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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Advanced Image Control palette
- Books palette
- Callout Styles palette
- Colors palette
- Conditional Styles palette
- Content palette
- Content Variables palette
- Footnote Styles palette
- Glyphs palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Guides palette
- HTML5 Palette
- Index palette
- Item Styles palette
- Layers palette
- Lists palette
- Measurements palette
- Measurements palette - Mac OS X
- Measurements palette - Windows
- Page Layout palette
- Profile Information palette
- Redline palette
- Reflow Tagging palette
- Scale palette
- Style Sheets palette
- Table Styles palette
- Tools palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Projects and layouts
- Content variables
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Working with boxes
- Creating text and picture boxes
- Resizing boxes
- Locking box and picture proportions
- Reshaping boxes
- Adding frames to boxes
- Applying colors to boxes
- Applying blends to boxes
- Merging and splitting boxes
- Adding text and pictures to boxes
- Changing box type
- Creating a box from a clipping path
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- Inline tables
- Table styles
- Adding text and pictures to tables
- Editing table text
- Linking table cells
- Formatting tables
- Formatting gridlines
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Combining cells
- Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns
- Converting tables back to text
- Working with tables and groups
- Continuing tables in other locations
- Table Import XTensions software
- Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Finding and changing text
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- Counting words and characters
- Applying character attributes
- Applying a font
- Choosing a font size
- Applying type styles
- Applying color, shade, and opacity
- Applying horizontal or vertical scale
- Applying baseline shift
- Applying emphasis
- Controlling half-width characters
- Counting characters
- Working with font sets
- Working with grouped characters
- Aligning characters on a line
- Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
- Format painter
- Controlling kerning
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Controlling tracking
- Working with style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
- Bullets and numbering
- Positioning text in text boxes
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
- Working with OpenType fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- Type Tricks
- Pictures
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Editing a color
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color, shade, and blends
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Source setups and output setups
- The color management experience for users
- Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert
- Working in a legacy color management environment
- Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)
- Color management for experts
- Creating a source setup
- Creating an output setup
- Managing profiles
- Working with drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Custom Bleeds
- DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
- Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting layers
- Showing and hiding layers
- Determining which layer an item is on
- Deleting layers
- Changing layer options
- Moving items to a different layer
- Copying and pasting items between layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Layers and text runaround
- Duplicating layers
- Merging layers
- Locking items on layers
- Using master pages with layers
- Suppressing printout of layers
- Using PDF layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Notes
- Redline
- eBooks
- Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
- Working with multiple languages
- XTensions software
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Color Theme
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Undo
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Sharing
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting
- Preferences — Application — East Asian
- Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color
- Preferences — Application — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Notes
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — Redline
- Preferences — Application — Spell-Check
- Preferences — Application — Tables
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Legal notices
- Index
Box Tools submenu
This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Box Tools submenu
of the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.
• Use Add Crop Marks to place crop marks around the selected box.
• Use Easy Banner to create a "banner" (text box) in the top-left corner of a selected
box; you specify the text in the banner.
• Use Make Caption Box to create a caption box (text box) below the selected box.
• Use Shrink or Grow at Center to resize a box from the box's center, rather than from
its origin (the 0,0 coordinates).
Grid submenu
This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Grid submenu of
the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.
Use By Dividing a Box to create a grid of boxes based on the dimensions of the selected
box.
Images submenu
This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Images submenu of
the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.
• Use Contents to PICT File to save the PICT preview of the selected picture to a file.
• Use Copy to Folder to save a copy of the picture in the selected picture box to a
specified folder.
• Use Fldr to Select PBoxes to import picture files from a specified folder into selected
picture boxes. Pictures are imported in alphabetical order.
Picture Box submenu
This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Picture Box submenu
of the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.
• Use Crop Marks & Name to place crop marks around the active picture box and enter
the name of the picture file into a text box below the picture box.
• Use Place Name to enter the name of a picture into a text box below the picture box
that contains the picture.
• Use Set All Bkgnd None to change the background color of every picture box in the
layout to None.
• Use Set All Bkgnd to change the background of every picture box in the layout to a
specified color and shade.
Saving submenu
This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Saving submenu of
the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.
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