8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- 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 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
- Breaking a table manually
- Adding header and footer rows to tables
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 — EPS
- 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
• Collaboration Setup: Use this option to control project linking, sharing, and updating
frequency of shared resources.
• Job Jackets: Use this submenu to access the specifications and rules for creating and
inspecting a layout, link a project to a Job Jackets file, modify a Job Ticket, and evaluate
a layout.
• Print: Use this option to print the active file.
• Output Job: Use this option to access the Output Specification for outputting a job, which
is like a "style sheet" for output.
• Exit (Windows only): Use this option to exit the application.
Edit menu
The Edit menu includes the following commands:
• Undo: Undoes the last action.
• Redo: Redoes an undone action.
• Cut: Cuts the selected content.
• Copy: Copies the selected content to the clipboard.
• Paste: Pastes the clipboard contents on the active page.
• Paste Without Formatting: Pastes the clipboard contents as plain text.
• Paste In Place: Pastes a duplicated or copied item onto the active page at the same position
from which it was originally copied.
• Paste Special (Windows only): Lets you choose how the object is pasted into your document
by using the Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) function.
• Clear/Delete: Deletes the active content.
• Select All: Selects all content in the active box or text path.
• Links (Windows only) : Lets you update a linked object.
• Object (Windows only) : Lets you work with an embedded or linked object contained in a
selected picture box.
• Insert Object (Windows only): Lets you create an object using a server application or retrieve
an existing file.
• Show Clipboard: Displays the contents of the clipboard.
• Find/Change: Displays the Find/Change palette, which you can use to find and change
text based on content, formatting, or both.
• Item Find/Change: Displays and hides the Item Find/Change palette.
• Preferences (Windows only): Lets you modify default values and settings. For more
information, see "Preferences."
• Style Sheets: Lets you add, edit, and delete style sheet definitions. For more information,
see "Working with style sheets."
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