Serif PagePlus X6 Manual

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Table of Contents

1. Welcome ............................................................................... 1

Welcome!...................................................................................................................... 3

Key features ................................................................................................................. 4

New features ............................................................................................................ 12

Installation ................................................................................................................ 15

2. Getting Started..................................................................17

Startup Wizard......................................................................................................... 19

Creating a publication from a design template........................................ 20

Starting a new publication from scratch ..................................................... 23

Opening existing publications ......................................................................... 24

Working with more than one publication................................................... 25

Saving your publication ...................................................................................... 26

Closing publications ............................................................................................. 26

3. Working with Pages.........................................................27

Setting up a publication ..................................................................................... 29

Adding, removing, and rearranging pages ................................................ 33

Understanding master pages ........................................................................... 36

Adding page backgrounds ................................................................................ 42

Using page numbering ....................................................................................... 44

Working with layers .............................................................................................. 45

Viewing pages ......................................................................................................... 50

Navigating pages ................................................................................................... 52

Contents

4. Using Design Aids ............................................................ 53

Clean design .............................................................................................................55

Dynamic guides.......................................................................................................56

Setting guides ..........................................................................................................58

Using the rulers and dot grid.............................................................................61

Snapping ....................................................................................................................64

5. Assets for Creativity ......................................................... 65

Using assets...............................................................................................................67

Browsing .....................................................................................................................69

Storing designs ........................................................................................................73

6. Working with Objects ..................................................... 77

Selecting an object ................................................................................................79

Selecting multiple objects ..................................................................................81

Copying, pasting, and replicating objects ...................................................82

Copying an object's formatting........................................................................84

Creating groups.......................................................................................................85

Moving objects ........................................................................................................86

Resizing objects .......................................................................................................87

Ordering objects .....................................................................................................88

Aligning and distributing objects....................................................................89

Exporting as a picture ...........................................................................................91

Rotating an object ..................................................................................................92

Flipping an object ..................................................................................................93

Cropping and combining objects ...................................................................94

Adding anchors to objects .................................................................................97

Joining object outlines ...................................................................................... 101

Applying a mesh warp envelope .................................................................. 103

Adding logos ......................................................................................................... 104

Inserting media clips .......................................................................................... 106

Updating and saving defaults ........................................................................ 109

Contents

7. Working with Text ......................................................... 111

Understanding text frames.............................................................................. 113

Fitting text to frames .......................................................................................... 118

Linking text frames.............................................................................................. 120

Using artistic text ................................................................................................. 122

Putting text on a path ........................................................................................ 124

Editing text on the page ................................................................................... 126

Using Find and Replace..................................................................................... 130

Setting text properties....................................................................................... 131

Using text styles.................................................................................................... 132

Wrapping text........................................................................................................ 140

Creating a bulleted or numbered list .......................................................... 141

Inserting cross-references ................................................................................ 144

Inserting user details .......................................................................................... 148

Inserting variables ............................................................................................... 151

Using Auto-Correct and Spell as you Type ............................................... 154

Spell-checking ....................................................................................................... 156

Automatic proofreading ................................................................................... 157

Creating text-based tables............................................................................... 158

Inserting a calendar ............................................................................................ 160

Inserting database tables ................................................................................. 163

Creating tables of contents ............................................................................. 165

Creating an index................................................................................................. 169

Producing a book with BookPlus .................................................................. 172

Hyperlinking an object ...................................................................................... 177

Viewing hyperlinks in your publication ..................................................... 179

Using mail merge ................................................................................................. 180

Contents

8. Working with Pictures, Lines, and Shapes................... 181

Adding picture frames....................................................................................... 183

Adding pictures .................................................................................................... 186

Using Cutout Studio ........................................................................................... 190

Applying PhotoLab filters ................................................................................ 194

Drawing and editing lines ................................................................................ 201

Setting line properties ....................................................................................... 202

Drawing and editing shapes ........................................................................... 204

Applying 2D filter effects.................................................................................. 208

Using 3D filter effects ......................................................................................... 211

Using object styles .............................................................................................. 215

Using connectors ................................................................................................. 216

9. Colour, Fills, and Transparency ................................. 219

Applying solid fills ............................................................................................... 221

Using colour schemes........................................................................................ 223

Creating custom colour schemes ................................................................. 226

Gradient and bitmap fills .................................................................................. 230

Working with transparency ............................................................................. 235

10. Using PDF Forms ........................................................... 239

Getting started with PDF forms ..................................................................... 241

Creating PDF forms ............................................................................................. 243

Collecting data from forms.............................................................................. 246

Contents

11. Publishing and Sharing ............................................... 251

Interactive Print/PDF Preview......................................................................... 253

Printing basics ....................................................................................................... 258

Publishing PDF files ............................................................................................ 261

Creating a PDF bookmark list ......................................................................... 263

Publishing as eBooks .......................................................................................... 266

Publishing as HTML............................................................................................. 270

Sharing by email................................................................................................... 275

12. Index .................................................................................. 277

Contents

Welcome

2 Welcome

Welcome 3

Welcome!

Welcome to PagePlus X6, the award-winning Desktop Publishing (DTP)

solution from Serif. PagePlus is the easiest way to get superior publishing

results, whether 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, modern eBooks or via web page.

To make life so much easier, PagePlus comes with an impressive selection of

design templates, creative 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 X6 doesn't stop at superior publishing. Its range of design studios

makes PagePlus stand out from the crowd—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

(p. 4).

Upgrading?

If you've upgraded from a previous version, this new edition of PagePlus

includes a host of exciting new features (p. 12) 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 the

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.

• Theme layout design templates

Choose a theme on which to base your publication! 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.

• Master Pages

Save time and maintain consistency by using one or more master

pages assigned to your publication pages. For more design freedom,

promote master page objects to your page, making them detached

and available for independent editing.

• 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!

Align and resize to objects using Dynamic guide snapping.

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• 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. Use Mixed

Page Orientations to add landscape pages to your portrait-oriented

publication, and vice versa. To view pages, Multi-page view lets you see

an array of pages, even show a facing pages view!

• Mail & 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.

• 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.

Calendars are table-based for enhanced functionality, and support

Year update, inline personal events, and public holidays! Even create

your own savable table and calendar AutoFormats.

• 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.

• Mixed Page Number Formats

Use different number formats (Arabic, Roman, or alphabetic) for your

publication's front page, intro pages, table of contents, or index.

Pictures

• Import Pictures

Import commonly-used standard file formats, including RAW digital

camera formats. AutoFlow pictures (or drag and drop) into sequential

picture frames! Import Adobe® 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).

6 Welcome

• PhotoLab for non-destructive adjustment and effect filters

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.

• Quick-and-easy Cutouts

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.

Creative

• 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. Join object outlines to

create more complex outlined objects.

• Fills and Lines

Enhance shapes, text frames, and artistic text with fantastic

professional fills and lines. 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.

Welcome 7

• Intelligent Colour Schemes

Choose from dozens of preset colour schemes to change the overall

appearance of your publications with a single click. You can

customize the scheme colours or create your own schemes from

colour spreads using Colour Scheme Designer.

• 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.

• 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 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.

8 Welcome

• Stunning logos and flashes

Use pre-designed ready-to-go logos—alternatively, create from

scratch in LogoStudio or base your design on existing PagePlus

objects! Use flashes for poster advertising or greeting cards.

• Decorative Picture Frames

Exciting ready-to-go picture frames can be applied around photos, text

frames, and tables.

Text

• Import text power!

Add word processing content to any text frame—Word 2010 (and

earlier versions), Open Office, Rich Text Format, PagePlus's

WritePlus, and many more text formats.

• 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.

• Anchor any object

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.

• 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

chosen paragraphs; flexible bullet, numbering and indenting buttons;

and much more!

Welcome 9

• 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!

• Professional-level OpenType Font Features

For advanced typography, PagePlus fully utilizes all your OpenType

font features—ligatures, stylistic sets/alternates, small/petite caps,

case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, and many more are now

available to both characters and text styles. You can now insert

characters as glyphs, rather than Unicode characters!

• 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 & 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.

Auto-Correct and Underline spelling mistakes as you type proofing

options are at hand.

• Table of Contents & Index

Create automated Table of Contents and Indexes for complex

documents. PagePlus refers to the named styles you've allocated to

headings, subheadings and titles to automatically 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.

• Cross -references

Insert cross-references throughout your publication which reference

headings, or anchored text, tables, pictures, or diagrams which

10 Welcome

update automatically. Insert your cross-reference as a page number,

heading/anchor name, numbered list number, and more. Add

Continued From/To cross-references to text frames.

• User-defined Variables

Set up your own variables to automatically update common terms that

repeat throughout your publication. Great for updating product names,

product versions, and language variants all at the same time.

Publishing and Sharing

• PDF Import & Export

Import individual PDF pages or whole PDF documents as new

PagePlus publications. Alternatively, 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, with powerful options to publish your PDFs for professional

printing (PDF/X) and the web (streaming supported). Scaling is

supported.

• 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 movie clips! Share with friends,

family, and colleagues. (See PagePlus Help.)

• Colour Management

Set up ICC profiles for your monitor, printer and scanner, and be

confident that your printed colours will closely match their appearance

on-screen. Manage colour for multiple images with different

embedded ICC profiles—allow or ignore image colour conversion to

the document's working space. RGB and CMYK images display

correctly to screen and print. For PDF printing, choose different

PDF/X1-a output intents for PDF colour management in

professional PDF publishing. Create accurate PDF output of greyscale

images to greyscale colour space.

Welcome 11

• Printing

Print documents professionally on your home printer—as several

pages on one sheet, or for large format printing, a single page across

multiple sheets. For desktop printers without duplex support, use the

Manual Duplex printing to create any double-sided publication. Print

scaling is supported.

• Interactive Print Preview with print-time imposition

Try out the exciting new Print Preview, packed with both preview and

imposition options—create books, booklets, thumbnails, and tiled

print output all without prior page setup. Step&Repeat and N-up

options are also available.

• 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.

Management

• Managing resources

List fonts, resources, and pictures used in your publication in the

powerful Resource Manager. Preview, relink, export, and replace

individual pictures and other resources. For fonts you can preview,

check if embedded, locate fonts on the page, and export them.

• 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!

• Import Custom User Settings on Upgrade

Upgrading from PagePlus X5? Preserve your custom Gallery

content, object styles, preferences, user dictionaries, keyboard

shortcuts, PDF profiles, and much more—all from within

PagePlus X6.

12 Welcome

New features

Creative

• Assets for a Creative Boost! (see p. 67)

Get creative with PagePlus's new Assets tab—the powerful new tab

that lets you browse and search for professionally designed assets

such as graphics, picture frames, backgrounds, as well as mixed

page content and entire pages—all ready to drag and drop straight

into your publication! The tab also lets you add pictures from your

computer drive in readiness for use, and store custom designs for

global or current publication use only. Finally, you'll be able to create

custom picture frames and backgrounds from page objects!

Ease of Use

• Clean Design—For Easier Page Development (see p. 55)

With Clean Design and dynamic guides working together, you'll get a

clutter-free page layout combined with intelligent object-to-object

positioning. Any placed guides, although hidden, can still be snapped

to!

• Multiple Tables of Contents with Easier Management (see p. 165)

Modern and truly interactive, the new TOC tab lets you create and

manage multiple tables of contents. Partial tables of contents can

also be placed at strategic points throughout your publication—great

for complementing your main publication-wide TOC with chapter-

level TOCs placed at chapter starts!

• Indexing Made Easy (see p. 169)

Create, view, and manage index entries from one location—using the

new Index tab. Mark all instances of the same word simultaneously

for bulk indexing. As you build your index, generate your index from

the tab again and again!

• Business User Details per Publication! (see p. 150)

Create groupings of business user details, called Business Sets; apply

a business set to each publication. Ideal for creating similar

publications for different clients.

Welcome 13

• Multiple User Dictionaries

Use multiple user dictionaries—ideal for subject-specific sites (e.g.,

Medical or Legal). Custom dictionaries can be created for UK, US

and many European languages, and can be applied selectively.

• Improved Studio Tabs

A new Studio toolbar switches on/off Assets tab, Fonts tab, How To

tab, or all tabs selectively. Individual tabs can be closed using an on-

tab Close button—great for customizing your Studio tab workspace.

Design

• PDF Interactivity (see p. 241)

For great-looking PDF forms, create interactive buttons that change

in appearance on mouse click or rollover. Different colours, effects, or

even pictures can be displayed in each "state". Hide and reveal

selectable layers as a result of different mouse actions.

• Access Streamed Media from Internet

Include streamed movies (MPEG, MP4, Shockwave, FLV, and

QuickTime) or sound clips on your page.

• New PANTONE PLUS SERIES

To add to PagePlus's already extensive PANTONE libraries, the

PANTONE PLUS SERIES is now included, which is, in turn,

complemented by the PANTONE Goe™ System.

• Colours Toolbar for Easy Colour Assignment (see p. 222)

A new toolbar lets you apply Fill, Line, or Text colours from your

current colour scheme or Publication Palette.

Printing and Publishing

• PDF Preview (see p. 253)

Interactive Print Preview now allows for PDF publishing, with all the

benefits of preview—imposition at publish time, scaling, page mark

control, view controls, and of course a screen-wide representation of

your intended PDF output.

14 Welcome

• Easy-to-use HTML Publishing (see p. 270)

Generate web-ready pages from your publication simply and with no

fuss! Control hyperlink colours and background colour/image, as well

as graphics export.

• eBook Publishing (see p. 266)

Publish your eBook-optimized publication to ePub and share via

desktop (Adobe Digital Edition), tablet, android phone, or physical

ePub devices. For Kindle users, generate and launch .mobi eBooks

directly from PagePlus. Add your own cover page and include your

publication's table of contents.

• Preflight Check for PDF, HTML and eBook Publishing (see p. 262,

p. 271, p. 268, respectively)

Check your publication for potential publishing problems manually as

you design and automatically as you publish. The Preflight tab

displays, locates and fixes problems all in one go!

Advanced Publishing

• Create Spot Colours (see p. 223)

For Print and PDF publishing, any publication colour can be made a

spot colour using Palette Manager.

Welcome 15

Installation

System Requirements

Minimum:

• Windows-based PC with DVD drive and mouse

• Microsoft Windows® XP (32 bit), Windows® Vista, or Windows® 7

operating system

• 512MB RAM

• 566MB free hard disk space

• 1024 x 768 monitor resolution (Use of Large Fonts may require a

higher resolution)

Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large and/or

complex documents.

Optional:

• Windows-compatible printer

• TWAIN-compatible scanner and/or digital camera

• .NET 2.0 for text import filters (Word 2007/2010 + OpenOffice)

(installed by default)

• Internet account and connection required for accessing online

resources

16 Welcome

First-time install

To install PagePlus X6 simply insert the PagePlus X6 program disc into your

disk 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

Control Panel from the Windows Start menu and then click on the Programs -

Uninstall a program icon. Make sure the program disc is inserted into your

drive, click the Install… button and then simply follow the on-screen

instructions.

Getting Started

18 Getting Started

Getting Started 19

Startup Wizard

Once PagePlus has been installed, you're ready to start. Setup adds the program

to your Windows Start menu.

• Use the Windows Start button to pop up the Start Menu, click on All

Programs, and then click the Serif PagePlus X6 item (or if PagePlus

is already running, choose New>New from Startup Wizard... from

the File menu).

On program launch, the Startup Wizard is displayed which offers different

routes into PagePlus:

• Start New Publication, to open a blank page to work on.

• Use Design Template, to create an instant document from a pre-

designed template.

• Import PDF, to create a publication from an existing PDF.

• Download Free Stuff, to access a range of free resources.

• Visit Template Store, to access the latest purchasable professionally

design templates.

20 Getting Started

• Open, to access recently opened publications. Hover over each entry

for a quick preview!

• Learn, to access online tutorial resources.

Use the Choose Workspace drop-down list to choose your workspace

appearance (i.e., Studio tab positions, tab sizes, and show/hide tab status). You

can adopt the default workspace profile <Default Profile>, the last used profile

<Current Profile>, a range of profile presets, or a workspace profile you have

previously saved.

As you click on 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, enable the "Don't show this wizard

again" option. You can switch it on again via the Use startup wizard check box

in Tools>Options... (use Options>General menu option).

You can also access the Startup Wizard at any time from New>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!

Each template offers:

• Complementary design—Professionally designed layout with high-

visual impact.

• Schemes—choose a named colour scheme to apply a specific look and

feel.

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Design templates come in two types—theme layouts, where you pick your own

pictures, or ready-to-go Pro templates which are already populated with

pictures.

Theme layouts offer a choice of

themes (e.g., Ribbon) on which to

base your publication (Brochure,

Business Card, Flyer, Forms,

Letterheads, Newsletter, etc.) ;

you'll get picture placeholders

instead of actual pictures. Simply

add your own pictures to

placeholders and personalize

placeholder text, then publish.

You can also choose which page

layouts you want to base your

new publication on.

Ready-to-go Pro templates

These are categorized templates

containing royalty-free photos

which can be adopted to fast-track

you to your completed

publication. You just need to

personalize placeholder text, then

publish.

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.

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3. From the dialog, select a Theme Layout or a design template from the

Pro Template Packs category. Select from the tree menu in the left-

hand pane.

Alternatively, simply choose a publication type from the same list, e.g.

Brochures, Business Cards, etc.

4. Navigate the main window's categories and sub-categories using the

Expand and Collapse buttons, then click your chosen

thumbnail.

Theme Layouts

Pro Design Templates

5. Examine the page sample(s) on the right. For theme layouts with

multiple pages (e.g., brochures), you can choose which pages you

wish to be part of your publication by checking the check box under

each page. For design templates, simply review the pages to be part of

your publication.

Theme Layouts

Pro Design Templates

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6. Pick a colour scheme from the drop-down list at the top of the dialog

(the first three schemes are designed specifically for the chosen

template). The page thumbnails refresh to reflect the new page's

appearance. For a closer look, use the Zoom In/Zoom Out buttons or

Zoom slider at the bottom of the dialog.

7. Click OK. The pages are added to your new publication.

All theme layouts contain assets, e.g. individual professional graphics,

photos, photo frames, backgrounds, to complement your theme layouts.

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....

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4. (Optional) Select a Theme and colour Scheme for the publication

from the respective drop-down lists at the top of the dialog. You can

do this if you're familiar with PagePlus theme layouts and their

associated colour schemes, and want to base your new publication on

that scheme.

5. Click OK to open a new publication with a blank page.

At start up, 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).

Opening existing publications

You can open a PagePlus publication from the Startup Wizard, 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 PagePlus Help for

both of these import options.)

To open an existing publication from the Startup Wizard:

1. From the Startup Wizard (at startup time or via File>New), review

your publications from the Open section. The most recently opened

file will be shown at the top of the list. To see a thumbnail preview of

any file before opening, hover over its name in the list.

2. Click the file name to open it.

If your publication hasn't been opened recently, click Browse... to

navigate to it.

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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 open publications by drag-and-drop:

• From Windows Explorer, drag and drop the publication's preview

thumbnail anywhere onto the PagePlus workspace.

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

publication which uses fonts which are not stored on your computer. See

PagePlus Help for more details.

Working with more than one publication

If you have multiple publications open at the same time it's easy to jump

between them using different methods.

Click on an open publication's tab on the Publications toolbar at the top of the

workspace to make it active (e.g., p456).

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.

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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, publication tab, or Window menu.

Closing publications

To close the current publication:

• On the active publication's Publication tab, click the Clos e button.

- or -

Choose Close from the File menu.

To close PagePlus:

• Click the program's Clos e button at the top right of the

window.

You'll be prompted to save changes to any unsaved publications.

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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>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 Publication Setup from the Pages context toolbar.

2. Ensure the Paper menu option is selected. The other option, Margins,

lets you define non-printable Margin, Row, Column, and Bleed

Guides as design aids. See Setting gu ides on p. 58.

3. 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 or

Landscape). For booklets only, select a type from the Booklet drop-

down list, which page to start on (left/right), and if you require Facing

pages (including Dual master pages). PagePlus automatically

performs imposition. The settings ensure that two or four pages of the

publication are printed on each sheet of paper, with pages printed

following the booklet 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.

4. For other publication types, you can select: Small Publications (for

example, business cards, labels, etc.), Large Publications (banners or

posters), or Folded Publications (cards).

• For Small publications, enable Paper and choose a pre-defined

option from the list, 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).

5. Click OK to accept the new dimensions. The updated settings will be

applied to the current publication.

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For regular/booklet publications, you can also adopt printer-derived paper sizes

that are supported by your desktop or network printer. These paper sizes will be

different depending on which printer is currently chosen in the Print dialog. On

the Pages context toolbar, these page sizes are indicated by the suffix "(From

printer)" in the Paper size drop-down list.

Once you've set up your publication, you can optionally include repeated page

elements on every page by creating master pages (p. 36).

Creating custom publication sizes

If the pre-defined options are not what you're looking for, you can customize

any publication type to suit your requirements. You can base the custom

publication on a pre-defined option by selecting the option in advance from the

list.

Created from: You'll need to:

Regular/Booklet For regular publications: Select a page size, if you want

Facing pages (with Dual master pages) and adjust

Width/Height to suit; enable your preferred page

orientation option (Portrait/Landscape).

For booklets: As above, but choose a Booklet type as

well.

Small Select a Small publication type (card, tag, voucher,

etc.), then click Create Custom. From the dialog, you

can set:

• Size: The custom publication size.

• Gaps: The vertical and horizontal space

between each "ganged" small publication.

• Margins: For custom Margins, override auto

settings with Auto check box and set margins

manually.

• Layout: Sets the number or small publications

per page in an X/Y grid arrangement.

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For small publications, the dimensions are not only set via the Width

and Height controls under Size but also depend on the values you use

for Gaps and Layout.

Large As for Small. Tile Overlap controls the how much

printed pages overlap when output to standard

printers.

Folded Select a folding method from the list, then choose

Width/Height for your publication size.

Facing pages

You can set up your regular publication or booklet so that the PagePlus window

displays 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 for a regular publication or booklet:

1. In the Publication 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.

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Uniform and mixed page orientations

If you've changed your mind about the

page orientation chosen at page setup,

you can change the page orientation

uniformly across your publication at

any time.

PagePlus also lets you create a

publication possessing a mixture of

portrait and landscape page

orientations. Changing a page's

portrait orientation to landscape is

especially useful when presenting a

wide table, calendar, bar chart, or

other graph.

To change all publication pages from portrait to landscape (or vice

versa):

• From the Pages context toolbar, click the down arrow on the

Publication Orientation button, then select Landscape Publication

(or Portrait Publication) from the flyout.

To change a page from portrait to landscape (or vice versa):

1. In the Pages tab, double-click to select a page.

2. Click Change page orientation to swap between portrait and

landscape orientation.

- or -

From the Pages context toolbar, click the down arrow on the

Page orientation button, then select Landscape Page (or Portrait

Page) from the flyout.

You can repeat the procedure for any other selected page.

You can also change the orientation of master pages using the

equivalent Change page orientation on the Pages tab's Master Pages

window.

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This feature is only applicable for publications using standard page sizes

(e.g., A4, A5, Letter, etc.)

Imposition

For press-ready output, you have the option to use imposition at the PDF or

print stage, allowing you to create a folded publication (e.g., booklet or greeting

card) from a non-folding publication without having to choose a folding

publication in advance.

Adding, removing, and rearranging pages

Use the Pages tab to add/delete

standard or master pages, assign

master pages to standard pages,

and rearrange standard pages using

drag-and-drop. You can also

change page orientations.

The tab displays master pages in

the upper Master Pages window

(shown collapsed) and standard

publication pages in the lower

Pages window.

If a ready-to-go page layout is

what you need, you can add extra

pages from some themed layouts.

See Adding additional pages on

p. 35.

Page Manager provides additional options, such as copying a particular

page's contents or adding/deleting multiple pages.

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To add a single page:

1. On the Pages tab, click once to select a page in the Pages window.

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 its 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 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.

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 Remove.

To rearrange pages:

• On the Pages tab, in the lower Pages window, drag a page thumbnail

over another page thumbnail in the page sequence. The page is added

after the hovered over page thumbnail.

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Adding additional pages

Use the Assets tab's Asset Browser if you're looking to use either some pre-

designed pages or additional pages that complement your themed layout

publication. See Browsing on p. 69.

Once in the Assets tab, you can add the page to your publication.

To add a page:

• Drag onto the currently viewed page to replace it.

- or -

• Drag to the left/right edge of the current page to place before or after.

You'll see a Blue triangle to indicate before or after placement.

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Understanding master pages

Master pages provide a flexible way to store background elements that you'd

like to appear on more than one page—for example a logo, background,

header/footer, or border design.

A - Page, B - Master Page

The key concept here is that a particular master page is typically shared by

multiple pages, as illustrated below. By placing a design element on a master

page and then assigning several pages to use that master page, you ensure that

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.

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If you're starting with a design template you may encounter one or more

master pages incorporated with the design.

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.

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

different master page to a standard page, all, odd or even pages. It's even

possible to assign multiple master pages per page.

You'll need to create an additional master page first. See Adding,

removing, and rearranging pages on p. 33.

Each new page or master page consists of a single layer; a page with a

master page also shows the master page's Master Layer. One layer may

be enough to accommodate the elements of a particular layout, but you

can create additional layers as needed.

To assign a master page:

• From the expanded Master

Pages window in the Pages

tab, drag a master page onto

a target standard page in the

lower window.

- or -

1. From the Layers tab, right-

click a master layer and

choose Set Master Page....

2. Select the page and the

master page to be assigned

to it.

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Click Show Master Page Identifiers to indicate the master pages

used on the currently selected page(s). The master page is represented

as a letter on the Page, e.g. A, B, C, etc.

To assign a master page to odd, even, or all pages:

• In the Pages tab, right-click the master page and choose an option from

the Apply to submenu.

To disconnect a previously assigned master page(s):

• In the Pages tab, right-click in the Pages window and select Remove

Master Pages.

Assigning multiple master pages

Just like a regular page, the master page can have its own set of layers associated

with it, completely unique from the regular page! From the Layers tab, you'll see

a master layer (e.g., Master Layer 1 [A]) as a separate entry. You can insert

master layers from other master pages to assign additional master pages to your

page.

For an introduction to the concept of layers, see Working with layers on p. 45.

An additional master page needs to be created first. See Adding,

removing, and rearranging pages on p. 33.

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To assign multiple master pages to a page:

1. Display the page (not a master page) by double-clicking in the Pages

tab.

2. On the Layers tab, select Add Master Layer.

3. From the dialog, select the page from the Select Master Page box.

4. In the drop-down list, select the additional master page to be assigned.

5. (Optional) Enter a different name for your layer.

6. You can also modify layer properties as for standard layers.

7. Click OK.

To jump to a master page from the standard page:

• Double-click on a Master Layer entry in the Layers tab.

- or -

Right-click a master layer and choose Go To Master Page.

The master page assigned to the master layer is displayed.

An easy method for navigating from the selected master page to a last visited

page is the Return to feature.

To jump to a page from a master page:

1. Select the master page in the Pages tab.

2. In the Layers tab, right-click any layer and choose Return to 'x of y',

where x is the last visited page and y is the total number of pages. The

last visited page is d isplayed.

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Facing pages and dual master pages

If you're using multi-page regular/booklet publications, you can assign different

master pages to the left and right publication pages (also called spreads) if

necessary—master pages are assigned per page and not per spread. For example

(see below), a left-hand "body text" page might use the left-side component of

one master page (A), while a right-hand page could use the right side of a

different master page (B).

Editing master page objects

If you're editing pages which use master pages, master page objects will

contribute to your page design. These objects can be edited quickly and easily

from the page by using a control bar under the selected object.

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To edit the master page object:

1. On your standard page, select the master page object, to reveal the

control bar.

2. Click Edit on Master Page. The master page is displayed for

editing.

On occasion, you may want to make a master page object on your page

independent from its master page. These objects can become editable by being

promoted from the master page to the standard page, with the original master

page object being replaced by a freely editable copy.

To promote a master page object:

1. On your standard page, select the master page object, to reveal the

control bar under the object.

2. Click Promote from Master Page. This makes a copy of the

original object, which can then be edited independently without

affecting the master page.

All other pages using the master page will remain unaffected.

Detaching a specific text frame will also detach any linked text frame

associated with it. If the frames are on separate pages then all linked

frames are placed on the same the target page.

If you change your mind at any point you can reattach the object to the master

page, leaving your page as it was originally.

To reattach object:

1. On your standard page, select the promoted object, to reveal the

control bar under the object.

2. Click Revert to Master Page.

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Adding page backgrounds

PagePlus provides a wide range of page

backgrounds for your publication page.

Backgrounds are assets (p. 67), which

are available in Asset Packs such as

Contemporary, Fun, Materials, and

more.

To add a page background:

1. From the Assets tab, select Browse....

2. In the Asset Browser dialog, select Backgrounds from the

Categories section.

3. Navigate the Asset Packs to locate a background, then select an

individual background or click Add All to include all the backgrounds

from that pack. A check mark will appear on selected thumbnails.

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4. Click Close. The background(s) will appear in the tab's Backgrounds

category.

5. With the target page currently displayed, drag the background

thumbnail onto the page.

To store the background for reuse globally or just in the publication,

drag to the Assets tab's My Designs or Backgrounds category. For the

latter, If you close the publication, you'll be asked if you want to save the

background to an asset pack. See Storing designs on p. 73.

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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 (Insert menu), but you can insert a

page number field anywhere in your text.

You can change the style of page numbers, create mixed page number formats,

set starting page number(s), and control number continuation across chapters

and publication sections (all via Page Number Format on the Format menu).

To insert a page number field:

1. Switch to the master page (if desired) by clicking Master Pages

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, select Page Number from the Information

flyout.

You can also specify the First Page Number in the sequence (this will appear

on the first page of the publication). For example, Chapter Two of a long

publication might be in a separate file and begin numbering with page 33.

To set the first page number:

1. Uncheck Continue from previous chapter. PagePlus keeps this

checked by default so that number continuation is maintained if your

publication is to be part of a book.

2. Enter a different First Page Number.

For simple publications, it's likely that the same page format is used (e.g.,

Arabic numerals throughout). However, for more complex publications,

different formats can be used for different page ranges, with each page range

belonging to its own publication section. See PagePlus Help.

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Working with layers

When you create a new publication from scratch or from a design template, the

page(s) you create will initially consist of two layers—one for the page

(Layer 1) and one for the associated master page (see p. 36), e.g., Master Layer

1 [A]. The layers can be seen within a hierarchical stack on the Layers tab.

One layer may be enough to accommodate the elements of a particular layout,

but you can create additional layers as needed for the page. 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.

If you frequently use the pasteboard, you'll notice pasteboard objects show under

a special Pasteboard layer. This layer automatically disappears when you clear

objects off the pasteboard.

A useful feature of the Layers tab is that you can see objects (and grouped

objects) under the layer on which they were created. By expanding the layer by

clicking , these objects are displayed—with a click, they can be selected on the

page.

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On each layer, objects such as text frames and pictures are stacked in the order

you create them, from front to back, 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. The uppermost layer is applied over any

lower layer on the page.

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.

The above layer stack could represent the following:

In order to create new objects on a particular layer, you'll need to select the

layer.

To select a particular layer:

• Click a layer name. The layer entry then possesses a dark blue

background.

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The Master Layer entries work slightly differently to other layers. They indicate

firstly that a master page and its layers are being used on the page, but also show

the actual master page being used (MasterA is represented by the letter A on the

layer entry). The master page's layers are not shown individually, but are

combined into one thumbnail for clarity. However, you can display master page

layers if required.

To display master page layers:

• Double-click the master layer entry. The Layers tab now shows the

master page's layers. Note that the master page is now selected in the

Pages tab.

For more information about master pages and assigning them to pages, see

Understanding master pages on p. 36.

Adding, removing, and rearranging layers

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 the front or back of those on

other layers.

To add a new layer to the current page or master page:

1. In the Layers tab, click Add Layer.

2. You'll be prompted to give the new layer a name and set its properties.

When you've made your selections, click OK.

The new layer is inserted above the currently selected layer. If a layer is not

selected, the new layer is placed at the top of the stack.

To delete a layer:

• In the Layers tab, select the layer's name and click Delete

Selected Layers.

You can also move, merge, and preview layers, as well as view layers with or

without associated objects. (See PagePlus Help for more details.)

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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:

1. In the Layers tab, click on the layer's name.

2. At the insertion point, type a new name then either press Enter or

click away from the tab.

To set layer properties:

• Display the Layers tab.

Select desired settings for the selected layer.

• Click the Make Invisible icon to hide the layer and any objects on

it; click again to reveal the layer.

• Click the Make Non-printable icon to exclude the layer in page

printouts; click again to include it. At print time, uncheck the Print all

layers option in the Print dialog (Layers menu option) to exclude non-

printable layers.

• Click the Make Locked icon to prevent objects on the layer from

being selected/edited; click again to allow editing.

You cannot select objects on a layer that is locked or not visible.

Double-click a layer or click Layer properties to change selection handle

colour and extend settings to layers with the same name. See Layers tab in

PagePlus Help.

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Copying layers and objects

When you add a new page or master page to the publication, you can specify

whether to copy the layers, objects, and/or the master page from a particular

source page. See Adding, removing, and rearranging pages on p. 33.

Managing objects on layers

Objects can be managed in the Layers tab with various options for selecting,

moving, and naming them.

Once you've displayed a page or master 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 layer.

To edit only objects on the selected layer:

• In the Layers tab, click Edit All Layers. When the button is

disabled, editing is restricted to the selected layer only.

• Select the chosen layer, and its layer object, then edit.

PagePlus also gives you the option of selecting an object from the tab as

opposed to from the page itself.

To select an object on a particular layer:

• In the Layers tab, click the Expand on the chosen layer entry to

reveal all associated objects. You'll see objects named automatically,

e.g. "Line", "Quick Rectangle", IMG3445.jpg, etc., each with their

own preview (hover over for a magnified view). The frontmost object

in your drawing always appears at the top of the layer's listed objects

(the order reflects the Z-order).

To select all objects on a particular layer:

• In the Layers tab, right-click the chosen layer and choose Select

Objects.

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To move an object to a specific layer:

• Drag the object(s) to a new position in the layer stack.

Objects are given default names when they are created (e.g., Text Frame,

Picture), but can be renamed to make them more easy identify them from other

layer objects. If a group is present it can also be assigned a more meaningful

name.

To change an object's or group's name:

1. In the Layers tab, expand the layer entry to which an object or group

belongs.

2. Select the object/group, then click on its name.

3. At the insertion point, type a new name then either press Enter or

click away from the tab.

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 (A)

is where you add and position

your text, shapes, and pictures

that you want to print. The

Pasteboard area (B) is where

you generally keep any text,

shapes, or pictures that are

being prepared or waiting to be

positioned on the page area.

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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

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 Hintline toolbar provides the:

Zoom to Current option to zoom to a selected object, or to the page

width if no objects are selected.

Zoom Tool to zoom into an area defined by a drawn marquee

selection.

Pan Tool for moving around the zoomed-in page area by dragging.

Current Zoom option to display or change the level of

magnification. To change, click to select from a flyout or enter a custom

percentage value directly.

Zoom Ou t and Zoom In tools so you can inspect and/or edit the

page at different levels of detail. You can use the Zoom slider instead.

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Navigating pages

To switch between pages:

• Click the Previous Page, Next Page, First Page or

Last Page button on the Hintline.

- or -

Click in the Current Page box (e.g., ) and type the

page number you want to jump to.

- or -

On the Studio's Pages tab, double-click the page's thumbnail for the

page (or master page) you want to view.

To switch between current page and its master page:

• From the Hintline toolbar, click Master Pages.

Using Design Aids

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Clean design

By default, PagePlus keeps its design aids hidden from view. This Clean Design

feature is active while you design your publication, letting you work in a less

cluttered workspace. You'll still have the option of switching off the feature,

allowing you to view design aids—in reality, you'll probably want to switch in

and out of Clean Design depending on your publication design.

Clean Design on (default)

will display: Clean Design off

will display:

Spelling mistake underlines

on text

Selection hover highlight

Dot grid

Spelling mistake underlines on text

Selection hover highlight

Margin guides

Row and column guides

Ruler gu ides

Text frame/table boundaries

So how do I align objects if my guides or grid are hidden? Clean design operates

with dynamic guides switched on, which means guides show between the

dragged objects and already placed objects as you drag objects. This lets you

align objects together by their edges, centres, and vertices. See Using dynamic

guide on p. 56 for more details.

Existing, but hidden, margin, row/column, and ruler guides are still

offered as guides when Clean Design is enabled. You won't see them but

they'll appear as any dragged object approaches them.

To switch off (on) clean design:

• Select Clean Design on the Arrange toolbar.

Use Ctrl-\ as a keyboard shortcut to switch Clean Design on or off.

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Dynamic guides

For accurate object alignment and resizing, you can use dynamic guides instead

of setting ru ler guides manually or performing selection, transform, and

alignment operations. These red-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, top, or bottom edge, or to the object (or page) centre. You can include

objects to snap to by dragging over objects.

By default, dynamic guides are enabled, but they can be switched off (or back

on again).

To switch off/on dynamic guides:

• From the Arrange toolbar, click the down arrow on the

Snapping button and click Dynamic Guides on the drop-down list.

To snap to page centres, you must additionally check Page centre from

the same drop-down list.

Dynamic guides can be used either with or without Clean Design

enabled.

Aligning objects

The use of dynamic guides is illustrated in the examples below. The darker

object is already placed on the page, while the lighter object is being dragged

into position.

Left

Right

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Top

Bottom

Object centre

Page centre

You can also align using combinations of the above, e.g. right and

bottom, depending on the position of your dragged object.

Resizing objects

The use of dynamic guides when resizing objects is illustrated in below. The

darker object is already placed on the page, while the lighter object is being

dragged into position.

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Setting guides

Guide lines are non-printable visual aids 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 fundamental to your layout, and

are set when you start a new publication from scratch. The

page margins are shown as a blue box w

hich 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.

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 Publication 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 Publish as PDF or Print

dialog extends the actual output page size.

Ruler guides are free-floating lines that you set either via

dialog or by clicking

and dragging from the rulers. They are

"sticky" so that objects can snap to them, then be moved

collectively with guide movement.

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If you're working in Clean Design mode (see p. 55), you won't see guides

displayed on your page. You'll have to switch off Clean Design to see them.

Defining guide lines

To define margins, row/column guides, and bleed guides:

1. Select Publication Setup from the Pages context toolbar.

2. In the dialog, select the Margins menu option to set guide lines for

page margins, rows and columns, and bleed areas.

Creating ruler guides

PagePlus allows you to set up horizontal and vertical ruler guides—non-

printing lines you can use to align headlines, pictures, and other layout elements.

To create ruler guides (via dialog):

1. Click Ruler Guides on the Pages context toolbar.

2. (Optional) Choose the layer on which you want the ruler guides to be

created. For multi-layered publications only.

3. Enter absolute guide positions in the Horizontal and/or Vertical boxes,

clicking Add for each guide.

4. Repeat for the number of ruler guides you require.

5. Click OK. Your guides will appear on your page.

Guides can also be dragged onto the page if rulers are switched on.

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To create ruler guides (by dragging):

• 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).

Managing guides

• To move row, column, or ruler guides, click and drag the guide.

• To remove a ruler guide, drag and drop it anywhere outside the page

area.

• For precise ruler guide placement, check Ruler marks on the

Arrange toolbar's Snapping menu to snap guides to ruler marks.

• Ruler guides are by default "sticky". '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 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.

• To turn sticky guides on and off, check/uncheck Sticky Guides from

the Arrange menu (or the equivalent from Tools>Options>Layout).

Previously stuck objects will remain sticky even after sticky guides are

switched off—you'll have to make them non-sticky manually.

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To hide or show guides:

• On the View menu, click Guide Lines from the Grids and Guides

flyout.

• To hide/show bleed area guides, on the View menu, click Bleed Area

Guides from the Grid and Guides flyout.

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.

• To set and display paragraph indents (see p. 129).

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.

The default unit is inches (US) or centimetres (international). If you plan to

create HTML output, it's best to work in pixels as a measurement unit.

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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.)

(A) Ruler intersection; (B) drag tab marker to set new zero point.

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 down, drag the tab marker on the ruler intersection.

The zero point remains unchanged.

• 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.

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To lock the rulers and prevent them from being moved:

• Choose Tools>Options... and select the Layout>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 along the ruler, 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's

Grids and Guides flyout.

You can also set the grid spacing, style, colour, and positioning in the Options

dialog (see PagePlus Help).

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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. 58), 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 blue colour when snapping is switched on.

Once snapping is enabled, you can selectively switch on/off snapping options

(i.e., Ruler guides, Grid dots, etc).

To turn individual snapping controls on and off:

• Click the down arrow on the Snapping button and

check/uncheck a snapping option via the drop-down list.

Tools>Options offers the full set of snapping options for the user. You

can control Snapping Distance, i.e. the distance in monitor pixels at

which an object will start to snap to a dot, guide, etc, and Nudging

Distance, i.e. the distance an object will move when using keyboard

arrow keys to move it.

For precise ruler guide placement, check Snapping>Ruler Marks in

Tools>Options to snap guides to ruler marks.

Assets for Creativity

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Using assets

An asset is a general term for any object or page element that can be added to

your page to enhance its appearance, increase efficiency, or personalize your

design. Assets range from graphics, pictures, picture frames, and backgrounds,

to more complex page content and entire pages.

To use assets, PagePlus provides the Assets tab, powered by both an Asset

Browser (p. 69) and Asset Manager. The former browses your assets, the latter

lets you create and manage custom Asset Packs.

Theme Layout design templates come complete with their own built-in

assets, all themed to the publication's design. When you start from a

theme layout the Assets tab will be populated with associated assets

automatically!

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Using the Assets tab

The Assets tab is a powerful design resource

that exclusively hosts your browsed assets,

ready for adding to your publication page.

Assets can be placed into the following

categories.

• My Designs : Stores custom assets

dragged from the page.

• Graphics: Stores professional

clipart from Asset Packs.

• Pictures: Stores added pictures from

your hard disk (or from Asset Pack,

if containing pictures).

• Picture Frames: Stores picture

frames from Asset Packs.

• Page Content: Stores page content

(pre-assembled from various page

objects) from Asset Packs.

• Backgrounds: Stores backgrounds

from Asset Packs.

• Pages: Stores complete ready-to-go

pages from Asset Packs.

The tab also lets you create custom designs for reuse globally or just in your

publication. You'll be able to:

• Store your own designs to the tab's My Designs category for global

use.

• Store your own designs to any other tab's category for current

publication use.

• Create custom picture frames from drawn shapes.

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• Create custom page backgrounds from pictures or filled page objects.

• Create custom page content (combinations of assets).

Although initially empty, the tab can be populated with assets of your choice by

using an Asset Browser.

The Asset Browser

The Asset Browser lets you browse by asset category and Asset Pack (Pack

Files), as well as search (by tag) for assets. Once displayed, the asset can be

selected for inclusion in the Assets tab.

The Asset Manager

Use the Asset Manager to create your own Asset Packs by using assets from

other Asset Packs and/or by importing pictures, graphics, or backgrounds. You

can tag assets and then save or export your custom asset pack. See PagePlus

Help for more information on creating custom Asset Packs.

Browsing

The Asset Browser offers a whole range of professional ready-to-go designs

that you can use directly in your publication. These designs are provided in

categorized Asset Packs installed with PagePlus. You can browse these packs

and preview their contents, before adding assets to your workspace.

There are two ways to browse assets—by category or by Asset Pack (see p. 70).

You can also use the search controls at the top-right of the dialog to narrow your

search, or to find a specific asset.

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To browse assets (by category):

1. From the Assets tab, click Browse....

2. In the Asset Browser, select an asset category from the Categories

section. You'll see installed Asset Packs appear in the main pane,

stored under their Pack file names, e.g. Animals.

3. Scroll through the asset packs to browse assets included in each pack.

To browse assets (by Asset Pack):

1. From the Assets tab, click Browse....

2. In the Asset Browser, on the left-hand side of the dialog, select an

asset pack name from the Pack Files section, e.g., Backgrounds. The

Asset Pack will appear in the main pane.

3. The assets are categorized further in the main pane by the name of the

Asset Pack to which they belong, e.g., Fun. Scroll through to browse

the assets included in each Asset Pack. To make browsing easier, you

can expand and collapse the Asset Packs to hide or reveal the assets.

4. (Optional) To narrow your search, filter assets by entering an asset

name in the Search box at the top-right of the main pane.

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Searching for assets

The search facility filters assets based on preset and custom tags applied to all of

the Asset Packs shown in the Asset Browser.

To apply a search filter:

• For a simple tag search, type the word or letter you want to search for

in the Search text box, situated at the top right of the dialog. This is

useful for retrieving assets with custom tags attached.

If your search results are being restricted to the currently highlighted

category, Smart folder, Smart tag, or pack file, you can click the

appropriate section header to remove the restriction.

Filtering assets

Filtering means that you can restrict the amount of assets on display.

• For category and/or pack file filtering, select a category or pack file (or

multiple instances using Ctrl-click). You can also search for category

and pack file combinations. For example, selecting the Picture Frames

category and then a Theme Layout gives you just picture frames from

that theme layout.

• For Smart tag filtering, select a tag

name from the Smart Tags section.

Smart tags let you filter assets logically

by subject matter using a hierarchical

and alphabetic tag structure. For

example, if you select the "Occasions"

tag you'll see all assets tagged with that

tag; if you want Christmas-only assets,

you could select "Christmas", nested

under that Occasions tag.

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•

For single-tag filtering, select a tag

name from the Tags section of the

Asset Browser. (You may need to

scroll down the left-hand pane to

view). Use Ctrl-click to manually

select multiple tags.

Adding assets to your Assets tab

To add a specific asset:

• Select the category or pack file in the Asset Browser, and then simply

click the asset. A check mark shows on the thumbnail.

To add all assets:

• Click Add All from the upper-right corner of each Asset Pack's

thumbnail gallery. Check marks will show on all thumbnails.

With either method, asset(s) will be available to you from the Assets tab when

you close the Asset Browser.

Any asset stored in your Assets tab (but not added to the page) will be

available to you the next time you open your publication. Assets can be

made globally available by pinning in the relevant tab category. Custom

designs can also be made global by dragging page objects to the tab's

My Designs category.

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Adding assets to your page

To add an asset to the page:

• Click its thumbnail in the design category and drag it out onto the

page.

Storing designs

PagePlus lets you create custom assets to be used again, either just in your

publication or globally in any publication in the future. Assets can be created

and stored from objects already placed on the page. Example assets include:

• Graphics (from drawn vector shapes, line art, and artistic/frame text)

• Pictures (from adjusted or cutout pictures)

• Picture frames (from converted closed shapes, QuickShapes, and

custom borders).

• Selected arrangement of page objects.

• Backgrounds (from converted pictures and filled objects).

• Publication pages.

At any time, designs are added by copying a design from the page to the Assets

tab, then dragging it back onto your page where (and when) you want it.

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Storing to My Designs

If you're keen on storing

your own designs for

global use, i.e. all

publications, the Assets

tab's My Designs

category is ideal—

designs will always be

available in any new

publication you create.

When you first install

PagePlus, the My

Designs gallery will be

empty, ready for custom

designs to be added to it.

To store a design in My Designs:

• Drag the object from the page and drop it onto the Assets tab's My

Designs category. You don't need to expand the category in advance,

as it will automatically expand for you.

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If you drag to the Backgrounds or Picture Frames category, you'll convert the

dragged object(s) to their respective asset type. For the former, you'll be

prompted to create a background that will scaled or stretched to the publication's

current page size. For the latter, any shape with an interior will convert to a

picture frame (with placeholder).

Saving My Designs

Any designs you store in your My Designs category will be saved as a My

Designs.ppack file to your Windows Application Data folder.

Storing Pages

Any page present in your publication can be stored in the Assets tab (Pages

category).

To store a page:

1. From the Assets tab's Pages category, click Add....

2. From the dialog, check a page (or master page) that exists in your

publication.

3. Click OK.

Storing to other categories

Designs can also be added to other categories, but will only be available to the

current publication (unless pinned—see p. 76). Typically, you can store vector

shapes, line art, artistic text, and text frames in the Graphics category, unless you

want to make it globally available via the My Designs category.

When you close your publication, any custom design you've stored in

these categories will need to be saved. You'll be prompted to save the

design to a custom Asset Pack specific to the publication.

To save a design to other categories:

• Drag the object from the page and drop it onto any other category.

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Pinning categories and individual assets

Individual assets and entire categories within the Assets tab can be made

available for all documents (i.e., globally) if they are pinned.

Assets can only be pinned if they have been saved as part of an asset

pack. If you attempt to pin an unsaved asset, you will be prompted to

save your asset pack.

To pin and unpin assets:

• To pin all the assets in a category, click Pin All on the category

header.

- or -

To pin an individual asset, click the icon on the individual asset.

• To unpin all the assets in a category, click Unpin All on the

category header.

- or -

To unpin an individual asset, click the icon on the individual

asset.

Working with

Objects

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Selecting an object

Before you can change any object, you need to select it using one of a choice of

tools on the Tools toolbar.

Pointer Tool

Click to use the Pointer Tool to select, move, copy, resize or rotate

objects.

Lasso Tool

Click to use the Lasso Tool to draw a freeform region under which any

objects will become selected.

Prior to any selection, PagePlus objects will display a "glowing" selection hover

highlight around the object. In a complex grouping of objects, this indicates

which object will become selected.

To select an object:

• Click on the "glowing" object using one of the tools shown above, to

reveal a bounding box around the object.

If objects overlap, click on the overlapping area until the "hidden" object is

selected.

For more precise object selection, you can draw an irregular-shaped lasso

around one or more objects in a complex design.

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To select an object with the Lasso Tool:

1. Select the Lasso Tool.

2. Draw a "lasso" around the object(s) you want to select. A shaded lasso

region is created around the object.

3. Release the mouse button. All of the objects within the lasso region

are selected.

If attempting to lasso an object within a group, remember to ungroup

the objects first.

To avoid picking up an object under your cursor, keep the Shift key

pressed as you draw the lasso.

If you prefer to keep the Pointer Tool selected, you can lasso objects as

described above with the Alt key pressed.

To select 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. 126).

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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>Select All from the Edit menu (or press Ctrl+A).

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

any 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.

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.

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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 can 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.

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

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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.

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 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. 216 for more

dialog information.

Copying an object's formatting

Format Painter is used to copy one object’s line and fill properties directly to

another object, including between line/shape and text objects.

To apply one object's formatting to another:

1. Select the object whose formatting you wish to copy.

2. Click Format Painter on the Standard toolbar. When you click

the button, the selected object's formatting is "picked up".

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3. Click another object to apply the first object's formatting to it. The

second object becomes selected.

4. To select another object without pasting the formatting, click it with

the Shift key down.

5. To cancel Format Painter mode, press Esc, click on a blank area, or

choose any tool button.

For copy formatting from one text object to another, a number of other text

properties (font, style, and so on) besides line and fill are passed along at the

same time.

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 Group Objects button.

To ungroup:

• Click the Ungroup Objects button. The

group turns back to a multiple selection.

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Simply clicking 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 over the button 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).

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Resizing objects

PagePlus provides several methods for 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.

Text in frames and tables doesn't change size when the container object

is resized.

To set two or more objects to the same horizontal or vertical size as the

last selected object, you can use Arrange>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 an object's dimensions when resizing:

• Hold the Shift key down and drag from a corner (or line end) handle.

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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

On each layer, objects such as text frames, graphics, and photos 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 these 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.

To shift the object's position one step toward the back or front:

• Click Back One or Forward One on the Arrange toolbar,

respectively.

For complete control while ordering objects, the Layers tab lets you drag and

drop an object to any position in the stack within the layer, but also to a new

position in a different layer.

To order objects via the Layers tab:

• From the Layers tab, drag an object to its new position. A green line

indicates the object's new position when you release the mouse button.

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Aligning and distributing objects

Aligning and distributing objects gives your project a polished feel. With

PagePlus, you can align your objects in relation to each other or the page using

dynamic guides or the Align tab.

Aligning with dynamic guides

As you draw, you can align your object using dynamic guides. By default, these

red-coloured guides show as you draw or position your object. With dynamic

guides, you can align your object in relation to other objects' top, bottom, left or

right edges or their centre. For more information on how to use them, see

Dynamic guides on p. 56.

Aligning with the Align tab

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 page edge. For example, with multiple

selected objects, aligning to Top aligns all objects to the topmost edge of the

highest object; align to Bottom aligns all objects to the bottommost edge of the

lowest object.

Alignment relative to the last selected object lets you choose a specific object in

a multiple selection from which to align other objects.

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.

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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.

To align/distribute objects to page margins, edges, or across page

spreads:

• Select from the Relative to

drop-down list to align the

selected object(s) within the

page Margins, Page edges,

or Spread (for facing pages)

then choose an align or

distribute button described

above.

For more advanced alignment control, you can align multiple objects in relation

to your last selected object (select objects in turn with the Shift key pressed) by

using the Relative to: Last Selected drop-down list option.

The last selected object is shown with a darker bounding box when

compared to other selected objects.

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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. you may want to utilize PagePlus objects in another

Serif application to save time and effort. The object is converted to a graphic and

becomes non-editable, but the object's original appearance will be honoured.

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Rotating an object

You can rotate single and multiple objects, including pictures, text objects, and

groups using the object's rotation handle or the Pointer Tool.

To rotate a selected object (using its rotation handle):

• Click and drag the rotation handle extending from the selection box

(use the Shift key while dragging for 15° rotation intervals).

To rotate an object (using Pointer Tool):

1. Select the Pointer Tool on the Tools toolbar.

2. Click to select the object, hover over one of its edge or corner

handles until you see the rotate cursor.

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).

To undo rotation (then restore the original orientation):

• Double-click the object's rotation handle.

• To restore the rotated position, double-click the rotation handle again.

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To change the rotation origin:

1. Select the Pointer Tool and click to select the object.

2. Click the object's rotation handle.

3. Move the rotation origin away from its original position in the

centre of the 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.

4. Drag the rotation handle to a new rotation angle—the object will rotate

about the new origin.

To reset the rotation origin, simply double-click it.

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 the same).

To flip an object horizontally/vertically:

• Select the object and choose Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical from

the Arrange menu.

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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.

Two types of cropping are possible—square cropping or irregular cropping.

square crop

irregular crop

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.

To crop using the object's original outline:

1. Select the object, then select the Square Crop Tool on the

Attributes toolbar.

2. For a vector object (shape, line, etc.), drag one of its edge or corner

handles inward for unconstrained cropping; press the Shift key while

dragging for constrained cropping (aspect ratio is maintained). For

pictures (above), the crop operation is constrained by default.

To scale the object within the crop outline, press the Ctrl key, click your

left mouse button, then move your mouse upwards or downwards.

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To crop by modifying the object's outline:

• Select the object and select the Irregular Crop Tool on the

Square Crop context toolbar. The Curve context toolbar appears on

its right, which lets you control the displayed nodes and connecting

segments that define the object's crop outline. See Ed iting lines on

p. 202.

• To move a node (control point) where you see the cursor, drag

the node.

• To move a line segment (between two nodes) where you see

the cursor, drag the segment.

To position a cropped object within 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 Square Crop context

toolbar.

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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.

To crop one shape to another:

1. Place the "clipping" object in front of the object to be cropped, using

the Arrange menu and/or Arrange toolbar as needed.

2. With both objects selected (or grouped), choose Crop to Shape from

the Tools menu.

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 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.

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Combining is a quick way to create a mask or stencil cutout:

QuickShapes Convert to

Curves

Combine

Curves

Drop Shadow

Added

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>Convert To>Curves for both.

4. Select both objects.

5. Choose Combine Curves from the Arrange menu.

To restore the original shapes from a combined object:

• Select it and choose Split Curves from the Arrange menu.

Adding anchors to objects

Anchors can be added to objects to allow hyperlinks and cross-references to link

directly to a specific location rather than to the whole page. This is especially

useful if you're referring to a page object such as an image or table, or to

selected artistic or frame text.

Named anchors can optionally be included as PDF bookmarks. The anchor's

name is added automatically to the PDF bookmark list as a new bookmark title;

after generating your PDF, the bookmark can be clicked to navigate to that

anchor location.

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To add an anchor:

1. Select the object or portion of text.

2. Select Anchor... from the Insert menu.

- or -

Right-click an object and select Insert Anchor....

3. From the dialog, enter a name for the anchor.

4. (Optional) Check Include in PDF Bookmarks if you want to create a

PDF file which will show a bookmark which directs to the anchor's

location. If checked, enter the Bookmark title that will show in the

generated PDF.

5. Click OK.

Once created, you can insert hyperlinks, cross-references, and PDF bookmarks,

directly linked to the new anchor.

To delete an anchor:

1. Select the object which has an anchor that you wish to remove.

2. Click Anchor... from the Insert menu (or Insert Anchor... from the

right-click menu).

3. In the dialog, click Delete.

4. From the next dialog, you can either leave or delete all bookmarks or

hyperlinks to the anchor independently of each other. Click Yes or No

as appropriate.

Anchoring objects to text

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 either in relation to a

position in your text (or other page element) or be simply placed inline in your

text. In either instance, objects can then move with the text as you add further

text content.

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• Detach from text. The anchored object is disconnected from its

anchor point, leaving a normal unanchored object.

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 with text. This is the default positioning option.

2. Click OK. The Anchor point appears and your object is

now an anchored (showing an icon).

Or, for an inline object:

1. Enable Position inline as character.

2. 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.

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Add Creates one new object that’s the sum of any two selected

objects.

The objects need not be overlapping.

Subtract Discards the overlap between the top and bottom object.

The top object is also discarded. Useful as a quick way of

truncating shapes and pictures with another object.

Ensure the objects are overlapping!

Intersect

Retains the overlap and discards the rest.

Exclude

Merges two or more objects into a composite object, with a

clear transparent "hole" where their filled regions overlap.

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Applying a mesh warp envelope

Mesh warping lets you apply a preset warp envelope to your PagePlus object or

bitmap (below), then optionally modify a flexible grid of points and lines that

you can drag to deform or distort an object and (optionally) its fill.

To apply a basic mesh warp to a selected object:

1. Select the object, then select the Mesh Warp Tool on the

Attributes toolbar.

2. Select a warp from the Preset Warps flyout on the Mesh Warp

context toolbar.

The object deforms accordingly and a simple mesh outline appears

around the object, with a node at each corner or around its outline.

3. You can use the Mesh Warp context toolbar to:

• Disable Warp temporarily.

• Choose a different Preset Warp.

• Specify with Warp Fills whether or not the warp effect extends to

the object's gradient or bitmap fill or the bitmap's pixels.

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5. Drag a chosen logo thumbnail to your page.

6. From the Insert Logo dialog, you can choose design variations, add a

name or motto and apply colours, i.e.

• For design variations: Select a design from the Designs pane

(e.g., offering different text labels and positions).

• For a name or motto: You can add a name or motto to your logo

in their respective text fields.

• For colour: To apply the publication's current colour scheme to

your design, uncheck Apply colour set. Alternatively, to adopt a

colour set independent of your publication's current colour

scheme, keep Apply colour set checked and pick a colour set

option from the drop-down list.

7. Click OK.

Flashes, used for celebratory and promotional messages, can also be

created using the same process as adding logos except you select

"Flashes" instead of "Logos" from the Asset Browser's Pack File location.

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 distractions 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, asset, 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 Close LogoStudio from LogoStudio's main toolbar to exit.

The modified logo is updated in its original position.

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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.

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.

Inserting media clips

You can insert media into your publication which will play in your published

PDF file or HTML output. Your PDF file could be a PDF slideshow, PDF form

or a more simple PDF document. Each type of clip can be placed in a particular

position on your PagePlus document's page, and, when exported as PDF, the clip

can be clicked for playback. Media clips can be great accompaniments to your

promotional, email, or e-learning material!

A variety of commonly used formats are supported, including both non-

streaming and streaming media.

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.

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Most media clips can be either linked or embedded when the clips are stored

locally; clips accessed via URL can only be linked. When embedding, the

source file is stored in your publication, as opposed to keeping it separate when

linked. Although embedding any file adds to the size of the publication, it is the

default option because you'll no longer have to worry about juggling separate

files or the chance of accidentally deleting one of them. When you publish, some

streaming media must be embedded; PagePlus will warn you of this via the

Preflight tab.

The visitor will be able to trigger the playback of a given media file by clicking

an icon or picture pre-linked to the media file. A media "player" will be visible

on your published page.

To insert media clips (via icon or picture):

1. Choose Sound Clip or Movie Clip from the Media Clip>

flyout, located on the Insert menu.

- or -

If you're designing a form, pick the same options from the Forms

toolbar.

2. From the dialog, add a Title for the media clip. This is for your

reference only, and is not displayed.

3. Select your media location, either available locally (Media) or via the

Internet (URL).

• Enable Media, then navigate to the folder location of the media

file, and select the file. Click Open.

- or -

• Enable URL, then enter (or type) the absolute web address for

the file. You could paste in the file's URL, if it already exists on

the Internet—ensure you copy the exact URL of the file rather

than that of just the website.

4. If you do not wish to embed the file in your publication, uncheck

Embedded.

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5. For playback, set the playback to Loop or play Once; include

playback controls alongside your placed clip (check Show Player

Controls). Optionally, include the playback control in a Floating

window (if checked).

6. Check the Locked option to prevent the clip from being altered in the

PDF output.

7. In the Appearance tab, use the Visibility option to show a media clip's

border, and set the thumbnail border's width, style, and colour.

8. From the Poster section, select a graphic to use as a picture thumbnail

instead of the standard sound or movie thumbnail. For movies, a

poster thumbnail can be generated from the original movie file by

enabling Retrieve from media.

9. Click OK.

10. Position the cursor over a point on the page, and either:

• To insert the clip's thumbnail at a default size, simply click the

mouse.

- or -

• To set the size of the inserted thumbnail, drag out a region and

release the mouse button.

You can then position the icon on your page. When the document is exported

your media content is ready to be played!

To change a clip's properties:

• Right-click on the clip thumbnail, and choose Media Clip

Properties....

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Updating and saving defaults

Object defaults are the stored property settings PagePlus applies to newly

created objects such as:

• lines and shapes (line and fill colour, shade, pattern, transparency,

etc.)

• frames (margins, columns, etc.)

• text (i.e., font, size, colour, alignment, etc.). Defaults are saved

separately for artistic, shape, frame and table text.

You can easily change the defaults for any type of object via the Update Object

Default command or the Text Style Palette dialog.

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. (For

graphics, you can use a line, shape, or rectangle; all share the same set

of defaults.)

2. Select the object that's the basis for the new defaults and from the

Format menu, select Update Object Default.

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.

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To view and change default text properties:

1. From the Format menu, select Text Style Palette....

2. Double-click Default Text, then from the expanded list of text types,

choose an option (e.g., Artistic Text).

3. Click Modify... to view current settings for the selected text type.

4. Use the Text Style dialog to alter character, paragraph, or other

properties.

To save all current defaults as global settings:

1. From the Tools menu, select Save Default Settings....

2. From the dialog, check options to update specific defaults globally:

• Document and object defaults - saves current document settings

(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 formats saved in

Tab le Formats dialog.

3. Click Save to confirm that you want new publications to use the

checked object's defaults globally.

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Working with Text 113

Understanding text frames

Typically, text in PagePlus goes into text frames, which work equally well as

containers for single words, standalone paragraphs, multipage articles, or

chapter text.

You can also use artistic text (see p. 122) for standalone text with special

effects, or table text (on p. 158) for row-and-column displays.

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.

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Frame 1

Frame 2

Creating text frames

You add text frames and position them on the page as you would any other

object, in advance of adding text content.

To create a frame:

1. Select Standard Text Frame from 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.

Once created, your frame edges will be hidden on deselection of the

frame because Clean Design is switched on. The edges will be shown on

frame hover over. Frame text will always be shown.

To delete a frame:

• Select the frame—click its edge until a solid border appears—and then

press the Delete key.

You can select, move, and resize text frames just like other objects (see p. 79,

86, and 87, respectively). When you select a frame's bounding box, indicated by

a solid border line plus corner and edge handles, you can manage the frame

properties; selecting inside a frame creates a blinking insertion point in the

frame's text (the frame's boundary box becomes hatched to indicate editing

mode). In this mode, you can edit the text. (For details, see Editing text on the

page on p. 126.)

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PagePlus also lets you create a wide variety of shaped frames from closed

shapes or QuickShapes (see p. 204).

To create a frame (from a shape):

1. Draw a shape with a line tool or create a QuickShape.

2. Select Convert To>Shaped Text Frame from the Tools menu (or

right-click).

- or -

Type directly onto the QuickShape to automatically create a shaped

frame.

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 Edit story in

WritePlus on the Frame context toolbar.

Importing text: Right-click on a frame and choose Insert Text File... to

import text.

Typing into the

frame:

Select the Pointer Tool, then click for an insertion point

to type text straight into a frame, or edit existing text.

(See Editing text on the page on p. 126.)

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.

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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 guides for placing page

elements, the frame column guides actually determine how text flows within

each frame. Text won't flow outside the column margins.

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.

(A) Column margins, (B) Column blinds

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 frame edge is clicked to show a selected bounding box (1), after dragging

inwards the column margin can be adjusted (2), and after dragging downwards,

the top margin blind can be moved (3).

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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 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 invis ible 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 choose which one

you want to edit.

On text overflow, the frame's AutoFlow button can be used to create new

frames for the overflowed story text. To control how the frame text is spread

throughout available frames, you can use AutoFit to size story text

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automatically to the frame or use Fit Text, Enlarge Text, or Shrink Text for

manual text sizing. See Fitting text to the frames on p. 118.

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 invisib le overflow area and the Link button on the last frame of the

sequence displays a red square; 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 "one-

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 (approx. 2%).

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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.

No AutoFit

This is the normal mode of operation where, if selected, text won't

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.

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Linking text frames

When a text frame is selected, the frame includes a Link button at the bottom

right which denotes the state of the frame and its story text. It also allows you to

control how the frame's story flows to following frames:

No Overflow

The frame is not linked to a following frame (it's either a standalone

frame or the last frame in a sequence) and the frame is empty or the

end of the story text is visible.

Overflow

The populated frame is not linked (either sta

ndalone 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.

• You can link to frames already containing text or are already in a link

sequence.

• If the frame was not part of a link sequence, its text is merged into the

selected text's story.

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• 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 Continued, 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 in the text at the end of a text frame, then use your down arrow

keyboard key to jump to the next frame.

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To edit artistic text:

• Drag to select a range of text, creating a blue selection.

You can also double-click to select a word, or triple-click to select all text.

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 Bézier

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 unique ways, as described below.

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

down arrow on the Path Text flyout and choose a preset path.

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To remove the text path:

1. Select the path text object.

2. Click Path - None on the Text context toolbar's Path flyout.

The text remains as a straight-line artistic text object and the path is permanently

removed.

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.

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To edit text on the page:

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.

2. Type to insert new text or overwrite selected text, respectively.

To start a new paragraph:

• Press Enter.

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.

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To show special characters:

• Click the drop-down arrow on the Hintline toolbar, and select

Show Special Characters (for 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.

If you don't place an insertion point on pasting, the text can be pasted

into a new text frame directly.

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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 current paragraph. You can adjust

the markers to set paragraph indents, or use a dialog.

• The Left indent (A) is set in relation to the object's left margin (or text

frame edge if margin not set).

• The 1st line indent (B) is in relation to the left indent.

• The Right indent (C) is in relation to the object's right margin (or text

frame edge if margin not set).

For details on setting frame margins, see Frame setup and layout (on p. 116).

To set the indents of the current paragraph:

• Drag the appropriate ruler marker(s) as shown above.

- or -

• For quick left indents, select the Increase Paragraph

Indent or Decrease Paragraph Indent button to increase or decrease

indent, respectively. Indent is by the currently set default tab stop

distance.

- or -

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• 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 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>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.

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 & 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).

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3. Select the Range to be searched: Current Story (just the currently

selected text object or 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 next instance of the Find text after the

insertion point.

- or -

Click Find Previous to locate the previous 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.

7. Click Close to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog.

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, font,

point size, attributes, paragraph alignment, bullets/numbering, or level.

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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. When you create frame

text from scratch you'll be using the Body text style based on Normal;

artistic text uses Artistic Body text style, based on the Body style.

This hierarchical approach makes for powerful text style control.

• 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 of selected

characters—rather than to the whole paragraph.

• 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).

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Text style hierarchies

All paragraph or character text styles available in PagePlus are ultimately based

on the respective Normal and Default Paragraph Font text styles.

Paragraph styles Character styles

So why have this hierarchy of text styles? The key reason for this is the ability to

change a text style at any "level" in the hierarchy in order to affect all "child"

styles which belong to it.

Working with named styles

The named style of the currently selected text is displayed

in either the Text Styles tab or the Styles drop-down list on the Text context

toolbar. A character style (if one is applied locally) may be shown; otherwise it

indicates the paragraph style.

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. Display 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.

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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.

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 drop-

down list and press Enter.

The new style is defined with the properties of the selected text.

To modify an existing style:

From the Text Styles tab:

1. Right-click on the character or paragraph style you want to modify and

then choose Modify <style>...

- or -

With a style selected, select Manage 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 Clos e 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 (see p. 106).

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To remove local formatting:

1. Select locally formatted characters or paragraph(s) as described in the

above table.

2. Either:

• Select Clear Formatting from the Styles drop-down list on the

Text context toolbar.

- or -

• On the Text Styles tab, you can:

• Click Clear All Formatting from the drop-down list (or

Clear Text Formatting from the Format menu).

- or -

• Select Clear Character Formatting from the drop-down list to

remove all local character formatting (leaving paragraph

formatting untouched).

- or -

• Select Clear Paragraph Formatting from the drop-down list 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 Reapply Character

Style (retaining paragraph styles overrides), Reapply Paragraph Style

(retaining character style overrides), and Reapply Both Styles 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 on the Text Styles tab, click

the Modify button, then click the Clear All button from the General section.

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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 choosing an alternative

style. This swaps styles across paragraphs and throughout entire stories all at the

same time.

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.

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Assigning bullets, numbers, and levels to styles

PagePlus lets you easily associate any bulleted, numbered or multi-level list

style (either preset or custom list) to an existing text style. See Using text styles

on p. 132.

Inserting cross-references

PagePlus allows you to cross-reference to headings and anchored text, tables,

pictures, or diagrams throughout your publication. Numbered paragraphs,

footnotes/endnotes, and next/previous frames can also be cross-referenced.

By choosing the "target" of the cross-reference, i.e. what the reference is to (e.g.,

a heading or anchor), you can then choose how the cross-reference will appear,

typically as a page number or item name. This can also appear as the text

"above" or "below", a text number, or referenced header/content.

To insert a cross-reference field:

1. (Optional) In advance, create anchors to any objects you'd like to

cross-reference to.

2. Click in the text for an insertion point (or make a text selection).

3. From the Insert menu, select Information>Cross-reference...

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• Text number: the number of the numbered list, heading, footnote

or paragraph. When the target is deep in a multi-level numbered

list, like "1.B.iii.", you can pick:

• (no context): just the target's own number, e.g. "iii.".

• (relative context): which list levels are included depends on

whether the cross-reference is in part of the same list as the target.

For example, if the cross-reference is in "1.C.ii." (a later part of the

same top-level list), then the reference would appear as "B.iii".

• (full context): include numbers from all levels of the list, e.g.

"1.B.iii.".

For a normal paragraph (not in a numbered list or footnote), its

number is the count from its most recent heading, and the full

context includes the text of that heading. For example, "Details/3"

would refer to the 3rd paragraph since the "Details" heading.

• Referenced header: the text of the most recent header of the

target. Use this for referencing heading text.

• Referenced content: the actual text of the target paragraph. You

can limit the number of words to be included with the Up to input

box; set this to a large number to get the entire paragraph.

7. Prefix/Suffix: Use to add text before and after the reference. For

example, you could surround a reference with brackets or quotes, or

include "p. " as a prefix to a page number reference.

8. Number separator. Often numbered lists include their own separators

and punctuation, for example "(A)". This check box discards the

original separator and replaces it with the given new one, entered into

the adjacent box. This is especially useful with multi-level lists with

context, where "1.(A)1." can be reformatted by the cross-reference as,

for example, "1.A.1".

9. Keep Insert as Hyperlink checked to make the cross-reference a

hyperlink; this is ideal for electronic publishing to PDF or HTML. For

printing to desktop printers, uncheck the option if needed.

10. Click OK.

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When you want to change a variable, all that's needed is to edit and update the

variable's value. The variable fields throughout your publication are updated

with the new values.

To update variables:

1. Click User Details on the Pages context toolbar (deselect objects

to view).

2. Edit the existing variables with new values.

3. Click Update.

You can swap variable fields and convert fields to text in the same way as

with user details (see p. 148).

You can also add hyperlinks and cross-references to variable fields. For

more information, see Hyperlinking an object (p. 177) and Inserting

cross-references (p. 144).

If you come across some text (either artistic, frame, or table) that you'd like to be

made into a variable, it can be converted to a variable easily.

To convert text to a variable:

1. Select the text.

2. Right-click the text, and select Create variable from text.

3. From the dialog, choose to make the variable available in the

publication or globally in the Type drop-down list.

4. Enter a Name and Value pair, and a prefix/suffix if needed.

5. Click OK.

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3. Check Replace text while typing to turn on Auto-Correct. The pre-

defined text replacements will be applied when you type the misspelt

words.

To add custom misspellings to the correction list:

1. In the Replace field, type a name for the Auto-Correct 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.

PagePlus also provides a pre-defined abbreviations dictionary which is used to

prevent inadvertent capitalization of abbreviations. You can add your own

abbreviations to the dictionary via Tools>Options... (Text>Auto-

Correct>Abbreviations).

Produkt Specifikationer

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Model:	PagePlus X6
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