Improvements to image handling mean that you can automatically import bitmaps intended for web use at 96dpi, while the new Picture toolbar makes it simple to quickly change brightness and contrast, to apply recolour effects and to control size and resolution. In terms of new layout power, options to set up picture frames as reusable image containers and to automatically fill text frames with dummy text are both helpful for sorting out designs in advance.
You can now split each page into layers and temporarily hide and lock these as required with the new floating Layer Manager, although this would be far more accessible if incorporated into the main Studio area. The shortcuts are shown on the menus. Download my Cheat Sheet and edit it to keep track of any changes.
Customise the Toolbars and menus. If you have a or aspect ratio monitor, try moving the toolbars from the left side to the top of the window.
This gives quicker access to the Studios and reduces mouse movement. Remove submenus wherever possible. For example, remove the Publications submenu from the View, Toolbars menu, and add items to the View menu to show or hide the publication tabs.
If the publication tabs are on auto, the Toolbars submenu is not needed as right-click on any toolbar will show it. Buttons can be added to the menu bar. Customise the Studios to suit your preferences.
Save your workspace profile for future use or for sharing with others. Be mindful that the toolbars and menus have been heavily customised in this profile, but its easy to switch back to the default profile. There is space for a floating Studio tab on top of the menu bar. With large 24 pixel icons on a x monitor there is enough space for all of the icons that I need on one toolbar, with the context toolbar below. Install my free OpenType fonts , which have a wide range of glyphs, or buy some Professional fonts with OpenType features.
Get a font manager like MainType if you have a large font collection, or get the free AMP font viewer. Open the Fonts Tab, and mark your most used fonts as favourites. Then they will appear at the top of the font selection drop list. However, if you set up your styles properly, you will spend less time selecting fonts. It also saves the most recently used fonts.
Colours and Swatches The Colour Tab has been enhanced with a new mode to select colours from a picture. Edit in External Program Instead of Edit in PhotoPlus, the Image context toolbar now shows a drop list of programs that may be used to edit an image. EPUB3 The latest specification for electronic publications is better suited to fixed layout publications. Paragraph Tab The most frequently used paragraph formatting options are now available from a Tab on the right of the workspace.
Column Rules The text frame properties dialog has an option to add column rules to the gutter to the right of the current column. Table Format Gallery The table format editor in previous versions has been updated with a more accessible method for editing, saving, and applying table formats. Complex Fills The swatches tab now contains plasma fills, radial fills, square, and three or four colour fills. Flowing Tables Tables are no longer limited to a single page, but can be flowed down or to the right onto other pages, or on the same page.
Smart Hints Like DrawPlus, popup notifications will advise the user when performing certain actions. Startup Assistant This is the Startup Wizard by a new name, but with some new and improved features. Workspace Enhancements Workspaces have been around as long as the Studio Tabs. Anchored Objects Images, Tables, Text Frames, Artistic Text, or groups can be anchored relative to the page, page margins, frame, column, or character.
Dynamic Guides Easier alignment and positioning of objects using dynamic guides. E-Book Publishing - I anticipate that this exciting new feature will encourage many to upgrade or migrate to PagePlus. Interface Improvements Document Tabs — The new Publication Tabs toolbar can be shown automatically if more than one document is open, or left permanently shown or hidden.
Tabs can be arranged in any order by dragging, and closed from a context-sensitive menu. The toolbar can be docked vertically on the side of the window, docked at the top or bottom, or left floating.
The Text Styles Palette now includes a field to show any direct formatting that has been applied on top of the current paragraph style. Saving defaults has been made simpler. The shortcut customisation dialog now shows a warning if a shortcut is already used in another context. The snapping icon on the hintline has a popup menu to select from the most popular snapping options.
Rotated Tables can be unrotated for easier editing by double-clicking just outside the resizing handles with the pointer tool. Double-click again after editing to reinstate the original rotation. Starting page numbers can be entered as Roman numerals or Alpha characters, not only as integers. Photo Lab - An image adjustment studio with Quick Artistic effects, adjustment filters, and special effects. Picture Frames and Borders Create custom borders from bitmaps. Polygon Operations More versatile shapes can be created by combining or intersecting existing shapes, e.
Resource Manager More flexible management of resources. Stroke Alignment Alignment of objects to the inside, outside, or centre of strokes. Table Formats Table and Calendar Autoformat Editor — Create calendar and table formats to apply to any calendar or table. Text Improvements Adaptive Letter Spacing — This feature improves text justification by condensing or expanding the spacing between characters wherever necessary.
To change manual kerning for artistic text, use the slider on the character tab. Very useful in conjunction with Drop Capitals, or without them. The enter key now turns off numbered and bulleted lists if the last line is blank.
The bucket tool can be used to join text frames and create new frames. Click on the overflow icon, then drag with the bucket tool to create a linked frame. Revamped default text styles palette to allow different default paragraph styles for different types of text object. Improved Table Quick Fill for European languages. Tutorials I have added this tutorial section with tips and tricks to get the most out of PagePlus using some of its more advanced features.
Access Keys on Menus — Modify menus to remove submenus wherever possible, ensuring that all items have a unique access key. The PagePlus source file serves as a template. Adding Captions to Images — Using endnotes for sequentially numbered captions for illustrations, and a list of illustrations. Creating Graph Paper — An exercise in using layers and the replicate feature, with precise positioning using the Transform Tab to create an A4 graph paper with 1 cm, 0.
The tutorial is in PagePlus X8 format. Custom Borders — Importing borders from PagePlus X3 or earlier and saving them for reuse in more recent versions. Customise toolbars, menus, workspaces, and keyboard shortcuts. Customising WebPlus — WebPlus shares most of the features with PagePlus for customising the menus, toolbars, shortcuts, and workspaces, but there are a few differences.
Customising Keyboard Shortcuts — This tutorial in PagePlus format with tables that you can modify to make a cheat sheet of your own keyboard shortcuts. Designing a Book in PagePlus — This tutorial suggests a workflow for setting up a book for printing, staple-fold home production, or publication as a PDF file. Formatting Footnotes — This tutorial shows how to format footnotes in columns at the bottom of the page, how to modify footnote options, and how to insert cross-references to footnotes.
Headers, Footers, and Page Numbering — How to set up running headers, bottom centre page numbers on title pages, and define separate page numbering sections for long books. Logos — How to create text in a circle for logos. Type artistic text directly on a path, select a preset path after typing the text, or select artistic text and a curve, then fit text to path. Looking Inside Documents — How to extract Serif documents, to repair or examine the contents.
Sometimes, corrupted files can be repaired with the help of 7-Zip. You can find several free fonts with OpenType features on my fonts page. Optimising images before placing them to minimise file size without compromising quality. Styles — Using paragraph, character, nested, and object styles.
Text Behind Image — Using the irregular crop tool to make text on top of an image look like it passes behind a head or other object in an image. Tickets — Create event tickets or raffle tickets with a tear-off ticket stub. Designed with three leading zeros for up to 9, tickets. Add more pages for more than tickets.
Translation Layers — Create multi-lingual publications by using layers. Hide other layers while editing the current translation, and while printing the finished publication, one language at a time. Vertical Text — Create vertical text for signs that read downwards using artistic text or paragraph text. Working With Fractions — Using OpenType features, or using autocorrect to enter the precomposed fractions found in other fonts.
How to get the best looking results. Working With Pictures — Inserting multiple images, using picture frames, adding frame borders, and creating custom borders. Image dimensions, resolution, quality, and file size. If you have been put off using DTP software in the past because you have found that it is either too complicated for day-to-day use, or too simplistic for quick projects, this could be the program you have been looking for and you can get a copy for yourself without having to part with any money.
Using a wide range of features, templates and wizard, even potentially complex documents, such as trifold menus, can be put together in a flash. Many of the wizards that are available can be completed in a matter of moments, and you are guided through the entire process. You can keep things very simple and just change the text to reflect your personal requirements, or you can get a little more hands-on and customize the stock images and logos that are used.
A great feature of PagePlus 11 is its support for layers. Just like in an image-editing package, you can store different parts of your document on different layers, showing and hiding them as and when required. More simply, you can convert a folder of photos to a data source in order to produce photo albums.
When it comes to final output, PagePlus 10 sees some further tweaks.
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