Operation Manual

Controls in the Book Layout Editor
The Book Layout Editor is where you design the layout of pages in your book and add
images and text to pages.
The Book Layout Editor
is where you design
your book.
For more information about the controls in the Book Layout Editor, see Book Layout
Editor.
Choosing a Theme
You choose a theme for your book when you create your book album. However, you can
change the book’s theme at any time. A theme provides a professionally designed set of
master pages that determine how text and images are placed on the page.
It’s a good idea to explore the page styles and designs of Aperture themes. Some theme
designs lend themselves better to presenting many pictures without much text; others
to more traditional mixes of text and images, such as you might find in coffee table books.
Once you know the characteristics of the different themes, you can choose the theme
best suited to a project.
You can also create your own custom theme with the dimensions of your choosing.
However, you can’t order books from Apple created with custom themes. For more
information about creating custom themes, see Working with Custom Themes.
It’s important to choose the theme you want at the beginning of a project. Each theme
presents different combinations of master pages. Although you can change themes after
you start a project and Aperture will attempt to convert your book structure to the new
theme’s master pages, you may need to redo some of your work to make up for differences
between themes. It’s not recommended that you complete a book and then change
themes to see it with different layouts.
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