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Getting Started 19
Objects On The Page
Whether you customize a template or create your own graphics from scratch, you
can rotate, resize and position anything on the page, anywhere you like. You can
easily resize the page to be any required size and add new pages as required. Certain
features, such as changing color schemes, work across all pages simultaneously.
These are the basic types of page element:
• Text: Using the
TEXT TOOL you can create anything from single word headings to
columns of text or even blocks of text that flow from one block into another. You
can also create bulleted or numbered lists. The
TEXT TOOL InfoBar provides
controls over the font, size, line spacing and more. You can resize text either by
using the
SELECTOR TOOL or by selecting the text in the usual fashion and
choosing alternative point or pixel sizes. Perhaps surprisingly you can even rotate
text by any angle, and by using
REPEL TEXT UNDER (right click an object to see this
option) you can automatically flow text around objects on the page, such as
photos.
• Graphics: Any type of logo or heading on your page is graphic. Page & Layout
Designer is a vector graphics program which means you can edit the shape,
rotate and resize your graphic objects with no loss of quality (unlike pixel photo
editing tools such as Photoshop).
• Photos: You can drag and drop photos directly from your camera or File Explorer
window onto the page, rotate, enhance and crop it. Replacing existing photos in
templates is as easy as drag and drop - and you can alter the size and angle of
photos 'inside' their frame very easily.
Object Based Design
All the types of elements are collectively referred to as objects.
One of the unique benefits of Page & Layout Designer is that you have complete
freedom to place any object anywhere on the page, and your document will faithfully
reproduce this.
The SELECTOR TOOL can be used to select any object on the page, and to move
(just drag it), resize and rotate the objects.
You can adjust the stacking order (that is whether an object appears in front or
behind others on the page) using the
ARRANGE menu options or right click and choose
ARRANGE. With the SELECTOR TOOL you can resize objects by dragging on the corner
resize handles. You can rotate any object by dragging just inside the corner selection
handles.
To add some text to your design, select the
TEXT TOOL and click anywhere on
the page and start typing.