User`s guide

Chapter 2: Installation and Setup
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distinct style, you may create a style name. You then assign paths to that style for the templates,
graphics, and custom typefaces utilized for that look. You will be able to reference this style from
the client interface for easy access to the graphics appropriate for the station or show.
Note: All graphics in a single rundown must be from the same style. Adding graphics to a story is described
in the chapter, Building Stories with Graphics.
In the examples that follow, each template has the same name and the same number and types of
layers. The background, the Dow Jones Industrials banner, and the Change, Close, and Volume
Headings are all fixed layers. The Up or Down change indicators and the numeric values are all in
replaceable fields filled in by a reporter or via automation. The Current Style determines which
look appears by defining the paths to templates, fixed graphics, and replaceable graphics. Once a
template is selected and the replaceable fields are filled, changing the Current Style changes the
appearance of the graphic, but the information or graphics in replaceable fields will remain.
Here is an example of how a graphic might look, rendered in a
certain style.