Operation Manual

• Add Pages pop-up menu: Choose to add one or several pages to your book using this
pop-up menu.
Book Layout Controls
Use the book layout controls to switch between content editing and layout editing modes,
set text styles, display metadata with your images, apply a filter to change the look of
your images, remove background images, and use the Send Backward and Bring Forward
buttons to adjust the stacking order of images and text that overlap on a page.
Add Box
pop-up menu
Edit Layout
button
Set Photo Filter
pop-up menu
Set Background
pop-up menu
Set Metadata Format
pop-up menu
Set Text Style
pop-up menu
Edit Content
button
Bring
Forward
button
Send Backward
button
• Edit Content button: Click this button to change images or edit text on your book pages.
• Edit Layout button: Click this button to change the page layout by moving and resizing
text, metadata, and photo boxes on your book pages.
• Add Box pop-up menu: Choose to add a text, metadata, photo, or map box using this
pop-up menu.
• Set Text Style pop-up menu: Choose the style of text you want for a selected text box
using this pop-up menu.
• Set Metadata Format pop-up menu: Choose the type of metadata you want displayed
with your images using this pop-up menu.
• Set Photo Filter pop-up menu: Choose a filter to change the look of images. For example,
you might apply filters that change an image to black and white or sepia.
• Set Background pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to remove the background image,
set the background to black, or reset the background to the photo.
• Send Backward button: Click this button to move a selected box backward in the stacking
order of overlapping text or image boxes.
• Bring Forward button: Click this button to move a selected box forward in the stacking
order of overlapping text or image boxes.
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