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For smaller changes, you can also shorten this process: click the button "In external
editor" in the "Disc options" on "Design page".
A temporary PSD file will be added and opened in the program that has been selected
in the program settings as the menu editor (view page 258). After editing has been
complet
ed and saved in this external program, the temporary PSD file will be
imported again and the menu page will be updated immediately.
Menu text with external menu editing
Menu elements are transferred as a bitmap during PSD export as well as during
import of the edited PSD. This also applies to the text displayed in the menu. This text
may also normally be changed in the "Menu entry properties" dialog. The menu text
are adjusted if movies or chapters are added or removed.
The PSD contains these texts as a bitmap and cannot be changed. During importing,
the bitmaps replace the original text entries. By the way, this is maintained, and the
font will only be set to a size of 0 so that texts are not displayed in duplicate; the
menu will therefore look identical after external editing.
It is important that no more movies or chapters are added to the menu. Otherwise the
preview images, that have also changed along with the menu structure will no longer
match the bitmap text, since the bitmap text will not match the changed references in
the menu structure!
An example
A chapter with two entries is present. Entry 1 is named "travel preparations". Entry 2
is named "arrival". A chapter named "the trip" is going to be added between chapter
1 and chapter 2. The second chapter now becomes chapter 3 and moves to the next
menu page.
Normal text behavior: The second entry (now with preview image for the newly
inserted chapter) receives the new title "the trip". The next menu page features
chapter 3 as the first entry with the name "the trip".
Text after external menu editing: The second entry will feature the title "arrival" (as
a bitmap, as a component of the button), but the preview image will feature the new
chapter "the trip"! The next menu page now features the preview image for chapter
3 (formerly chapter 2, "arrival"), this is now called "travel preparations"! The name is
a component of the button as a bitmap for the first menu entry on the page, and this
is "travel preparations" on the first menu page. Completely out of order!