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
Joining lines
You can merge two lines into one by selecting the Item tool , selecting the lines, and
choosing Item > Merge > Join Endpoints. The Join Endpoints command is available
when the endpoints of lines or text paths are within six points of each other.
Manipulating items
Items can be cut and then pasted in new locations, locked so they cannot move, duplicated
once or many times, stacked to create unusual visual effects, and manipulated in other
ways.
Selecting items
To manipulate items, you must first select them. Once selected, most kinds of items display
outlines and handles for reshaping.
To select an item, first select the Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture
Content tool and move the Arrow pointer over an item. Click once to select a single
item or Shift+click individual items to select more than one item at a time. You can also
select multiple items by selecting the Item tool and drawing around an area that contains
the items.
With the Item tool selected, if you double-click a text box, the Import dialog box
displays. If you double-click an empty picture box with the Item tool or the Picture
Content tool selected, the Import dialog box displays. If the picture box contains a
picture, the Picture Content tool is selected.
To deselect an active item, click outside it. When the Item tool is selected, you can press
Tab to deselect any active items.
Moving items
You can move items by entering values in the Origin Across and Origin Down fields in
the Modify dialog box (Item menu), by entering values in the X and Y fields in the
Measurements palette, and by manually moving items using the Item tool . If you hold
down the mouse before moving a box or text path, you can see the contents as you move
the item. You can also "nudge" items by selecting the Item tool and pressing an arrow key
on your keyboard.
The box's item handles demarcate the bounding box. The best way to view the bounding
box clearly is to use the Item tool to select item handles on a Bézier box.
Cutting, copying, and pasting items
When the Item tool is selected, the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands (Edit menu) are
available for active boxes, lines, and text paths. Choose Edit > Paste (Command+V/Ctrl+V)
to place a copy of the items contained on the Clipboard in the center of the project window.
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