equinux Stationery Greeting Cards 2.21.0 User Manual

Greeting Cards

Contents

.......................Stationery Greeting Cards at a glance 3

..............................Stationery Greeting Cards in Mail 4

..........................Installing Stationery Greeting Cards 5

.............................Downloading & installing the app 5

Restoring your purchased templates 5

...........................................Finding the right template 7

Show all templates in a collection 7
Finding Greeting Cards by category 7
Previewing a template 7

.........................................Opening a template in Mail 8

.................................................Creating your message 9

Writing your message using Text Perfect 9
Writing your message in Apple Mail 9

If you want to delete the placeholder text 9
To keep and change the placeholder text 9
Adding pictures to your message 10

Adding pictures 10
Resizing and adjusting images 10

......................................Using Signatures and Logos 12

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Stationery Greeting Cards at a glance

closer look

Find the perfect design for events throughout the year, search for the perfect template for your occasion and enter your text.

Choose a particu­lar product or view
them all at a glance.

Browse templates by
Packs

Choose a keyword to
find suitable templates
for particular occasions

Drag the Greeting
Card you want to
use for your Text
Perfect message
here.

Drag one of the
Text Perfect Mes­sages here

Click to open your
Text Perfect Mes­sage in Apple Mail

Double-click a
template to take a

Use the Image Perfect
tool to ensure signa­tures and logos fit into
stationery dropzones

Search for templates by
description, occasions or
moods (e.g. “grey”,
“graduation” or “bright”)

Select an event to see
suggested templates for
certain occasions

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Show or hide the events
timeline

Use the zoom slider to
zoom in on designs

Stationery Greeting Cards in Mail

Choose a Greeting Card, add images and create your message – with your Greeting Card in Apple Mail

Scroll to choose a sta­tionery category

Select your preferred
stationery template

Show and hide your
stationery

Open the photo browser
to add photos and
graphics to your mail

Select the placeholder
text and start typing to
add your own message.

Use the cursor keys to
keep the placeholder
text and amend it with
your personal message.

Drag an image from the
photo browser into the
image dropzone to add
photos or graphics to
your email

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Installing Stationery Greeting
Cards

Before we get started, you’ll need to install Stationery

Greeting Cards.

Downloading & installing the app

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First, you’ll need to download Stationery Greeting Cards (there’s just one
download that includes all the different packs)

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Once your download has finished, double-click the Stationery Greeting
Cards.dmg file in your downloads folder:

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After the installation process has finished enter your equinux ID and
password to download all of your templates.

Restoring your purchased templates

Restoring your purchased templates after a re-installation is also done in a

few steps.

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Next, double-click one of the packs to install the app:

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First, choose “Stationery Greeting Cards > Restore Purchases…” from the
top menu bar.

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Then enter your equinux ID and password to install your templates:

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Finding the right template

Choosing a pack and selecting a category

We offer a variety of different Stationery Greeting Cards collections. Any col-

lections you have installed will show up with a green checkmark. You can

also purchase additional collections via the shopping cart icon.

Finding Greeting Cards by category

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Click the triangle next to a Greeting Cards collection to see different tem­plate categories that are available in each Pack:

Click the triangle
to show categories
for a collection.

Previewing a template

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Double-click a template to pull it up for a closer look:

Show all templates in a collection

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Click a Stationery Greeting Cards collection (e.g. “Birthday Cards 2”) to see
all the Greeting Cards included in that collection:

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Opening a template in Mail

Click to browse all Greeting
Cards templates

Click a preview to
select a template

Once you’ve picked a template, you can open it in Apple Mail to write your

message, add photos and send it.

Opening a template in Stationery Greeting Cards

From Stationery Greeting Cards, double-click a template, then click the Mail

icon to open your template in Mail:

Finding your templates in MailUsing text Perfect

Once you’ve installed your templates, you can also get to them directly in

Mail.

All templates that have been installed once in Mail can now be accessed

from the “Custom” category in the stationery pane of Apple Mail.

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Creating your message

Once you’ve selected a template, you can write your message, just as you

would normally in Mail or create a message using one of the Text Perfect

messages.

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Click “New Message” in order top open the Greeting Card in Apple Mail.

Writing your message in Apple Mail

If you want to delete the placeholder text

Writing your message using Text Perfect

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Drag the Greeting Card you want to use into the Greeting Card place­holder.

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Drag a Text Perfect message into the Text Perfect placeholder. You can
easily find the right Text Perfect message using the different filter options.

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Just click inside the text area and start typing, or hit delete on your key­board to clear the placeholder text:

To keep and change the placeholder text

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Click inside the text area so the placeholder text is selected. Then use the
arrow keys on your keyboard so you can start editing the placeholder text.

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Adding pictures to your message

Resizing and adjusting images

Many Greeting Cards also include photo dropzones that make it easy to add

photos and other images to your message.

Adding pictures

Move your mouse cursor over an image in the template. If it’s a dropzone,

you’ll see a grey area appear where you can drop your photos:

To add a picture, simply drag it onto a dropzone and let go of the mouse

button to add it to your Greeting Card email:

You can zoom and move your photo inside the dropzone for a better fit:

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Click a photo inside a dropzone and use the slider to zoom in on a particu­lar part of your photo

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Click and drag to move your photo until it looks perfect

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Accessing your photo library in Mail

You can easily find photos you have in iPhoto and add them to your Greet-

ing Card message.

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Click the photo browser icon to view your photos in iPhoto and drag
them into your message

Open the photo
browser

Choose a photo
and drag it into
your message

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Using Signatures and Logos

If you’re using our business templates, you can add your company logo and signature to your message. Use the Image Perfect
tool to automatically adjust your logo or signature for a better fit.

Drag your optimized
logo onto the image
dropzone.

Drop your logo or signa­ture image in to create
stationery-optimized
versions of your logo.

Drag an optimized
image from the Im­age Perfect tool into
your Greeting Card mes­sage.

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