Operation Manual

2 Select the metadata box.
3 Choose Unlink Metadata Box from the Book Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon).
To relink a metadata box
1 In the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor, select the page that has the metadata box
you want to link.
2 Command-click the metadata box and the photo box you want to link to select them
both.
3 Choose Link Metadata Box from the Book Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon).
Hiding or Showing Image Plate Numbers in Books
You can turn the display of plate numbers in your books and web galleries on or off.
Aperture is preset not to display plate numbers for images.
To turn on the display of plate numbers in a book
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In the Book Layout Editor, choose Enable Plate Metadata from the Book Action pop-up
menu (with a gear icon).
Choosing a Text Style
You can assign text styles to text and metadata boxes to change the look of text in your
book. Aperture master pages come with preset text styles that include designs for
important text elements such as cover text, subtitles, headings, and paragraph text. You
can easily apply these styles to text and metadata boxes as you work.
To change the text style of a text or metadata box
1 Select the text or metadata box you want to change.
2 Choose a text style for your text from the Set Text Style pop-up menu.
Set Text Style
pop-up menu
Making Font Changes in Books
Aperture provides a Fonts window that you can use to change fonts in your books. You
select text in a text box on a page to change the font, font size, font color, and more.
Important: Aperture follows the text-smoothing preferences set in the Appearance pane
of System Preferences. The Mac OS X default setting doesn’t smooth fonts that are 8
points in size or smaller. This setting only affects the appearance of fonts onscreen; the
fonts appear smoothed when printed.
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