Operation Manual

Working with Graphics and Animation 41
In this chapter, we’ll continue exploring the pages the Page Wizard
provided—this time looking at pictures and graphic objects. Again, the
focus will be on how to swap the placeholder images the Wizard
installed for your own pictures, and how to create new graphic
elements.
Graphics in WebPlus
Page Wizards may incorporate several different types of graphic
objects into your publication. You can use the Pointer tool to select,
move, and resize them, just as with text objects.
Y On the Home page, click with the Pointer tool on the photo. Try
resizing it by dragging from one corner. Press &WUO= to undo. Now
click in the center and drag it off to one side. Press &WUO= again.
TIP: Watch the HintLine as you drag an object, and it will tell you the
object’s properties.
Y Drag the photo down and to the left so it partially overlaps the
repeating cube pattern. Now click on the photo in the overlapping
region, and click again (slowly) a couple of times. Each time,
you’ll notice a different set of handles appear, as first the photo,
then the pattern, is selected.
When two objects overlap at a particular point, your first click at that
point selects the uppermost object. Your second click selects the object
below the first, and so on.
Note: If you’re working in the older HTML 3.2 mode (see Chapter 8),
overlapping objects will be converted to single graphics when the
publication is exported as a Web page. In this mode, WebPlus flags
overlapping objects with a red line border, and you should separate the
objects unless you want them exported as a graphic. (Overlap is not a
problem in the newer HTML 4.0 mode.)