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
• 2-position Rollovers (Web layouts only): Apply a 2-position rollover to an item so that the
image in one or more other boxes will change when the mouse pointer is over the rollover
box.
Page menu
The Page menu includes commands for inserting, deleting, and moving pages; working
with guides, grids, and sections; navigating through pages, and more.
• Insert: Lets you add new pages.
• Delete: Lets you delete pages.
• Move: Lets you move a page to a different location.
• Master Guides and Grid: Lets you modify the placement of page guides and design grids
on master pages.
• Page Properties (Web layouts only): Lets you modify the page properties of a Web layout.
• Section: Lets you change the numbering system for a layout or a range of pages in a layout.
• Previous: Navigates to the preceding page.
• Next: Navigates to the following page.
• First: Navigates to the first page.
• Last: Navigates to the last page.
• Go to: Lets you navigate to a particular page.
• Display: Lets you display a page or a master page.
• Preview HTML (Web layouts only): Generates an HTML preview and displays it in a Web
browser.
• Preview SWF (Interactive layouts only): Generates a preview and displays it in a Web browser.
Layout menu
The Layout menu includes commands for working with and navigating to layouts.
• New: Lets you add a new layout.
• Duplicate: Lets you duplicate one layout to copy its items and content to another.
• Delete: Lets you remove a layout.
• New/Edit Layout Specification: Lets you create or modify Job Jackets properties for a
layout.
• Layout Properties: Lets you modify layout properties such as name, type, and size.
• Advanced Layout Properties: Lets you modify sharing properties of a layout.
• Previous: Activates the layout tab that was active prior to the current layout.
• Next: Activates the layout tab that is positioned to the immediate right of the active layout.
• First: Activates the far-left layout tab.
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