well as the page edge and page margin centres i e the centre of the page in relation to the page edge or page margins In addition dynamic guides can be used to align and resize objects to existing object edges and centres by snapping Guides appear dynamically as you drag objects To turn snapping on off globally Click Snapping on the Hintline don t click the drop down arrow The button has an orange colour when snapping is switched on Once snapping is enabled you can selectively switch on off snapping options i e Ruler Guides Dot Grid etc To turn individual snapping controls on and off Click the down arrow on the Snapping button Hintline and check uncheck a snapping option via the drop down menu Tools gt Options offers the full set of snapping options for the user You can also control Snapping Distance i e the distance at which an object will start
89. brush and touch up tools before committing your work 6 Click to create your cutout or click You ll see your image on the poster page in its original location but with the selected areas cut away made transparent Click if you want to revert your selected areas and start your cutout again Pictures Lines and Shapes 175 Refining your cutout area alpha edged bitmaps only If a vector cropped image is created via Image Cutout Studio it s possible to subsequently manipulate the crop outline using crop tools However for alpha edged bitmaps Erase and Restore touch up tools can be used to refine the cutout area within the Studio before completing your cutout The latter can t be edited with crop tools The touch up tools are brush based and are only to be used to fine tune your almost complete cutout use your Keep and Discard brush tools for the bulk of your work To restore or remove portions of your cutout 1 With your cutout areas already defined click Output settings tab You can use the button to check your cutout as you progress 2 Click the Restore Touch up Tool or Erase Touch up Tool button from the left of the Studio workspace 3 Paint the areas for restoring or erasing as you would with the brush tools 4 Click If you ve touched up part of your image between each preview you ll be asked if you want to save or discard changes 176 Pictures Lines and Shapes Applying
90. can save a lot of time by skipping the export of pages you haven t changed 5 Click OK After PagePlus has finished exporting the selected pages you ll be asked if you want to launch your web browser to view your page Click Yes if you wish to do this 276 Producing Web Pages Previewing your website in a browser Previewing your site in a web browser is an essential step before publishing it to the web It s the only way you can see just how your PagePlus publication will appear to a visitor We ll assume you ve already published your website to a local folder To preview your website from a local hard disk Choose Preview in Browser gt from the File menu then choose a Preview Page in lt browser name gt or Preview Site in lt browser name gt to use an external browser The lt browser name gt will reflect which browsers are currently installed e g the entry may read Preview Page in Internet Explorer If you have more than one browser installed you can select which browser s to display on the submenu Publishing to the web Publishing to the web involves a few more steps but is basically as simple as publishing to a local folder You can specify that all web pages are published or only pages updated since your last publish To publish your site to the web 1 On the File menu choose Web Site Properties and verify your export settings particularly those on the Graphics tab 2 On the File m
91. ck Once you re sure that you want to keep you filter you ll need to commit the filter to your filters stack To commit your filter Click to accept your changes This adds the filter to the right most Filters stack where additional filters can be added and built up by using the same method Adjustments are applied such that the most recently added filter always appears at the bottom of the list and is applied to the picture last after the other filters above it To reorder filters Drag and drop your filter into any position in the stack A dotted line indicates the new position in which the entry will be placed on mouse release To add a filter directly without trialling Click Add Quick Filter at the top of the Filters stack and choose a filter from the flyout categories The filter is applied directly to the stack without trialling 180 Pictures Lines and Shapes Retouching PhotoLab offers some useful retouching tools on the main toolbar each commonly used to correct photos before applying colour correction and effects Selective masking Rather than apply a filter to uniformly change the appearance of your picture you can change only selected regions instead PhotoLab lets you mask picture areas by painting areas to be either affected by filters or simply left alone To apply a mask 1 From the Mask drop down menu select New Mask 2 In the Tool Settings pane select the Add
92. completed form data to Serif Web Resources or to your own web server A Form Submit Wizard is activated to enable quick and easy button setup Reset button Use when you want to add a button to clear all form fields of data often complements the above Submit button Print button Use when you want to add a print button to your form 258 Using PDF Forms Check Box Ideal when you want to multiply select a series of options displayed side by side A good alternative to a Combo Box or List box if space allows Text Field Use for adding text numbers or a mixture of both Combo Box For selection from a scrollable list of items in a drop down menu where only one item can be selected The box also allows data entry to be input into this box type Smaller than a List Box List Box For selection from a scrollable list of items supports multiple selection and advanced actions on selection of menu items Radio Button Good for selection of a single mutually exclusive item from a grouped subset of choices Signature Used for the digital signing of secure documents See PagePlus Help This button shares a drop down menu with other buttons marked with an asterisk The button type previously chosen will always be display on the Form toolbar Form field properties Form field properties control how the form field will operate when the form recipient enters their input A series of tabs are arranged so that some tabs e g
93. corner or edge handle Text in frames and tables doesn t change size when the container object is resized Working with Objects 65 To set two or more objects to the same horizontal or vertical size as the last selected object you can use Arrange gt Size Objects You can also make fine resizing adjustments from the Transform tab To resize freely Drag from a corner or line end handle To constrain a shape frame object or table object when resizing Hold the Shift key down and drag from a corner or line end handle For shapes this has the effect of keeping a square as a square a circle as a circle etc For pictures dimensions are constrained on dragging a corner handle Use Shift drag to resize a picture freely Ordering objects Each new page or master page consists of a single layer One layer may be enough to accommodate the elements of a particular layout but you can create additional layers as needed On each layer objects such as text frames and pictures are stacked in the order you create them from back to front with each new object in front of the others You can change the stacking order which affects how objects appear on the page To shift the selected object s position to the bottom or top of the stack Click Send to Back or Bring to Front on the Arrange toolbar respectively 66 Working with Objects To shift the object s position one step toward the back o
94. ction between publisher and audience by using an electronic medium Some common form types include Application forms Contact Information forms Request forms Feedback forms and Guest books One thing in common with all PDF forms is that they have to be published as PDF to operate A PagePlus ppp file with form functionality must be converted to PDF with Publish PDF Standard toolbar Form Structure The building blocks of a form comprise a mixture of text graphics and Form fields Form fields collect recipient data and can be added moved and modified in a similar way to more familiar objects in PagePlus such as graphics and table elements A field can be a Text field Radio Button Combo box List box Check box or a simple button From the form recipient s perspective information is typed into text boxes or selected from check boxes radio buttons or drop down boxes The information entered can be numeric textual or a mixture of both It is possible to arrange and lock form fields plus control the order in which form fields can be navigated see Designing your PDF forms in PagePlus Help 256 Using PDF Forms Each field has its own set of Form Field Properties relating to its appearance its value s validation calculations and the action expected of the field In PagePlus the form should be integrated into your Page design as you develop your publication The form s functionality only then becomes active when a PD
95. ction points again you have to hover over the object which was selected while the connection point was created Remember to enable either the Connector Tool or Elbow Connector Tool in advance Editing connection points and connectors To move a custom connection point select the object to which it is associated and drag the point with the Connection Point Tool To delete a custom connection point you ve added use the Connection Point Tool to click the object to which the connection point was associated click the connection point you want to delete and then press Delete Default nodes are fixed and can t be deleted To move reshape or detach reattach a connector use the Pointer Tool to drag individual nodes Drag the end node of a connector to detach or reattach it See Drawing and editing lines on p 185 If you draw a connector with either or both ends unconnected the free ends stay anchored to the page as drawn Of course you can still move reattach or edit the connector just as if it were connected to an object As connectors are treated as ordinary lines you can colour them see p 217 and format them with the Line tab to add arrows feathers or other decorative line end See Setting line properties on p 188 214 Pictures Lines and Shapes Colour Fills and Transparency 7 216 Colour Fills and Transparency Colour Fills and Transparency 217 Applying solid fills PagePlus of
96. cy To apply a solid colour via the Swatches tab 1 Select the object s or highlight a range of text 2 Click the Swatches tab 3 Click the Fill Line or Text button at the top of the tab to determine where colour will be applied 4 Select a colour swatch from the Publication palette commonly used colours and those previously applied to your publication or Standard Palette supplied preset swatches Use Format gt Fill to apply colour via a dialog To change a solid colour s shade tint lightness 1 Select the object and set the correct Fill Line or Text button in the Colour tab 2 From the Colour mode drop down menu select Tinting 3 Drag the Shade Tint slider to the left or right to darken or lighten your starting colour respectively You can also enter a percentage value in the box entering 0 in the input box reverts to the original colour Adjust the percentage tinting via slider or direct input to apply object tinting from the Swatches tab PagePlus automatically adds used colours to the Publication Palette in the Swatches tab To change the current palette Click the Palette button to view and adopt colours from a Standard RGB Standard CMYK or selection of themed palettes Colour Fills and Transparency 219 Using schemes In PagePlus a colour scheme is a cluster of five complementary colours that you can apply to specific elements in one or more publications The Sch
97. d If there are no occurrences you ll get a Not currently used message 2 Click the message label making it shaded in blue text formatted with the chosen font is selected 3 Hover over font names in your font list Click on a chosen font to apply it to the selected text if you ve used the Used fonts search you may need to clear the results before selecting a replacement font Substituting fonts Font substitution issues may arise when opening PagePlus Publications This is because the fonts used in the original document may not be present on the target computer If this occurs font substitution of that unavailable font can be initiated via a pop up dialog 118 Working with Text PagePlus s font substitution mechanism makes use of the PANOSE Font Matching System which intelligently finds the best font substitution match between a missing and a locally available font By default clicking OK will substitute the missing font for a locally available standard font e g Arial automatically Optionally you can manually substitute the missing font with the font of your choosing by enabling the Edit font substitutions manually button instead A third option is to use Serif s FontManager program which can search and load uninstalled fonts if located fonts are uninstalled after use See Using FontManager on p 120 To avoid font substitution try to source original fonts from the originating PC if possible When importi
98. dia Bar visible and a temporary album loaded click on the Media Bar s workspace to reveal an Import Picture dialog 2 From the dialog navigate to a photo or folder and select your photo s 3 Click Open Your photos appear as thumbnails in the Menu Bar workspace Unless you save it the temporary album and its photo contents will not be saved when you close PagePlus You can drag one or more files from any Windows folder directly into the Media Bar window If you right click an image in the Media Bar and choose Locate in Explorer you ll open the photo s folder via Windows Explorer great for drag and drop or just general file management To save a temporary album to a named album 1 Click the down arrow on the button From the menu select New Album 2 In the New Album dialog in the Album Name box type a name to identify your album in the future Pictures Lines and Shapes 169 3 Optional For any photo you can alter the resolution native or 96 dpi or embed link status in advance of placement on your page click a photo s setting and use the setting s drop down menu to change You can also change these settings during drag drop onto the page 4 Click OK To include a temporary album s photos in an existing saved album click the Add To button and choose a named album from the menu To load a saved album Select a saved album name from the bar s top right drop down menu The album s photos
99. dified time updates as well 156 Working with Text Building a Table of Contents or Index From BookPlus you can build a Table of Contents and or Index that includes entries for the entire set of chapters In each case you ll need to begin by designating a specific chapter where the resulting pages should be added To create a table of contents or index for the book 1 In the chapter list select the name of the chapter file where you want to add the table of contents or index 2 Choose Insert from the Chapter menu and select Table of Contents or Index from the submenu BookPlus opens the chapter file if it s not already open and the Wizard for the procedure you ve selected appears 3 Select Yes when the Wizard asks if you want to build a table of contents or index for the entire book Continue clicking Next gt and selecting choices in the Wizard Printing and PDF output When you print or generate PDF output from BookPlus you ll have the choice of printing the entire book or selected chapters To print the book or selected chapters 1 To print just certain chapters make sure their names are selected in the chapter list 2 Choose Print from the BookPlus File menu 3 Under Print Range on the General tab select Entire book to output all chapters or Selected chapters to output just those you selected You can also select the Pages option to output one or more specific page s Whichever option yo
100. dit button lets you edit Serif Database SDB files only Click OK 7 The list of fields available in the table are shown in the Select Fields dialog Uncheck any fields that you don t want to be included in the import process Again Select All Select None or Toggle Select options are available 8 Click the OK button The database table appears on your page Filtering your records Records can be filtered via the Merge List s Filter button by using the Filter Records tab then subsequently sorted into any combination with the accompanying Sort Records tab The option helps you limit the number of records imported to only those you require 150 Working with Text Note that the Boolean operator And and Or operator to build up your filter criteria row by row The Sort Records tab is used to sort by three prioritized field names either in ascending or descending order Creating a table of contents The Table of Contents Wizard Insert gt Table of Contents helps you create a table of contents with up to six levels of headings and sub headings derived from named styles in your publication If you re exporting to PDF format PagePlus can automatically build a bookmark list using the same style markings in your text To create a table of contents 1 Decide which named styles you want to designate as headings at each of up to six levels 2 Check your publication to make sure these styles are used consistently
101. down drag the tab marker on the ruler intersection The zero point remains unchanged Working with Pages 49 Double click on the ruler intersection to make the rulers and zero point jump to the top left hand corner of the currently selected object This comes in handy for measuring page objects To restore the original ruler position and zero point Double click the tab marker on the ruler intersection To lock the rulers and prevent them from being moved Choose Tools gt Options and select the Layout gt Rulers page then check Lock Rulers Rulers as a measuring tool The most obvious role for rulers is as a measuring tool As you move the mouse pointer small lines along each ruler display the current horizontal and vertical cursor position When you click to select an object shaded ruler regions indicate the object s left right and top bottom edges on the horizontal and vertical rulers respectively Each region has a zero point relative to the object s upper left corner so you can see the object s dimensions at a glance Using the dot grid The dot grid is a matrix of dots based on ruler units covering the page and pasteboard areas Like ruler guides it s handy for both visual alignment and snapping To turn the dot grid on or off click Dot Grid on the View menu 50 Working with Pages You can also set the grid spacing style colour and positioning in the dialog see PagePlus help Using
102. e In PagePlus you ll see a marker on the page where the player will appear With option 1 the media file remains external and can t be embedded in your publication Options 2 to 4 give you the choice of embedding the media file To add linked sound or video to a page To link from an object or hotspot option 1 above choose Hyperlink from the Insert menu and select A file on your hard disk as the link target then locate the media file For details follow the links given in option 1 or 1 To link from an icon picture or inline player options 2 to 4 choose Web Object from the Insert menu and select either Sound or Video from the submenu 2 Browse to locate the media file name 3 Select a link display option 4 If you do not wish to embed the file in your publication uncheck Embed sound files in site 5 Click OK to close the dialog then click or click and drag with the cursor to place the icon picture or marker on your page Adding Java applets Java is a cross platform object oriented programming language used to create mini applications called applets that can be attached to web pages and that run when the page is viewed in a web browser PagePlus lets you add Java applets to your web publications You don t have to write your own Plenty of applets are available online for example animation interface components live information updating two way interaction and many more Pr
103. e organize them into a hierarchy of entries and subentries and create modify or delete existing bookmarks as needed To use styles to automatically generate bookmarks 1 Decide which named styles you want to designate as headings at each of up to six levels 2 Check your publication to make sure styles are used consistently 3 Choose Bookmark Manager from the Tools menu and click Automatic In the dialog you ll see a list of all the style names used in your publication 4 Check boxes to include text of a given style as a heading at a particular level 1 through 6 For example you could include all text using the Heading style as a first level heading To remove all bookmarks in the list clear all check boxes 5 Click OK to generate bookmarks Publishing and Sharing 245 The mechanics of creating a PDF bookmark list by hand are simple For example bookmarking a specific location for example a piece of text or a graphic object entails placing an anchor at that location the anchor serves as the target for the bookmark link To insert bookmarks by hand 1 Optional To bookmark a specific location in the publication first place the cursor at that point or select an object You can select a range of text for example a section heading to use it as the actual text of the bookmark 2 Click Bookmark from the Insert menu or Choose Bookmark Manager from the Tools menu In the bookmark tr
104. e tab is expanded This tab is hidden by default in PhotoLab but can be viewed by clicking the button at the bottom of your workspace To launch PhotoLab 1 Select the picture that you want to apply a filter to 2 Click on the Picture context toolbar 178 Pictures Lines and Shapes Applying a filter Filters are stored in PhotoLab s Favourites Adjustments and Effects tabs which group filters logically into categories e g Quick Fix for fast and commonly used correction filters The Favourites tab offers some commonly used filters individual and in combination You can complement these with your own user defined filters To apply a filter with trialling 1 Click a filter thumbnail 2 As soon as a filter is selected it is temporarily added to Trial Zone which lets you experiment freely with your own settings for that filter the picture automatically refreshes to preview your new settings 3 Adjust sliders or enter input values until your filter suits your requirements Some filters offer check boxes drop down menus and additional controls e g Advanced settings Selecting a new filter always replaces the current filter Any filter can be temporarily disabled reset or deleted from the trial zone Pictures Lines and Shapes 179 To disable Click then click to enable again To reset Click Any changes to settings are reverted back to the filter s defaults To delete Cli
105. e Send button or equivalent on your email program as for any other email message An Internet connection is required for the emailing of publications Sharing PagePlus publications as HTML or images Interested in sharing content with recipients who may not be using PagePlus Send page as HTML lets you dispatch any page as HTML or as a bitmap For HTML all referenced images and hyperlinks are embedded locally with the message For sharing as a bitmap the message will be larger but will guarantee that the document will appear as intended great for ensuring compatibility with older email clients Normally an installed email client such as Outlook will be used by default However if you don t have an installed email program or have Office 2007 but don t want to use it you can use PagePlus to act as an email client instead The only prerequisite is having an outgoing SMTP mail server to transfer the email to you ll need to know the server address in advance Publishing and Sharing 251 To use PagePlus as an alternative email client Select Tools gt Options then select HTML E mail Enable Send HTML E mail using PagePlus and enter the mail server name e g mail srv or mail company com The port number 25 is always used Both HTML and image sharing methods share a single page only To share a multi page publication with recipients who don t use PagePlus consider outputting your project as a PDF and then se
106. e a default Transition type for all slides e g Blinds Wipe or Dissolve An individual slide can override this setting with its own transition setting 3 Check Manual Advance if you don t want your slideshow to display slides one by one automatically slides will be progressed manually by mouse click or by pressing the space bar For automatic slideshows choose a Duration i e the number of seconds each slide will remain on screen 4 Uncheck Preview PDF file in Acrobat if you don t want to see a slideshow preview immediately after publishing 5 When your slideshow reaches the last page you can Loop slideshow continuously or Return to normal view to exit the slideshow 6 In the Compatibility field select a version of Acrobat Reader You ll get best results by using the latest version but if your intended audience is unlikely to have the latest Reader software you may opt for an earlier version 248 Publishing and Sharing 7 For accompanying music in the Media box click the Open button to navigate to and select an audio file wav mp3 and aiff files supported 8 For multi section slides from the Slides tab duplicate or copy a selected slide with the Insert or Copy button respectively Delete a slide if needed or rearrange the playback order of existing slides with the Up or Down buttons For more information see Multi section slides see p 248 9 The Compression Security and Advanced tabs are as describ
107. e added to any pre supplied category the My Designs category exists simply for ease of use when storing your own custom designs To use a design from the Gallery Click its thumbnail in the design category and drag it out onto the page The Gallery retains a copy of the design until you expressly delete it 210 Pictures Lines and Shapes To view the Gallery 1 Click the Studio s Gallery tab 2 Select a category from the drop down menu The items from the folder s first listed category are displayed by default To add delete or rename custom categories 1 With the Gallery tab selected click Tab Menu and choose Add category Remove category or Rename category from the drop down list 2 Use the dialog to enter and or confirm your change If adding a category you need to name the category in a dialog For removal or deletion simply pick the category in advance of picking the option All designs in a deleted category will also be lost To add delete or rename custom sub categories To add select a category and click Add Sub Category from the tab s Tab Menu button To delete or rename select options from the drop down button on the sub category title bar To move or copy an object into the Gallery 1 Using the Categories drop down menu select a category into which you want to add the object Scroll to reveal target sub categories expanding them if necessary 2 D
108. e applied to PagePlus objects The types of blur include Gaussian the effect smoothes by averaging pixels using a weighted curve Zoom applies converging streaks to the image to simulate a zoom lens Pictures Lines and Shapes 197 Radial applies concentric streaks to the object to simulate a rotating camera or subject Motion applies straight streaks to the object to simulate the effect of camera or subject movement Using the Shadow Tool Shadows are great for adding flair and dimension to your work particularly to pictures and text objects but also to shapes text frames and tables To help you create them quickly and easily PagePlus provides the Shadow Tool on the Attributes toolbar The tool affords freeform control of the shadow effect allowing creation of adjustable basic or skewed edge based shadows for any PagePlus object Basic left and skewed shadows right applied to a basic square QuickShape Adjustment of shadow colour opacity blur and scaling distance is possible using controllable nodes directly on the page or via a supporting Shadow context toolbar Nodes can be dragged inwards or outwards from the shadow origin to modify the shadow s blur and opacity For a different colour pick a new colour from the Colour or Swatches tab while the tool is selected Depending on if a basic or skewed shadow is required the origin can exist in the centre shown or at the edge of an object resp
109. e format and controls the inclusion of personal events and or public holidays The Calendar Event Manager lets you add personal events before or after adding a calendar to the page If you have adopted a calendar based design template you ll be initially prompted to configure global calendar details via a User Details dialog This updates all calendar details throughout your PagePlus document in the same way that you d set up the date along with the time on some alarm clocks For calendar specific properties a context toolbar lets you change an existing calendar s month year modify calendar specific properties and manage calendar events both personal and public holidays At any time you can update calendar details throughout your publication via Set User Details in the same way that you d set up the date along with the time on some alarm clocks This is especially useful if you want to update the year on a year to view page composed of 12 monthly calendars you only need to change the year in one place 146 Working with Text To insert a calendar 1 Click the Table flyout on the Tools toolbar and choose Insert Calendar 2 Click again on your page or drag out to set the desired size of the calendar 3 From the displayed Calendar Wizard define options for your calendar including setting the year and month calendar style square or in single or double column format week start day room to write display opt
110. e guides from the rulers To show or hide guides On the View menu check or uncheck a guide option Creating ruler guides PagePlus lets you to set up horizontal and vertical ruler guides non printing lines you can use to align headlines pictures and other layout elements Guides are by default sticky so that stuck objects can be dragged around the page by their ruler guide a great way to move previously aligned objects in bulk and simultaneously To create a ruler guide click on a ruler hold down your mouse button then drag onto your page A ruler guide line appears parallel to the ruler Alt drag to create the guide at 90 degrees to the ruler Working with Pages 47 To move a guide drag it To remove a guide drag and drop it anywhere outside the page area For precise ruler guide placement check Ruler marks in Tools gt Options gt Layout to snap guides to ruler marks To unstick a selected object click one of two small red triangular markers shown at the point where the object is attached to the guide You ll see a link cursor as you hover over the sticky guide marker Click red marker to make non sticky Markers become non sticky and change to black object and guide are unstuck and either can then be moved To turn sticky guides on and off check uncheck Sticky Guides from the Arrange menu or the equivalent from Tools gt Options gt Layout Previously stuck
111. e latter background removal method is illustrated in the following multi image example The white initial background is discarded leaving interim checkerboard transparency from which another image can be used as a more attractive background A red tint on the second image s background is used to indicate areas to be discarded To launch Image Cutout Studio 1 Select an image to be cut out 2 Select from the displayed Picture context toolbar Image Cutout Studio is launched Choose an output It s essential that you choose an output type prior to selecting areas for keeping discarding Either an alpha edged or vector cropped bitmap can be chosen as your output type prior to selection The choice you make really depends on the image in particular how well defined image edges are 172 Pictures Lines and Shapes Zoom into your image to examine its edges this may influence the output type chosen Let s look at the output types and explain the difference between each Output Type Description and use Alpha edged Bitmap Use when cutting out objects with poorly defined edges Transparency and pixel blending are used at the outline edge to produce professional results with negligible interference from background colours The term alpha refers to a 32 bit image s alpha transparency channel Vector cropped Bitmap Use on more well defined edges A cropped image with crop outline is created which can be later manipul
112. e list to preview the layouts and select one To begin with a plain table select Default 4 Optional Click if you want to further customize your chosen format See Creating custom table formats 5 Set the Table Size This is the number of rows and columns that make up the table layout 6 Click OK Plan your table layout in advance considering the number of rows columns needed The new table appears on the page and the Table toolbar appears to assist with entering and formatting spreadsheet data 140 Working with Text Manipulating tables You can select move resize delete and copy a table and its contents just as you would with a text frame Cell properties can also be modified To manipulate a table object To resize a table select it then drag a corner or side handle Drag the selected table by using its Move button To delete a table select it and press the Delete key To duplicate a selected table and its text drag its Move button with the Ctrl key pressed down To select and edit text in cells rows and columns To select text in a single cell double or triple click text for word or paragraph selection or drag over the text See Editing text on a page on p 108 To move to the next or previous cells use the Tab or Shift Tab keys respectively or the keyboard arrow keys To enter text simply type into a cell at the insertion point Cells expand
113. e very best out of PagePlus Tutorials both PDF and video are published along with a host of other resources and product support details 12 Welcome Text Import Word 2007 and Open Office text documents see p 91 Add word processing content to any text frame without fuss Word import doesn t need the application to be installed locally Use a choice of import converters to optimize text import Text editing enhancements Show hide paragraph tabs paragraph marks breaks and spaces while text editing Link a text frame to a newly drawn text frame by dragging great when working across multiple pages Text styles and formatting see p 120 View all current formatting both paragraph and character styles plus local formatting Delete multiple styles simultaneously Adjust letter spacing for fine spacing control on justified paragraphs Importing Import PDF improvements Select individual PDF pages for import while enjoying more accuracy and control during text positioning Remove unwanted printer marks outside page dimensions Embedded Type 1 fonts can now be used in the target publication and some improvements on previous versions of PagePlus Change defaults for artistic shape frame or table text independently of each other Save PagePlus options globally including object styles and wrap settings Snapping is improved with a configurable Snapping Distance also snap to Page ce
114. e you have previously saved 18 Getting Started As you select different profiles from the menu your workspace will preview each tab layout in turn The Startup Wizard is displayed by default when you launch PagePlus If you don t want to use the Startup Wizard again check the Don t show this wizard again box You can switch it on again via the Use startup wizard check box in Tools gt Options use Options gt General menu option You can also access the Startup Wizard at any time from New gt New from Startup Wizard on the File menu Creating a publication from a design template PagePlus comes complete with a whole range of categorized design templates which will speed you through the creation of all kinds of publications for desktop or commercial printing even your own website Templates also help ensure continuity between your publications by preserving starting setups for such elements as page layout contents styles and colour palettes They also offer quality pictures that you can use royalty free You can adopt many more design templates if you ve purchased the PagePlus X4 Resource DVD Getting Started 19 Instead of a design template you can adopt a Theme Layout instead layouts offer picture placeholders instead of actual pictures Different physical document types Brochure Business Cards Flyer Newsletter etc can be created from a chosen theme e g Arctic each type offering
115. ectively You can change the shadow type at any time from the context toolbar 198 Pictures Lines and Shapes Once you ve created a shadow you can also fine tune it as needed using the Filter Effects dialog Using 3D filter effects 3D filter effects go beyond 2D filter effects such as shadow glow bevel and emboss effects to create the impression of a textured surface on the object itself You can use the Filter Effects dialog to apply one or more effects to the same object Keep in mind that none of these 3D effects will do anything to an unfilled object you ll need to have a fill there to see the difference they make The Studio s Styles tab is a good place to begin experimenting with 3D filter effects Its multiple categories each offers a gallery full of predefined mixed 2D and 3D effects using various settings Pictures Lines and Shapes 199 There you ll see a variety of remarkable 3D surface and texture presets in various categories Glass Metallic Wood etc Click any thumbnail to apply it to the selected object Assuming the object has some colour on it to start with you ll see an instant result Alternatively you can customize an Effects tab preset or apply one or more specific effects from scratch by choosing Filter Effects from the Attributes toolbar In the Filter Effects dialog check the 3D Effects and 3D Lighting boxes if customizing they will already be checked The master settings
116. ed you can manipulate them as for shapes lines artistic text and tables Here s a breakdown of text frame capabilities Feature Supported Margins and column guides Breaks column page and frame Resize move frame Crop frame Rotate frame 1 Frame linking Columns Export as text Line attributes Solid fill and line colour Gradient and bitmap fill Transparency 1 Borders 1 Warp 1 2D 3D Filter Effects 1 Instant 3D 1 1 If applied will export frame as a graphic Web Publishing mode only Working with Text 95 Creating text frames You add frames to a page as you would any other object PagePlus supports a wide variety of frame shapes which can be resized and morphed into new shapes once placed on the page just like QuickShapes see p 190 To create a frame 1 Select a standard or shaped text frame from the Text Frame flyout on the Tools toolbar 2 Click on the page or pasteboard to create a new frame at a default size or Drag out to place the text frame at your chosen dimensions To create a frame from a shape You can also draw a shape and select Convert to gt Shaped Text Frame on the Tools menu text is not auto aligned or Type directly onto any shape to automatically create a shaped frame text is automatically centred vertically and
117. ed in Exporting PDF files see p 243 and should be set accordingly For most slideshows the Compression tab s Downsample Image option should be checked and set to 96dpi suitable for on screen display 10 Click OK In the dialog save your named PDF file to a chosen location If Preview PDF file in Acrobat was checked your slideshow will start to run automatically Multi section slides One strength of the slideshow feature comes from the ability to make multi section slide variants based on a single PagePlus page this is done using page layers Multi section slides allow you to build up an image in sections display multiple images and text objects sequentially on the same page show and hide page elements and so on Simply create slides based on the original page then edit them by switching on off specific layers to create unique slides A few examples Create time delayed bulleted lists great for mouse or pointer driven presentations Introduce artistic elements to your page over time Change photos over time Publishing and Sharing 249 To create multi section slides 1 In the Slides tab of the Publish PDF Slideshow dialog choose a page from which you want to create a slide and click the Insert or Copy button The former inserts a chosen slide above the currently selected slide as a copy the latter simply places a copy above a selected slide 2 Select the new slide and click the Properties
118. ed swatch thumbnails in the Swatches tab s Gradient or Bitmap palettes The Fill Tool and a Fill dialog are alternative methods for creating gradient fills Colour Fills and Transparency 223 To apply a gradient or bitmap fill using the Swatches tab 1 Click the Swatches tab and ensure the Fill button is selected Note that the colour of the underline reflects the colour of your selected object 2 For gradient fills select a gradient category e g Linear Elliptical etc from the Gradient button s drop down menu or For bitmap fills select a drop down menu category from the Bitmap button 3 Select the object s and then click the appropriate gallery swatch for the fill you want to apply or Drag from the gallery swatch onto any object and release the mouse button 4 If needed adjust the fill s Tint at the bottom of the tab with the tab slider or set a percentage value in the input box To apply a gradient fill with the Fill Tool 1 Select an object 2 Click the Fill Tool button on the Attributes toolbar s Fill flyout 3 Click and drag on the object to define the fill path The object takes a simple Linear fill grading from the object s current colour to monochrome white e g Note If the object is white already or has no fill grading is from white to black 224 Colour Fills and Transparency Alternatively a dialog can be used to add or subtract key colours from the gradient ap
119. ee display the entry below which you want to create the new bookmark Check Create as sub entry if you want the new bookmark nested as a child of the selected entry Then click the Create button 3 In the Create Bookmark dialog the Text field shows the range of text you selected if any for example a section heading You can leave this if it s suitable for the bookmark text or edit it as needed otherwise enter new text if the field is empty 4 Click to select the bookmark destination type then enter the destination To bookmark a specific location choose An anchor in your publication To place a new anchor at the cursor location select lt Anchor at current selection gt from the list below You ll be prompted to enter an anchor name with the bookmark text as the default edit the name if you like and click OK To bookmark a previously placed anchor simply choose it from the list To bookmark a specific page in the publication select A page in your publication and select the target page number 5 Click OK to confirm your choices 246 Publishing and Sharing To delete bookmarks and anchors 1 Choose Bookmark Manager from the Tools menu 2 In the bookmark tree select an entry for deletion then click the Remove button You ll be asked if you want to remove unused anchors or 1 Select the object which has a bookmark that you wish to remove 2 Click Bookmark from the Insert menu
120. either in relation to a position in your text or other page element or be simply placed inline in your text In PagePlus this positioning is controlled by anchoring an object using different positioning options 74 Working with Objects Float with text The object is positioned horizontally and vertically relative to an anchor point This option is ideal for pictures pulled quotes etc Position inline as character The anchored object is placed as a character in the text and aligned in relation to the text that surrounds it The anchored object flows with the text as before Detach from text The anchored object is disconnected from its anchor point leaving a normal unanchored object Working with Objects 75 PagePlus objects can be anchored to anywhere in your publication text but the floated object can be positioned in relation to indented text column frame page margin guides the page itself or most typically the anchor point in a text frame For text frames when the text reflows the anchor point and therefore anchored object reflows with the text This allows supporting anchored objects to always stay with supporting text as more text is added to the frame To create an anchored object 1 Position your unanchored object on the page 2 Select Anchor Object from the Arrange menu 3 From the dialog choose a positioning option Either for a floating object 1 Enable Float
121. el of your list Levels are normally considered to be subordinate to each other where Level 1 first level Level 2 second Level 3 third etc are of decreasing importance in the list For example the following simple multi level numbered passage of text is arranged at three levels The flexibility of PagePlus s multi level bullet and numbering system means that you have full control over what gets displayed at each level For this reason no common numbering schema needs to exist between levels i e the list could equally be prefixed with a different symbol text prefix or number combination at each level If you apply a multi level preset to a range of text you ll get a list with the preset s Level 1 format applied by default Unless you use text styles you ll have to change to levels 2 3 4 etc to set the correct level for your list entry Changing list levels on selected paragraphs Click the Increase Level or Decrease Level button on the Text context toolbar to increment or decrement the current level by one 132 Working with Text The multi level presets offer some simple but commonly used schemas for paragraph list formatting However if you want to create your own lists or modify an existing list your own or a preset use the Details button in the Text Style dialog when Multi Level style is selected See online Help for more details Assigning bullets numbers and levels to styles The lists discussed s
122. emes tab displays preset schemes which can be selected at any point during the design process Each publication can have just one colour scheme at a time the current scheme is highlighted in the Schemes tab You can easily switch schemes modify scheme colours apply schemes to any publication even create your own custom schemes Colour schemes are saved globally so the full set of schemes is always available How colour schemes work Colour schemes in PagePlus work much like a paint by numbers system where various regions of a layout are coded with numbers and a specific colour is assigned by number to each region For example imagine a line drawing coded with the numbers 1 through 5 To fill it in you d use paint from jars also numbered 1 through 5 Swapping different colours into the paint jars while keeping the numbers on the drawing the same would produce quite a different painting In PagePlus the paint jars are five numbers you can assign to objects in your publication They re known as Scheme Colour 1 Scheme Colour 2 and so on When you apply Scheme Colour 1 to an object it s like saying Put the colour from jar number 1 here The Schemes tab shows the various available schemes each with a different set of five colours in the five jars Whichever named colour scheme you select that scheme s first colour as shown in its sample will appear in regions defined as Scheme Colour 1 its second colour will ma
123. ent or it can be used to create more permanent photo albums from which you can retrieve stored photos at any time By default photos are added to a temporary album but remember to click the New Album button if you want to save your album for later use Each time you start PagePlus you simply load that saved album or any other saved album or just work with a temporary album the choice is yours Photo albums can be subsequently modified renamed and deleted viewing the contents of an individual album or all albums at the same time is possible You can import an unlimited number of photos by file or by whole folders and set photo resolution native or 96dpi and whether photos are embedded or linked to your project in advance of photo placement on the page For large photo collections searching throughout albums for photos by file name and EXIF IPTC or XMP metadata is possible in the search box at the top of the Media Bar even edit XMP metadata from within PagePlus 168 Pictures Lines and Shapes The currently loaded album shown on your Media Bar will remain visible irrespective of which document you have open Photo thumbnails can be dragged from the Media Bar directly onto your page into an existing standalone photo or into an empty or populated picture frame To view the Media Bar Unless already displayed click the handle at the bottom of your workspace To add photos to a temporary album 1 With the Me
124. enu choose Publish Site gt and then select to Web If this is your first time publishing to the web the Account Details dialog opens with no account information present You ll need to set up at least one account before you can proceed 3 In the Account Details dialog enter FTP account details before clicking OK The Account name can be any name of your choice You ll use it to identify this account in PagePlus in case you have more than one Producing Web Pages 277 The FTP address of your web host will be a specific URL as supplied by your Internet service provider ISP Unless directed by your provider leave the Port number set at 21 If changing your port number remember to change your firewall settings to reflect new port numbers Leave the Folder box blank unless directed by your provider or if you want to publish to a specific subfolder of your root directory You ll also need a Username and Password These are pre assigned by your provider and will most likely correspond to email login settings Enter the password exactly as given to you using correct upper and lower case spelling or the host server may not recognize it If you don t want to re enter your password with each upload check Save password to record the password on your computer Passive mode Leave checked unless you have FTP connection problems check with your ISP ISPs can operate passive or active FTP m
125. er page you can normally select and then edit any object on it regardless of which layer the object is on simply by clicking the object Alternatively you can limit object selection and editing to objects on a specific active layer To edit only objects on the active layer In the Layers tab select the chosen layer the mark should show next to the active layer and uncheck Edit all layers To select all objects on a particular layer In the Layers tab right click the chosen layer and choose Select All Objects Normally the active layer stays the same regardless of which object you select For ease in identifying which layer a given object resides on the object s selection handles will be coloured according to the layer it resides on the layer colour is shown in the Layers tab see Layer names and properties on p 43 and is configurable 42 Working with Pages Layers and master pages Master pages are special background pages that can be shared by more than one regular page They are assigned to each layer of a regular page rather than to the page as a whole so if a page has multiple layers it can also employ multiple master pages For example one master page might include background text elements while another included background graphics By assigning the two master pages to separate layers you could achieve a unified design while keeping the elements separate Page layers can each take a master page but
126. eral techniques offer additional ways to customize lines For dashed lines select from one of five dashed line styles see above or tab and dialog only Drag the Dash Pattern slider to set the overall pattern length the number of boxes to the left of the slider and the dash length the number of those boxes that are black The illustrations below show lines with pattern and dash lengths of 1 4 and 2 and 2 5 and 4 For double lines select from one of four Double line styles see above Tab only For Calligraphic lines of variable width drawn as if with a square tipped pen held at a certain angle select the calligraphic line style opposite from the drop down menu then use the Calligraphic Angle box to set the angle of the pen tip Choose a Stroke Alignment setting to fit the line s stroke to the middle inside or outside of the object s path using Align Centre Align Inner or Align Outer buttons respectively You can also vary a line s Cap end and the Join corner where two lines intersect 190 Pictures Lines and Shapes Drawing and editing shapes QuickShapes are pre designed objects that you can instantly add to your page then adjust and vary using control handles creating variations on the original QuickShape Another way to create a shape is to draw a line or series of line segments and then connect its start and end nodes creating a closed shape Once you ve drawn a shape you can
127. ers or Selected chapters to output just those you selected Saving print profiles You can save the current combination of settings made in the Print dialog as a print profile with a unique name By the way don t confuse these PagePlus print profiles with ICC device profiles To save current print settings as a print profile On the Print dialog s General tab click the Save As button next to the Print Profile list Type in a new name and click OK The settings are saved as a file with the extension ppr You can restore the profile later simply by choosing its name in the Print profile list Choose Defaults to revert to PagePlus s original settings Manual duplex printing Printing to duplex printers can give your greetings cards and other documents the edge It can also save money by allowing you to use less paper However not all printers have this built in duplexing function and are considered simplex supporting single sided printing only Using the Manual Duplex Printer Setup wizard you can overcome this limitation of simplex printers by flipping pages in the printer s paper tray when prompted your publication prints double sided Printing your Publication 235 To setup the wizard asks you printer related questions You ll need to Consider how you offer paper to your printer Print a test page check which side printed then reinsert the page as instructed To print you need to se
128. es To create a connector 1 For a straight line connector select the Connector Tool on the Connector Tools flyout Tools toolbar or For an elbow connector select the Elbow Connector Tool from the same location 2 Either Hover over an object so that default connection points become visible e g for various shapes or Hover over an object s edge until you see a red square 3 Drag from the object s connection point to another object s connection point default or custom Release the mouse button when the pointer is over the target connection point A direct connector will appear between the two connection points Instead of using an object s default connection points you can create your own custom connection points by either hovering over any shape s edge and dragging from that originating point or by simply creating a custom connection point with the Connection Point Tool They can also be placed anywhere on the page and are especially useful when creating a connection onto grouped QuickShapes or more complex grouped objects such as symbols Pictures Lines and Shapes 213 To add a custom connection point with tool 1 Select an object 2 Select the Connection Point Tool on the Connector Tools flyout Tools toolbar 3 Click at a chosen location to place the custom connection point inside or outside the object The custom connection point appears in blue To view the conne
129. eserved Bitstream Font content 1981 2005 Bitstream Inc All rights reserved Panose Typeface Matching System 1991 1992 1995 97 Hewlett Packard Corporation Portions graphics import export technology AccuSoft Corp amp Eastman Kodak Company amp LEAD Technologies Inc THE PROXIMITY HYPHENATION SYSTEM 1989 Proximity Technology Inc All rights reserved THE PROXIMITY COLLINS DATABASE 1990 William Collins Sons amp Co Ltd 1990 Proximity Technology Inc All rights reserved THE PROXIMITY MERRIAM WEBSTER DATABASE 1990 Merriam Webster Inc 1990 Proximity Technology Inc All rights reserved The Sentry Spelling Checker Engine 2000 Wintertree Software Inc The ThesDB Thesaurus Engine 1993 97 Wintertree Software Inc WGrammar Grammar Checker Engine 1998 Wintertree Software Inc Extensible Metadata Platform XMP Copyright 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved ICC Colour Profiles 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved PANTONE Colours displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE identified standards Consult current PANTONE Colour Publications for accurate colour PANTONE and other Pantone Inc trademarks are the property of Pantone Inc Pantone Inc 2001 Pantone Inc is the copyright owner of colour data and or software which are licensed to Serif Europe Ltd to distribute for use only in combination
130. f border styles but already applied to placeholder picture frames See p 161 To add a border to an object 1 Click Line Border on the Tools toolbar s Fill flyout 2 To define the border select the Border tab then select a border preset from the Style drop down list You can preview each border in the window at the right as you scroll down the open list with your keyboard up down arrows Working with Objects 81 To remove a border select None from the top of the list 3 Select a border Weight width for your border You may need to experiment to find a width that complements the size of your object 4 To apply the border to specific edges of the object use the Edge drop down menu You can switch edges on and off to make multiple combinations 5 Set other options as needed Select a border Type Tile repeats the edge design Stretch simply stretches the design Single scales the original picture to fit the object Each preset s Type is already set so you may only need to adjust this for your own custom borders 82 Working with Objects Select an Alignment setting to fit the border to the Outside Inside or Middle of the object s bounding box If Behind contents is checked the inner half of the border extends behind the object If unchecked the whole border appears in front the wider the border the more it encroaches on the filled region If Scale with object is checked both b
131. fers a number of ways to apply solid colour fills to objects of different kinds You can apply solid colours to an object s line or fill As you might expect QuickShapes and closed shapes see Drawing and editing shapes on p 190 have both line and fill properties whereas straight and freehand lines have only a line property Characters in text objects can have fill colour or highlight colour Text frames and table cells can have a background fill independent of the characters they contain You can colourize a paint type bitmap picture that is recolour it to use a different colour If you recolour a full colour picture the colours will convert to tints or shades of the specified colour You can also apply tinting to a full colour picture to produce a low intensity picture useful for backgrounds behind text You can use the Colour tab Swatches tab or a dialog box to apply solid colours to an object To apply a solid colour via the Colour tab 1 Select the object s or highlight a range of text 2 Click the Colour tab and select one of several colour modes RGB CMYK or HSL from the drop down list 3 Click the Fill Line or Text button at the top of the tab to determine where colour will be applied The colour of the underline reflects the colour of your selected object 4 Select a colour from the colour spectrum or sliders depending on colour mode selected 218 Colour Fills and Transparen
132. for more information on editing shapes 194 Pictures Lines and Shapes Applying 2D filter effects PagePlus provides a variety of filter effects that you can use to transform any object 3D filter effects let you create the impression of a textured surface and are covered elsewhere see p 198 Here we ll look at 2D filter effects exclusively The following examples show each 2D filter effect when applied to the letter A Drop Shadow Inner Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow Inner Bevel Outer Bevel Emboss Pillow Emboss Gaussian Blur Zoom Blur Radial Blur Motion Blur Colour Fill Feather Outline Reflection Pictures Lines and Shapes 195 The Studio s Styles tab offers a range of 2D filter effects that are ready to use Its multiple categories each offer a gallery full of predefined effects such as Shadows Bevels Reflections Blurs and more Each category offers subtle variations of the category effect Click any thumbnail to apply the effect to the selected object PagePlus additionally provides the Shadow Tool for applying a shadow to an object directly in your publication or website Control handles let you adjust shadow blur opacity and colour To apply 2D filter effects 1 Select an object and click the Filter Effects button on the Attributes toolbar or Choose Filter Effects from the Format menu or via the right click menu The Filter Effects dialog appears 2 To apply a pa
133. he Help menu That way we can keep you informed of new developments and future upgrades 4 Welcome Key features Before you get started with PagePlus we recommend you take the opportunity to familiarize yourself with PagePlus key features and capabilities Layout Versatile Setup with Auto Imposition Just click to specify layouts for small business cards and labels folded booklets and greetings cards and large publications banners and posters Ready to use Design Templates Fancy a quick route to produce stunning designs for home or business use Adopt one of an impressive collection of eye catching design templates Master Pages Save time and maintain consistency by using multiple master pages assigned to your publication pages Layers Each page can have multiple layers so you can assign elements to different layers for modular design Professional layout tools Movable rulers guide lines and a dot grid as layout aids help you position objects precisely snapping jumps an object to guide or grid Use Sticky guides a great way of moving in bulk all objects snapped to your guide lines move the guide and objects will follow Page control Add and remove pages in just a few clicks of your mouse in the Pages tab Drag and drop pages within the tab to reorder sequence Assign master pages to several document pages at once To view pages Multi page view lets you see an array of pages
134. heck a single story first make sure the text or text object is selected 2 Choose Proof Reader from the Tools menu 3 If necessary click the Options button to set options for proofreading including a spell check option and the level of formality with checks for rule types 4 Select options to Check currently selected story only Check all stories on the current page or Check all stories in my publication to select the scope of the search 5 Click Start to begin proof reading 136 Working with Text When a problem is found PagePlus highlights the problem word The dialog offers alternative suggestions and you can choose to Change or Ignore this instance or all instances of the problem word 6 Proofreading continues until you click the Close button or the process is completed Using the thesaurus The Thesaurus lets you find synonyms definitions and variations of words in your publication text You can use the Thesaurus from either PagePlus or WritePlus To display the Thesaurus 1 To look up a specific word first drag to highlight it 2 Choose Thesaurus from the Tools menu 3 To look up a different word type it into the Replace Look Up box and click the Look Up button If the selected word or word entered is found in the Thesaurus database The Meanings list shows definitions for the word in the Looked Up box Initially the first definition is selected The Synonym
135. horizontally Useful for creating objects for diagrams To delete a frame Select the frame click its edge until a grey border appears and then press the Delete key You can select move and resize text frames just like other objects See p 55 63 and 64 respectively 96 Working with Text Putting text into a frame You can put text into a frame using one of the following methods WritePlus story editor With a selected frame click WritePlus on the Frame context toolbar Importing text Right click on a frame and choose Insert Text File shortcut Ctrl T to import text See p 91 Typing into the frame Select the Pointer Tool then click for an insertion point to type text straight into a frame or edit existing text See Editing text on the page on p 108 Pasting via the Clipboard At an insertion point in the text press Ctrl V Drag and drop Select text e g in a word processor file then drag it onto the PagePlus page If you drop onto a selected frame the text is pasted inline where the insertion point had been placed previously Otherwise a new frame is created for the text Frame setup and layout The frame layout controls how text will flow in the frame The frame can contain multiple columns When a frame is selected its column margins appear as dashed grey guide lines if set in Frame Setup Note that unlike the page margin and row column guides which serve as layout g
136. ides the Zoom In and Zoom Out tools so you can inspect and or edit the page at different levels of detail Zoom Percent option to set a level of magnification expressed as a percentage Zoom Tool to zoom into an area defined by a drawn marquee selection Pan Tool for moving the page area by dragging Actual size option for viewing the page at its true size 100 Zoom to selection option to focus on a selected area Page Width option to fit to the page s width Full Page option to fit the page into your current window Multi page option to view multiples pages simultaneously set page number by dragging a page array from the flyout menu Working with Pages 35 Switching view modes You can switch between different view modes which offer single or multiple pages to view Normal view which displays one page at a time Multi page view used for inspecting long documents displays a number of pages according to a configurable page array e g a 3x1 grid In Normal and Multi page view the pasteboard is shared by all pages In Multipage view it s also especially easy to move or copy objects between pages using drag and drop and set the number of pages displayed To view multiple pages in Multi page mode 1 Click the Multi page flyout on the View toolbar An array selector appears 2 Click and drag to choose an array within the selector for example 2x4 Pages or 3x1 Pages as shown To exp
137. ies of line segments which may be curved or straight using connect the dots mouse clicks 2 Create a line on the page Your line appears as a path with an insertion point at its starting end for a curved path you ll need to press Esc or double click to get the insertion point 3 Begin typing at the insertion point Text flows along the path To remove the text path 1 Select the path text object 2 Click the Path None button on the Text context toolbar s Path flyout The text remains as a straight line artistic text object and the path is permanently removed 108 Working with Text Editing text on the page You can use the Pointer Tool to edit frame text table text or artistic text directly On the page you can select and enter text set paragraph indents and tab stops change text properties apply text styles and use Find and Replace For editing longer stories and for more advanced options choose WritePlus Edit Story from the Edit menu Selecting and entering text The selection of frame text artistic text and table text follows the conventions of the most up to date word processing tools The selection area is shaded in semi transparent blue for clear editing Double triple or quadruple click selects a word paragraph or all text respectively You can also make use of the Ctrl click or drag for selection of non adjacent words the Shift key for ranges of text To edit text on the page
138. if you haven t applied scheme colours to other elements in your site 270 Producing Web Pages The Hyperlink colour labelled H above applies to hyperlinked text before it s been clicked on The Followed Hyperlink colour labelled F applies to hyperlinked text after a visitor has clicked to follow the link The Active Hyperlink colour labelled A applies to hyperlinked text when a visitor s mouse button is depressed Typically this is the colour shown after clicking and before the hyperlink s page is displayed The Rollover colour labelled R applies to hyperlinked text when a visitor s mouse button rolls over it A website s Background labelled B is a solid colour with the option of overlaying a tiled repeated picture usually a bitmap pattern The tiled picture option works just like desktop wallpaper so a small bitmap can go a long way The background will fill any blank space left in the browser when displayed on a larger screen If you use a picture background with transparent regions the Background colour is still active and will show through otherwise the picture will cover the background colour The On page colour labelled O allows you to have a distinct colour for the defined page area If set to transparent it will display the current background colour Click the button to access the Scheme Manager In Web Publishing mode colour scheme samples in the Schemes tab show
139. igning and previewing fonts The fonts shown in the Fonts tab represent the currently installed fonts on your computer This means that these fonts are available to format any selected character or paragraph To assign a font Select some text then click on the font name in the Fonts tab to assign the font to the text You can preview how fonts will appear on your selected text by enabling PagePlus s font preview feature 116 Working with Text To preview fonts 1 From the tab s Tab Menu button top right of tab check the Preview Font option 2 Select a section of text a letter word or paragraph in your document 3 On the Fonts tab hover over any font in the list The selected text will update to show how the font will appear in situ 4 Optional Click on the font in the Fonts tab to assign the font to the text Changing common fonts Changing one font for another is very simple for a single portion of text but the Fonts tab can take things a step further by allowing a font to be located throughout the entire document see above and if necessary swapped for another font It s simple to then re assign a different font to the selected text Working with Text 117 To select and change a font throughout your document 1 Right click a font displayed in the Fonts tab If the font is used in your document you ll see a Select All n Instance s message n is the number of times the font is use
140. illumination and reflective properties Pictures Lines and Shapes 203 Adding dimensionality Instant 3D Using the Instant 3D feature you can easily transform flat shapes shown and text into three dimensional objects PagePlus provides control over 3D effect settings such as bevelling use several rounded and chiseled presets or create your own with a custom bevel profile editor lighting up to eight editable and separately coloured lights can be positioned to produce dramatic lighting effects lathe effects create contoured objects e g a bottle cork with the custom lathe profile editor and extrusion control texture control how texture is extruded on objects with non solid fills viewing rotate your object in three dimensions material controls the extent to which lighting has an effect on the object s surfaces great for 3D artistic text An always at hand 3D context toolbar hosted above your workspace lets you configure the above settings each setting contributes to the 3D effect applied to the selected object For on the page object control you can transform in 3D with use of a red orbit circle which acts as an axis from which you can rotate around the X Y and Z axes in relation to your page Look for the cursor changing as you hover over the red circles nodes or wire frame 204 Pictures Lines and Shapes X rotation Y rotation Z rotation
141. in its crop outline With either crop tool selected click the object and drag its centre when you see the hand cursor To feather the crop outline With either crop tool selected click the object From the Crop context toolbar set a Feather value using the up down arrows slider or by direct input Feathering is applied outside the crop outline by the set point size To uncrop restore full visibility Click the Remove Crop button on the Attributes toolbar s Crop flyout Cropping one shape to another The Crop to Shape command works with exactly two objects selected Either or both of these may be a group object The lower object the one behind the other gets clipped to the outline of the upper object leaving a shape equivalent to the overlapping region 72 Working with Objects To crop one shape to another 1 Place the clipping object in front of the object to be cropped In the illustration above a QuickShape is in front of a text frame 2 Choose Crop to Shape from the Tools menu to cut out the obscured underlying text You can restore an object cropped in this way to its original shape but the upper cropping object is permanently deleted use Undo to recover it if necessary Combining lines and shapes Combining curves is a way of creating a composite object from two or more lines or drawn shapes As with cropping to a shape the object in front clips the object s behind in
142. ing from the Styles drop down list on the Text context toolbar or On the Text Styles tab click the Clear Formatting option or From the same tab select Apply to Both from the drop down menu or Clear Text Formatting from the Format menu or Select Apply to Character to remove all local character formatting leaving paragraph formatting untouched or Select Apply to Paragraph to remove all local paragraph formatting leaving character formatting untouched Like Clear Formatting you can use Reapply Styles on the Text Styles tab or Text context toolbar to clear all local overrides leaving the default text However where Clear Formatting reverts the text to Normal style Reapply styles reverts the text back to its current name style Use Apply to Character retaining paragraph styles overrides Apply to Paragraph retaining character style overrides and Apply to Both to remove both character or paragraph style overrides simultaneously If you prefer you can remove a style s formatting enabling you to start building up your text style again Choose Manage Styles button on the Text Styles tab click the Modify button then click the Clear All button from the General section Changing common styles Changing one character or paragraph style for another is very simple for a single portion of text However in PagePlus it s just as easy to swap one style for another by selecting multiple instances of the style and
143. ion 13 2 Getting Started 15 Startup Wizard 17 Creating a publication from a design template 18 Starting a new publication from scratch 22 Opening existing publications 23 Working with more than one publication 24 Saving your publication 24 Closing publications 24 Updating and saving defaults 25 3 Working with Pages 27 Setting up a publication 29 Understanding master pages 31 Viewing pages 33 Navigating pages 36 Adding removing and rearranging pages 36 Working with layers 38 Setting guides
144. ions switching on personal events holidays and calendar format 4 Click Finish to complete the wizard If you plan to use your calendar in subsequent years simply update the Year setting in Tools gt Set User Details use the dialog s Calendars tab if not shown To view and edit a selected calendar s properties 1 Click on the Calendar context toolbar 2 Choose an appropriate tab and make your modification then press OK Right click with the Calendar option selected also lets you select insert distribute delete and adjust widths heights for rows or columns as well as autofit to cell contents but take care not to corrupt your table formatting Adding public holidays When you create a calendar you can set up the appropriate public holidays for the country you reside in The holidays will show up in your calendar automatically if Add public holidays is checked in Calendar Properties Working with Text 147 To enable public holidays 1 Select your calendar s bounding box and click on the context toolbar 2 From the Events tab check Add public holidays 3 Optional Swap to a different country s public holiday settings by using the Region drop down list 4 Click OK To add public holidays 1 Select your calendar s bounding box 2 Click on the context toolbar 3 Enable the Show public holidays option 4 Click the Save button Adding personal events You can complement yo
145. ique ways as described below 106 Working with Text To apply a preset curved path to text 1 Create an artistic text object 2 With the text selected on the Text context toolbar click the Path Text flyout and choose a preset path The text now flows along the specified path e g for Path Top Circle To add artistic text along an existing line or shape 1 Create a freehand straight or curved line see Drawing and editing lines on p 185 or a shape see Drawing and editing shapes on p 190 2 Choose the Artistic Text Tool from the Artistic Text flyout on the Tools toolbar 3 Bring the cursor very close to the line When the cursor changes to include a curve click the mouse where you want the text to begin 4 Begin typing at the insertion point Text flows along the line which has been converted to a path Working with Text 107 To fit existing text to an existing line or shape 1 Create an artistic text object 2 Create a freehand straight or curved line or a shape 3 Select both objects On the Tools menu choose Fit Text to Curve from the Tools menu The text now flows along the specified path To create text and path at the same time 1 Choose one of the Path Text tools from the Text flyout The Freehand Path Text Tool lets you sketch a curved line in a freeform way The Straight Path Text Tool is for drawing a straight line The Curved Path Text Tool lets you join a ser
146. it s easy to jump between them using different methods Click on an open publication s tab on the Publications toolbar above your workspace to make it active e g Rosette ppp Alternatively you can select the name of a currently open publication from the Window menu Unsaved publications are indicated by an asterisk the currently active publication is shown with a tick Saving your publication To save your work Click Save on the Standard toolbar To save under a different name choose Save As from the File menu Unsaved publications have an asterisk after their name in either the PagePlus title bar or Window menu Closing publications To close the current publication Choose Close from the File menu or click the window s Close button If it s the only window open for the publication the command closes the publication and you ll be prompted to save changes Getting Started 25 To close all publications except current Right click a Publication tab on the Publications toolbar and choose Close All But This To close PagePlus Click the program s Close button You ll be prompted to save changes to any unsaved publication Updating and saving defaults Object defaults are stored property settings applied to new objects e g lines and shapes line and fill colour pattern transparency etc frames margins columns etc text i e font size colour
147. l to your layout and usually are among the first choices you ll make after starting a publication from scratch The page margins are shown as a blue box which is actually four guide lines for top bottom left and right indicating the underlying page margin settings If you like you can set the margins to match your current printer settings Working with Pages 45 You also have the option of setting up row and column guides as an underlying layout aid PagePlus represents rows and columns on the page area with dashed blue guide lines Unlike the dashed grey frame margins and columns row and column guides don t control where frame text flows Rather they serve as visual aids that help you match the frame layout to the desired column layout Bleed area guides assist you in positioning bleed elements that you want to run to the edge of a trimmed page To allow for inaccuracies in the trimming process in professional printing it s a good idea to extend these elements beyond the trim edge the dimensions defined by your Page Setup With bleed guides switched on the page border expands by a distance you specify and the trim edge is shown with dashed lines and little scissors symbols Note that these guide lines are just a visual aid only the Bleed limit setting in the Print dialog extends the actual output page size Ruler guides are free floating lines that you set by clicking and dragging from the rulers They are sticky
148. lative to drop down menu to align the selected object s within the page Margins Page edges or the Spread for facing pages then choose an align or distribute button described above Exporting as a picture Exporting as a picture lets you convert all the objects on the page or just the currently selected object s to an image file using a file format you specify To export as a picture 1 If exporting objects not the whole page Select the object or Shift click or drag a marquee to select multiple objects 2 Choose Export As Picture from the File menu 3 In the Save as type drop down list select a image format e g Serif MetaFile Format smf 4 Specify a folder and file name for the picture 5 To export just selected object s check Selected object s To export the whole page uncheck this box 6 To choose from export options such as resolution colour and transparency check Show Filter Options 7 Click Save You ll see export options if available and requested for the particular export filter in use Exporting Serif Metafiles PagePlus lets you export pictures in Serif Metafile Format SMF This proprietary format an improvement on the Windows Metafile Format WMF due to improved text line and fill handling is especially useful for interworking between Serif products i e to utilize PagePlus objects in other Serif applications 68 Working with Objects Rotating an object
149. le See Using text styles on p 120 Using AutoCorrect The AutoCorrect feature overcomes common typing errors and lets you build a custom list of letter combinations and substitutions to be applied automatically as you type The feature can be applied to frame text table text and artistic text If you prefer to address spelling issues in larger doses at any point along the way you can run the Spell Checker or spell as you type Working with Text 133 AutoCorrect To set options for automatic text correction 1 Choose Options from the Tools menu and select the Text gt Auto Correct page 2 Check your desired correction options as required To create a correction list 1 In the Replace field type a name for the AutoCorrect entry This is the abbreviation or word to be replaced automatically as you type For example if you frequently mistype product as prodcut type prodcut in the Replace box 2 In the With field type the text to be automatically inserted in place of the abbreviation or word in the Replace field 3 Click the Add button to add the new entry to the list 4 To modify an entry in the correction list select it in the list then edit it in the Replace and With field above Click the Replace button below 5 To remove an entry select it and click Delete To turn off AutoCorrect Uncheck Replace text while typing Spell checking The Spell Checker lets you check the spelling
150. le book from a set of separate PagePlus ppp publication files Using BookPlus you can arrange the chapter files in a specific order systematically renumber pages synchronize styles and other elements between all chapters create a Table of Contents and or Index for the whole book and output the book via printing PostScript or PDF BookPlus can perform all these managerial tasks whether or not the original files are open Your settings are saved as a compact BookPlus ppb book file separate from the source publication files Working with books and chapters A book consists of a set of PagePlus ppp publication files Each publication file is considered a chapter in the book To create a new book you ll need at least one constituent chapter file To create a new book In PagePlus on the File menu choose New and then click New Book BookPlus opens with an empty dialog reserved for the chapter list Working with Text 153 To add a chapter to the chapter list 1 In BookPlus on the Chapter menu click Add 2 In the dialog select one or more PagePlus files to be added as chapters Use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple files or a range of files Click Open The selected files appear in the chapter list which can be reordered by dragging Once you ve created a chapter list you can add new chapters at any time or replace remove chapters in the current list from the Standard toolbar T
151. lect a Manual Duplex double sided option Double sided printing to duplex printers in unaffected by PagePlus s manual duplex printing To set up your printer for manual duplex printing 1 From the Print dialog s General tab select and configure the printer that you wish to use 2 From the dialog s Duplex tab click 3 Follow the Wizard instructions and select the options that apply to your printout and follow instructions and insert test pages where prompted Click Next when you are ready to proceed through the setup 4 Click Finish To adjust the printer setup without running the wizard again use the equivalent settings under the setup button To print using manual duplex 1 Go to File gt Print 2 In the Print dialog set your printing options and choose Manual Duplex printing from the Double sided options drop down menu 3 Click Print 4 The first page should print Place the paper back in the tray as instructed then press continue to print the other side 236 Printing your Publication Previewing the printed page The Print Preview mode changes the screen view to display your layout without frames guides rulers and other screen items Special options such as tiled output or crop marks are not displayed A Trimmed Page mode can be entered which is similar to Print Preview mode but lets you continue designing without layout aids having to be displayed To preview the printed page
152. lect to introduce colour variations You can use 3D Pattern Map in conjunction with one or more other 3D filter effects 2D Pattern Map The 2D Pattern Map effect creates the impression of a textured surface by applying a greyscale bitmap you select to introduce colour variations You can use 2D Pattern Map in conjunction with one or more other 3D filter effects Transparency The uniform transparency of an object with 3D filter effects applied can be controlled via the Transparency tab see first example below However for more sophisticated transparency control especially for simulating reflective lighting effects on glass objects transparency settings can instead be set within the 3D filter effects dialog check the Transparency option The effect can be used to create more realistic transparency by independently controlling transparency on reflective edges and non reflective flat areas of the object see front heart shape below 202 Pictures Lines and Shapes 3D Reflection Map The 3D Reflection Map effect is used to simulate mirrored surfaces by selection of a pattern i e a bitmap which possesses a shiny surface which wraps around a selected object Patterns which simulate various realistic indoor and outdoor environments can be adopted with optional use of 3D lighting to further reflect off object edges 3D Lighting The 3D Lighting effect works in conjunction with other 3D effects to let you vary the surface
153. licking on its thumbnail and choosing Edit or Copy To save a publication s object styles globally 1 Choose Save Defaults from the Tools menu 2 From the dialog check Object styles then click Save Using the Gallery The Gallery tab serves as a container for storing your own design objects you d like to reuse in different publications It also includes sample designs and is stocked with a wide variety of pre designed elements that you can customize and use as a starting point for your own designs Once you ve copied a design to the Gallery it becomes available in any publication simply open the Gallery Designs are stored in categories such as Business Education Fun Picture frames logos and flashes Pictures Lines and Shapes 209 The Gallery has two parts an upper Categories drop down menu and a lower Designs window showing a list of thumbnails representing the designs in the selected category You can adopt a design by dragging the thumbnail onto the page The Gallery tab can store your own designs in the ready to go My Designs category the design is made available in any PagePlus project When you first install PagePlus the My Designs gallery will be empty ready for custom designs to be added to it New categories can be created at any time To further arrange your designs into logical groupings you can add sub categories to My Designs or to any other custom or pre defined category Designs can b
154. like properties like line colour fill border and so on you can save this cluster of attributes as a named style PagePlus remembers which objects are using that style and the style appears in the Styles tab and can subsequently be applied to new objects For example a Quick Star can have a stone effect applied via an object style you ve saved previously all object styles use a cog shape as the default object preview type Here s how object styles work to your advantage Each object style can include settings for a host of object attributes such as line colour line style fill transparency filter effects font and border The freedom to include or exclude certain attributes and the nearly unlimited range of choices for each attribute makes this a powerful tool in the designer s arsenal 206 Pictures Lines and Shapes Any time you want to alter some aspect of a style for example change the line colour you simply change the style definition Instantly all objects in your publication sharing that style update accordingly Object styles you ve saved globally appear not only in the original publication but in any new publication so you can reuse exactly the same attractive combination of attributes for any subsequent design effort The Styles tab contains multiple galleries of pre designed styles that you can apply to any object or customize to suit your own taste Galleries exist in effect categories
155. log specify how many to add and whether to add them before or after the selected cells To merge cells into larger cells that span more than one row or column for example a column head select a range of cells and choose Merge Cells from the Table menu The merged cell displays only the text originally visible in the top left selected cell The original cells and their text are preserved however to restore them select the merged cell and choose Separate Cells from the Table menu To merge all cells in an individual column or row click the column or row header s button choosing Merge Cells Do the equivalent with the Separate Cells command to split cells To copy cell contents including text formatting borders and colours to a new cell in the same table select the cell s press the Ctrl key and hover over the cell border s until the copy cursor is shown click and drag the copied cell to its new cell location 144 Working with Text To apply a coloured background to a whole table hover over the top left hand corner of the table until you see a cursor click once and then use the Colour tab or Swatches tab to apply a colour fill See Applying solid colours on p 217 To apply a coloured background to specific cells select the cell s and again use the Colour tab or Swatches tab to colour the cells Using AutoFormat To use style presets to customize the table s appearance 1 Choose AutoFor
156. master page layers cannot You can also set any layer to use no master page Commonly the first layer uses a master page while subsequent layers use no master page but there s no hard and fast rule You can assign the master page either when you first create the layer or subsequently as the layout evolves Assigning master pages to layers Each layer you add to a regular page can use its own master page If your publication uses more than one master page you can reassign specific master pages to specific page layers at any time Working with Pages 43 To assign a master page to a page layer 1 In the Layers tab double click in the Master Page s column of the chosen page layer 2 In the Select Master Page dialog select the normal page and master page from the displayed drop down menus The master page letter e g A B C etc is shown on the chosen layer when assigned Master pages like regular pages can have more than one layer Layers on master pages work almost exactly like those on regular pages The key difference is that master page layers cannot themselves take a master page master pages can only be assigned to layers on regular pages When you add a new master page to the publication you have the option of copying the layers and or objects from an existing master page If you choose not to copy existing layers the new master page starts out with one layer You can always add more as described above To
157. mat from the Table menu The dialog presents a list of table formats which differ in their use of cell styles lines fills font and alignment 2 Select a format from the Format list To restore plain formatting choose Default 3 Optional Check Preserve local formatting to retain any local formatting applied over the original table s format 4 Click OK You can modify a table format at any time saving it for future use See Creating custom table formats for more information Setting Cell Properties To customize the appearance of one or more cells by hand 1 Select the cell s row s or column s 2 Click the Cell Properties button on the Table context toolbar or For a whole column or row only click the column or row header s button choosing Cell Properties 3 Use the dialog s Border Fill Transparency Margins and Orientation tabs to apply cell formatting then click OK Working with Text 145 Inserting a calendar The Calendar Wizard helps you design month at a glance calendars for use in your publication The calendar is created as a scalable text based table so you can edit text using the standard text tools The properties of a selected calendar are similar to those of a table and can be modified identically see Manipulating tables on p 140 Like custom table formats you can create your own custom calendar formats The wizard lets you set up the month year and calendar styl
158. me Pages and file extensions By default PagePlus names your first Home page index html the standard file name a browser will be looking for Depending on the particular server in use however some other name may be required Likewise the extension htm is sometimes used for pages Adding animation effects PagePlus lets you add two varieties of eye catching animation effects to any web page animated marquees and GIF animations Either way you can preview the animation and or customize the effect Once placed into your web publication the animations appear static but they will spring to life once the site has been exported and a visitor views your page in a web browser Adding sound and video PagePlus lets you augment your web pages with sound and video files in a variety of standard formats including both non streaming and streaming media Producing Web Pages 273 Non streaming files must download in entirety to a user s computer before they begin playing streaming files require a special player that buffers incoming data and can start playing before the whole clip has arrived There are actually two sound playback options background sound where a sound loads and plays automatically when a specific page is first displayed in the visitor s web browser and linked sound triggered by a mouse click for example on an icon or hyperlinked object Linked video works like linked sound To add background sound to a page
159. mit process and the format in which your form data is to be stored in The submit process is made either to Serif Web Resources or to your own web server address e g http testserver global com forms collect asp Form data can be stored in several data formats i e HTML FDF XFDF or PDF See online Help for more information To run the Form Submit Wizard 1 Select the Submit Button from the Button flyout menu on the Form toolbar 2 In the first step start the wizard by clicking the Next gt button 3 Choose either Serif Web Resources or your own server as the destination of your form recipient s data The former is appropriate if you don t have access to your own web server Depending on your choice you can 262 Using PDF Forms 1 For Serif Web Resources click Next gt 2 Click the Get a Form ID button to display Serif s customer login web page This page is where you log onto your customer account to enter firstly your email address to send form data to and secondly to generate a unique Form ID for use in the secure email communication 3 At the web page if you already have a customer login you can enter your email address and password For new customer you must register before continuing 4 After login select the add form link to enter the email address that you want your form data to be sent to 5 Click the Add Form button This generates an entry in the displayed list from which a 30 digit Fo
160. n select it see above 2 In the main window Click the Import Picture button on the Tools toolbar s Picture flyout In WritePlus Choose Picture File from the Insert menu 3 Use the dialog to select the picture to open 4 Select either Embed Picture or Link Picture to include or exclude the picture from the project respectively Use linked pictures to minimize project file size See Embedding vs Linking on p 166 5 If you select the Place at native dpi option and the picture has a different internal setting PagePlus will scale it accordingly otherwise it applies a screen resolution setting of 96 dpi Either way or if you resize it downwards later on the picture retains all its original picture data until it s published Check Place as raster if you want to permanently convert an imported eps Windows Metafile or Serif Metafile to a bitmap 6 Click Open 7 If there s a text insertion point in the main window you ll be prompted whether to insert the picture at the current cursor position Click Yes if you want to do this The mouse pointer changes to the Picture Paste cursor if there was no insertion point or you answered No to the prompt What you do next determines the initial size and placement of the detached picture 8 To insert the picture at a default size simply click the mouse or 166 Pictures Lines and Shapes To set the size of the inserted picture drag out a region and
161. nd the PDF as an attachment To share a document as an HTML page 1 With your publication open select the page you would like to send 2 Select Send Page as HTML from the File menu The page is added to the body of a newly created HTML based email message 3 Add the recipient s valid email address to the To field or equivalent 4 Select the Send button or equivalent on your email program Use this option for Outlook Express Outlook pre Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail For Microsoft Outlook programs prior to Office 2007 remember to uncheck the Use Microsoft Word to edit email messages option within the program Tools gt Options gt Mail Format in Outlook 252 Publishing and Sharing To share a document as an image 1 Check Send entire HTML page as single image in Tools gt Options gt HTML E mail in PagePlus 2 Carry out procedure as for sharing a document as HTML above Use this option for Outlook Express Outlook including Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail Using PDF Forms 10 254 Using PDF Forms Using PDF Forms 255 Getting started with PDF forms PagePlus lets you use electronic based PDF forms to collect inputted data from readers of your publication in an efficient and modern manner In much the same way as traditional paper forms are used to collect information remember your last Tax Return PDF forms offer the same form completion concepts but increase the intera
162. ng PDF files PagePlus attempts to reuse embedded fonts and perform font substitution described To manually substitute a font on loading a publication 1 Enable the Edit font substitutions manually button on the initial dialog and click OK 2 From the Resource Manager click the Fonts tab and select the font with status Missing 3 Click 4 From the Substitute Missing Fonts dialog choose a replacement font from the Available fonts list box ensuring that the Bold and or Italic options are checked if necessary Some fonts may be a more acceptable substitute with the bold or italic style set 5 Click Add lt lt to place the font in the Substitute with box This box can contain more than one font your first choice and a secondary font e g Arial or Times New Roman A secondary font perhaps a more widely available font is particularly useful if you want to provide an alternative to your first choice substituted font You should always place your first choice at the top of the list with the Move up or Move down buttons Working with Text 119 The dialog shows both fonts for substitutions e g The Adamsky SF font is first choice with Arial used as a secondary font 6 Click OK Reset the Substitute with box by clicking the Default button This will replace the fonts listed with a single font e g Arial or Times New Roman as governed by Windows this is not configurable To manually substitute a fo
163. ng a layer Layer 2 in the example is selected but not activated which is used to manage the layer itself e g to move it preview it view change layer options etc To select a particular layer Click or right click a layer name The layer entry then possesses a blue background Right clicking a layer name displays a menu of layer related actions as well as Options for that particular layer Adding removing and rearranging layers When you add a new page or master page to the publication you can specify whether to copy the layers and or objects from a particular source page Once you ve created a page it s easy to add delete move or merge layers as needed Moving a layer will place its objects in front or in back of those on other layers To add a new layer to the current page or master page 1 In the Layers tab click the Insert new layer button 2 You ll be prompted to give the new layer a name and set its properties When you ve made your selections click OK To delete a layer In the Layers tab select the layer s name and click the Delete selected layer s button Working with Pages 41 Using the tab s buttons you can move layers up or down in the stacking order to place their objects in front or behind those on other layers move objects to specific layers mergeand preview layers See online Help for more details Selecting objects on layers Once you ve displayed a page or mast
164. ng a separate line object or the outline of a closed shape See PagePlus help for information on editing lines Setting line properties All lines including those that enclose shapes have numerous properties including colour weight width or thickness scaling cap end join corner and stroke alignment You can vary these properties for any freehand straight or curved line as well as for the outline of a shape Note that text frames pictures tables and artistic text objects have line properties too In PagePlus you can control the position of the stroke i e line width in relation to the object s path i e the line that defines the boundary of the object To change line properties of a selected object Use the Swatches tab to change the line s colour and or shade Alternatively use the Colour tab to apply a colour to the selected object from a colour mixer Use the Line tab context toolbar shown when a line is selected or Line and Border dialog to change the line s weight thickness type or other properties Select a line width and use the drop down boxes to pick the type of line The context toolbar can also adjust line end scaling as a percentage On the Line tab context toolbar or Line and Border dialog the styles drop down menu provides the following styles None Single Calligraphic and several Dashed and Double line styles as illustrated below Pictures Lines and Shapes 189 Sev
165. nk table of contents entries to pages in the document 3 Optional To create pop up annotations insert PageHints as needed 4 Optional Once the publication is final prepare a bookmark list see Creating a PDF bookmark list on p 244 Note Bookmarks appear as a separate list in a special pane when the PDF file is viewed They can link to a specific page or to an anchor for example a piece of text or a graphic object in your publication 5 Click Publish PDF on the Standard toolbar 6 From the dialog check your export settings For a detailed explanation of each export setting see PagePlus Help 7 Click OK to proceed to export If you checked Preview PDF file in Acrobat the resulting PDF file appears in the version of Adobe Reader installed on your system Other non Adobe PDF viewers are now available on the market these can open PDF files independently of PagePlus 244 Publishing and Sharing Creating a PDF bookmark list Bookmarks are optional links that appear in a separate pane of the PDF viewer when a PDF file is displayed Typically a bookmark links to a specific location such as a section heading in the publication but it can also link to a whole page You can insert bookmarks by hand or PagePlus can apply automatic generation to produce a nested bookmark list up to six levels deep derived from named styles in your publication A Bookmark Manager enables you to view all your bookmarks at a glanc
166. ns 34 Warp tools 79 warping objects 79 web colours 269 Web Export Manager 271 Web Publishing mode 265 websites adding Java applets 274 adding sound and video 272 animation effects for 272 choosing website colours 269 getting started 265 image settings overview 271 maintaining 278 previewing in web browser 276 publishing to local folder 275 publishing to web 276 setting page and file properties 272 viewing hyperlinks in publication 267 working with hotspots 267 working with hyperlinks 87 Welcome 3 word processor files 91 workspace profiles 17 wrap outline 129 to crop object 70 wrapping text around objects 128 WritePlus 96 zero point 48 Zoom Blur effect 194 zoom view options 34
167. nt any time 1 Select Resource Manager from the Tools menu 2 Choose the Fonts tab select a font then click 3 In the dialog select the missing font to be substituted from the Font to substitute drop down menu 4 Carry out font substitution as described in the previous procedure Repeat for each font to be substituted using the Font to substitute drop down menu 120 Working with Text Using FontManager FontManager is a standalone Serif application that works alongside PagePlus with respect to font substitution Its main feature is to locate and dynamically install a publication s missing fonts The following procedure assumes FontManager is installed The Font Substitution dialog will indicate fonts found by FontManager with the status Located To install fonts dynamically with FontManager 1 Launch Serif PagePlus and open a PagePlus publication 2 From the dialog enable the Use the FontManager option greyed out if FontManager is not installed This locates and dynamically installs any missing fonts which are currently uninstalled but are present on your computer When the current session is closed the dynamically installed fonts will uninstall automatically Using text styles PagePlus lets you use named text styles pre or user defined which can be applied to frame text table text artistic text index text or table of contents text A text style is a set of character and or paragraph att
168. ntre and Margin centre Access logos and more flashes than ever all directly from the Gallery tab Save publication backups Welcome 13 For text and line widths in large publications use physical measurement units such as centimetres and inches Select all frame text with quadruple click Now align objects to page edge QuickShapes now include Quick Frames great for simple curved frames In web publishing use encryption SSL or TLS for FTP upload security Manual duplex printing offers easy to follow on screen instructions and post wizard adjustment to settings Display currently used fonts in your publication Installation System Requirements Minimum Windows based PC with DVD CD drive and mouse Microsoft Windows XP 32 bit Windows Vista 32 or 64bit or Windows 7 operating system 512MB RAM 263MB free hard disk space 1 08GB with Resource DVD installed 1024 x 600 monitor resolution Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large and or complex documents 14 Welcome Optional Windows compatible printer TWAIN compatible scanner and or digital camera Stylus or other input device 3D Accelerated graphics card with DirectX 9 or above or OpenGL support NET 2 0 for text import filters Word 2007 OpenOffice installed by default Internet account and c
169. ny object in precise formations You can also transfer the formatting of one object to another with the option of selecting specific attributes to be included when formatting is pasted To copy an object or multiple selection to the Windows Clipboard Click Copy on the Standard toolbar 58 Working with Objects If you re using another Windows application you can usually copy and paste objects via the Clipboard To paste an object from the Clipboard Click Paste on the Standard toolbar The standard Paste command inserts the object at the insertion point or for a separate object at the centre of the page To insert a separate object at the same page location as the copied item use the Paste in Place command To choose between alternative Clipboard formats Choose Paste Special from the Edit menu To duplicate an object 1 Select the object then press the Ctrl key 2 Drag the object via the Move button to a new location on the page then release the mouse button 3 To constrain the position of the copy to same horizontal or vertical also press and hold down the Shift key while dragging A duplicate of the object appears at the new location Replicating objects Duplicating an object means making just one copy at a time The Replicate command lets you create multiple copies in a single step with precise control over how the copies are arranged either as a linear series or a grid You c
170. o far are usually applied as local formatting to a single style typically Normal or Body To prove this you ll see the list structure disappear if you apply Clear Formatting from the Text Styles tab or Text context toolbar s Styles drop down menu on the selected list If you re working on long documents you may be using pre assigned text styles Heading 1 Heading 2 indent etc to format your document rather than using the above local formatting You can use such text styles along with list styles to number headings or paragraphs automatically without the need to repetitively format headings or paragraphs as lists As an example headings and paragraphs in technical and legal documents are typically prefixed by numbers for easy reference The advantage of using a style driven approach is that you can let the numbering take care of itself while you concentrate on applying styling to your document If you plan to create your own multi level paragraph styles make use of the Style for Increase Level option when creating text styles This sets the paragraph style that will be automatically applied to text if Increase Level is applied from the context toolbar another advantage is that if you apply a multi level style to text the associated next level s style will be made available in the Text Styles tab PagePlus lets you easily associate any bulleted numbered or multi level list style either preset or custom list to an existing text sty
171. o save the current chapter list as a book file Choose Save or Save As from the BookPlus File menu You can open saved book files from PagePlus using File gt Open You can have more than one book file open at a time Numbering pages BookPlus provides a variety of options for incrementing page numbers continuously from one chapter to another through the whole book Page numbers will only appear on pages or more commonly master pages where you ve inserted page number fields To suppress page numbers for example on a title page simply don t include a page number field there BookPlus lets you change page number style choices you ve made in the original file using Format Page Number Format in PagePlus and provides other options such as inserting a blank page when necessary to force new chapters to start on a right hand page You don t need to have the original files open to update page numbering 154 Working with Text To set page numbering options for the book 1 Choose Book Page Number Options from the BookPlus File menu 2 In the dialog select whether you want page numbers to Continue from previous chapter Continue on next odd page or Continue on next even page Typically you ll want new chapters to start on odd right hand or recto pages 3 Leave Insert blank page when necessary checked if you want to output an extra page at the end of a chapter where the next page number if you ve
172. odes of operation Web site URL Set your site s URL This allows you to view your site from a dialog after any FTP upload In the Advanced box you can optionally enable security on file transfer by uploading using one of two encryption protocols TLS 1 0 and SSL 3 0 Check Encrypt connection then choose the Protocol You ll need to confirm with your ISP whether encryption and which protocol is supported implied or otherwise The SSL Implied option makes the ISP s FTP server encrypt on initial contact to default port 990 or a custom port edit Port number 4 If you ve set up at least one account the Upload to Server dialog opens In the dialog the last used account name is shown in the drop down menu its settings are displayed in subsequent boxes You can use the drop down menu to switch to another account if set up You can also use the dialog to Add another account and Copy Edit or Delete an account selected from the drop down menu It s a good idea to test your new or modified account by clicking the Test 278 Producing Web Pages button if the account details are valid a dialog indicating successful connection displays 5 Click the Upload button PagePlus seeks an Internet connection then If uploading for the first time selected files will be uploaded directly or If uploading to an existing site must be created with PagePlus an Uploading Files dialog is displayed showing local
173. oducing Web Pages 275 Publishing a website to a local folder Even though you may have saved your website as a PagePlus publication it s not truly a website until you ve converted it to HTML and image files in other words a format that can be viewed in a web browser In PagePlus this conversion process is called publishing the site You can publish the site either to a local folder on a hard disk or to the web itself Publishing the site to a local folder lets you preview the pages in your own browser prior to publishing them on the web You may find it convenient to keep your browser program open and go back and forth between PagePlus and the browser This way you can make changes to a single page in PagePlus publish just the one page then switch to your browser and preview that page to make sure everything appears just as you want it To publish the site to a local folder 1 Choose Web Site Properties from the File menu and double check export settings particularly those on the Graphics tab 2 Choose Publish Site gt from the File menu and select to Disk Folder from the submenu 3 In the dialog locate the folder where you wish to store the output files by clicking the Choose Folder button You can create a new folder under any selected folder with the Make New Folder button Click OK 4 Either check the Publish All Pages option or in the site structure tree check which specific page s to publish This
174. olours to display the Colour Selector 222 Colour Fills and Transparency 4 To store the modified scheme in the Schemes tab click Save Scheme If modifying an existing scheme leave the name unaltered If creating a new scheme enter a new name 5 To apply the scheme to the current publication or web site click OK Working with gradient and bitmap fills Gradient fills provide a gradation or spectrum of colours spreading between two or more points on an object A gradient fill has an editable path with nodes that mark the origin of each of these key colours A bitmap fill uses a named bitmap often a material pattern or background image to fill an object Linear Elliptical Conical Bitmap You can apply preset gradient and bitmap fills from the Swatches tab to shapes text frames table cells and to any artistic frame and table text Using the Fill Tool from the Attributes toolbar s Fill flyout or from Format gt Fill you can vary the fill s path on an object for different effects see PagePlus help Applying different transparency effects using the Transparency tab won t alter the object s fill settings as such but may significantly alter a fill s actual appearance Applying a gradient or bitmap fill There are several ways to apply a gradient or bitmap fill using the Fill Tool the Swatches tab or a dialog The easiest way to apply a gradient or bitmap fill is to use one of a range of pre suppli
175. on any member of a group selects the group object In general any operation you carry out on a selected group affects each member of the group However the objects that comprise a group are intact and you can also select and edit an individual object within a group To select an individual object within a group Ctrl click the object Moving objects To move an object including a multiple selection Drag the selected object by using its Move button Once you see a move cursor you can begin dragging To set exact horizontal and vertical positions use the Transform tab To constrain the movement of an object to horizontal or vertical Select the object and use the keyboard arrows up down left right 64 Working with Objects Resizing objects PagePlus provides several methods of resizing single or grouped objects Click and drag is the simplest watch the Hintline for context sensitive tips and shortcuts To resize an object in general 1 Select the object 2 Click one of the selection handles and drag it to a new position while holding down the left mouse button Dragging from an edge handle resizes in one dimension by moving that edge Dragging from a corner handle resizes in two dimensions by moving two edges Use a ruler guide and centre snapping to scale an object in two directions simultaneously Centre snapping involves snapping to the object edge then dragging from a
176. on of rows or columns then choose Evenly Distribute gt Rows or Evenly Distribute gt Columns from the Table menu To honour table width a cell s text may wrap when distributing columns To evenly distribute rows in a column click the column s button and choose Evenly Distribute Rows Conversely use the equivalent button and Evenly Distribute Columns command at a row header to distribute columns on the chosen row Choose Autofit to Contents gt Column s from the Table menu to reduce or increase the size of selected columns to fit to the text of the greatest width An equivalent option exists for rows Working with Text 143 For an individual column or row click its header s button choosing Autofit Row to Contents or Autofit Column to Contents respectively To delete multiple rows or columns select them or cell text then choose Delete from the Table menu then either Row s or Column s from the submenu For an individual column or row click the header s button and choose Delete To insert remove columns in an existing table click and drag left right on the header after the end of the last table column columns are added or removed as you drag For insertion of rows drag up down on the header at the end of the last row Alternatively select one or more cells then choose Insert from the Table menu Table gt Insert from the right click menu then either Rows or Columns from the submenu In the dia
177. onnection required for Web Publishing features and accessing online resources First time install To install PagePlus X4 simply insert the PagePlus X4 Program CD into your DVD CD drive The AutoRun feature automatically starts the Setup process Just answer the on screen questions to install the program Re install To re install the software or to change the installation at a later date select Settings Control Panel from the Windows Start menu and then click on the Add Remove Programs icon Make sure the PagePlus X4 Program CD is inserted into your CD DVD drive click the Install button and then simply follow the on screen instructions Getting Started 2 16 Getting Started Getting Started 17 Startup Wizard The Startup Wizard presents the following choices Start New Publication to open a blank page to work on Use Design Template to create an instant document from a pre designed template Open Saved Publication to edit a saved PagePlus file Import PDF to create a publication from an existing PDF Learning Zone to access online videos tutorials PDF User Guides and more Use the Choose Workspace drop down menu to choose your workspace appearance i e Studio tab positions tab sizes and show hide tab status You can adopt the default workspace profile lt Default Profile gt the last used profile lt Current Profile gt a range of profile presets or a workspace profil
178. or more page layouts by checking the box under each thumbnail Some publication types only offer an either or selection 5 Click OK The page layouts are added as pages to your new publication Starting a new publication from scratch Although design templates can simplify your design choices you can just as easily start out from scratch with a new blank publication To make life easier you can adopt a particular document type regular normal folded small large publication web page as a starting point To start a new publication via Startup Wizard 1 Open PagePlus to display the initial Startup Wizard if switched on or With PagePlus loaded choose New from the File menu and then select New from Startup Wizard 2 Select Start New Publication 3 From the list on the left select a document type and then examine the samples on the right Click the sample that is the closest match to the document you want to create or You can define a custom publication by clicking Custom Page Setup 4 Click OK to open a new publication with a blank page If you click or press Escape from the Startup Wizard PagePlus opens a blank document using default page properties To start a new default publication Click New Publication on the Standard toolbar only if Startup Wizard is turned off Getting Started 23 Opening existing publications You can open a PagePlus publication from the Startup Wi
179. order and object change together when you resize the object If unchecked the border weight remains constant during resizing If Draw centre is unchecked the default the inside areas of a framed picture used to create your new border will be left empty so you won t need to manually remove unwanted image centres When checked the area inside a populated custom frame is repeated 6 Click OK when you re done Use the button to base your borders on your own bordered picture design Once you ve optimized the design of your new border you might like to save it for future use The border is stored globally so you can make use of it in other publications To save your custom border 1 Click 2 From the dialog select a subcategory e g Fun Fabric etc from the drop down list alternatively enter a new custom subcategory name in the box 3 From the dialog enter your custom border name The new border appears in the Line and Border dialog s Style drop down list and also as a categorized bordered picture frame in the Gallery tab Working with Objects 83 Adding logos Logos are intended to send a clear message to your target audience all within a simple and identifiable design Whether you intend to communicate a stylish business fun or modern message opposite PagePlus allows you to create impressive logos of varying design Logos are great for adding to master pages associated with either
180. ou enter details into a form then submit the data by pressing a Submit button The same applies for PDF forms a Submit button can be Using PDF Forms 261 configured in order to submit the form data to the web server You can either create the button unaided or use the Form Submit Wizard see below Either way the use of the submit process is the major difference between web ready and other less dynamic forms The web process as mentioned requires a web server to operate Not everyone will have access to or even want to operate their own web server so as an alternative to this you can use Serif Web Resources This is a free web to email gateway service which will collect your valued form data at Serif and send it to your email address the service does require that you firstly have a Customer login for security reasons which will allow you to create edit and delete Form IDs via a web page accessible from the Wizard The Form ID a unique 30 digit number is required for the service to operate and is generated automatically when you enter your destination email address in the web page No personal data will be stored on Serif web servers All form data is redirected in real time Submitting Form Data The submission of form data sounds a very complicated operation but by using a Form Submit Wizard the process is relatively straightforward The Wizard not only creates a Submit button for your form but configures the underlying sub
181. ows you to control how the frame s story flows to following frames No Overflow The frame is not linked to a following frame it s either a standalone frame or the last frame in a sequence and the frame is empty or the end of the story text is visible Overflow The populated frame is not linked either standalone or last frame and there is additional story text in the hidden overflow area An Autoflow button also appears to the left of the Link button Continued The frame is linked to a following frame The end of the story text may be visible or it may flow into the following frame Note The button icon will be red if the final frame of the sequence is overflowing or green if there s no overflow There are two basic ways to set up a linked sequence of frames You can link a sequence of empty frames then import the text You can import the text into a single frame then create and link additional frames into which the text automatically flows When frames are created by the AutoFlow option for example when importing text they are automatically linked in sequence To create a link or reorder the links between existing frames you can use the Link button under the frame or the controls on the Frame context toolbar Remember to watch the cursor which changes to indicate these operations 100 Working with Text You can link to frames already containing text or are already in a link sequence If
182. p to Scheme Colour 2 and so on throughout the publication 220 Colour Fills and Transparency The example below shows three different schemes as applied to a design that s been marked with Scheme Colours 1 through 5 as in the example above To select a colour scheme 1 Click the Schemes tab The currently assigned scheme is highlighted in the list 2 Click a different colour scheme sample Objects in the publication that have been assigned one of the five colour scheme numbers are updated with the corresponding colour from the new scheme You can repeat this selection process indefinitely When you save a publication its current colour scheme is saved along with the document Applying scheme colours to objects If you create new elements in a publication to which you have applied a colour scheme or start a publication from scratch how can you extend the current colour scheme to the new objects Although you ll need to spend some time working out which colour combinations look best the mechanics of the process are simple Recalling the paint by numbers example above all you need to do is assign one of the five current scheme colour numbers to an object s line and or fill Colour Fills and Transparency 221 To assign a scheme colour to an object 1 Select the object and choose a Fill Line or Text button at the top of the Swatches tab depending on the desired effect 2 From the bottom of the Swatches
183. pen a new publication Saving Object Styles To create a new object style based on an existing object s attributes 1 Right click the object and choose Format gt Object Style gt Create The Style Attributes Editor dialog appears with a tree listing object attributes on the left and a preview region on the right 208 Pictures Lines and Shapes 2 Click to expand or collapse sections within the attributes tree Check any attributes you want to include in the style definition and uncheck any you don t want to include 3 If you want to change any of the current object settings double click an attribute or select it and click the Edit button This will bring up a detailed dialog for the particular attribute 4 The Object pane in the preview region shows the currently selected object after applying the defined style Select the Artistic Text or Frame Text tab to see the style applied to sample objects of those types 5 Click the Browse button to select the gallery category where you want to locate the style thumbnail and optionally save to a different Preview Type Rounded Rectangle Frame Text or Artistic Text instead of the default cog shape 6 Type a name to identify the gallery thumbnail 7 Click OK A thumbnail for the new object style appears in the designated gallery Once an object style is listed in a gallery you can modify it or create a copy for example to define a derivative style by right c
184. play the Text Styles tab and select a style from the style list or On the Text context toolbar click the arrow to expand the Styles drop down list and select a style name The Text Style tab highlights the paragraph or character style applied to any selected text Working with Text 123 As both paragraph and character formatting can be applied to the same text all of the current text s formatting is displayed in the Current format box on the tab In the example below currently selected text has a Strong character style applied over a Normal paragraph style To update a named style using the properties of existing text 1 Make your desired formatting changes to any text that uses a named style 2 On the Text Styles tab right click the style and choose Update lt style gt to Match Selection All text using the named style throughout the publication takes on the new properties To create a new style 1 On the Text Styles tab select the style on which you want your new style to be based 2 Click the button Alternatively Choose Text Style Palette in the Format menu and with a base style selected in the dialog click the Create button 3 In the Text Style dialog define the style Name the style to be Based on Style for the following paragraph and the style to be changed to if Increase Level is applied Check Always list in Studio to ensure the style will always appear in the Text Styles tab
185. ply different key colours to individual nodes or vary the overall shading of the effect applied to the object To apply or edit a gradient or bitmap fill using a dialog 1 Right click the object and choose Format gt Fill or select it and choose Fill from the Format menu or Click the Fill button on the Attributes toolbar s Fill flyout 2 Choose the fill type and the desired fill category Note that you can also use the dialog to apply a solid fill For gradient fills select Gradient from the Type drop down menu and pick a gradient preset A two colour gradient has two nodes one at each end of its path or Click the From and To buttons to specify the gradient s start and end colours or Click the Edit button if you want to add or subtract key colours from the currently chosen gradient see Editing the gradient fill spectrum below apply different key colours to individual nodes or vary the overall shading of the effect applied to the object You can adjust the fill s shade tint as needed using the drop down list For bitmap fills select Bitmap from the Type drop down menu choose a category and then click a gallery swatch 3 Click OK to apply the effect or fill to the object Colour Fills and Transparency 225 Editing the fill path When you select a fillable object the Fill tool becomes available otherwise it s greyed out If the object uses a gradient fill you ll see the fill path
186. plying solid fills 217 Using schemes 219 Working with gradient and bitmap fills 222 Working with transparency 226 8 Printing your Publication 231 Printing basics 233 Previewing the printed page 236 Printing special formats 237 Generating professional output 239 9 Publishing and Sharing 241 Exporting PDF files 243 Creating a PDF bookmark list 244 Creating a PDF slideshow 246 Sharing by email 250 10 Using PDF Forms 253 Getting started with PDF forms 255 Creating PDF forms 257 Collecting data from forms
187. ption to specify a custom scaling percentage The default is 100 or normal size To scale your work to be printed at a larger size specify a larger value to scale down specify a smaller value Check Fit Many to have PagePlus fit as many pages as possible on each sheet for example two A5 pages on a landscape A4 sheet Set Scale to fit paper size values to adjust artwork automatically to fit neatly on the printed page Note that the Fit Many option ignores printer margins while Scale to Fit takes them into account So if you use Fit Many make sure your page layout borders don t extend beyond the printable region Printing thumbnails Under Special Printing on the Print dialog s Layout tab set the Print as thumbnails option to print multiple pages at a reduced size on each printed sheet taking printer margins into account Specify the number of thumbnails per sheet in the value box PagePlus will print each page of the publication at a reduced size with the specified number of small pages or thumbnails neatly positioned on each printed sheet Multiple pages Under Multiple pages per Sheet on the Print dialog s Layout tab select an option Printing your Publication 239 The multiple page options are enabled when you are working with a page from the Small Publications category in Page Setup You can select the number of times to repeat each page and tell PagePlus to skip a certain number of region
188. publications Paper Publishing mode or websites Web Publishing mode To add a logo 1 Select Insert Logo from the Tools toolbar s Logo flyout 2 From the dialog scroll the left hand pane and select a suitable design thumbnail choose the blank layout in the Blank category to start from scratch 3 Select a logo from the left hand pane then pick from a choice of designs from the right hand pane if a choice is available some designs allow customization of text 4 To apply the poster s current colour scheme to your design uncheck Apply colour set Alternatively to adopt a colour set independent of your poster s current colour scheme keep Apply colour set checked and pick a colour set option from the drop down list 5 Click Open 6 For captioned logos a further dialog lets you customize the design s supporting text company name and or motto Enter a new Name e g company or club name and optionally a tag line Motto to personalize it Edit the text and then click OK 84 Working with Objects 7 To insert the logo at a default size simply click the mouse to leave a logo placeholder envelope or To set the size of the logo drag out a region and release the mouse button PagePlus s Gallery tab also hosts the same selection of logos If you re looking to further modify your logo you can use LogoStudio an integrated design environment This allows you to focus on your design without the dis
189. r Landscape For booklets only select a type from the Booklet drop down menu which page to start on left right and if you require Facing pages including Dual master pages 3 For other publication types you can select the publication types Small Publications for example business cards labels etc Large Publications banners or posters or Folded Publications cards For Small publications either enable Paper then create a custom paper size or for creating Labels enable the radio button and pick an Avery label code which matches your labels For Large and Folded publications choose a pre defined option from the list use the preview or to define a custom publication based on the selected option click the Create Custom button Add additional custom settings if necessary 4 Click OK to accept the new dimensions The updated settings will be applied to the current publication For regular booklet publications you can also adopt printer derived paper sizes that are supported by your desktop or network printer These paper sizes are shown in the Page Setup dialog and will be different depending on which printer is currently chosen in the Print dialog 30 Working with Pages On the Pages context toolbar these page sizes are indicated by the suffix From printer in the Paper size drop down menu Facing pages You can set up your regular publication or booklet so that the PagePlus window display
190. r front Right click on the object and choose Arrange gt Back One or gt Forward One respectively Aligning and distributing objects Alignment involves taking a group of selected objects and aligning them all in one operation by their top bottom left or right edges You can also distribute objects so that your objects as a multiple selection are spread evenly optionally at spaced intervals Alignment or distribution can occur between the endmost objects on your page current selection page margins or the page edge To align the edges of two or more objects in a selection 1 Using the Pointer Tool Shift click on all the objects you want to align or draw a marquee box around them to create a multiple selection 2 Select the Align tab 3 Select an option for vertical and or horizontal alignment Choose Top Bottom Left Right Centre Horizontally or Centre Vertically i e To distribute two or more objects across a selection Choose Space Evenly Across or Space Evenly Down to spread selected objects uniformly between endmost objects in the current selection horizontally or vertically respectively or by a set measurement choose Spaced and set a value in any measurement unit Rather than work within the current selection area you can align or distribute to page margins if set or page edge Working with Objects 67 To align distribute objects to page margins or edges Select from the Re
191. r level To clear local formatting restore plain default text properties Select a range of text with local formatting Click on the Clear Formatting option on the Text context toolbar s text styles drop down list or Text Styles tab 114 Working with Text Using fonts One of the most dramatic ways to change your document s appearance is to change the fonts used in your artistic text frame text or table text Applying different fonts to a character or entire paragraph can communicate very different messages to your intended readership Font assignment is very simple in PagePlus and can be done from the Fonts tab Text context toolbar or in the Character dialog via right click or from the Format menu Working with Text 115 The Fonts tab lets you Apply fonts easily without dialog navigation Assign fonts to be Websafe or favourites View most recently used Websafe and your favourite fonts simultaneously Search for installed fonts via search box Hover over preview of fonts applied to your document s text optional Change a font for another throughout your publication or website by right click Select All Access Serif FontManager if purchased The Fonts tab is automatically hidden by default but can be viewed by clicking the arrow button at the left of your workspace You may also need to click the Fonts label to display the Fonts tab Ass
192. r story or All Stories all text or Current Selection only used with the Replace All function to operate on the currently selected text 4 Select Match whole word only to match character sequences that have white space space tab character page break etc or punctuation at each end or which are at the start end of a paragraph Select Match case for case sensitive search Select Regular expressions to treat the contents of the Find box as an expression rather than as a literal string to be found 5 Click Find Next to locate the first instance of the Find text or Click Select All to highlight all instances of matching text in your document simultaneously 6 Click Replace if you want to substitute with replacement text Alternatively click Find Next again to skip to the next matching text Continue using the Replace option as required until you reach the end of your document or Click Replace All to replace all instances of the found text with the replacement text at the same time PagePlus reports when the search is completed Working with Text 113 Setting text properties PagePlus gives you a high degree of typographic control over characters and paragraphs whether you re working with frame text table text or artistic text To apply basic text formatting 1 Select the text 2 Use buttons on the Text context toolbar to change text style typeface font point size attributes paragraph alignment o
193. r they appear in the Media Bar A dialog will display if you ve more picture frames than you have photos and vice versa To resolve either remove extra pages or add more frames then add any remaining photos by drag and drop A placed photo s thumbnail shows a green tick in its bottom right corner while a photo that is not yet placed will not show the tick Searching for photos in albums To search for photo details To search for photos of a specific rating click the down arrow on the search box at the top of the Media Bar and pick a Rating from the flyout e g Rating has 5 stars Matching photos are shown in the bar s workspace To search by file name or tag on previously tagged files click in the search box and enter a search term e g holiday You can also use the button to search for photos by tag tags listed belong to photos currently in the Media bar Matching photos will appear in the bar s workspace Pictures Lines and Shapes 171 Using Image Cutout Studio Image Cutout Studio offers a powerful integrated solution for cutting objects out from their backgrounds Depending on the make up of your images you can separate subject of interests from their backgrounds either by retaining the subject of interest usually people objects etc or removing a simple uniform background e g sky studio backdrop In both instances the resulting cutout image creates an eye catching look for your publication Th
194. rag the object from the page and drop it onto the target category or sub category design window drag onto an empty sub categories title bar to add To copy press the Ctrl key before starting to drag A thumbnail of the design appears in the Designs window Pictures Lines and Shapes 211 To rename or delete a custom design from the Gallery Click on the drop down button in the bottom right corner of a thumbnail shown by hover over and choose from the menu Using connectors Two Connector tools let you create dynamic link lines between any two objects These connectors remain anchored to the objects even if either or both of them are moved or resized So for example it s easy to create a flow chart with connectors between boxes then freely rearrange the layout while preserving the directional relationships Connector types The Connector Tool lets you draw a single straight line connector between any two connection points The Elbow Connector Tool lets you draw a connector with only vertical and horizontal segments for example if you re creating a flow chart organization chart or tree diagram Connection points To make connections easy each PagePlus object has default connection points displayed whenever you select a Connector tool and hover over a target object These default points which can t be moved or deleted are normally evenly distributed around an object s shape 212 Pictures Lines and Shap
195. ransparent hole where their filled regions overlap Applying a mesh warp envelope Mesh warping lets you apply a Preset warp envelope to your PagePlus object below or modify a flexible grid of points and lines that you can drag to deform or distort an object and optionally its fill 80 Working with Objects After applying a preset envelope from the Attributes toolbar s Warp flyout or context toolbar you can use the Mesh Warp context toolbar to switch the warp on off edit the mesh by varying its curvature and even custom design a mesh to match a particular object s geometry for example curves that follow the facial contours in a bitmap image for more precise control of the warp effect The effect is removable and doesn t permanently alter the object The process of editing mesh warps and their envelopes is described in greater detail in the PagePlus Help Adding borders A border is a repeating decorative element that can be set to enclose objects such as text frames pictures and tables PagePlus comes with an impressive range of categorized picture based border styles for you to use However if you d like to create your own custom borders you can import a border design as a picture and save it for future use Edge selection lets you apply the border effect to all sides top bottom left right or both top and bottom opposite The Picture Frames category in the Gallery tab offers the same set o
196. reate your own categories e g My Adjustments within the tab To save filter s as a new favourite Click Save Filter From the dialog enter a favourite name and pick a category to save the filter to Click to create new category If you want to further manage your favourites into user defined categories click the option on the Tab Menu Pictures Lines and Shapes 183 Exiting PhotoLab Click Importing TWAIN images If your scanner or digital camera provides TWAIN support you can import pictures directly into PagePlus using the TWAIN standard Or save the scanned image separately and then import into PagePlus To set up your TWAIN device for importing See the documentation supplied with your scanner for operating instructions To import a scanned image Choose Picture from the Insert menu then select TWAIN and Acquire from the submenu to open a file selection dialog If you have more than one TWAIN compatible device installed you may need to select which source you wish to scan with To select a different TWAIN source for scanning 1 Choose Picture from the Insert menu then select TWAIN and Select Source from the submenu 2 Identify the device you want to use as your TWAIN source Suggestions for image scanning First the tips then the theory As a general rule the optimal scanning resolution for print work in dpi is about one third the do
197. release the mouse button To populate a template picture placeholder or replace a picture Click the button shown under the selected frame or Double click the placeholder picture Embedding vs linking Embedding means the picture in PagePlus is now distinct from the original file Embedding results in a larger PagePlus file and if you need to alter an embedded picture you ll need to re import it after editing Still it s the best choice if file size isn t an issue and graphics are final Linking inserts a copy of the picture file into the PagePlus publication linked to the actual file so that any changes you later make to it in the native application will be automatically reflected in PagePlus Using the Media Bar The Media Bar acts as a basket containing photos for inclusion in your publication Its chief use is to aid the design process by improving efficiency avoiding having to import photos one by one and convenience making photos always at hand For photo rich documents in particular perhaps based on Photo Album design templates the Media Bar is a valuable tool for dragging photos directly into picture frames or for simply replacing existing pictures on the page Pictures Lines and Shapes 167 You can even use the AutoFlow feature to add all photos sequentially into available empty picture frames with one click The bar can be used as a temporary storage area before placing photos in your docum
198. rent paragraph You can adjust the markers to set paragraph indents or use a dialog The Left indent is set in relation to the object s left margin The 1st line indent is in relation to the left indent The Right indent is in relation to the object s right margin For details on setting frame margins see Frame setup and layout on p 96 To set the indents of the current paragraph Drag the appropriate ruler marker s or For quick left indents select the Increase Level or Decrease Level button to increase or decrease indent respectively Indent is by the currently set default tab stop distance or To adjust indent settings numerically choose Paragraph from the Format menu In the Indentation box you can enter values for Left Right 1st Line or Hanging indents Working with Text 111 Setting tab stops To set a tab stop 1 Select the paragraph s in which you want to set tab stops 2 Click the ruler intersection button until it changes to the type of tab you want Left Centre Right or Decimal Left Centre Right Decimal 3 Click on the horizontal ruler where you want to set a tab stop You ll see your tab stop appear To move a tab stop drag it to a new ruler position To delete a tab stop drag it off the ruler If you want to set precise measurements for tabs right click the frame and choose Text Format then select Tabs from
199. ributes saved as a group When you apply a style to text you apply the whole group of attributes in just one step For example you could use named paragraph styles for particular layout elements such as Heading 1 or Body and character styles to convey meaning such as Emphasis Strong or Subtle Reference Working with Text 121 Styles can be applied to characters or paragraphs using either the Text context toolbar or the Text Styles tab Both paragraph and character styles can be managed from the Text Style Palette Paragraph and character styles A paragraph style is a complete specification for the appearance of a paragraph including all font and paragraph format attributes Every paragraph in PagePlus has a paragraph style associated with it PagePlus includes a built in default paragraph style called Normal which is left aligned 12pt Times New Roman You can modify the Normal style by redefining any of its attributes and create or adopt any number of new or pre defined paragraph styles having different names and attributes Applying a paragraph style to text updates all the text in the paragraph except sections that have been locally formatted For example a single word marked as bold would remain bold when the paragraph style was updated or changed A character style includes only font attributes name point size bold italic etc and you apply it at the character level that is to a range
200. rm ID can be copied 6 Paste the Form ID directly from the web page into the input field in your Wizard dialog 7 Click the Next gt button 8 Select a Data format from the drop down menu that you would like to store and transport your form data Select one of HTML FDF or XFDF see above or 1 For your own web server click Next gt 2 Add your Web Server address to the displayed field click Next gt NOTE this should not be a file directory but a valid website on the Intranet Internet 3 Choose a data format for exporting the form data Select one of HTML FDF PDF or XFDF see above NOTE You must ensure that your server is able to process the above data formats 4 Finish the Wizard process by clicking the Finish button 5 Move your cursor to the location for your button and click once Producing Web Pages 11 264 Producing Web Pages Producing Web Pages 265 Getting started in web mode How easy is it to create your own website with PagePlus It can be as simple as selecting a preset design template and editing the headings and accompanying text And no matter how much customizing you choose to do after that the whole job won t be nearly as complicated as developing your own site from first principles So if you re already comfortable using PagePlus for paper publications you ll find it easy going If you re just beginning you ll learn to use PagePlus tools as you go Essentiall
201. rticular effect check its box in the list at left 3 To adjust the properties of a specific effect select its name and vary the dialog controls Adjust the sliders or enter specific values to vary the combined effect You can also select a slider and use the keyboard arrows Options differ from one effect to another 4 Click OK to apply the effect or Cancel to abandon changes 196 Pictures Lines and Shapes Creating reflections A simple way to add creative flair to your page is to apply a vertical reflection on a selected object The effect is especially eye catching when applied to pictures but can be equally impressive on artistic text such as page titles or text banners A combination of settings can control reflection height opacity offset and blurring Creating outlines PagePlus lets you create a coloured outline around objects especially text and shapes as a filter effect For any outline you can set the outline width colour fill transparency and blend mode The outline can also take a gradient fill a unique contour fill fill runs from the inner to outer edge of the outline width or pattern fill and can also sit inside outside or be centred on the object edge As with all effects you can switch the outline effect on and off You ll be able to apply a combination of 2D or 3D filter effects along with your outline by checking other options in the Filter Effects dialog Blur Various blur effects can b
202. s 30 favourites filter 182 font 115 Feather effect 194 features key 4 new 10 fill properties 188 Fill Tool 222 fills gradient 222 solid 217 filter effects 194 198 filters 176 applying 178 committing 179 favourite 182 masking with 180 Find amp Replace 112 Fit Text to Curve 107 flashes 85 flipping objects 69 folded publications 29 printing 237 setting up 22 FontManager 120 fonts 113 assigning 115 dynamic installation of 120 favourite 115 FontManager 120 previewing 115 replace common 116 substituting 117 fonts 114 Fonts tab 114 footers 50 formatting clear text 113 frame effect border 80 frame margins 93 frames 92 applying fill colours 222 applying transparency 226 custom picture 163 for pictures 164 linking 99 picture 161 setup and layout 96 text for 93 Gallery tab 208 Gaussian Blur effect 194 GIF animations 272 used for web 271 gradient colour fills 222 applying 222 editing 225 gradient transparency 227 grammar checking 135 greetings cards 29 grid dot 49 groups 62 creating 62 ungrouping 62 guides 44 dynamic 61 ruler 46 snapping to 60 sticky 46 47 HD photo 164 headers and footers 50 highlighter effect 217 hotspots web 267 HTML sending documents via email as 250 Hyperlink Manager 267 hyperlinks setting colour of 270 using Hyperlink Manager 267 Image Cutout Studio 171 images See pictures Import PDF 1
203. s dBASE as well as from HTML files Excel files ODBC and various delimited text files For multi table databases PagePlus lets you select the table to be inserted For a high degree of control it is also possible to filter and sort your database records prior to import Insertion of database tables adopts the same principles as those used for Mail merge see p 157 However instead of creating letters or labels you are merging content into a table Working with Text 149 To insert a database table 1 Click Insert Database table from the Tools toolbar s Table flyout 2 Using the pointer draw an area on your page that will contain your database information If there are many fields in your database table you may consider presenting the information on a page with landscape orientation Alternatively you can choose only a subset of those fields see below 3 In the dialog navigate to your database file and select it Use the drop down menu to change file format if you can t find the database file you require 4 Click Open 5 Optional for multi table databases The Select Table dialog displays the tables within your database Select your table and click OK 6 The Merge List dialog shows all the table rows records in the table choose to Select All records Toggle Select invert all current selections or use a custom Filter The filter option also lets you sort the records to be merged The E
204. s list shows synonyms for the definition selected in the Meanings box Initially the first synonym appears in the Replace Look Up box To pop a new word into the Replace Look Up box Click the word in the Synonyms list or Type a new word directly into the Replace Look Up box You can navigate indefinitely through the thesaurus by selecting the specific meaning followed by the specific synonym you are interested in and then clicking on the Look Up button to get a new range of meanings and synonyms for the new word Working with Text 137 To replace the original word Click the Replace button to replace the original word selected in your text with the word in the Replace Look Up box To exit the thesaurus Click the Cancel button Creating text based tables Tables are ideal for presenting text and data in a variety of easily customizable row and column formats with built in spreadsheet capabilities Each cell in a table behaves like a mini frame Like frame text you can vary character and paragraph properties apply named text styles apply photo based borders embed inline images apply text colour fills solid gradient or bitmap track font usage with the Resource Manager and use proofing options such as AutoSpell Spell Checker Proof Reader and Thesaurus Some unique features include number formatting and formula insertion 138 Working with Text Feature Supported Resize
205. s on the first sheet of paper Skipping regions is useful if for example you ve already peeled off several labels from a label sheet and don t want to print on the peeled off sections Check the Preview window to see how the output will look If you haven t set up the publication as a Small Publication but still want to print multiple pages per sheet try using the Fit Many option see Scaling above Note that this option ignores printer margins and doesn t change the imposition orientation of output pages Tiling Under Tiling on the Print dialog s Layout tab check the Print tiled pages option to print large or enlarged pages using multiple sheets of paper Set the Scale factor to print at a larger size e g 300 Each section or tile is printed on a single sheet of paper the various tiles can then be joined to form the complete page Use this option for printing at larger sizes than the maximum paper size of your printer typically for creating banners and posters To simplify arrangement of the tiles and to allow for printer margins you can specify an overlap value Generating professional output Beyond printing your own copies on a desktop printer or having copies photo reproduced at a quick print shop you may wish to consider professional printing For example if you need to reproduce more than about 500 copies of a piece photocopying begins to lose its economic advantages If you re not using
206. s button to set up the printer for the correct page size etc Check Print to file to output to a print file per page or per separation instead of directly to the printer 3 If necessary click the Layout Separations Prepress or Duplex tab s to set special print options To set options for scaling thumbnails multiple pages tiling or mail merge select the Layout tab To specify settings for PostScript colour separations select the Separations tab To set professional print options select the Prepress tab To perform duplex printing to non duplex printers use the Duplex tab See p 234 4 Select the print range to be printed e g the whole document the selection area a specific page or range of pages PagePlus also lets you choose odd or even sheets to print and also various double or single sided options that override your current printer settings Whichever option you ve chosen a drop down list lets you export all sheets in the range or just odd or even sheets with the option of printing in Reverse order 5 Select the number of copies and optionally instruct the printer to Collate them 234 Printing your Publication 6 The Preview window shows how your publication maps to the selected paper size You can click the dialog s Preview button to hide and show the window 7 Click If you re printing a book from within BookPlus you can select Entire book to output all chapt
207. s pages either singly or in pairs as two facing pages side by side You ll need facing pages if you re creating a publication where you need to see both the left hand verso and right hand recto pages or one that employs double page spreads where a headline or other element needs to run from the left hand page to the right hand page If you set up a publication to use facing pages you can specify either a single or dual master page A single master page is as the name implies a single page a dual master page is a spread with both a left and right page component allowing you to run elements across the spread in the background of the publication or position left side page numbers and right side page numbers at opposite corners The Pages tab shows single master pages with a standard page thumbnail and dual master pages with a split page thumbnail To set up facing pages 1 In the Page Setup dialog check Facing Pages 2 If you plan to use background elements that span a double page spread select Dual master pages This will let you define master pages with paired left page and right page components or For a facing page layout where both left and right pages initially share the same master page and you don t need to run background elements across the spread clear Dual master pages Because you assign master pages to individual page layers one page at a time it takes two separate steps to assign a dual master page to
208. selected odd or even page continuation would otherwise skip a page Either way BookPlus will number your pages correctly but for correct imposition in professional printing it s usually best to insert the blank page Note You won t see the blank page inserted into your original file only in the generated output 4 Click OK BookPlus immediately applies your settings to all chapters To set page numbering options for a chapter 1 Select its name in the list and choose Chapter Page Number Options from the Chapter menu The Page Number Format dialog displays current settings for numbering style and initial numbering 2 To change the numbering style make a selection in the Style section For example you might use lowercase Roman numerals for a preface 3 To force page numbering to start at a certain value uncheck Continue from previous chapter and type the starting value For example you might want to skip page numbering for introductory front matter and begin numbering from 1 on the first page of main body text 4 Click OK BookPlus immediately applies your settings to the selected chapter Note These settings only apply to the selected chapter If you ve reordered chapters or changed the chapter list in any way you can quickly reimpose correct numbering on the current list Working with Text 155 To update page numbering Choose Renumber Pages from the BookPlus File menu Synchronizing chapters
209. sen paragraphs flexible bullet numbering and indenting buttons and much more 8 Welcome Fonts Substitute missing fonts when opening third party publications or PDFs View your currently installed font set in the Fonts tab including those most recently assigned to text favourite fonts and those considered Websafe Hover over a listed font for an in situ font preview of your selected text simply click to apply the new font if you like it Easily swap all selected instances of a common font for another font in one fell swoop Frame and Artistic Text Create text with stunning transparency effects gradient bitmap photo fills 2D 3D effects and more Use designer artistic text for high impact headlines and powerful design elements artistic text scales flips and can follow a drawn path while frame text flows and line wraps Find amp Replace Search through story text for words and phrases but also text attributes particular fonts colours special characters Unicode regular expressions and words at specific positions in sentences Text Composition Tools Includes word count spell checking thesaurus and proof reader AutoCorrect and Check spelling as you type proofing options are at hand Table of Contents amp Index Create automated Tables of Contents and Indexes for complex documents PagePlus refers to the named styles you ve allocated to headings subheadings and titles to automatically
210. settings when pasting to update floating and inline anchor defaults Any subsequent object pasting will adopt the anchor settings saved when the option was checked 5 Optional For control of possible object overlap select an option from the If objects overlaps drop down list Allow the overlap The overlap is left as is Pack into lines means the second object will be placed beside the first object if there is room or below it if not Line up left to right Line up right to left means the second object will be placed to the right or the left of the first object respectively Stack top to bottom Stack bottom to top means the second object will be placed below or above the first object respectively 6 Click OK The object appears inline with text and shows an Anchor Properties icon Objects inserted into text frames will automatically be anchored using Float with text default settings However the anchored object can be dragged away from the anchor point as an alternative method for creating an anchored object Working with Objects 77 To view anchor properties 1 Select an anchored object 2 Click Anchor Properties shown under the object The Anchored Object Properties dialog is displayed The options differ depending on which of the three positioning options is enabled If you d like to change the position of an anchor point you can drag it anywhere else in your text frame Dragging to an are
211. sharp changes in Depth are smoothed out by the Blur parameter To adjust the sliders independently click the button so it s up Optional If needed expand the preview pane by clicking the Show Hide Preview button When expanded the effects are applied only in the preview window While the pane is collapsed click the button again filter effects are applied directly to the object on the page The former approach lets you work on your effects in isolation without other page objects interfering while fine tuning your effects Use zoom in out buttons or a percentage magnification for detailed work Check a 3D effect in the 3D Effects list which reflects the 3D effect you can achieve 3D Bump Map The 3D Bump Map effect creates the impression of a textured surface by applying a mathematical function you select to add depth information for a peak and valley effect You can use 3D Bump Map in conjunction with one or more additional 3D filter effects but not with a 2D Bump Map Pictures Lines and Shapes 201 2D Bump Map The 2D Bump Map effect creates the impression of a textured surface by applying a greyscale bitmap you select to add depth information for a peak and valley effect You can use 2D Bump Map in conjunction with one or more additional 3D filter effects but not with a 3D Bump Map 3D Pattern Map The 3D Pattern Map effect creates the impression of a textured surface by applying a mathematical function you se
212. so that objects can snap to them then be moved collectively with guide movement Defining layout guides To define layout guides Click on the Page context toolbar Layout Guides from the File menu or right click on a blank part of the page and choose Layout Guides Then in the Layout Guides dialog use the Margins tab to set guide lines for page margins rows and columns and bleed areas In the Margin Guides section you can set the left right top and bottom page margins individually or click the From Printer 46 Working with Pages button to derive the page margin settings from the current printer settings The dialog also provides options for Balanced margins left matching right top matching bottom or for Mirrored margins on facing pages where the left margin setting becomes the inside and the right margin becomes the outside Use the Row and Column Guides section to define guides for rows and columns If you want rows or columns of uneven width first place them at fixed intervals then drag to reposition them as required Use Bleed area guides to specify the extra margin you want to allow around the original Page Setup dimensions or trim area Note that if the setting is zero or you have View gt Bleed Area Guides unchecked you won t see the bleed area displayed For ruler guides use the Guides tab to precisely create edit or delete ruler guides or more commonly just drag th
213. some web colours along with the five basic scheme colours as shown at left The easiest way to apply new web colours is to select a different colour scheme by clicking a sample on the Schemes tab You can also change any of the web colours within a scheme using the Scheme Manager in the same way that you would modify the scheme s five basic colours See Using Colour Schemes on p 219 Producing Web Pages 271 Setting custom page backgrounds The web colours defined in the Scheme Manager normally apply throughout the site but you can override the Scheme Manager s Background picture colour setting for any particular page To set a custom page background 1 Choose Web Site Properties from the File menu 2 On the Background tab uncheck Use Scheme Manager settings and set new options for Background colour and or Use picture and or On page colour The settings apply only to the current page Setting web picture display options When you export a publication as a website PagePlus applies certain global settings to determine how each image whether drawn pasted in or imported ends up as a separate bitmap displayed on the web page The following conversion settings are used for web publishing Each image in the publication is exported as a separate file Any image you inserted is exported as the original file using its original file name Inserted metafiles and all other graphics are converted to
214. sts of a single layer One layer may be enough to accommodate the elements of a particular layout but you can create additional layers as needed On each layer objects such as text frames and pictures are stacked in the order you create them from back to front with each new object in front of the others Layers themselves are stacked in a similar way and of course you can juggle the order of objects and layers as needed Working with Pages 39 Layers are useful when you re working on a complex design where it makes sense to separate one cluster of objects from another You can work on one layer at a time without worrying about affecting elements on a different layer Once you ve displayed a page you can normally edit any object on it regardless of which layer the object is on simply by clicking the object Each layer is situated along with other layers if present within a stack on the Layers tab The uppermost layer is applied over any lower layer on the page Layer 1 and Layer 2 above could represent the following 40 Working with Pages In order to create new objects on a particular layer you ll need to activate switch to that layer in the Layers tab To activate a particular layer Click at the beginning of a layer entry to activate that layer You ll see the layer arrow jump to the now activated layer Layer 1 in the Layers tab example above is currently active Don t confuse this with simply selecti
215. t see p 103 for standalone text with special effects or table text see Creating text based tables on p 137 for row and column displays Working with Text 93 What s a text frame A text frame is effectively a mini page with Margins and column guides to control text flow Optional preceding and following frames Text and optional inline images that flow through the frames The text in a frame is called a story When you move a text frame its story text moves with it When you resize a text frame its story text reflows to the new dimensions Frames can be linked so that a single story continues from one frame to another But text frames can just as easily stand alone Thus in any publication you can create text in a single frame spread a story over several frames and or include many independent frame sequences By placing text frames anywhere in any order you can build up newspaper or newsletter style publications with a story flowing from one column to another below or even across pages 94 Working with Text When you select a frame you ll see its bounding box indicated by a grey border line plus corner and edge handles and if you clicked with the Pointer Tool a blinking insertion point in the frame s text In this mode you can edit the text with the Pointer Tool For details see Editing text on the page on p 108 Text frames behave like other PagePlus objects when select
216. t sequence This saves you from having to calculate how to position and collate pairs of pages on a single larger page and lets you use automatic page numbering for the booklet pages To produce double sided sheets use your printer s double sided option or run sheets through twice printing first the front and then the back of the sheet reverse top and bottom between runs The sheets can then be collated and bound at their centre to produce a booklet with all the pages in the correct sequence With complex setups you may wish to use commercial printing Printing posters and banners Posters and banners are large format publications where the page size extends across multiple sheets of paper To have PagePlus take care of the printing set up your publication beforehand using File gt Page Setup with the Large Publications option to preview and select a particular preset arrangement 238 Printing your Publication Even if the publication isn t set up as a poster or banner you can use tiling and scaling settings see Tiling below to print onto multiple sheets from a standard size page Each section or tile is printed on a single sheet of paper and the various tiles can then be joined to form the complete page To simplify arrangement of the tiles and to allow for printer margins you can specify an overlap value Scaling Under Special Printing on the Print dialog s Layout tab set the As in document Scale factor o
217. tab click on the scheme colour that you want to apply to the fill line or text or you can drag the colour instead If an object s fill uses a scheme colour the corresponding sample in Swatches tab will be highlighted whenever the object is selected PagePlus lets you create your own colour scheme either from scratch or by modifying an existing scheme See online Help for more information Modifying and creating colour schemes If you ve tried various colour schemes but haven t found one that s quite right you can modify any of the colours in an existing scheme to create a new one or create your own named scheme from scratch To modify or create a colour scheme 1 Select Scheme Manager from the Tools menu The Scheme Manager dialog appears with the current scheme colours shown on the Edit tab 2 To select a different scheme switch to the dialog s Schemes tab and select a scheme in the scrolling list Clicking OK at this point applies the scheme to the publication or you can go back to the Edit tab and adjust scheme colours On the Edit tab each of the five scheme colour numbers has its own drop down list showing available colours in the PagePlus palette Additionally you ll see options for web publishing scheme colours for Hyperlink Followed Hyperlink Active Hyperlink Rollover Hyperlink Background and On page 3 To set or change a colour simply click the adjacent button and select a new colour Click More C
218. tation angle or enter a specific value into the input box Table text can be sorted by row column multi row multi column regions or entire table using the Sort button from the context toolbar Characters as part of table text can take line gradient and bitmap fill properties Table text shares default properties separately from other text types artistic frame or shape For details see Updating and saving defaults on p 25 To format numbers and insert formulas switch on the Spreadsheet functions button on the Table context toolbar For more details see online Help 142 Working with Text To change the table s structure and appearance To select a cell click on the edge of a cell To select more than one cell click in one cell and drag across the others one row or column at a time To adjust row or column size drag the cursor shown when hovering over the separating lines in the table row or column headings Note that you can adjust a row s height independent of the amount of text it contains For absolute row column sizing choose Set Column Width s or Set Row Height s from the Table menu For individual columns click the column or row header s button choosing Set Width or Set Height You can resize your columns without affecting the overall table width by adjusting the column heading with Ctrl drag To distribute rows or columns select the entire table or just a selecti
219. the image with selection areas only various coloured tints aiding complex selection operations checkerboard transparency areas marked for discarding For Show tinted a red tint indicates areas to be discarded a green tint shows areas to be kept For Show transparent mode a different Background colour can be set at bottom of the Studio which might help differentiate areas to keep or discard 174 Pictures Lines and Shapes To select image areas for keeping discarding 1 In Image Cutout Studio click either Keep brush or Discard brush from the left of the Studio workspace 2 Optional Pick a Brush size suitable for the area to be worked on 3 Optional Set a Grow tolerance value to automatically expand the selected area under the cursor by detecting colours similar to those within the current selection The greater the value the more the selected area will grow 4 Using the circular cursor click and drag across the area to be retained It s OK to repeatedly click and drag until your selection area is made The button reverts to the last made selection 5 If you re outputting an alpha edged bitmap you can refine the area to be kept discarded within Image Cutout Studio only after previewing with Erase and Restore touch up tools Vector cropped images can be cropped using standard PagePlus crop tools outside of the Studio Make your outline edge as exact as possible by using
220. the same To flip an object horizontally vertically Select the object and choose Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical from the Arrange menu 70 Working with Objects Cropping and combining objects Cropping means masking hiding parts of an object for example to improve composition or create a special effect The underlying object remains intact Combining starts with more than one object but creates a special composite object with one or more holes on the inside where the component objects fills overlapped one another useful for creating mask or stencil effects Square Crop Irregular Crop To crop using the object s original outline 1 Select the object then select the Square Crop Tool on the Attributes toolbar s Crop flyout 2 Drag one of the object s edge or corner handles inward To scale the object within the crop outline Ctrl drag either upwards or downwards To crop by modifying the object s outline Select the object and select the Irregular Crop Tool on the Attributes toolbar s Crop flyout The Curve context toolbar appears which lets you control the displayed nodes and connecting segments that define the object s crop outline See Editing lines on p 188 To move a node control point where you see the cursor drag the node Working with Objects 71 To move a line segment between two nodes where you see the cursor drag the segment To position a cropped object with
221. the submenu Working with Unicode text PagePlus fully supports Unicode making it possible to incorporate foreign characters or special symbols To paste Unicode text from the Clipboard to the page use Edit gt Paste Special then select Unformatted Unicode Text Insert Unicode characters directly into your text by typing your Unicode Hex value and pressing Alt X The Alt X keyboard operation toggles between the displayed character e g and its Hex value e g U 0040 equivalent To export text in Unicode format use WritePlus 112 Working with Text Using Find and Replace You can search publication text for an extraordinary variety of items not just words or parts of words but a host of character and paragraph attributes such as fonts styles alignment bullets and numbering missing fonts drop caps even inline graphics and more Once located you can replace items either globally or on a case by case basis To use Find and Replace on frame text 1 Choose Find amp Replace from the Edit menu 2 In the dialog type the text to be found in the Find box and its replacement text if any in the Replace box Click the down arrows to view recent items Click either box s button to use flyout menus to select formats or special characters or define a regular expression for a wildcard type search 3 Select the Range to be searched Current Story just the currently selected text object o
222. then choose Edit Story from the Edit menu The WritePlus window opens 2 Click the Mark Index button on the Story toolbar 3 Use the Mark Index Entry dialog to edit index entry marks in the Main entry or Subentry box If you selected a word or phrase in the story it appears as the Main entry in the dialog You can use the entry as it is or type new text for the main entry and Sub entry if any You must include a main entry for each sub entry The dialog s scrolling list records entries and sub entries alphabetically Index entry marks are invisible on the PagePlus screen and can only be added or edited in WritePlus To reuse an index entry click it in the scrolling list For a standard index entry leave the Current page box enabled To insert a cross reference with the term s preceded by See enable Cross reference to include a word other than See simply replace it in the box 152 Working with Text You can also specify a bold and or italic page number format 4 Click Mark to insert the new entry mark or update a selected mark To build an index 1 First mark the entries as described above 2 Choose Index from the Insert menu 3 Run through the Index Wizard choosing where to place and how to format your index Repeat at any time to update the information Producing a book with BookPlus BookPlus is a management utility built into PagePlus that lets you produce a who
223. this case leaving one or more holes where the component objects overlapped As with grouping you can apply formatting such as line or fill to the combined object and continue to edit individual nodes and segments with the Pointer Tool Unlike those other methods a combined object permanently takes the line and fill properties of the front object Combining is reversible but the component objects keep the line and fill properties of the combined object Combining is a quick way to create a mask or stencil cutout QuickShapes Convert to Curves Combine Curves Drop Shadow Added Working with Objects 73 To combine two or more selected lines or drawn shapes 1 Draw your two lines or QuickShapes 2 Place the clipping object in front of the object to be cut out 3 Select each object and choose Tools gt Convert To gt Curves for both 4 Select both objects 5 Choose Combine Curves from the Arrange menu Combining doesn t work with QuickShapes or text objects Use Tools gt Convert To gt Curves if necessary to first convert these objects to nodes and segments To restore the original shapes from a combined object Select it and choose Split Curves from the Arrange menu Anchoring objects If you re working with text frames you ll probably want to add supporting shapes pictures tables or even nested text frames within your publication s text artistic or frame text Such objects can be positioned
224. touts Image Cutout Studio makes light work of cutting out your placed pictures directly in PagePlus Use brushes to discard uniform backgrounds sky walls etc or keep subjects of interest people objects etc A versatile Metafile Format Import and Export Serif Metafiles SMF a proprietary image format with improvements to the Windows Metafile format WMF Better line fill and text definitions make them ideal for sharing graphics between Serif applications 6 Welcome Graphics Drawing Tools Design stunning vector graphics with Pencil Pen and Straight Line tools and add line endings like arrowheads diamonds and quills Alternatively the array of fully customizable QuickShapes let you quickly create outlines for your designs while Convert to Curves Crop to Shape and curve drawing offer complete flexibility for creating any shape imaginable Mesh warp envelopes add perspective slant and bulge to any object Fills Enhance shapes and artistic text with fantastic professional fills Use the Colour tab to change fill line or text colour with one click Choose preset fills solid gradient or bitmap from the Swatches tab s palettes even create stunning bitmap fills from your own images What s more every colour used is added to the Publication Palette so that you can easily re use it again and again Intelligent Colour Schemes Choose from dozens of preset colour schemes to change the overall
225. tractions of other objects on the page i e the design is displayed in isolation and centred on the page Alternatively a logo or flash can be created from existing artistic text shape gallery object picture or grouped objects To edit an existing logo 1 Click the button on the control bar under the selected logo LogoStudio is launched with your object s zoomed in to fit your workspace 2 Using standard PagePlus tools and tabs customize your logo design to your liking 3 Click from LogoStudio s main toolbar to exit The modified logo is updated in its original position Converting objects to logos It s just as easy to by pass the pre defined logos and base your custom logo on objects already present in your publication or website The logo can be converted back to separate objects at any time by ungrouping Working with Objects 85 To convert existing objects to a logo 1 Select one or more objects or a grouped object on the page 2 Select Edit in LogoStudio from the Edit menu or select via right click 3 Edit your logo design In particular you can use the upper Logo Text input box to caption your logo typically a company or club name then click the tick box Adding flashes In PagePlus flashes can be created with each design intended to catch the eye especially for commercial reasons or general attention grabbing PagePlus s Gallery tab comes complete with a host of flashes
226. ts For desktop printers without duplex support use the Manual Duplex printing to create any double sided publication Email your publications Share your PagePlus documents natively or as HTML emails complete with text images and active hyperlinks visible in the body of the email Package your project Gather together your project s supporting files to allow your project to be used on a different computer or at a print bureau Resources such as fonts linked graphics linked media files and more are embedded in a project package you ll never suffer from missing resources again Publish To Web Design your own website directly in PagePlus or publish pages originally created for print to the web as well PagePlus s intuitive Web Publishing mode creates all the background HTML code for you and guides you seamlessly through publishing your documents and websites online either in full or incrementally 10 Welcome New features PhotoLab for non destructive adjustment and effects see p 176 The powerful PhotoLab studio packs a punch with an impressive selection of editable adjustments creative and artistic effects pencil water colour oil and more Use integrated Straighten Crop Red eye and Spot repair tools for easy retouching Apply filters to selected areas of your photo by using brush based masking Save adjustment effect combinations as favourites for future use Anchor any object see p 73
227. ts You then have the option of replacing an existing preset with your own preset based on your own custom list style Lists can be applied to normal text as local formatting or to text styles equally 130 Working with Text To create a simple bulleted or numbered list 1 Select one or more paragraphs or Click in a paragraph s text 2 Select Bulleted List or Numbered List from the Text context toolbar The list style used is the first preset shown in the Bullets amp Numbering dialog described below To create a bulleted or numbered list using presets 1 Select one or more paragraphs or Click in a paragraph s text 2 Select Bullets amp Numbering from the Format menu 3 From the Text Style dialog choose Bullet Number or Multi Level from the Style drop down menu 4 Select one of the preset formats shown by default or For a custom list click the Details button to display then alter custom options 5 Click OK to apply list formatting For number and multi level lists check Restart numbering to restart numbering from the current cursor position in the list otherwise leave the option unchecked Turn off list formatting by clicking or on the Text context toolbar s again Working with Text 131 Using multi level lists For multi level lists as opposed to bulleted and numbered lists you can set a different character symbol text or number to display at each lev
228. ts per inch setting i e twice the resultant lines per inch on the printer or other device that will be used If you re printing at 600dpi then 200 dpi scanning is fine 184 Pictures Lines and Shapes For an image that will end up on a web page it s possible to get great results scanning at 100dpi using exactly the screen dimensions you need If you re going to edit the image increase the dpi to be on the safe side For line art and halftone images save as a black and white TIFF PCX or GIF For greyscale photographic images scan using greyscales and save as a greyscale TIFF file If you have a colour scanner save a colour TIFF You can resize these images and still maintain reasonable quality provided you don t make them significantly larger than the original In general the number of greyscales or colours is a more important issue than the actual resolution dpi If you want your image to use lossless compression either scan as png or as TIF and then convert it to png within your publication To obtain images of smaller file sizes scan as jpg at 200dpi at the highest quality Depending on your scanner software your may be able to perform initial adjustments right at the source e g adjustment of levels Often you can de screen images to eliminate possible moir patterns interference between the regular dot patterns in printed images and the scanner s path If your scanner software
229. ts thumbnail 2 Click Add to add a page or master page before the one selected in the window or To add a new page at the end of the publication deselect all pages by clicking in the neutral grey region of the lower window then click the Add button To add master pages For master pages the above procedure applies but within the Master Pages window The only exception is that you cannot create a new master page based on a design template s pages no dialog opens To delete a single page master page 1 On the Pages tab select the page or master page to delete on the appropriate window by clicking its thumbnail 2 Click the Remove button To rearrange pages On the Pages tab in the lower Pages window drag a page thumbnail to a new location in the page sequence 38 Working with Pages Assigning master pages If you re only using one master page it is assigned to any newly created page by default However if you re using multiple master pages you can assign a specific master page to any standard page To assign a master page From the Page tab s expanded Master Pages window drag a master page onto a target standard page in the lower window If the page has more than one layer you can specify the layer to which you want to assign the master page Alternatively use the Master Page Manager use the Set tab in the Pages tab Working with layers Each new page or master page consi
230. u ve chosen a drop down list lets you export all sheets in the range or just odd or even sheets 4 Set other options as detailed in Printing basics on p 233 then click Print Working with Text 157 To export the book or selected chapters as PDF 1 To export just certain chapters make sure their names are selected in the chapter list 2 Choose Publish as PDF from the BookPlus File menu 3 Under Print Range on the General tab select Entire book to output all chapters or Selected chapters to output just those you selected You can also select the Pages option to output one or more specific page s Whichever option you ve chosen a drop down list lets you export all pages in the range or just odd or even pages 4 Set other options as detailed in Exporting PDF files on p 243 then click OK Using mail merge Most commonly mail merge means printing your publication a number of times inserting different information each time from a data source such as an address list file for example into a series of letters or mailing labels PagePlus can handle many kinds of data sources and more challenging creative tasks It is even possible to merge picture data for example digital photos into single fields or even auto create a grid layout of pictures and text suitable for catalogs or photo albums As mail merge is an advanced feature of PagePlus see the PagePlus Help for more detail Subjects covered include
231. uides for placing page elements the frame column guides actually determine how text flows within each frame Text won t flow outside the column margins You can drag the column guides or use a dialog to adjust the top and bottom column blinds and the left and right column margins Working with Text 97 To edit frame properties directly Select the frame object then drag column guide lines to adjust the boundaries of the column 1 2 3 The illustration above shows how the cursor will change when hovering over the selected bounding box 1 after dragging inwards the column margin can be adjusted 2 and after dragging downwards the top margin blind can be moved 3 98 Working with Text To edit frame properties using a dialog 1 Select the frame and click Frame Setup on the Frame context toolbar 2 From the dialog you can change the Number of columns Gutter distance between columns Left Margin Right Margin and enable disable text wrapping around an object 3 To change the column widths and blinds top and bottom frame margins click a cell in the table and enter a new value How a story flows through a sequence of frames You can have just one frame on its own or you can have many frames Frames can be connected in linked sequences so that the story associated with a given frame sequence flows through the first frame on to the next and keeps flowing into frames in the link sequence A key
232. ur public holiday listings e g Easter holidays by adding personal events such as birthdays anniversaries and bill payments unfortunately so that the events show up on your calendar simply use the Calendar Events button on a selected calendar s context toolbar Events show automatically on your calendar under the chosen date To add an event 1 Select your calendar s bounding box 2 Click on the context toolbar 3 Ensure that the Show personal events option is selected 4 Optional Select Show events by date to view your events in a more traditional calendar layout 148 Working with Text 5 Click New event 6 From the dialog type use the up down arrows or click the Browse button to select a date 7 Enter your event text into the text input box This displays in your calendar under the chosen date 8 If the event is a birthday or other annual event check Event recurs annually 9 Click OK The event appears in the event list under the chosen date 10 When you have finished adding events click Save Use the Edit event or Delete event buttons to modify or delete an existing event Inserting database tables As a great way of producing a database report in your publication it is possible for a database table to be imported and presented as a PagePlus table The database table could be from one of a comprehensive range of database file formats Serif databases sdb Microsoft Acces
233. utton to insert a page number field as a prefix or suffix along with any optional header footer text 3 Complete the wizard To insert a page number field 1 Switch to the master page if desired by clicking the Current Page box on the Hintline 2 With the Artistic Text Tool selected Tools toolbar click for an insertion point to place the page number 3 On the Insert menu choose Page Number 52 Working with Pages Working with Objects 4 54 Working with Objects Working with Objects 55 Selecting an object Before you can change any object you need to select it using one of these tools from the Tools toolbar Pointer Tool Click to use the Pointer Tool to select move copy resize or rotate objects Rotate Tool Click to use the Rotate Tool to rotate an object around a rotation origin normally centred See Rotating an object on p 68 To select an object Click on the object using one of the tools shown above The above example shows an unselected and selected object showing Move and Group buttons If objects overlap Alt click until the desired object is selected When selecting a text object with the Pointer Tool Clicking on a text object artistic text or text frame with the Pointer Tool selects the object and also positions the blinking text selection cursor within the object s text In this mode you can edit the text see p 108 56 Working with Objects
234. value so it s much easier just to choose from the set of gallery thumbnails 4 To change the transparency value of any existing node including the start and end nodes select the node and click on a new thumbnail in the Transparency tab s Solid transparency gallery you can also drag your chosen thumbnail onto the selected node 5 To move a node you ve added simply drag it to a new position along the transparency path 6 To delete a node you ve added select it and press Delete Setting the default transparency The default transparency means the transparency that will be applied to the next new object you create Local defaults only affect objects in the current project For information on setting defaults in PagePlus see Updating and saving defaults on p 25 230 Colour Fills and Transparency Printing your Publication 8 232 Printing your Publication Printing your Publication 233 Printing basics PagePlus supports scaling tiling manual duplex printing and many other useful printing options Here we ll cover what you need to know for basic desktop printer output If you re working with a service bureau or professional printer and need to provide PDF output see Generating professional output p 239 To set up your printer or begin printing 1 Click Print on the Standard toolbar The Print dialog appears 2 On the General tab select a printer from the list If necessary click the Propertie
235. ve or resize a hotspot Click to select the hotspot To move drag from the centre or from the hotspot s bounding box To constrain the hotspot to vertical or horizontal movement hold down the Shift key while dragging To resize drag on its outer bounding box handles Producing Web Pages 269 By editing the inner outline you can convert rectangular hotspots into freeform shapes that closely match the parts of the underlying graphic you want to be hot To edit the outline first move the mouse pointer over the hotspot s inner outline until the cursor changes to indicate whether you re over a node or a line Choosing website colours A website may have an adopted colour scheme selected by using the Schemes tab Each scheme has a name and consists of five complementary basic colours plus additional web colours which you can apply to any design element see Using colour schemes on p 219 A selection of schemes named WWW 1 through WWW 9 appearing at the bottom of the tab s scheme list are specifically designed for web use The currently set colour scheme is also shown at the bottom of the Swatches tab for convenience For example for the colour scheme WWW3 numbers or letters represent basic or web colour sets respectively Web colours Websites have several special web colour settings usually defined as part of a colour scheme in the Scheme Manager You ll need to know about these settings even
236. with PagePlus PANTONE Colour Data and or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of PagePlus FontForge 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 by George Williams Portions of this software are copyright 2008 The FreeType Project www freetype org All rights reserved ODF Translator 2006 2008 Clever Age DIaLOGIKa Sonata Software Ltd All rights reserved Office Binary Translator to OpenXML Copyright 2008 2009 DIaLOGIKa All rights reserved Clipart samples from Serif ArtPacks Serif Europe Ltd amp Paul Harris TrueType font samples from Serif FontPacks Serif Europe Ltd Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks acknowledged PagePlus is a registered trademark of Serif Europe Ltd 2009 Serif Europe Ltd All rights reserved No part of this User Guide may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Serif Europe Ltd Serif PagePlus X4 2009 Serif Europe Ltd Contents Contents 1 Welcome 1 Welcome 3 Key features 4 New features 10 Installat
237. with text This is the default positioning option 2 Specify a Horizontal e g Inside Left Aligned and or Vertical position e g Inside Top in relation to different page elements e g anchor point frame etc 3 Optional Set an Offset X by or Offset Y by to further offset the object horizontally or vertically from the Horizontal and Vertical position in absolute units centimetres or inches Alternatively check Relative to offset by a percentage of the object size 4 Check Keep within bounds to stop the anchored object from being placed outside of the text frame The object will move but only to the frame edge or page margin guides When unchecked there is no restriction on object placement 5 Click OK The Anchor point appears and your object is now an anchoring object showing an icon 76 Working with Objects Or for an inline object 1 Enable Position inline as character 2 To set the object s vertical alignment with respect to adjacent text select an Align with text option Text will not flow around the anchored object 3 Optional Enter a Offset Y by value to set the percentage to which the object will be vertically offset in relation to its height 4 Optional Check Scale to to scale the object to a percentage of the adjacent text point size This keeps the same relative size if the text size changes 100 will scale precisely to current point size 4 Optional Check Use these
238. ws your mouse movements 3 To end the line release the mouse button The line will automatically smooth out using a minimal number of nodes 4 To extend the line position the cursor over one of its red end nodes The cursor changes to include a plus symbol Click on the node and drag to add a new line segment To draw a straight line with the Straight Line Tool 1 Choose the Straight Line Tool from the Tools toolbar s Line flyout 2 Click where you want the line to start and drag to the end point The line appears immediately To constrain the angle of the straight line to 15 degree increments hold down the Shift key as you drag This is an easy way to make exactly vertical or horizontal lines 3 To extend the line position the cursor over one of its red end nodes The cursor changes to include a plus symbol Click on the node and drag to add a new line segment To draw one or more line segments with the Pen Tool 1 Choose the Pen Tool from the Tools toolbar s Line flyout On the Curve context toolbar three buttons let you select which kind of segment to draw Pictures Lines and Shapes 187 A Straight segment is simply a straight line connecting two nodes Shortcut Press 1 A B zier segment is curved displaying control handles for precise adjustment Shortcut Press 2 Smart segments appear without visible control handles using automatic curve fitting to connect each node They
239. xt 103 Using artistic text Artistic text is standalone text you type directly onto a page Especially useful for headlines pull quotes and other special purpose text it s easily formatted with the standard text tools Here are some similarities between frame text and artistic text Both text types let you vary character and paragraph properties apply named text styles edit text in WritePlus and even import text apply different line styles fills including gradient and bitmap fills and transparency access text via the Text Manager track font usage with the Resource Manager embed inline images apply 2D 3D filter effects and rotate flip use proofing options such as AutoSpell Spell Checker Proof Reader and Thesaurus And some differences You can initially draw artistic text at a desired point size and drag it to adjust the size later Frame text reflows in its frame upon frame resize but doesn t alter its text size Artistic text can be applied to a path but frame text cannot 104 Working with Text Artistic text won t automatically line wrap like frame text Artistic text doesn t flow or link the way frame text does the Frame context toolbar s text fitting functions aren t applicable to artistic text To create artistic text 1 Choose the Artistic Text Tool from the Artistic Text flyout on the Tools toolbar 2 Set initial te
240. xt properties font style etc as needed before typing using the Text context toolbar Format menu or right click and choose Text Format gt 3 Click on the page for an insertion point using a default point size or drag the cross hair cursor across the page to specify a particular size e g 4 Type directly on the page to create the artistic text Once you ve created an artistic text object you can select move resize delete and copy it just as you would with a text frame Solid colours gradient bitmap fills and transparency can all be applied To resize or reproportion an artistic text object To resize while maintaining the object s proportions drag the resize handles Working with Text 105 To resize freely hold down the Shift key while dragging To edit artistic text Drag to select a range of text creating a blue selection You can also double click to select a word Now you can type new text apply character and paragraph formatting edit the text in WritePlus apply proofing options and so on Putting text on a path Ordinary straight line artistic text is far from ordinary but you can extend its creative possibilities even further by flowing it along a curved path The resulting object has all the properties of artistic text plus its path is a B zier curve that you can edit with the Pointer Tool as easily as any other line In addition text on a path is editable in some un
241. y PagePlus takes the pages you ve laid out and converts them to HTML Web design templates simplify things by providing you with a variety of starter layouts professionally designed expressly for web display Starting a new web publication Paper Publishing mode is the familiar PagePlus environment for creating print publications However before developing your website PagePlus must operate in Web Publishing mode The Web Publishing mode includes special features such as menu items and custom settings to facilitate creation of web pages Use standard Windows or Websafe fonts for best results 266 Producing Web Pages To create a new web publication from scratch 1 Launch PagePlus or choose New gt New from Startup Wizard from the File menu 2 In the Startup Wizard select the Start New Publication option select the Web Page category on the left and choose a Standard VGA or Wide SVGA page 3 Click OK PagePlus will enter Web Publishing mode automatically To create a new web publication using a design template 1 Launch PagePlus or choose New gt New from Startup Wizard from the File menu 2 In the Startup Wizard select the Use Design Template option select the Web Publishing gt Web Sites category on the left and examine the samples on the right Click the sample that s closest to the site you want to create then click Open 3 Enter custom user details to personalize your website immediately
242. zard Standard toolbar or via the File menu It is also possible to open PDF files as new publications or Import PDF files and existing PagePlus files into currently open publications See online Help for both of these import options To open an existing publication from the Startup Wizard 1 Select the Open Saved Publication option 2 In the Documents pane of the Open Saved Publication dialog navigate to a publication file by either using your computer s Folders structure or by History shows saved publications by date 3 Click the file name then click Open The dialog also offers Print and Publish to PDF options without loading the selected publication plus Sort and Filtering options to change your view To open existing publications from within PagePlus 1 Click Open on the Standard toolbar 2 In the Open dialog select the folder and file name s For multiple publications Shift click to select adjacent multiple files or Ctrl click to select non adjacent files 3 Click the Open button To revert to the saved version of an open publication Choose Revert from the File menu Font substitution PagePlus supports automatic and manual font substitution if you open a PagePlus publication which uses fonts which are not stored on your computer See PagePlus help for more details 24 Getting Started Working with more than one publication If you have multiple publications open at the same time

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