9.3
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Tools
- Web tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Tools palette
- Measurements palette
- Page Layout palette
- Style Sheets palette
- Conditional Styles palette
- Colors palette
- Shared Content palette
- Trap Information palette
- Lists palette
- App Studio palette
- Profile Information palette
- Callout Styles palette
- Glyphs palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Blio Table of Contents palette
- Reflow Tagging palette
- Reflow Table of Contents palette
- Hyperlinks palette
- Index palette
- Interactive palette
- Layers palette
- Picture Effects palette
- Guides palette
- Item Styles palette
- PSD Import palette
- Scale palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Projects and layouts
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- 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
- Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Finding and changing text
- Checking spelling
- 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
- 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
- Pictures
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Understanding color
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
- Understanding Composition Zones
- Creating a Composition Zones item
- Placing a Composition Zones item
- Sharing a composition layout
- Sharing a composition layout for editing
- Sharing a composition layout from the Shared Content palette
- Sharing a composition layout from the layout
- Tracking a Composition Zones item for updates
- Linking to a composition layout in another project
- Editing a composition layout: Content
- Editing a composition layout: Attributes
- Recovering contents of an external composition layout
- Editing the contents of a single-project composition layout
- Unsynchronizing a composition layout
- Breaking the link to a composition layout
- Removing a linked composition layout
- Deleting a composition layout
- Using Collaboration Setup
- Interactive layouts
- Understanding Interactive layouts
- Creating interactive building blocks
- Creating a Presentation layout
- Creating an object
- Configuring an SWF object
- Configuring a Video object
- Working with Animation objects
- Working with Button objects
- Image Sequence layouts, Button layouts, and Shared Content
- Working with menus
- Configuring a Window object
- Configuring a Text Box object
- Working with transitions
- Working with pages in Interactive layouts
- Working with keyboard commands
- Configuring Interactive preferences
- Working with actions
- Working with events
- Working with scripts
- Previewing and exporting Interactive layouts
- Working with expressions
- eBooks
- Working with Reflow view
- Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks
- Adding interactivity to Blio eBooks
- Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle
- Creating a TOC for Blio
- Working with eBook metadata
- Exporting for ePub
- Exporting for Kindle
- Exporting for Blio eReader
- 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 Output Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
- Web layouts
- Working with Web layouts
- Hyperlinks
- Creating a destination
- Creating an anchor
- Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination
- Creating a hyperlink from scratch
- Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette
- Formatting hyperlinks
- Editing and deleting destinations
- Editing and deleting anchors
- Editing and deleting hyperlinks
- Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette
- Rollovers
- Image maps
- Forms
- Menus
- Tables in Web layouts
- Meta tags
- Previewing Web pages
- Exporting Web pages
- Working with multiple languages
- XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
- Custom Bleeds XTensions software
- DejaVu XTensions software
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Full Resolution Preview XTensions software
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- HTML Text Import XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Item Styles XTensions software
- OPI XTensions software
- PDF Filter XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Scissors XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
- Shape of Things XTensions software
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
- Table Import XTensions software
- Type Tricks
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- WordPerfect Filter
- XSLT Export XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
- Other XTensions modules
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- 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 — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview
- Preferences — Application — Browsers
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — PSD Import
- Preferences — Application — Placeholders
- Preferences — Application — SpellCheck
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Preferences — Application — Picture Effects
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Tools
- Preferences — Layout — Trapping
- Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Preferences — Layout — Presentation
- Preferences — Layout — SWF
- Legal notices
- Index
Merging and splitting boxes
Options in the Merge and Split submenus (Item menu) let you create complex Bézier
boxes from existing boxes. For example, if a rectangular box overlaps an oval box, you
can select the Item > Merge submenu and choose an option that will create a single box
with the same content. If you merge two picture boxes, one picture will display in the
combined box. If you merge two text boxes, the text flows as one story through both
boxes.
To use the Merge feature, select two items and then choose one of the following options
from the Item > Merge submenu:
• The Intersection command retains any areas where items overlap the back item, and
removes the rest.
• The Union command combines all the items into one box, retaining all overlapped areas
as well as nonoverlapped areas.
• The Difference command deletes the front items. Any overlapping areas will be cut out.
• The Reverse Difference command deletes the back item. Any overlapping areas will be
cut out.
• The Exclusive Or command leaves all of the shapes intact but cuts out any areas where
there is overlap. If you want to edit the points surrounding the cut-out area, you will notice
that there are now two points at every location where two lines originally crossed.
• The Combine command is similar to the Exclusive Or command, but if you look at the
points surrounding the cut-out area, you will notice that no points were added where two
lines intersect.
The Split command either splits a merged box into separate boxes, splits a complex box
that contains paths within paths into separate boxes, or splits a box that contains a border
that crosses over itself (such as a figure eight). To use this feature, select two items and
then choose one of the following options from the Item > Split submenu:
• The Outside Paths command works with a merged box that contains several,
non-overlapping shapes. Outside Paths keeps all the outside path information and divides
nonoverlapping outside paths into separate boxes.
• The All Paths command creates separate boxes out of every shape within a complex box.
Adding text and pictures to boxes
To add text to a box, choose the Text Content tool , double-click the box, and then
either start typing, paste text copied from elsewhere, or choose File > Import. If you choose
the Item tool and double-click a text box, the Import dialog box displays.
To place a picture in a box, select the box with the Picture Content tool and then either
paste a picture copied from elsewhere or choose File > Import. If you choose the Item
tool or the Picture Content tool and double-click a picture box, the Import dialog
box displays.
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