Xara Page Layout Designer - 2013 User Guide

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Contents

Welcome to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 11 Page & Layout Designer terminology 12

Getting Help 14

Support 15 Document info 16 About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 17 Tooltips 17

Getting Started 18

Program Layout 18 Objects On The Page 19 Object Based Design 19 Drawing Tools 20 The Selector Tool 26 Right-click menus 27 Using Templates & Clipart 27 Theme Colors 30 Photos 34 Text 36 Page Size 38 Layers 39 Saving & Exporting Your Work. 39

Document handling 40

Starting a new document 40 Opening an existing document 40 Selected document and title bar 41 Control bars 41 InfoBar 42 Main toolbar 42 Rulers 42 The status line 43 The indicators 43 X/Y co-ordinates 43

Normal/full screen modes 44

Opening a second window 44 Changing the zoom value 44 Sliding the document within the window 46 Changing the page size 46 Multi-page Documents 49 Saving the document 55 Closing the document 55 Automatic Backups 56 On-screen grid 58 Rulers 59 Measurement units 60 View quality slider 62 The constrain key 63 Galleries 64 The Name Gallery 73 Naming objects 75 Undo and Redo 77

Drawing Lines and Shapes 78

Drawing a line or shape 78 The Freehand & Brush Tool 78 Editing lines/shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool 80 The Straight Line & Arrow tool 82 The Shape Editor tool 83 Extending the line 85 Adding a new point handle 85 Selecting multiple point handles 86 Deleting points 87 Moving point handles—Shape Editor Tool 87 Smoothing a line 88 Constraining the line 88 Changing curves 89 Changing a straight line to a curve (and vice versa) 90 Joining lines 90 Splitting a shape 91 Changing the line width (thickness) 92 Variable width lines 93 Line Gallery 93 Brushes 96

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Selecting Objects 98

The Selector Tool 98 Selecting objects 99 Double-click shortcuts to tools 102

Object Handling 103

Moving objects 103 Removing objects from the document 106 Duplicating and cloning 107 Moving objects forward and backwards 108 Rotating objects 110 Scaling (resizing) objects 112 Flipping objects 114 Snapping 114 Guide Objects and Guidelines 119 Grouping and ungrouping objects 120 Editing inside groups 121 Other types of groups 123 Soft Groups 123 Alignment 124 Copying Styles: Paste Attributes 128 ClipView 128 Repeating Objects 129

Shape Handling 133

Closing a shape 133 Joining shapes 134 Combining shapes 135 Creating regular polygons (the Quickshape Tool) 137 Creating stars (polygons with indented sides) 139 Editing stars 140 Creating rectangles and squares 141 Creating circles and ellipses 141 Making shapes editable 142

Distorting Objects 143

Stretching and squashing objects 143 Skewing objects 143 The Mold Tool 144 Feathering 148

Page & Layer Gallery 149

The Page & Layer Gallery 149 Pages 152 Layers 152 Layer Operations 154 Special Layers 156 Hiding Layers and Objects 156 Locking Layers and Objects 157 Solo Mode 157 Show All & Unlock All 157 Moving Objects Between Layers 158

Color Handling 159

The color line 159 Applying fill & line colors by drag & drop 161 Editing an object’s color 162 The Color Editor in detail 163 Specifying colors in the Color Editor 164 The color models 165 Colors on the screen and on the printer 165 Local colors and Theme colors 166 Theme color schemes 166 Creating your own color schemes 167 Creating new named colors 167 Editing named colors 168 Normal colors, Tints, Shades and Linked colors 170 Creating a Tint, Shade or Linked color 171 The Color Gallery 173 PANTONE® Colors 174

Text Handling 178

The Text Tool 178 The Font Menu 180 Simple text 181 Text in a column 182 Text areas 183 Text along a curve 185 Editing text 186 Spell checker 187 Find & Replace 188

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Synchronising text across multiple text objects 189 Tabs, Margins and Indents 189 Repelling text objects 192 Anchored Graphics 194 Embedding Graphics 197 Applying text attributes 197 Text Styles 203 Indents and Outdents 206 Copying text appearances 207 Copying/Pasting formatted text (RTF) 207 Seeing fonts in use 208 Changing text into editable shapes 208 The Fonts Gallery 208 Fonts and PDF 210 Document Font embedding 211 Adding Hyperlinks 211

Fills 213

The Fill Tool 213 Changing the colors in a fill 215 Moving the start or end handle of the fill 216 Bitmap fills 216 Fractal fills 218 Multi-stage color graduations 219 The Fill Gallery 220

Transparency 222

Applying flat transparency 223 Applying graduated transparency 223 Multi-stage graduated transparency 223 Transparency types 224 Enhance 226 Profile 227 Bitmaps 227 Handle/resolution 228 Applying transparency to several objects 228

Bevels 229

The Bevel Tool 229 Applying a bevel 229 Modifying a bevel 229

Removing a bevel 232

Shadows 233

The Shadow Tool 233 Applying a shadow 233 Changing the shadow color or fill effect 235 Converting shadows to shapes 235 Removing a shadow 236 Copying shadows onto other objects 236

Contours 237

The Contour Tool 237 Contouring objects 237 Converting contours to shapes 240 Removing a contour 241

Blends 242

Blends 242 Using the Blend Tool 242 Removing blends 248

Photo Handling 249

Introduction 249 Photo Objects 249 Photo Groups 249 Importing Photos 250 Photo resolution 254 Zero-memory Copies 254 The Bitmap Gallery 255 Embedded JPEG files 257 Blending & Merging photos 258 Photo display quality 259 Saving & Exporting Photos 260 Photo Edit Attributes 261 Editing the outline of Photos 262 Cropping photos 263 Screenshots 263 Coloring photos 265 Integration with external Photo Editors 266 Resize, rotate and position a photo within its frame 267 Horizon Straighten 268

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Viewing a scaled photo at its full size 269 Making a photo its full size 269 Optimizing Photos and Bitmaps 270 Converting objects or drawings to bitmaps 273 Photo Documents 273 Editing Photo Files 274

The Photo Tools 276

Using the Photo Tools 276 Common photo functions 276 Enhance Tool 277 Clip Tool 280

3D Extrude Tool 282

Extruding a shape 282 Extrude Tool InfoBar 282 Copying 3D extrude attributes 285

Printing 286

Show print borders 286 Selecting and setting up a printer 286 The print dialog box 287 Print Options: Output tab 289 Print Options: Print Layout tab 291

Imagesetting 293

Spot colors 293 On screen printer plate previews 293 Imagesetting dialog 294 Separations dialog 297 Overprinting 299 Printing on all plates 301 Printing & color separating: technical details 301

Importing and Exporting 304

General notes on exporting and importing 304 Import and Export Supported File Formats 305 Importing files 307 Exporting files 309 PDF Export 314 JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP export dialog overview 333 Other bitmaps Export dialog box 338

Working with Templates 340

Replacing photos 340 Adjusting a photo in its frame 341 Editing photos 341 Changing text 342 Changing colors 343 Adding Pages 344

Customizing Page & Layout Designer 345

Changing the blank template document 345 Options in the Utilities menu 345 General tab 346 Grid and Ruler tab 348 Internet tab 349 Mouse tab 351 Page Size tab 353 Backups Tab 354 Photo Editing 355 Tune-ups tab 356 Units tab 357 View tab 358 Control bars 360

Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts 364

Introduction 364 File menu 364 Edit menu 366 Arrange menu 370 Utilities menu 373 Share Menu 375 Window menu 376 Help menu 378 Key shortcuts 380 Integrated key shortcut utility 384

Index 389

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Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Welcome to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is the ideal solution for creating a successful business image. You can design your own company logo, create marketing and advertising material, and present your business in the best possible light. This program makes it simple to impressively market your products or services using flyers, posters, brochures, newsletters and more. Professional templates help you get amazing results in no time and can be easily customized to fit your own unique image. Enjoy the advantages of this flexible software solution for layout and print and save time, effort and money in the process.

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 contains a vast selection of high-quality, customizable design templates for the perfect business image: business cards, stationery, invitations, menus, appointment cards and much more. With the program you can make your own affordable advertising material: flyers, posters, brochures, coupons, create sales-boosting media for successful e-commerce like sales mailings, PDF documents or add company logos and lettering to promotional material: e.g cups, pens, keychains etc. It's easy to do it all yourself and save money. To do this, no previous experience is required!

All functions are on one screen: Quick layout design, convenient text and image editing tools and print-ready proofs are all at your fingertips.

Features

• Comprehensive template catalog with license-free designs for all your business

needs: Business documents, presentations and much more.

• Quick formatting of text blocks and large amounts of text: Format your headers,

text blocks or footnotes and easily transfer the formatting to other texts. A uniform design doesn't get any easier!

• Includes text flow around shapes and images, multilingual spell check,

expandable user dictionary, support for all installed fonts with a live preview as well as a find and replace function.

• Magic Snap (quick arrange): Arranging elements of all kinds (photos, graphics,

text, etc.) with absolute precision is now even easier and faster.

• Create company logos, extract images and enjoy the advantages of integrated

photo editing.

• Complete PDF workflow from input to creation and output.

• Galleries for a better overview: Flexible organization and full control thanks to the

Page & Layer gallery and the Bitmap Gallery displays all of the graphics that have already been used. It's the ideal feature for multipage documents.

• Complete file support for all standard formats: Easy import of text files, graphics

and photos.

• Print-ready output: High-quality output thanks to PDF/X, support of CMYK and

PANTONE color separation, spot colors, print color scale previews and much more.

Page & Layout Designer terminology

This section describes some of the terminology used in Page & Layout Designer.

Document

You can think of a document as a conventional sheet of paper (or a couple of it). Like a sheet of paper, you can draw lines and curves, place objects like shapes, cliparts and photos and write text (and erase them later). You can save the document for later use by storing it on disk or printing it.

Page

This is the white area in the document. You can place objects on the page margin, on the page, or overlapping both. However, only objects on the page are printed. A document can contain one or several single pages or double page spreads. A double page is like two separate sheets of paper placed next to each other.

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Lines, shapes, and objects

A line can be straight, curved or a mixture of both. A line must have a start and an end, thus it is always open. You can apply a thickness and color to a line.

These are all lines

A shape is a solid or closed object. The difference between a line and a shape is that a shape has no start or end. Because a shape is a closed object, you can fill it

These are all shapes

with a color or leave it empty with no color. You can apply a thickness and color to the line around the shape.

In postscript terminology, a shape is a closed path. Page & Layout Designer sometimes uses "shape" as shorthand for "line or shape".

Object is a general term. This manual uses it where the same information applies to lines, shapes, bitmaps and text. For example, moving a line is

These are all objects

exactly the same as moving a shape, moving a bitmap or moving text.

Many operations in Page & Layout Designer apply equally to a single object or a collection of objects. "Object" can refer both to one object and to several objects.

Attributes are the characteristics of objects such as line width and pattern, colors and so on.

Bars

There are three types of bars: the MAIN TOOLBAR, the INFOBAR, and then various other button bars which are sometimes just referred to as control bars, e.g. the

GALLERY

button bar.

Attributes

The various characteristics that define the appearance of objects on the page, such as color, line width, fill style etc are all called

ATTRIBUTES of the object.

The Attributes of objects can be copied and pasted between different objects using the Paste Attributes (on page 128) menu command.

Getting Help

If you need some help using this program, here are some sources of information that may be of use:

• Program help - Choose "

HELP" menu to open MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 Help (containing

" hundreds of pages of information).

• Status bar - Try reading the text on the status bar at the bottom of the main

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 window. It always describes what actions are currently possible and what they will do (even during drags), and helps you learn to use the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 tools. It also gives details of what buttons and controls do as you move the pointer over them. See Status Bar for more details.

• ToolTips - If you hold the mouse pointer over a button or control for a short

while, then small message appears telling you what it does.

• Menus - If you want to know what a menu item does, highlight it and press "F1".

• Dialog boxes - If you want to know what a dialog box does or how to use it, click

HELP.

• Movies - Use the menu option "

MAGIX PAGE & LAYOUT DESIGNER 2013 HELP" from the

HELP" > "MOVIES".

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Support

Dear MAGIX customer,

Our aim is to provide convenient, fast and solution-focused support at all times. To this end, we offer a wide range of services:

• Unlimited web support:

As a registered MAGIX customer, you have unlimited access to web support offered via the convenient MAGIX service portal on http://support.magix.net, including an intelligent help assistant, high-quality FAQs, patches and user reports that are constantly updated. The only requirement for use is product registration on www.xara.com

• The online community - on-the-spot support and a platform for exchange:

MAGIX customers have free and unlimited access to the online community at www.magix.info, which includes approx. 120,000 members and offers the opportunity to ask members questions concerning MAGIX products as well as use the search function to search for specific topics or answers. In addition to questions & answers, the knowledge pool includes a glossary, video tutorials and a discussion forum. The multiple experts, found round-the-clock on www.magix.info guarantee quick answers, which sometimes come within minutes of a question being posted.

• Email support for MAGIX products:

For every new MAGIX product you will receive, as of date purchase, 12 months of email based customer service. Premium email support: For priority support, or if you want the MAGIX support team to help with nonMAGIX related harware problems you can purchase an Premium email support ticket. The ticket is for a specific problem, and is valid until it is solved, it is not restricted to an email.

Please note: To be able to use the Premium email support and free product email support via the Internet, you have to register your MAGIX product using the serial number provided. This can be found on the CD case of your installation CD or on the inside of the DVD box.

• Additional telephone service:

Besides the large number of free customer service offers, we also offer a feebased telephone customer service available to customers that have purchased from Magix. Here you can find a summary of our technical support telephone numbers:

http://support.magix.net (on page 218)/

Europe): MAGIX Development Support, P.O. Box 20 09 14, 01194 Dresden,

Mail (

Germany

Mail (North America): MAGIX Customer Service, 1105 Terminal Way #302, Reno, NV 89502, USA

Please make sure you have the following information at hand:

• Program version

• Configuration details (operating system, processor, memory, hard drive, etc.),

sound card configuration (type, driver)

• Information regarding other audio software installed

MAGIX Sales Department

You can reach the MAGIX Sales Department workdays for help with the following questions and problems:

• Orders

• Product consulting (pre-purchase)

• Upgrade requests

• Returns

Europe

Monday - Friday, 09:00-16:00 GMT

U.K.: 0203 3189218 Denmark: 699 18149 Sweden: 0852500858 Finland: 09 31581630 Norway: 0210 30665

North America

9 am to 4 pm EST Mon-Fri Phone: 1-305-722-5810

Document info

"FILE -> DOCUMENT INFO" displays information about the selected document such as

its size and any fonts or plug-ins used. This is a good way to find out if you are missing a required font or plug-in that could prevent the document from displaying correctly.

Anything you type into the comment field is stored as part of the file. This comment is displayed whenever you display the document info dialog box.

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About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Choose "HELP" > "ABOUT MAGIX PAGE & LAYOUT DESIGNER 2013". This displays general information about the program. If you contact the support, you may be asked for this information.

Tooltips

When you move over a button, the tooltip tells you the function of the button.

Getting Started

This section gives an overview of the main functionality of Page & Layout Designer. Later sections go into more detail about each tool.

Program Layout

Info Bar - changes with each tool Zoom Designs Gallery Page & Layer Gallery Selector Tool Photo Editing Tool Drawing tools Text Tool Shadow Tool Color line Tabs for all open documents - icon identifies document type.

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Objects On The Page

Whether you customize a template or create your own graphics from scratch, you can rotate, resize and position anything on the page, anywhere you like. You can easily resize the page to be any required size and add new pages as required. Certain features, such as changing color schemes, work across all pages simultaneously.

These are the basic types of page element:

• Text: Using the

TEXT TOOL you can create anything from single word headings to

columns of text or even blocks of text that flow from one block into another. You can also create bulleted or numbered lists. The

TEXT TOOL InfoBar provides

controls over the font, size, line spacing and more. You can resize text either by using the

SELECTOR TOOL or by selecting the text in the usual fashion and

choosing alternative point or pixel sizes. Perhaps surprisingly you can even rotate text by any angle, and by using

REPEL TEXT UNDER (right click an object to see this

option) you can automatically flow text around objects on the page, such as photos.

• Graphics: Any type of logo or heading on your page is graphic. Page & Layout

Designer is a vector graphics program which means you can edit the shape, rotate and resize your graphic objects with no loss of quality (unlike pixel photo editing tools such as Photoshop).

• Photos: You can drag and drop photos directly from your camera or File Explorer

window onto the page, rotate, enhance and crop it. Replacing existing photos in templates is as easy as drag and drop - and you can alter the size and angle of photos 'inside' their frame very easily.

Object Based Design

All the types of elements are collectively referred to as objects.

One of the unique benefits of Page & Layout Designer is that you have complete freedom to place any object anywhere on the page, and your document will faithfully reproduce this.

The SELECTOR TOOL can be used to select any object on the page, and to move (just drag it), resize and rotate the objects.

You can adjust the stacking order (that is whether an object appears in front or behind others on the page) using the

ARRANGE. With the SELECTOR TOOL you can resize objects by dragging on the corner

ARRANGE menu options or right click and choose

resize handles. You can rotate any object by dragging just inside the corner selection handles.

To add some text to your design, select the the page and start typing.

TEXT TOOL and click anywhere on

You can also create text columns, by clicking and dragging horizontally in the Text Tool, or text boxes by dragging horizontally. See the Text section (on page 36) below for more detail reference of te

s and the Chapter Text Handling (on page 178) for a complete

xt functions of MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

You can use the drawing tools to create rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles and ellipses, and just about any shape you like using the more detail.

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL. See the Drawing tools section for

Stacking Order

All objects on the page are placed one on top of another. The most recently drawn or created object is always on top, that is, in front of any others. You can adjust the stacking position by right clicking and choosing

ARRANGE or using the ARRANGE menu

options.

For example, when you draw a new rectangle it always appears to cover all the objects behind it. By right clicking and choosing

ARRANGE" > "PUT TO BACK") the object is moved behind everything

menu "

ARRANGE or pressing "Ctrl + B" (or the

else. Similarly "Ctrl + F" brings any selected object to the top, that is, in front of everything else.

There is an added complication: layers. All objects are collected into named layers, and each layer can be turned on or off to show or hide everything on that layer. See the Layers section for more detail.

PAGE & LAYER GALLERY allows you to easily see and adjust the stacking order of

The objects and layers. Objects are listed in order from front to back in the gallery. See Page & Layer Gallery (on page 149) for details.

Drawing Tools

Page & Layout Designer provides all the graphics tools you need to create just about any graphical object on your page, as well as a range of pre-designed graphical elements in the Designs Gallery. There are several basic drawing tools that let you create rectangles, ellipses, regular polygons stars or any shape you like.

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Page & Layout Designer provides vector drawing tools, which means you can resize, edit the outline shape and re-color with no loss of quality. You can zoom in to see almost infinite detail, and all edits can be undone. For details on drawing rectangles/squares, circles/ellipses and other shapes, see Drawing Lines and Shapes and Shape Handling.

The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL allows you to create detailed vector based shapes, and also to edit the outline of any shape.

Refer to the section

"THE SHAPE EDITOR TOOL" (on page 83) to learn how to use this

very powerful tool.

STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL adds arrow heads and tails to any type of

The line as well as drawing single lines.

Shapes are an important part of any drawing, the other essential element that we’ve ignored until now is freehand drawing. Click on the

TOOL. See the FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL (ON PAGE 78) for more

BRUSH

FREEHAND &

information.

Current attributes

An ‘attribute’ is some characteristic of an object which you can modify in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. For example a shape’s attributes include its color, its outline width and its outline color.

As mentioned above you can change the attributes of an object after you’ve drawn it, by selecting it and then changing its fill color, line width, or any of its other attributes. But MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 also keeps track of the ‘current’ attributes, which are the attributes that get applied to newly drawn objects as they are created.

Setting current attributes manually

If, for example, you want the next rectangle you draw to be red, make sure you have nothing selected (press "Esc" or click an empty part of the page) and then click red on the color line. You’ve now set the current fill color attribute to red. Now when you draw a new shape, it will be filled red. You can set other current attributes the same way – by first making sure nothing is selected before changing the attribute’s value.

Setting current attributes automatically

By default, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 automatically updates the current attributes for you, to match the object you last drew, or last selected. So for example if you draw a rectangle and then make it green, the next shape you draw will also be green. If you have a blue rectangle in your design and you wish to draw another one just like it, first select the blue rectangle (this makes its attributes current) and then the next shape you draw will also be blue. So by simply clicking an object, you set the current attributes to match that object.

This allows you to use existing objects as a ‘palette’ of available styles. Click an object to select it, then draw new objects in that style.

You can turn off this behavior in the

OPTIONS" dialog. Select the GIVE NEW OBJECTS MOST RECENT ATTRIBUTES checkbox.

GENERAL TAB (on page 346) of the "UTILITIES" >

Now the current attributes will only change when you set them manually, as described above.

Attribute groups

Many designs consist of a combination of closed filled shapes and open shapes (lines where the start and end points are not coincident). Normally it wouldn’t be desirable to have the attributes of an open shape used for a closed shape, nor vice-versa. Therefore the attributes for open and closed shapes are kept separate – these are known as attribute groups. Setting the values of one group does not affect the other group. So for example, selecting a filled rectangle with no outline will not change the current line width to zero for open shapes.

For the same reasons, text attributes make up a third attribute group. The text attribute group is only set when you select text objects, or when you set the attributes manually while in the text tool.

Exempt attributes

Some attributes do not get set as current automatically even when ‘Give new objects most recent attributes’ is on. This is because some attributes can cause problems if they become current.

For example if you applied a 10 pixel feather to a large object (to blur the edges) and then drew a new 10 pixel sized shape, that new shape would be invisible if the feather attribute was copied to it, due to the amount of feathering!

Other attributes can adversely affect the way designs export, or significantly increase the time taken to render the design and so should not be applied unnecessarily.

Examples of attributes which are copied automatically:

• Fill colors, fill styles, line width, line color, line style, line join style, line endcap

style, arrow heads/tails, text font, text font size, text margins.

Examples of attributes which are not copied automatically:

• Feather, transparency, shadow, bevel, contour, 3D extrude, live effects.

Resetting current attributes

You can reset all current attribute groups instantly by pressing "Esc" when you have no objects selected. If you have objects selected, pressing "Esc" clears the selection, so just press "Esc" again to reset the current attributes back to their default values.

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Fill Tool

You can easily put a graduated color fill onto a shape using this tool (and a lot more besides). Select the tool and just drag across your object.

The fill arrow can be adjusted by dragging the ends to alter the direction, angle and extent of the graduation.

Rounded rectangle with a graduated fill.

Note: If you drag with the FILL TOOL across a grouped item, such as a text panel, then everything in the group takes on the same fill style. To overcome this you must first select just the item you want to fill. You can do this several ways. A single click on the item with the FILL TOOL will select just that item, as will a click in the

SELECTOR TOOL with the "Ctrl" key pressed (this is called 'select inside' because it

selects just the one item inside the group). Now when you drag it will fill only the selected object.

To edit the start or color of the fill just drag and drop a color from the color line onto the shape, or you can select the end of the Fill Arrow in the

FILL TOOL and use the

Color Editor ("Ctrl + E").

You can create a multi-stage graduated fill by making sure the fill arrow is visible (select it with the

FILL TOOL), now just drag a color from the Color Line and carefully

drop it on the arrow line where you want the new color. You can now drag this fill point, or select "Ctrl + E" to adjust the color using the Color Editor. There are different fill styles, for example this is a circle with a circular fill.

The shadow is another ellipse with a graduated color fill and feathered (see below).

Transparency Tool

You can adjust the transparency of any graphic or photo to make it see-through. More than this, Page & Layout Designer supports graduated transparency. It works very like the graduated color fill. In the Transparency tool just drag across your shape and you can see the transparency fades. You can adjust the degree of transparency of each end of the fill arrow, by clicking on either end of the arrow, and adjusting the Transparency slider. See Transparency (on page 222) for more information.

Feather

This is a graphical term for blending the edges of objects. Page & Layout Designer provides a feather control that enables any object, graphics, text or photo to be feathered - giving it a blurred edge that blends with the background. The Feather control is not a tool on the left, but one of the controls on the top bar. Try it on your rectangle shape. Select the shape and then click this Feather control on the right of the top bar.

The shadow below the ball drawing above has a feathered edge. Combining all of these controls you can very quickly produce amazing layered graphics for your design, all directly in Page & Layout Designer without needing any other graphics tools.

This is an example of a rounded rectangle with grad color, grad transparency and feathered edges with some text placed on top of it.

This has a graduated color fill, light to dark green going left to right. It also has a vertical graduated transparency fading from top to bottom. The feather gives it a soft edge. It takes a couple of seconds to create such an image, and it's automatically converted to the right graphic when you save your design.

Shadow Tool

A very popular graphics effect is to create a soft drop-shadow under a graphic or some text. This serves to lift the object away from the background.

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The SHADOW TOOL lets you add a soft shadow to any object, text, graphics or photo. Select the

SHADOW TOOL and just drag on the object. You can adjust the

shadow blur and transparency using InfoBar controls.

Some text with a soft shadow.

To adjust the position of an existing shadow, go into the SHADOW TOOL and drag on the shadow.

Example Graphics

This button combines many of the features described above - it's drawn by combining just a few feathered shapes, and using graduated transparency (the white reflection effect). The text has a slight soft shadow and the button has a glow shadow. The whole thing is grouped. (You do not need to draw this button as it's provided in the Button category of the

DESIGNS GALLERY).

The huge benefit of vector graphics, compared to 'bitmap' graphics created in pixel editing software such Photoshop, is that you can re-color, edit, rotate, and resize the button with no loss of quality. Make it huge and it remains pin sharp:

On top of that you can re-color using the Named Color system, and it will even stretch as required - everything in Page & Layout Designer remains non-destructive (which means you can always edit it, with no loss of quality).

Something that would take skill and time to produce using alternative graphics software, is trivially easy in Page & Layout Designer.

The Selector Tool

This tool is a general purpose tool that allows you to select, move, resize and rotate all objects on your page.

You can do all these things by just dragging on the objects on the page, or on the selection handles around the object, or you can enter precise numeric values. The selected object is shown with 8 handles around the outside, and the status line at the bottom of the screen also tells you what is selected.

Drag on any corner handle to resize an object. Drag just inside the corner handles to rotate.

Nudging Objects

The arrow keys can be used to nudge the selected object, one pixel at a time. If you hold "Shift", it nudges objects 10 pixels at a time.

Rotating Objects

There are two ways to rotate an object. Either click on the object a second time, so the selection handles change to show rotation handles, which you can then drag on to rotate the object. Or, when it's showing the square selection handles, move the mouse pointer just inside the corner handles until you see the mouse pointer change to a rotation indicator - you can then also drag to rotate the selected object.

Unusually you can rotate just about anything in Page & Layout Designer, including photos, headings, even blocks of text.

InfoBar

When an object is selected, the InfoBar - just above your document - shows all the relevant controls for the current tool. This bar changes depending on which tool is selected. This is the InfoBar in the

The InfoBar, just above your document, shows controls for the selected tool.

SELECTOR TOOL:

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You can enter numeric values into any field. e.g. to reduce the size of an object by 20% you can enter 80% into the W field (which is a % size). The little padlock selects whether both the width and height change together.

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Copying Objects

You can use the usual "EDIT" > "COPY" ("Ctrl + C") and "EDIT" > "PASTE" ("Ctrl + V") options or right click an object and choose item is drag on it with the right mouse button.

You can also copy and paste a page anywhere in your document from the current document or another document – see Copying and pasting (on page 52) pages.

COPY, but a really quick way to copy any

Right-click menus

When you right-click any object in the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 workspace, a drop-down menu lists useful operations that are relevant to the object clicked on. For example, if you right-click a rectangle you've drawn previously, the drop-down menu allows you to perform actions only relevant to a rectangle.

If you right-click a photo, however, some of the menu options that appear apply only to photos, while others are similar to the actions you can perform on a rectangle. The object-specific operations are listed towards the top of the right-click menu's list, e.g., in the case of a rectangle the first three actions above apply only to rectangles.

You can also right click both the page and pasteboard to see a menu of page- and pasteboard-related operations you can apply.

If you select more than one object and right-click, the menu lists actions specific to multiple objects, such as group, align and combine, as well as the common operations such as cut, copy and delete. Similarly if you right-click objects that you have previously grouped, actions specific to a group are displayed.

It's recommended that you right-click any object or multiple objects in the workspace to access the menu specific to those objects. Once you've done this a few times you will know which actions you can quickly perform with right-click menus.

Using Templates & Clipart

Open the Designs Gallery by clicking the DESIGNS GALLERY tab in the Galleries

bar (or use " This shows folders containing collections of template designs and clipart. Browse through the folders and double click to open any file as a new document or drag and drop designs and widgets onto your page.

FILE" > "NEW FROM DESIGNS GALLERY").

The Designs Gallery

The Designs Gallery contains thousands of professionally designed graphics and templates. This includes small pieces of graphical ‘clipart’ you can drag onto any page design, whole page templates or complete multi-page templates for newspapers, flyers, brochures, calendars, etc.

Opening the Gallery By default the Designs Gallery is available as a flyout near the top right corner of the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 window. Just hold your mouse pointer over the

"DESIGNS GALLERY" tab to make it appear. When you move the mouse pointer away it

closes again, or you can make it stay open by ‘docking it’ by clicking the ‘pin’ icon at the top of the gallery.

Or choose "

FILE" > "NEW FROM DESIGNS GALLERY".

See Document Handling (on page ) for more information on using galleries generally.

Gallery folders If you are online, the gallery is automatically updated with any available new and modified content each time you start the program.

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To open a folder in the gallery, click the folder icon, or double click on the folder name. To open a design as a new document, double click on the design thumbnail. To import a design into your current open document, drag it from the gallery onto your page. If it’s a whole page template, a new page will be added to your document, after the currently selected page.

If you are running a trial version of the program, folders shown in red can be previewed only (that is, you can view the design thumbnails inside these folders, but not open or import the designs). When you purchase the program online ALL the contents of red folders become immediately available to you and the folders turn blue to indicate this.

If you are running the full unlocked program, you may see additional red folders appear at the bottom of the gallery. These are additionally available folders of designs that you can preview and then use immediately when you buy online. Double click on an item in a red folder to see purchase options. Additional content that you have already purchased appears in blue folders, just as the main gallery content does.

You can also right-click on a thumbnail and choose

IMPORT TO NEW PAGE to force any

design to be imported onto a new page in your document. The gallery also contains color scheme files, which allow you to change the color of your design (drag and drop onto your page, or just double click to apply the scheme).

Adding New Pages To Your Document

You can drag any template design from the DESIGNS GALLERY onto your page. If this is a page template, it will add a new page to your document, after first asking if you want to match any color changes. If you drag a clipart item, heading or photo object, this gets added onto the page where you dropped it, and again you will be asked if you want to match any color changes you've made.

Your imported graphic is just another object on the page, and can be re-positioned, resized and rotated using the Selector tool as usual.

To add a new page of the same design, the easiest way is to use the duplicate

Or use the option under the

page option in the page flyout bar on the top bar.

EDIT > PAGES menus. This replicates the current page

below. You can then just delete or edit the elements as required. You can add a new blank page by selecting the menu

EDIT > PAGES > NEW PAGE.

Or you can copy and paste an existing page in the same or another document. Rightclick an empty part of a page and choose right-click a page and choose

PASTE > PAGE (or press "Ctrl + V").

COPY PAGE. In the destination document

The page on the clipboard is added as a new page immediately following the current page. The pasted page adopts the page size of the document it’s pasted into (as long

ALL PAGES IN DOCUMENT THE SAME checkbox is enabled in FILE > PAGE

as the

OPTIONS

). Page layers and attributes and all the objects on the page are also pasted.

You can delete pages using the same click a page and choose

You can also use the pages.

CUT PAGE.

PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (on page 149) to add, delete or duplicate

EDIT > PAGES menu or the flyout bar. Or right

Theme Colors

Most templates use a small set of theme colors, and various shades of those theme colors (also referred to as 'Named colors'). If you don’t like the provided colors you can edit the named colors individually yourself almost as 'Named Colors' appear on the left side of the Color Line along the bottom of the window easily.

Current Outline and Fill Color Color Editor Eye dropper color picker ‘No color’ patch. Named ‘Theme’ Colors and Linked Colors Fixed palette of standard colors Hold pointer over a color to see its name Status line. Shows what is selected, and provides hints

Simply right-click on any of the Named Colors and select the Edit option (if you hover the mouse pointer over the color you will see a tooltip name).

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When editing a color you can drag the eye dropper to pick colors off screen,

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even from other open windows Select the color to edit: Fill color/Line color of the selected object or any of the named theme colors Click the label icon to create a Named Color

Click to show extended color controls Previous Color Actual color Drag here to select any shade of the selected hue Drag here to select any hue

The Color Editor provides easy way of choosing any color. Click the Extended Controls to enter RGB values.

Note that when you change a Theme Color in this way, all the related shades used throughout the document will change as well.

Coloring Shapes

You can fill any drawn shape with a color, either by dragging the color from the Color Line and dropping it on to the shape, or by first selecting the object and then clicking on the Color Line.

Alternatively right click the shape and choose FILL COLOR or click the small Color Editor icon (or press "Ctrl + E") to display the Color Editor, where you can set any color you like.

You can give drawn objects a graduated color fill using the

FILL TOOL (ON PAGE 213).

Coloring Imported Clipart

When you import a clipart graphic by dragging from the DESIGN GALLERY, using the

FILE" > "IMPORT" option, or dragging a .web or .xar file onto your page, you will

" usually be asked whether you want to match the colors. If you select not to, then any named colors used in this graphic will be added to the Color Line. Clicking on any color on the Color Line will give you the option to edit the color.

Coloring Photos

If you try to color a photo it turns it into a 'contoned' photo. For example, to make any photo black and white, right click and choose "

CONTONE" > "MAKE BLACK AND WHITE"

or select it and click on the white color patch on the end of the Color Line. You can set the light or dark color to be any two colors, not just white and black - right click, choose "

CONTONE" > "LIGHT" and click a color in the Color Editor.

Note: If the photo is inside a group, as many of the photo objects in the templates or clipart are, then you will have to select the photo inside (on page 100) the group

first. You can do this by holding "Ctrl" down when clicking on the object in the

SELECTOR TOOL. Another way of directly selecting the photo is to click on it in the PHOTO TOOL.

Page Background Color

To set the page background color, right click a page, choose CHANGE PAGE

BACKGROUND

and click a color in the COLOR EDITOR. Alternatively you can drag a color

from the Color Line over the page and drop it on an empty part of the page.

To set a repeating background texture, drag the photo or bitmap onto your document. Open the Bitmap Gallery, scroll to the photo you just loaded, click on it to select it, and then click the Background button on the gallery.

Creating your own Named Colors

If you want to use a color many times throughout a document, you can create your own named color by clicking the Name label on the top of the Color Editor. This color will now appear on the Color Line.

Click the label icon to create a Named Color

The power of a named color is that when you edit it later (right click the color in the Color Line, select

EDIT) all objects using this color are instantly changed.

Linked shades

You can create colors that are lighter or darker shades of another color, so that when you alter the 'parent' color, all the lighter and darker shades change to match the new hue. For example a graduated color shade on a button, such as this:

This is a simple rounded rectangle with a graduated color fill created with the

FILL TOOL. In the FILL TOOL you can

click on the either end of the arrow to set the color.

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If you create the main green color as a named color, and then make a lighter or darker shade of the color, as a linked shade, when you now edit the named color the shades change as well, so you get simple re-coloring of complex shaded objects.

To create a linked shade, open the extra controls in the Color Editor and select the

NORMAL COLOR' drop-down menu and choose 'SHADE OF ANOTHER COLOR'.

Click this button to reveal the extra controls. You can now select any light or darker shade of the parent color. The cross marks

the parent color.

SHADE from this drop-down list and then the parent color.

Select

You can also create a Linked Shade that appears on the Color Line (so you can easily apply it to other objects). When you select to create a new Named Color you can choose to make this a linked 'Shade of another color'.

Photos

You can replace any photo by dragging and dropping it from your File Explorer onto any photo in Page & Layout Designer. If you drop it onto the background then it is imported and placed on the page where you dropped it. All imported photos are shown as 500 pixels wide, but you can of course change this to be any size in the usual way with the

SELECTOR TOOL.

Drag and drop your photo over any existing picture to replace it. Drop onto the background to import as a new photo

When you replace an existing photo, the FILL TOOL is selected and a pair of fill arrows are shown at right angles on the photo.

This is because the photo is really a fill inside a shape. You can drag on the picture to re-position it, or drag on the ends of the fill arrows to resize and rotate the picture inside its outline shape.

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Drag on photo to re-position inside its frame. Drag on end of arrows to resize and rotate.

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The Photo Tool

The Photo Tool provides a range of ways to enhance and crop any photo.

To crop a photo, just drag across the photo while in the ENHANCE PHOTO TOOL.

You can adjust the crop edges by dragging on the crop handles around the

outside of the photo.

Or use the CLIP TOOL for more control over crops.

See the section on Photo Handling for background information on the advanced way in which MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 handles photos, and the section on the Photo tool to find out how to use the Photo tool.

Photo Resolution

Page & Layout Designer always stores the full resolution image (unless you chose to import reduced resolution images when asked during import, as mentioned above). This means you can resize or crop your image as required with no loss of quality.

If you want to size a photo, or any object, to a specific size, just enter the required size into the

SELECTOR TOOL InfoBar width or height fields.

When you drop a photo on the page (assuming you're not replacing an existing photo), it's sized to be 500 pixels wide. But if you want this to be exactly 200 pixels wide, just enter 200px into the W size field of the

SELECTOR TOOL. You can enter it

in any unit, e.g., entering 2in will make it 2 inches wide.

Text

You can edit the text by selecting the TEXT TOOL and clicking on the text.

You have all the usual word processing facilities, and can paste text from the system clipboard. Double click will select a word, triple click will select a whole line - which can be useful for selecting all the text in a button. As usual the InfoBar provides a wide range of controls for this tool. Alternatively you can right click within text and choose

ADVANCED TEXT PROPERTIES.

The font menu displays a list of fonts and is split into three sections. The top section shows fonts already used in the document, the next section shows web safe fonts, and finally the lower section shows all fonts installed on your computer.

The three sections of the font menu. In this example the font selected is showing the available bold and italic variants. Not all fonts have such variants.

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The font menu offers live font selection. As you traverse the menu, the selected text changes font allowing you to immediately preview what the font will look like in the document.

Creating New Text Objects

There are three types of text object - a single line of text, a column of text or a rectangular text area. To create a simple line of text, select the

TEXT TOOL and then

you can click anywhere on the background and start typing. To create a column click and drag horizontally on the background, and then start typing. You can adjust the column width at any time. To create a text area, click and drag diagonally. You can adjust the width and height of a text area by clicking and dragging on it in the

TOOL

TEXT

Bulleted and numbered lists

Use the bullet and numbered list buttons on the TEXT TOOL info bar to quickly enter bulleted or numbered lists. You can right click on a numbered list and choose

PROPERTIES…

from the context menu to change the numbering scheme for your list.

LIST

You can also use any graphic as the bullet or number in your list. See the Text Tool chapter (on page 178) for more information.

Soft Shadows, Color Filled Text, Transparent Text

You can apply any of these effects using the appropriate tools, e.g., if you drag across some text in the

SHADOW TOOL it will give it a soft shadow.

FILL TOOL it will give it a graduated color, or if you drag on it with the

Text Repel Around Objects

If you right click on an object like a photo and select the menu option 'REPEL TEXT

UNDER (ON PAGE 192)'

' you can make text flow around the object that is on top of the

text.

Many of the objects, such as photos, side panels, buttons and headings used in the templates from the

DESIGNS GALLERY are automatically repelling - the text will always

flow around these objects as you drag them around.

Repelling objects only repel text that is behind the object - so you may have to 'bring to front' the object in order for the repel to work ("Ctrl + F"). Alternatively if you only want an object to repel text within an individual layer (on page 39), you can prevent text that is below that layer from being rep

perations in the

All o

TEXT TOOL are live - the text re-formats and re-flows as you

elled - see Layer Properties (on page 155).

adjust the column width or move repelling objects around.

Note: You can now also repel text around anchored objects (on page 38).

Anchored Objects

If you want a graphical object to appear next to a particular part of a block of text, you can anchor the object to the text so it moves with it.

Right click the object and choose

ANCHOR TO TEXT. Using the SELECTOR TOOL click

and drag the anchor symbol that appears in the top left of the object to the location in the text where you would like the object anchored. Now if you edit or move the text, the anchored object moves with the anchor point.

Spell Checker

On the TEXT TOOL InfoBar is a button that selects the spell checker options and language. If you select

CHECK SPELLING AS YOU TYPE this will also mark all

unrecognized words with a red dotted underline. Right click on any marked word to be presented with suggested alternatives.

Embedded Fonts

Page & Layout Designer stores the character shapes of all the fonts used in your document. This means if you give someone else your Page & Layout Designer file, or transfer the file to another computer they will see exactly what you see, even if the correct fonts are not installed on that computer. But this only embeds the characters that are used in the document (it's not a full font that is included). So on computers with the fonts missing, any text that is added in the missing fonts may be missing the correct character shapes.

Text Tip: There are a lot of shortcuts available in the TEXT TOOL. Refer to the reference section on keyboard shortcuts (on page 382) to see them all. One useful one for experimenting with page layouts, "Ctrl + Shift + L", inserts a block of random pseudo Latin.

Page Size

You can set any page size you like by selecting the PAGE SIZE tab of the OPTIONS

DIALOG

The dialog offers a range of commonly used page sizes in the drop-down list. Or Choose the custom option to enter any other page size.

Attention: If you plan to print your design in a printing company please put attention to the Bleed setting as well!

(right click > "Page Options" or choose Page Options from the File menu).

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Layers

As mentioned earlier all objects have a stacking order on the page - from the backmost to the frontmost item.

These objects are stacked over each other.

In addition, all items can be placed into named layers. Each layer can have any number of objects, and has the ability to be turned on or off. When the layer is turned off all objects on that layer become invisible.

The layers are controlled from the PAGES & LAYER GALLERY on the Galleries bar

to the right of the workspace.

Saving & Exporting Your Work.

Use the SAVE or SAVE AS menu options to save your work in progress. This saves a file with the .xar extension, which is the native file format for Page & Layout Designer. If you want to edit or update your document in future, you must save a .xar file this way and use it to do further updates, even if you've also exported it to different standard file formats.

To export your document, right click and choose choose the file format you want to export to from the list of formats shown. Use JPEG for exporting photos, PNG for graphics, and usually PDF is best if you want to print or distribute print work.

See the Importing & Exporting (on page 304) chapter for information on these and many other export formats s

upported by MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013.

EXPORT or use "FILE" > "EXPORT" and

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Starting a new document

Choose FILE > NEW

This opens a sub menu with several pre-defined but blank template documents to start from. You’ll find a range of blank templates under the creating them.

Primarily, there are two different types of documents in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013.

Icon Document type Menu option Use for..

Photo

A4 PORTRAIT A4 LANDSCAPE

US LETTER

BLANK PHOTO

Creating drawings, DTP and text documents (single or multi-page) that you want to print or perhaps export as PDF documents. If you load a JPEG photo into MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 it’s loaded as a photo document. Photo documents are used where the purpose of the document is only to edit or produce a photo.

FILE > NEW menu for

Choosing the first entry Designer default template.

Clicking the NEW button on the STANDARD control bar (shortcut "Ctrl + N") also creates a document based on the default template.

When your new document opens, its tab is added to the top of the workspace with an icon showing which type of document it is.

You can save your own templates with the "File" > "Save Template" command – see Changing the template document (on page 345) for details.

A4 PORTRAIT creates a document based on the Page & Layout

Opening an existing document

To open an existing document:

• Drag & drop a file. Select the file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop, and

drag it over an existing open document to import it into that document, or any other part of the Page & Layout Designer window to open the document.

• Or double click a Page & Layout Designer file.

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• Or to open a recently used file, select it from "FILE" > "OPEN RECENT"

• Or select "

The open dialog will be displayed. The dialog allows multiple file selection, "Ctrl + click" to select several files or "Shift + click" to select a range of files.

SHOW PREVIEW in the upper right corner is checked, the selected file is shown in an

even bigger preview (this does not work for a multiple file selection).

FILE" > "OPEN" (shortcut "Ctrl + O").

• Or click the OPEN button on the standard control bar.

As in Explorer windows, you can switch the file display to a detailed or thumbnail view with this button

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Selected document and title bar

You can have more than one file open at a time in Page & Layout Designer, which displays all open documents as tabs at the top of the workspace.

The current document is displayed in the workspace and its name is highlighted gray in the document tabs. The current document type is indicated in the top left corner of the Page & Layout Designer window, next to the menu options. The current document receives all input. Any unsaved changes in a document are indicated with a star after the file name.

Document tabs show all open documents, with the current document tab highlighted gray.

Control bars

These contain buttons that you can use to operate Page & Layout Designer. You can customize control bars in several ways, such as re-ordering, creating, and hiding bars.

The default window shows the standard button bar with commonly used buttons:

You can customize the standard control bar in the same way as other control bars.

Those icons with a triangle indicator in the bottom right corner have "fly-out bars" on them. Hold the mouse pointer over these icons and you’ll see the fly-out bar appear, with more icons.

For information on customizing control bars, refer to "Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 360)".

InfoBar

This is a special control bar. Its contents change when you select different tools. InfoBars specific to certain tools are described in their relevant chapters.

You cannot customize the InfoBar.

The InfoBar for the Selector Tool

Main toolbar

This is a control bar that initially contains all the tools available in Page & Layout Designer (see left). You can customize the toolbar, or move tools to other control bars.

Some of the toolbar icons have a small triangle indicator in the bottom right corner. This indicates that there is a flyout bar containing more tool icons. Hold your mouse pointer over the icon to see the flyout bar appear.

Rulers

You can then move the mouse pointer over each icon in the bar to see a tooltip indicating what each one does. Click on a tool to select it (some tools have keyboard shortcuts, too). For information on customizing control bars, refer to "Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 360)".

You can hide the rulers, change their zero point (origin), and use them to create guidelines. For more information, see Rulers (on page 59).

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The status line

Selected objects Available options Indicators Mouse pointer X-Y

This appears at the bottom of the window. The status line tells you about the selected objects, available options, live drag/snapping indicators, and the X/Y position of the pointer.

The indicators

These appear on the right of the status line:

Live drag indicator This indicator shows whether live drag is active or not (it is active by default). Double click the indicator to toggle live drag on/off. When active, if you reposition, resize, or rotate an object, the whole object moves (not just an outline), making it far easier to judge the effect of your edits in real time. Drawing in the

ELLIPSE TOOLS is also live with this option on. If your computer is unable to

cope with a particularly complex document, it will automatically turn active drag off to ensure editing remains fast and efficient.

FREEHAND, STRAIGHT LINE, QUICKSHAPE, RECTANGLE and

Snapped indicator This indicator is active when

OBJECTS

to see potential snapping paths and points relative to other objects and the

button (shown left) to toggle off and on. Snap to objects allows you

SNAP TO OBJECTS is enabled. Click the SNAP TO

page center and edges by showing blue snapping lines for snapping paths and red dots for points as you drag an object. For more information on snapping, refer to "Object Handling".

X/Y co-ordinates

Page & Layout Designer shows measurements relative to the bottom left corner of the page area or spread. However, this is configurable. For more information refer to "Object Handling (on page 103)".

Normal/full screen modes

In normal screen mode part of the window is occupied by the title bar, menu bar, and scroll bars. This can be inconvenient if you want the maximum possible editing area. Page & Layout Designer has a second screen mode, fullscreen, which displays a more streamlined screen. You can configure each screen mode as you wish. For example, each can have its own configuration of the control bars. The configuration is remembered and applies whenever you swap between screen modes.

Normal/full screen is controlled by " choose

To display the menu bar in full screen mode, move the pointer to the top of the screen.

FULL SCREEN ("8" on the numeric keypad).

WINDOW" > "FULL SCREEN" or right click and

Opening a second window

You may want to open a second window onto the same document to:

• Get an enlarged or reduced view of the document;

• Show another part of the document;

• Have two views of the same area at different quality settings (quality settings are

described later.)

Choose " windows open on the same document.

WINDOW" > "NEW VIEW" to open another window. You can have several

Changing the zoom value

It’s often useful to enlarge your view of the document to examine details or reduce your view to get an overall impression. Scalings above 100% show an enlarged view (similar to looking through a magnifying glass); below 100% a reduced view. The only change is your view of the document; the size of the document itself and the objects in it are unchanged (changing the document size is described later). To change the zoom value you can use either the

ZOOM TOOL, mouse, or control bars.

Some shortcuts are available for quick setting of zoom values: The plain numeric keys (1, 2, 3, 4) set the zoom to between 100% and 400%. The number 5 key sets it to 50%.

Using the Zoom Tool

To zoom:

• Select the

ZOOM TOOL from the Main Toolbar.

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• Or press "Alt + Z" to toggle between the current tool and the ZOOM TOOL.

• Or press and hold down "Alt + Z" to temporarily swap to the

ZOOM TOOL (release

"Alt + Z" to return to the previous tool).

• Or press "Shift + F7" to select the

ZOOM TOOL.

Changing the zoom value using the mouse

If you have a mouse wheel:

• Hold "Ctrl" and scroll your mouse wheel to change the zoom level.

You can also configure a mouse button to zoom in or out. Furthermore, you can change the mouse wheel action between scrolling and zooming in

"OPTIONS" > "MOUSE TAB (ON PAGE 351)" "MOUSE"

tab. The opposite action is available then by pressing "Ctrl".

or right click and choose "PAGE OPTIONS" >

"UTILITIES" >

Alternatively, select the

ZOOM TOOL, and

• Click to zoom in (enlarge).

• "Shift + click" to reduce the zoom value (to see more of the document).

• Drag the mouse diagonally to create a rectangle. When you release the mouse

button, the area within the rectangle is enlarged to fit the window.

Changing the zoom using the zoom InfoBar/control bar

There is a flyout bar on the standard toolbar which gives you quick access to zoom functions, without having to go into the

ZOOM TOOL icon on the main toolbar.

ZOOM TOOL. There is also a flyout bar on the

Hold the mouse pointer over the zoom icon on the standard toolbar to see the

flyout bar.

To change the zoom:

Shortcut "Ctrl + R". Click the PREVIOUS ZOOM button. This is the zoom value

before the current setting. Using this button lets you flip zoom in and out on

the document. This is useful for switching between examining an area in detail

and an overall view. The previous zoom value is stored for each window. You

can swap between windows and the previous zoom values are retained.

Shortcut "1" Click the Zoom to 100% button. The zoom factor is changed to

100%.

Shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + J". Click the ZOOM TO DRAWING button. The window

shows all the objects in the document.

Shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + P". Click the ZOOM TO PAGE button. The window shows

the entire page or pair of pages.

Shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + Z". Click the ZOOM TO SELECTION button. The selected object or objects fill the window.

Type a value into the text box. Press "" to implement the change, or select preset zoom values including those above (page, drawing, selected, previous) in the drop-down menu.

Sliding the document within the window

The quickest and easiest way to move around the document is to use the middle mouse button (normally the mouse wheel) if you have one. Click and hold the middle button down and then move the mouse. Release the button to return to your previous tool.

To move the document within the window you can also:

• Use the scroll bars and arrows at the side of the window.

• Use the mouse wheel to scroll the document up and down ("Shift + mouse

wheel" for left and right)

• Or select the PUSH TOOL from the main toolbar ("H").

• Or press the space bar or "Alt + X" to toggle between the current tool and the

PUSH TOOL.

• Or press and hold down the space bar or "Alt + X" to temporarily switch to the

PUSH TOOL (release key(s) to return to the previous tool). You can then use the

mouse to drag the document around in the window.

The

PUSH TOOL InfoBar is the same as the ZOOM TOOL InfoBar (described above).

Displaying the scroll bars is optional. Choose "WINDOW" > "BARS" > "SCROLLBARS" to turn them off.

You can change the mouse wheel action between scrolling and zooming in "UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS" > "MOUSE" or right click and choose "PAGE OPTIONS" >

"MOUSE". The opposite action is available then by pressing "Ctrl".

Changing the page size

You can change the size of the current page to a standard size:

1. Right click the page and choose PAGE OPTIONS -> PAGE SIZE (on page 38) tab or

choose "

UTILITY -> OPTIONS".

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"Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345)" has full details of the options dialog box.

Paper size

You can either choose the CUSTOM option from the paper size list and then enter the width and height, or choose a standard size.

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Orientation

• Portrait orientation displays the longest sides vertically.

• Landscape orientation displays the longest sides horizontally. If you entered a

custom page size, landscape turns the page sideways.

Outer margin

This lets you set the width of the pasteboard around the page or spread.

Bleed

To produce format filling print results printing shops use a larger format paper and crop it to the target format after it has been printed. Due to mechanical tolerances inaccuracies can happen while this process. For this reason, printing shops recommend including an additional "safe area" around the actual print motif. This is often referred to as the "bleed". This ensures that no important content is cropped and that no white borders appear on the edges if the motif background is not white or a background pattern is used.

Without this "bleed" area a mechanical error during cropping can lead to white borders or image elements that are too close to the edge may be cut.

The bleed area is set in the Page area of the Page Options (on page 353) and in the program it is displayed as a red rectangle around the page. Normally this bleed area is 1-3mm wide. When a PDF is exported for the print shop the final page size of the PDF will appear based on the page size settings plus the bleed area beyond the actual page. For example, an A4 page (29.7 x 21cm) with a 2mm bleed area will result in a format of 30.1 x 21.4cm.

The exact value depends on the print shop and can most often be found on a corresponding information page on the print shop's website. Some online print shops also request a file format that already contains the bleed area. Here is an example: For a flyer in A6 format (14.8 x 10.5cm) the shop may request a file format of 15 x 10.7cm. This corresponds to a value of 1mm for the bleed area beyond the actual page.

Make sure that the rectangle that contains the background pattern or color extends beyond the page borders at least to the end of the bleed area. It is also important to

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The background image was extended to the end of the bleed area (red frame) and the header was made smaller. If a cropping error does occur, the background will still cover the entire format and the heading will not be affected.

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Double page spread

Your illustration may run across two facing pages in a multi-page publication. This is called a "double-page spread".

Single page Double page spread

Multi-page Documents

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 supports multi-page documents to make DTP projects simple.

You can easily create documents that are comprised of many pages, for example newsletters, PDF eBooks, brochures or small magazines.

By default when you open or create a new document, Page & Layout Designer shows documents in multiple page view. Right click a page and deselect to show only one page at once.

MULTIPLE PAGE VIEW

Double page spreads in multi-page documents

Your illustration may run across two facing pages. This is called a doublepage spread.

Single Double page

You can have single pages or double-page spreads in your multi-page document, as illustrated above, but only one or the other within a document.

To switch between single or double-page spreads, right click the page and choose "

PAGE OPTIONS", and then check or uncheck the "DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD" option.

If you change from a double-page spread to single pages in an existing document, your spreads will be split into single pages. Similarly, converting to a double-page spread will cause the pages in your document to be "paired up" into spreads.

The result of converting a double page spread document to individual pages, and then back again.

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Note: it is possible for objects to overlap the pages of a spread (i.e. on pages 1 and 2 in the illustration above) but not over separate pages or spreads (i.e. 1 and 3; if you did want to do this, you would need to copy the object from page1 and paste it on to page 3 so that it appears there as well).

The current page

If you click a page in a multi-page document it will become the current page.

The current page is relevant when inserting, duplicating, or moving pages as described in the following sections.

The current page in the document is shown by indicators on the page’s corners.

Adding page numbers

To insert page numbers into your document - use the TEXT TOOL to click in your document page at the place you want the page number to appear. Right click and select "Insert". Then choose from one of the available number formats. As you add pages to your document the page numbers will update incrementally.

It’s common to place a page number on every page in a document. It’s a good idea to make this page number a Repeating Object (on page 129), so you can move or change the style of the n

umber on one page and have those changes applied to all

pages automatically. After inserting the page number on one page, select it using the

SELECTOR TOOL and then select "Arrange" > "Repeat on all pages", to place it in the

same position on all pages. You can still delete the number from some pages if you don’t want the number to appear on every page.

Inserting pages into your document

Right click a page and choose NEW PAGE or NEW DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD. A new blank page is inserted after the page.

Right click a page and choose

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

. A duplicate of the current page is inserted after the page.

DUPLICATE CURRENT PAGE or DUPLICATE CURRENT

The new page will be the same as the original page, including its size and orientation, and will include all its content so that you can use it as a template for new content. You can also use the Menu items under "

In addition, the standard toolbar has a flyout bar which allows you to add, duplicate and delete pages quickly.

Hold the mouse pointer over each icon in the bar to see a tooltip for each available operation. You can add a new blank page, duplicate the current page or delete the current page.

EDIT" > "PAGES"

Copying and pasting pages

You can copy and paste whole pages in the current document or paste pages to another document. This copies the page dimensions, layers and other page attributes in addition to all the objects on the page.

To copy the current page, clear any current selection by pressing Esc or by clicking on an empty part of the page or pasteboard. The status line says "No objects selected". Right click an empty part of a page and choose

COPY PAGE (or press "Ctrl + C"). When

you paste a copied page, it is added immediately following the current page. To paste use "Ctrl + V" or right click the page and choose

PASTE > PAGE from the context

menu.

Note: If the document into which you paste a page has the ALL PAGES IN DOCUMENT

THE SAME option enabled in FILE > PAGE OPTIONS, the dimensions of the pasted page

will be overridden by the page dimensions of the document. So the new page will be given the same dimensions as all the other pages in the document.

New page from template

To insert a new page into your document using a pre-designed template, open

DESIGNS GALLERY, drag your chosen page template thumbnail, and drop it

the onto your document. The new page is added immediately following the page that you drop on.

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Duplicate a page

To create a copy of the current page after the page, right click the page and choose

DUPLICATE CURRENT PAGE".

You can also use this toolbar button:

The new page will be the same as the original page, including its size and orientation, and will include all its content so that you can use it as a template for new content.

You can also duplicate a page using the Page & Layer Gallery and click the

PAGE & LAYER GALLERY. Select the page in the

DUPLICATE button. The new page is added after the

current page.

Moving pages within the document

If you wish to change the order of pages in your document you can do so.

Right click a page and choose

PAGE/DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD DOWN"

You can also change the order of pages in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY.

Click the

PAGES button in the PAGES & LAYER GALLERY so it shows a simple list of

"MOVE PAGE/DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD UP" or "MOVE

pages. Then you can drag and drop pages up and down in the gallery to change the page order.

Alternatively, to move the current page:

• Choose "Edit" > "Pages" > "Move page up" or right click and choose Move page

up to swap the current page with the one previous to it.

• Choose "Edit" > "Pages" > "Move page down" or right click and choose Move

page down to swap the current page with the one after it.

These options will be grayed-out of if you are on the first or the last page of the document respectively.

Removing pages from your document

To delete the current page from your document right click and choose "DELETE

CURRENT PAGE/DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD"

part of the page and choose

CUT PAGE.

or to cut the current page, right click an empty

Or select the page in the

PAGES & LAYER GALLERY and click the DELETE button. The

current page and all its content will be deleted. In the case of a spread, the entire spread will be deleted along with its content.

Navigating between pages

As well as the usual methods of moving through your document (such as scrollbars and the mouse wheel), there are also some other ways to navigate through the pages using the set of keys to the right of your keyboard:

Page up: Moves up the document. The amount moved depends on your zoom level. The further you are zoomed out the bigger the move.

Ctrl + Page up: Go to and center on the previous page.

Page down: Moves down the document. The amount moved depends on your zoom

level. The further you are zoomed out the greater the move.

Ctrl + Page down: Go to and center on the next page.

Or click the up or down arrow on the status line:

The status line is also useful for knowing what page(s) you are currently viewing.

Note: All of these movements are relative to the page you are viewing, not the current page.

The PAGE & LAYER GALLERY also makes it easy to go to find a specific page in your document. Click the

PAGES button in the gallery, so it shows a simple list of pages.

Then as you click on each page in the gallery, the document view is scrolled automatically to show that page.

Pages with different sizes and layers

You can choose whether the pages in your document should be all the same size or not, and whether or not all pages should have the same layers. See the Document section (on page 354) on the click a page and choose

PAGE SIZE tab of the UTILITIES->OPTIONS dialog or right

"PAGE OPTIONS".

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Page & Layer Gallery

You can also use the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY to conveniently manage the pages in your document. It allows you to view, add, duplicate, delete, re-order and rename pages all from a single view. For more information see page 149).

PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (on

Saving the document

This section covers saving in Page & Layout Designer’s own format (native format). Refer to Importing and Exporting (on page 304) for details of exporting in other formats.

e recommend that you always save documents regularly. A complicated document

W may represent many hours of work and power failures or computer crashes always happen at just the wrong moment. Make sure you have the automatic backup facility turned on, so that regular backups are taken of your open documents as you work. See the Automatic Backups (on page 56) section below for details.

Save option (on the File menu)

("Ctrl + S", or click the SAVE button on the standard control bar.)

This provides a quick way to save a document using the same file name. The option is disabled unless the document has unsaved changes, i.e. you have made changes, but haven't saved them to disk.

For a new document that has not been saved to disk, this option acts like "Save as" (described below).

Save as (on the File menu)

This opens a dialog box letting you save the document under a different name or to a different directory. This option is useful for making backups of Page & Layout Designer documents.

Save all (on the File menu)

This acts like a series of SAVE or SAVE AS commands to save all currently open files.

Closing the document

To close the document:

• Choose "

• Or press "Ctrl + F4", or "Ctrl + W".

• Or click the smaller, lower X of the two in the top right hand corner.

FILE" > "CLOSE".

Automatic Backups

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 will optionally save regular backup copies of your open documents while you work.

To turn automatic backups on or off, open the " choose the

BACKUPS tab.

UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS" dialog and

Backup open documents

To turn backups on select this checkbox and choose how often you would like backups to be taken. The suggested period is 10 mins, which means each open document will be backed up if it’s more than 10 mins since the last backup of that document was taken (or since the document was created or opened).

Note that once the configured period since the last backup has expired, the next backup is only saved when the program has been idle for at least 15 secs. This is to avoid interrupting your work as much as possible and to avoid backing up the document while it is being actively modified. In normal use it’s unlikely that there won’t be regular inactive periods of 15 secs or more, allowing a backup to be taken soon after it is due. But note that if you are actively editing for an extended period of time it could be significantly longer than the configured backup period before the next backup runs.

The Automatic Backup facility does not save modifications to open ‘edit inside’ subdocuments. Only the parent main document is saved when a scheduled backup runs, in its current state without the unsaved group edits. For this reason it's recommended that you save ‘edit inside’ edits back to the parent document regularly.

When a backup is taken, you’ll see the save progress bar appear at the bottom of the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 window while the save is completed.

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Backup location

User the BROWSE button if you want to change the folder where your backups are stored.

You can access the backup documents saved here at any time using the "

OPEN RECENT" > "BACKUPS" menu option. This opens a file dialog onto your backup

FILE" >

folder so that you can browse, open, or delete any of your backup files.

Revisions

By default up to 10 revisions of each design are kept in your backups folder, but you can choose to change this number in the revisions field. Older revisions in excess of the number chosen are deleted automatically. Each backup file is named using the name of the document from which it is taken, suffixed by the date and time at which the backup was taken.

Warning: Note that if you have multiple documents that share the same filename in different folders on your computer, their backups will also share the same names in the backups folder. Therefore try and use unique filenames for your designs to avoid the backups of one design overwriting another with the same name.

Untitled documents

Documents that you have created and not saved are backed up using the name "Untitled" followed by a number and the date/time. This name and number corresponds to those shown in the titlebar when you are editing new unsaved documents.

Warning: Since all new unsaved documents are named Untitled1, Untitled2, etc. backups of these documents are likely to be overwritten relatively quickly. Therefore you should always save important documents with a unique name of your choice, so that you can easily identify backups of that document in the backups folder.

Backup open documents on program close

The Backups tab in the Options dialog also allows you to turn on AUTOMATIC BACKUP

AND RESTORE

. When this option is on, when the you close MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 you will not be prompted to save any modified documents that you have open. Instead all open documents are backed up to the backups folder and the program closes. Then when you next start the program, the same documents are automatically reloaded so that you can continue working where you left off.

Note that if you have any "Edit inside" sub-document views open, these are silently closed and saved back to the main document when the program is closed, and the main document is backed up. The ‘edit inside’ sub-document views are not re-opened on next program start. See editing inside groups (on page 121).

Recovering from abnormal program closures

If you have automatic backups turned on and the program closes abnormally (perhaps due to a power failure for example) the program should detect this when it is next restarted. It will then offer you the chance to restore the most recent backup version of each document that was open at the time of the last backup.

Abnormal closure will not be detected if no automatic backup completed since the last normal program closure.

Backups on system shut down

If you shut down Windows without first closing the program, all open documents are backed up to the backup folder even if ‘Backup open documents on program close’ is not turned on. This allows system shutdown to proceed without MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 interrupting it by prompting you about unsaved or modified documents. On next program startup you’ll be asked whether or not you want to restore the documents that were open at the time of the system shut down.

Recovering backups

You can access your document backups using the "FILE" > "OPEN RECENT" >

BACKUPS" menu option. This opens a file dialog onto your backup folder so that you

" can browse, open, or delete any of your backup files. It’s a good idea to use this file dialog to clear out any old unwanted backups periodically.

Note that when you load a backup document, it is not automatically associated with the design file from which the backup was taken. It’s treated as an independent document in its own right. Therefore if you decide to keep a backup document you should use "

FILE" > "SAVE AS" to save it elsewhere with a suitable name.

On-screen grid

To help you lay out your document, Page & Layout Designer can display a grid on the screen (the grid appears only on the screen; it is never exported or printed.) The grid helps you align objects (similar to using graph paper as a drawing aid).

Right click and choose on/off or choose "

SNAP TO GRID".

The grid points then act like magnets, and as you move objects, they snap to the nearest grid point. The type of grid (isometric/rectangular), the 0,0 point (the origin), and spacing of grid points is controlled by the options dialog box. Any changes you make apply only to the selected document.

Magnetic object snapping is a very powerful way of accurately aligning lines, points and the edges of objects to any other object so they exactly touch.

"SHOW GRID/GUIDES" > "SHOW GRID" to turn display of the grid

SNAP TO" > "SNAP TO GRID". You can also choose "WINDOW" >

GRID & RULERS TAB (on page 348) of the

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You can even use this to align the centers of objects, or align objects to the center of the page, or align them horizontally and vertically anywhere in the middle of the page or edge of the page.

To toggle object snapping, click the SNAP TO OBJECTS button or right click and choose "

SNAP TO GRID".

SNAP TO" > "SNAP TO OBJECTS". You can also choose "WINDOW" >

Refer to Object Handling for details on snapping to grid and snapping to objects.

Rulers

Rulers are turned off by default. To turn them on:

• Right click and choose

"SHOW GRID/GUIDES" > "SHOW RULERS" to turn display of

the grid on/off.

• Press "Ctrl + Shift + R".

• Or select "

WINDOW" > "BARS" > "SHOW RULERS".

Page & Layout Designer uses rulers to:

• Control text margins, tabs and indents (on page 189) in the

TEXT TOOL.

• Let you know which part of the page you are viewing;

• Show the current pointer X/Y position;

• Apply guidelines. If "

WINDOW" > "SNAP TO GRID" is active, guidelines snap to

divisions on the ruler. For more information on guidelines, refer to the guides & guidelines section in "Object Handling".

As you create or scale objects, you can use the rulers to check their size. You can also more accurately use the

SELECTOR TOOL (see "Selecting objects (on page 98)" for

more information).

Rulers are displayed at the left and top of the window. A dotted line on each ruler follows the current pointer position.

The units and number of divisions on the rulers are the same as those set for customizing the on-screen grid. These are set using the Grid & Ruler Tab (on page

348) of the options dialog box. The current units and any

scaling factor are displayed

on the right hand end of the top ruler.

Displaying/hiding rulers

Right click and choose "SHOW GRID/GUIDES" > "SHOW RULERS" ("Ctrl + Shift + R") to turn rulers on/off. Any change applies to the current window and subsequent windows you open. It does not affect other open windows.

Changing the ruler zero points

It is often easier to measure objects if you align the origin (0,0) point of the rulers with the object. To move the origin (0,0) point, drag the square at the intersection of the two rulers.

You can drag vertically or horizontally along the rulers or over any part of the Page & Layout Designer editing window. As you do, a dotted line will outline the new position. This also moves the grid origin so that divisions on the ruler always align with the grid.

You can also move the zero point under the Options dialog.

GRID & RULER tab (on page 348) of the

Measurement units

You can define the units in which to display measurements. The default display units are:

• points (1/72 of an inch) for text and line widths;

• centimeters for most measurements.

You can enter dimensions in the other units by using a suffix or prefix (dependent on the unit type). For example, 2.5in for 2.5 inches. You can enter dimensions using two units. For example, 2pi 4pt for a dimension of 2 picas, 4 points. Note that units entered will be converted and displayed in your default unit.

Millipoints

A millipoint is 1/1,000th of a point (1/72,000th of an inch). All Page & Layout Designer measurements are stored internally in millipoints and then converted to the appropriate units when displayed. Dimensions other than millipoints are rounded if necessary. If you want to work in exact units without rounding, display measurements in millipoints.

"Customizing Page & Layout Designer (on page 345)" has full details of the options dialog box.

Options dialog box

Measurement units for the selected document are controlled by the Options dialog. Choose

UNITS".

"UTILITIES -> OPTIONS" or right click a page and choose "PAGE OPTIONS ->

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Changing the default display units

Display the options dialog box. If necessary, click the units tab.

Font units are used for text sizes. Page units are used for other measurements.

Creating a new unit

You may want to specify measurements in units not provided as standard. For example, racecourses are measured in furlongs (220 yards). Or a financial diagram may use US$.

Display the

OPTIONS dialog box. If necessary, click the UNITS tab.

1. Click NEW UNIT. The unit properties window will appear:

2. Type in the unit name (e.g. US dollars). This name appears in menus.

3. Type in the ABBREVIATION ($). This is used when entering or displaying the

units.

4. Select PREFIX ($ 12.34) or SUFFIX (12.34 $ ) as appropriate. Page & Layout

Designer must be able to relate the new unit to an existing unit. Type the relationship into the "

IS EQUIVALENT TO" field. For example, if you had used

furlongs, then 1 furlong is equivalent to 220 yards.

For units that do not relate to distance (for example US$), type in an appropriate scaling factor. For example, 10US$ as equivalent to 10 millimeters.

Deleting a unit

You can only delete a unit you have created, not a standard unit.

Display the

OPTIONS dialog box. If necessary, click the UNITS tab.

1. Choose the unit you want to delete from the UNIT DEFINITION list.

2. Click DELETE UNIT.

Applying a scaling factor

For example, you may want to specify dimensions in kilometers when drawing a map. You can apply a 1:10,000 scaling factor to kilometers. A line 10cm long on the map is reported as a dimension of 1km.

1. Choose "Utilities -> Options". If necessary, click the SCALING tab.

2. Select USE SCALE FACTOR.

3. Type in the appropriate scaling. For example, 10cm to 1km.

Alternatively, type 1 into the drawing field and 10,000 into the real-world field.

Deleting a scaling factor

This is similar to applying scaling:

1. Choose "Utilities -> Options". If necessary, click the SCALING tab.

2. Deselect "USE SCALE FACTOR".

3. Click "OK".

View quality slider

This slider (on the STANDARD control bar) affects how the document appears on the screen. It has no effect on the actual

There are 5 different quality settings:

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OUTLINE ONLY. This is now fully anti-aliased for higher quality screen display. OUTLINE WITH BLEND STEPS.

FULL COLOR (no anti-aliasing). HIGH QUALITY (full anti-aliasing and image smoothing) VERY HIGH QUALITY Bi-cubic photo display considerably improves the quality of

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scaled down photos.

The default quality level is

VERY HIGH QUALITY which means the document is

displayed on screen exactly as it will be printed (except that the monitor is lower resolution than a printer.) Anti-aliasing gives a much smoother and more accurate screen display, especially when displaying small details. However, one of the consequences is that sometimes objects can look slightly blurred.

FULL COLOR shows the document colored, but with anti-aliasing turned off.

On the

OUTLINE setting only the outlines of the shapes appear (they are drawn as wire

frames). This makes it easier to select objects hidden behind other objects.

OUTLINE WITH BLEND STEPS is particularly useful for seeing outlines of the various

steps of a blend.

You can also change these settings with "WINDOW ->

QUALITY". There are toolbar buttons available for the

five quality settings on the Window toolbar (on page

360). Refer to "Blends (on page 242)" for more on how the quality setting affects the display of

blends.

The constrain key

The "Ctrl" key has a special function in Page & Layout Designer. It constrains the action of the current operation in some way. For example, normally you can rotate an object to any angle. But in Page & Layout Designer,if you hold down "Ctrl" while you rotate an object, the rotation is constrained to a subset of the possible angles. By default the object will rotate only to multiples of 45 degrees plus any rotations where a significant straight edge in the object becomes vertical or horizontal.

The black line on the left can be rotated to any angle within the circle. On the right is the same line, but with "Ctrl" held down it can only be rotated to the positions indicated.

Similarly, constraining a rectangle creates a perfect square and constraining an ellipse creates a perfect circle. Release "Ctrl", and they will not be constrained.

The constrain angle feature is defined in

OPTIONS -> GENERAL -> ANGLE CONSTRAINT

(on page 347) .

Galleries

MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 uses galleries to provide convenient access to external libraries of content like templates, fonts, colors, clip-art, line attributes, and bitmaps/photos. This section of the manual gives general information on features which are common to multiple galleries. Individual sections of this manual describe features specific to a particular gallery.

When you create a new Page & Layout Designer document, the following gallery tabs are displayed in the gallery bar to the right of the workspace in the following default order.

Designs Page & Layer

Bitmap Line Fill

Font Color

Name

Some galleries view objects held in libraries external to the document:

FONTS, DESIGNS, FILL.

Other galleries relate to objects in the document, or options for those objects:

COLOR, BITMAP, LINE, PAGE & LAYER, NAME.

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Displaying a gallery

To display a gallery:

1. Click or hover the mouse pointer over the vertical tab for the gallery to the right

of the workspace (the gallery bar). The gallery opens automatically. When you move the mouse pointer away from the gallery, it automatically closes.

2. To keep a gallery open while you work, click the Auto Hide (pin) button in its

top right corner. The Auto Hide button changes so the pin points downwards to indicate that the gallery is now ‘pinned’ to the workspace.

3. To close a ‘pinned’ gallery, see Closing a Gallery.

Unpinned: gallery closes when you move the mouse pointer away from the gallery.

Pinned: gallery stays open when you move the mouse pointer away, and can also be moved and docked (on page 65) elsewhere.

Note: By default the Line, Fill, Fonts, Color and Name Gallery do not display their title, just their individual icons, until they have been opened. Page & Layout Designer always displays the title of the last gallery that you have viewed.

Moving and docking a gallery

You can ‘detach’ any gallery from the gallery bar and move it to a more convenient location anywhere in the workspace. You can also dock the gallery (or a gallery group, see Grouping Galleries) in the top, bottom, left or right of the workspace.

You can move a gallery anywhere in the workspace

To move a gallery:

1. Open a gallery and click the Auto Hide button to pin the gallery. The button

changes to a downward-pointing pin to indicate that the gallery can be moved and pinned elsewhere.

2. Click and drag on the gallery’s title bar to move it around. You can either leave

the gallery ‘free floating’ anywhere in the workspace or dock it in a new location.

If you move any of the following galleries, the others accompany it as a group. Access an individual gallery by clicking its tab at the bottom of the group or click and drag a gallery tab to move it away from the group.

• Bitmap

• Line

• Fill

• Font

• Color

• Name

When you click and drag on a dockable gallery’s title bar, a number of arrows appear on the workspace, indicating where you can dock the gallery.

Dragging a gallery causes docking arrows to appear in the center, top, bottom, left and right of the workspace. Dock the gallery by dragging it to an arrow.

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Example of a gallery that has been docked to the left of the workspace

To dock a gallery:

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1. Click and drag the gallery to the arrow pointing towards the location where

you want to place the gallery. For example, if you want the gallery at the top of the screen, move it to the upward pointing arrow at the top of the workspace.

2. When the mouse pointer reaches the arrow, a gray transparent box highlights

the gallery’s new location.

3. Let go of the mouse button to dock the gallery. Now when you close or ‘auto

hide’ the gallery, its tab will be displayed in the new location.

4. Hover over or click its tab to reopen the gallery.

Note: To move all galleries back to their default position, choose CONTROL BARS from the WINDOW menu, click GALLERIES then RESET.

Grouping galleries

You can also group galleries and move the whole group to a new location if, for example, you are working primarily with 2 or 3 galleries that you want to be close to each other and easily accessible.

Example of a gallery group with gallery tabs at the bottom - click and drag to add a gallery to or remove a gallery from the group.

To group galleries:

• Disable the

AUTO HIDE button (pin) on one of the following galleries: Bitmap, Line,

Fill, Font, Color and Name gallery.The gallery is automatically grouped with the other five galleries, displayed as tabs at the bottom of the group. Click on a tab to open a gallery in the group.

To group a gallery with one previously docked:

• Click and drag the second gallery to the four arrows in the workspace center. Let

go of the mouse when you are over the arrow pointing towards the previously moved (first) gallery. The second gallery is now grouped with the first.

To add a gallery to an existing group:

1. Click and drag a gallery group over the center of the 4 docking arrows in the

center of the workspace. When you subsequently click and drag the gallery

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you want to add over the group you want to add it to, the four docking arrows now appear in the center of the gallery group.

2. Drag the gallery to the center of the arrows within the group. The gallery is

added to the group and its tab displayed at the bottom of the group. When you dock a gallery group, all galleries within the group are also docked.

To remove a gallery from the group, click its tab and drag to move it away. When you auto hide or close a gallery group, all gallery tabs in the group are displayed in the workspace border nearest to the last docking location.

Using galleries

To fold or unfold a section in a gallery:

• Click the

FOLD/UNFOLD icon.

• Or double click the title strip.

• Or right click a section to display a pop-up menu. Select

FOLD/UNFOLD section.

The pop-up menu also has options to scroll to the previous section or next section.

This illustration shows the gallery is unfolded. Other galleries are similar.

The buttons along the top depend on the gallery (e.g.

BITMAP GALLERY.) However, most galleries have these buttons:

the

APPLY applies the selected item in the gallery. Click on an item to select it.

MORE opens a menu where you can then choose:

•

FIND is described later in searching for an item name.

•

SORT is described later in re-ordering items in a gallery.

•

PROPERTIES provides control over size of the icons and amount of information

FILL and TRANSP are specific to

displayed in the gallery.

ADD (clipart, fill, and fonts galleries) is described later in adding to a gallery.

•

REMOVE (clipart, fill, and fonts galleries) is described later in deleting sections

from a gallery.

Selecting items

To select an item:

• Click an item to select it.

• Or click an item, then "Shift + click" on another item; all items in between the two

points will be selected.

• Or "Ctrl + click" to add that item to the selection.

Re-ordering items in the gallery

In some galleries, "MORE" > "SORT" opens a dialog box. You can sort by name and, depending on the gallery, by other criteria. The primary key controls the initial sort. For some sort parameters such as file type or name length, there may be two or more files with the same type or name length. These files can be further sorted using the secondary key.

Searching for an item name

You can search, for example, for all names containing the word red:

1. Choose "MORE" > "FIND".

2. Type "red" into the text box.

3. Select "SEARCH NAMES & KEYWORDS" to search

only the item names, e.g. file, color, etc., or

SEARCH ALL INFORMATION" to search the names

" and keywords available in some galleries.

Adding to a gallery

You may want to add extra items to these galleries (DESIGNS, FILL & FONTS galleries only). To do this:

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1. Copy the files you want to add into a new directory (folder) using the

Windows Explorer.

- For the DESIGNS GALLERY these files can be any of a wide range of vector or

bitmap file types.

- For the FILL GALLERY they can be any of the bitmap formats supported by

Page & Layout Designer (listed in importing and exporting (on page 304)).

- For the FONTS GALLERY they can be Adobe Type 1 or TrueType fonts.

2. In the appropriate gallery, click the "DISC DESIGNS/FILLS/FONTS" button. This

opens a dialog box.

3. Use the dialog box to select the directory you want to add.

4. Click "ADD". This creates a new section in the gallery.

If you later want to add more items to the folder:

1. Copy the new files into the existing folder.

2. In the gallery, click "DISC DESIGNS/FILLS/FONTS". This opens a dialog box.

3. Use the dialog box to select the folder you want to add.

4. Click "UPDATE" to update the section in the gallery.

Deleting sections from a gallery

To delete a section from a gallery (CLIPART, FILL & FONTS galleries only):

1. Click on the title strip of the section or sections you want to delete.

2. Click "REMOVE".

If you later want the section again, add its folder to the gallery (described earlier).

Closing a gallery

By default a gallery’s AUTO HIDE button is enabled (i.e., the gallery’s AUTO HIDE button in the top right corner is unpinned), so that the gallery closes automatically when you move the mouse pointer away from it.

However if you have disabled the

AUTO HIDE button (pinned the gallery), you have to

close the gallery manually.

To close a free-floating gallery, click the

CLOSE button in the top right of the gallery.

The gallery closes and its tab is displayed in the gallery bar.

To close a docked gallery, click the

AUTO HIDE (pin) or CLOSE button in the top right of

the gallery. The gallery closes and its tab is displayed in the workspace border where you docked it.

To re-open the gallery, hover over or click on its tab.

Note: To remove a gallery completely, choose GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the gallery you want removed.

Moving content from previous versions of MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Sometimes when MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is updated from one version to another, some content is dropped from the Designs Gallery to make space for new content. If you discover that some content you liked and used is missing from the latest version of the program, you can import it from an installation of an earlier version.

Designs Gallery content is installed into the "Clipart" folder of the main program folder. Eg. C:\Program Files\MAGIX\MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013\Clipart\ The sub-folder names inside the Clipart folder loosely correspond to the names of the categories as they appear in the Designs Gallery.

So before uninstalling an older version of the program, you may want to copy out some of the Designs Gallery content and then add to the Designs Gallery in the latest version of the program. Follow these steps:-

1. Identify the location of the old Clipart folder and the decide which sub-folders

inside it you want to keep.

2. Copy the sub-folders to a convenient location on your machine.

3. Select the "Disc designs…" button in the Designs Gallery and in the dialog that

appears navigate to the sub-folder. If you want to add the "food" folder for example, you need to navigate right into the food folder, before clicking Add in the dialog.

4. All the items in the folder are added to a new category in your gallery. Repeat

the above process for each folder of content that you want to add.

5. Once you’ve copied out all the folders you want and have added them to your

Designs Gallery, you can uninstall the old version of the program if it is no longer required.

You can following a similar process to that above to copy fills and fonts from previous versions to the Fill and Font galleries. Fills are installed into a "Fills" folder in the program folder and fonts in a "Fonts" folder.

Removing a gallery from the workspace

By default, when you close a gallery, Page & Layout Designer returns it to the gallery bar so that you can reopen it by hovering the cursor over its icon or tab. However you can configure Page & Layout Designer to remove any gallery from the workspace if it’s not needed.

To remove unwanted galleries from the workspace, do one of the following:

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• Choose GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the gallery you want

removed. The selected gallery disappears from your workspace. If you want to reinstate a gallery, choose

GALLERIES from the UTILITIES menu and choose the

gallery you want to reinstate.

• Choose

available control bars to find Galleries toolbar. Click

CONTROL BARS from the WINDOW menu and scroll down the list of

GALLERIES. Click the GALLERIES box to show the

CLOSE. In the Galleries toolbar that is now displayed above

the workspace, you can toggle display of a gallery by clicking its toolbar button.

Restoring the default control bars/galleries

Choose "WINDOW" > "CONTROL BARS" and click RESET to restore the control bar setup to the default setting.

The Name Gallery

The NAME GALLERY gives you information about the current document, and is an easy way to manage the various elements of your document. It lists:

• Names – you can name objects using either the

DIALOG

(via NAMES BUTTON in the SELECTOR TOOL).

NAME GALLERY or the NAMES

• Fonts used – if you have text in your document, then the used fonts will be listed.

• Bitmaps used – a list of bitmaps currently used.

• Colors used – The

USED COLORS section of the NAME GALLERY lists the colors used.

• Styles used – Use this section of the gallery to select text on the current page that

uses a given style.

Note: In the case of multi-page documents, the Name Gallery lists the items usage by the current page. All Names are shown anyway, because a Name can be present in the document without actually using it. In the case a Name is not applied to an object on the page, the little selection circle (see below) is not present before the Name.

To display the NAME GALLERY:

• Choose "

• Or click the

UTILITIES -> NAME GALLERY" ("Ctrl + Shift + F9"),

NAME GALLERY button on the GALLERIES bar.

With the commands on the buttons you manipulate names, for some commands to work, a name, a property like color or font and/or an object has to be selected:

•

APPLY is used to give names to objects.

•

NEW opens the NAMES dialog (on page 75) to apply a new or existing name to the

selected object(s).

DELETE deletes a name from the NAME GALLERY and from any objects using that

•

name.

INTERSECT selects the objects that have all the selected items (name, font, bitmap

•

or color).

REMOVE deletes a name from any objects using that name, but do not delete it

•

from the

•

RENAME changes the name shown in the NAME GALLERY.

•

REDEFINE changes which objects use a name.

•

MORE reveals some more options:

NAME GALLERY.

- SELECT selects (in the document) the objects that have any of the selected

items (name, font, style, bitmap or color).

- EXPORT exports the selected named objects.

- HELP shows the according help article

Batch Export

You can do a batch export of all objects with a name applied. Just select the names (multiple selection is possible with the Shift and Ctrl key) and choose

MORE > EXPORT.

A click on the arrow displays a dialog box that lets you select the file name, destination folder and file format to export in. By default the file name is the same as the name in the Name Gallery. Note that clicking "

APPLY" just stores the selected

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options, and that it doesn't save a bitmap; do this by exporting the image with the

MORE > EXPORT option.

(Extension displayed depends on the file format chosen.) Click the box to open the according "Export dialog (on page 333)" to specify more details. Click

APPLY" to store the selected options.

Object Selection and Name Gallery

When you select an object or several objects on the page, its name and other properties, like named color, font and style (text objects) are shown highlighted in the Name Gallery with a half or full red circle:

indicates that there are other objects or copies of this object with the according name or property. indicates the selected object/s are the only occurrences of the name or other property on the page. This is useful if you want to be sure of selecting all occurrences of a named object or e.g. a specific font used.

The other way around you can also select objects using the

NAME GALLERY. By

clicking in the circle to the left of an item in the gallery you will select some or all occurrences of the object with that property.

As above, means there are other occurrences of this named object that were not selected, typically because they are locked and so are not selectable. means all occurrences of this name are selected.

If there is no selection circle is before a name, that is because this name is not applied to any object on the page.

With the

INTERSECT and SELECT command you can use a combination of Name gallery

items to select objects by. Intersect selects objects that use all of the chosen items, e.g. chosing the red color and the Arial font selects all text objects that are red and using the Arial font. With the

SELECT command (you'll find it under the MORE...

button) you select objects that use any of the chosen items, given the above example this would be any object that is red or using the Arial font.

Naming objects

You can apply names to any object in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 using the “Apply, remove or inspect names of objects” button on the

infobar. Alternatively right click an object and choose NAMES from the

TOOL

context menu.

SELECTOR

Naming is a general mechanism which has a variety of uses, some of which are described below. Most commonly names are used to form loose sets of objects.

Example uses of names

• Record information about the objects, e.g. what they are used for;

• Select the objects. This is particularly useful if the objects are widely separated in

the drawing or in a complicated drawing. One click and you can select just those objects that share a name;

• For linked stretching where one named object can automatically stretch another

named object. For example, changing the text over a colored background shape can automatically change the size of the shape.

This dialog is modeless, so you can change the selection while the dialog is displayed. It shows the names for the current selection. The text field at the top of the dialog shows you how many objects are currently selected.

Adding names

To add a name to an object, select the object and open the NAMES dialog using the button on the

Type the new name into the

SELECTOR TOOL infobar or right click on the object and choose NAMES...

APPLY NAME field, or use the drop down list on the same

field to select a name which is already used elsewhere in the current document. Click

ADD. You should see the name appear in the NAMES APPLIED list.

Names applied

The NAMES APPLIED field shows you the names applied to the current selection. If more than one object is selected, a list of names is only shown if all objects in the selection have exactly the same set of names applied. Otherwise “<many>” is displayed, indicating that there are differences in terms of the names applied to different objects in the selection.

To remove a name from the selected object(s), click the name in the list to select it and then click the

REMOVE button.

NAMES APPLIED

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Undo and Redo

The undo command

"UNDO" cancels the effects of the last operation. To undo an operation:

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• Click

• Or choose "

UNDO on the standard control bar.

EDIT" > "UNDO" (the exact wording tells you what the next undo step

is, i.e. undo scale).

• Or press "Ctrl + Z".

• Or press the comma key (in any tool except the

TEXT TOOL).

You can repeat the undo command to step back through the sequence of previous operations.

The redo command

Redo cancels the last undo command. To redo the last operation:

• Click the

• Or choose "

REDO button on the standard control bar.

EDIT" > "REDO" (the exact wording tells you what the next redo step

is, i.e. redo scale).

• Or press "Ctrl + Y".

• Or press the period (full stop) key (in any tool except the

TEXT TOOL).

You can only redo immediately after undo. You cannot redo after changing the document (for example, by moving or adding an object).

Drawing Lines and Shapes

Drawing a line or shape

You can use any of these tools to draw lines and shapes:

FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL ("F3").

• The

STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL

• The

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL ("F4").

The

FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL is the easiest way to draw simple lines, curves, and

shapes, and it acts rather like a pencil.

The

STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL is best if you want to draw single segment straight

lines, or add arrow heads and tails to any types of lines.

The

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL is best for drawing precise curves and lines. It is also the

main tool to edit lines and shapes.

Note: Although it is not in the Drawing Tools toolbar, you can also use the PEN

to create precise shapes. It has limited functionality and works like the

TOOL

line tool of other drawing programs. To use the

from the WINDOW menu and click the BUTTON PALETTE checkbox. Then

BARS

click the

PEN TOOL icon in the Button Palette.

PEN TOOL, choose CONTROL

The Freehand & Brush Tool

You can use this tool to draw in a freehand manner, as you would with a pencil. It can also be used to create brush strokes, which is described later. And it includes the option to draw variable width lines using a compatible pressure sensitive drawing device such as a graphics tablet. While using this tool the status line provides reminders on how to use the tool.

1. Position the pointer where you want the line to start.

2. Press and hold down the mouse button. (or draw with your graphics tablet or

other connected device).

3. As you drag the pointer around the document, your line is drawn in real time.

4. Release the mouse button to terminate the line.

After you’ve drawn a freehand line you can control how smooth the curve is (i.e. how many control points) by

Smoothing Re-fit Indicator

adjusting the smoothing control slider on the InfoBar.

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Low values make the line follow your mouse movement more closely by creating more control points, and higher values produce smoother curves with fewer control points.

Low values are less smooth Higher values produce a smoother curve

You can change the smoothing at any time until you make further edits to the line (the re-fit indicator on the InfoBar tells you when you can still change the smoothing.)

Erasing while drawing

Before you release the mouse button you can erase part of the line by holding "Shift".

The pencil icon reverses so the eraser at the end is downwards. You can now erase back along the line. Release "Shift” and you can continue drawing.

Drawing straight segments in the Freehand Tool

While drawing a freehand line hold down "Alt", move the pointer to a new position and release "Alt" to draw a straight line. You can continue drawing a line or hold down "Alt" again to draw another straight segment. Remember, you can use "Ctrl" to constrain the angle of the line. If you only want to draw lots of single segment straight lines, use the

STRAIGHT LINE TOOL described below.

Extending a line

Make sure the line is selected (a single click on the shape or line in the FREEHAND &

TOOL will do this). Now if you move over the end of the line, a small + sign next

BRUSH

to the pencil icon will indicate you can just draw to add a new freehand section to the line.

Joining two lines

Select both lines, ("Shift + click" on the second line to add it to the selection) and you can now just draw from the end of one line to an end of the other. A small + sign next to the pencil icon (appearing after a pause) indicates you are over the end.

Closing a freehand shape (to create a filled shape)

If you connect the start and end of a line, then it becomes a filled shape. You can now alter the fill color by dragging colors from the Color Line or using the Color Editor.

Editing lines/shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool

You cannot directly modify shapes created by the Quickshape, Rectangle, or Ellipse Tools. First convert them to editable shapes using "ARRANGE" > "CONVERT TO

EDITABLE SHAPES". See "Shape handling (on page 142)" for more information.

You can use the FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL to edit lines (or outlines of shapes) by simply redrawing the section of line you want to replace. For example:

To edit the object:

Select the object that you wish to edit.

Move the freehand pencil over a part of the line. A ~ shows when the pencil is in position.

Draw the required line, then move the freehand pencil over to the second point of the existing line. Again, a ~ shows when the pencil is in position.

Release the mouse button, and the section of line is replaced.

Sketch Mode

This option is useful if you are rapidly sketching lots of separate lines close to each other, perhaps using a drawing tablet.

Hold the mouse pointer over an existing line, or end point, and you’ll notice that there is a short pause before the mouse pointer changes to indicate that the line will be edited or extended. This pause means you can still edit existing lines if you want, but you won’t do so unintentionally when you actually mean to sketch new lines.

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Trace mode

Trace mode helps you to draw lines which follow visible edges in photo images. For most photos it’s best to turn smoothing down from the default value, so that the line more closely follows complex edges with less smoothing of the line as you draw.

Trace mode on/off

Turn on trace mode using the toggle button on the infobar. Draw with the Freehand tool over a photo and you should see that the line tries to follow edges in the image.

You can also turn trace mode on and off while you are actively drawing a line, by pressing the

T key. The mouse pointer changes to indicate whether trace mode is on

or off.

Commit points

You’ll often notice as you draw along an edge in a photo that sometimes the last few pixels of the line you’ve drawn will ‘jump’ around as it searches for different routes. You can ‘commit’ the edge at any time by pressing the

SPACE BAR when a correct

route has been found. Then continue and trace mode will find more routes between the last commit point and the mouse pointer. Commit points are automatically added for you every 50 screen pixels.

Cutting out objects from photos

To cut out part of a photo you can either draw an ordinary shape over the top of the photo and then use the combine shapes operations in the

ARRANGE menu to cut the

photo with the shape (see the Shape Handling chapter (on page 135) for details).

Once you’ve cut out a piece of a photo, it’s often a good idea to apply a small amount of feather to blur the edge slightly.

Brush styles

The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL can also be used to apply different brush stroke styles along the path of the line. Instead of being a solid, fixed-width line, you can change it to be a variable-width line, or one of a near-infinite range of fancy brush styles, like airbrush, felt tip marker, and many more.

The Straight Line & Arrow tool

This tool makes it easy to draw single segment straight lines and to add arrow heads and tails to any lines in a way that is much easier and more powerful than doing the same thing with the

Drawing & editing straight lines

Simply click and drag on the page to draw a straight line. You can click on any existing line to select it, and once selected you can click-drag on either end to move the end of the line around.

LINE GALLERY.

Adding arrowheads & tails

The infobar has two dropdown lists on the left which allow you to choose an arrow head or tail style for each end of the selected line.

Arrow head Arrow tail Arrow head/tail size Reverse path

The slider on the infobar allows you to change the size of the arrow head and tail on the current selected line. Or you can enter a percentage value into the size text field to the right of the slider.

Enter a value less than 100% to reduce the size of the arrowhead (and tail), or greater than 100% to increase. Although the slider only takes the size value up to a maximum of 800%, you can enter percentage values larger than this into the size text field.

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Reverse path

Press the REVERSE PATH button on the infobar to switch around the head and tail of the selected line.

The Shape Editor tool

The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL is the main tool used for both creating precise curves, lines, and shapes, as well as editing or altering lines and shapes.

Add/Change/Edit Indicator Make curve Make line Smooth join Sharp join

Break at points Delete points Reverse paths Positions of handles Smoothing

The InfoBar, shown above, provides a wide range of controls as well as precise numeric control.

All lines and shapes in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 are made from a sequence of curve and line sections. Curves are sometimes called "Bézier" curves after the mathematician who first described them.

Although this section describes the SHAPE EDITOR

SELECTOR

TOOL if you have the SHOW EDIT OBJECT

, you can also edit lines and shapes using the

TOOL

handles button selected on the SELECTOR TOOL InfoBar.

The sections or segments of a line are marked by small black point handles. You can drag, add and delete these handles to manipulate the shape of the line or outline.

Some objects such as quickshapes, rectangles, ellipses, and text have to be converted into editable shapes before you can use the

"ARRANGE" > "CONVERT TO EDITABLE SHAPE" menu ("Ctrl + Shift + S") to do this.

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL on them. Select the

To draw a straight line segment

Using the SHAPE EDITOR Tool, start a straight line:

1. Click where you want to start the line. You can start a line at either end; you

don’t have to work left to right, or top-to-bottom. This creates a point handle, and is displayed as a red square to indicate that it is the selected handle.

2. If necessary select the MAKE LINE button on the InfoBar ("L"). This ensures the

next click will draw a straight line segment.

Either click where you want the next point handle to be, or click and drag, and then release the mouse button when the line is correct. This creates a line segment and selects the new end point handle.

Mixing curved and straight lines

To create an object which is a mixture of straight and curved segments, just switch between the

MAKE CURVE and MAKE LINE buttons as you create the object (you can

also press "L" or "C" on the keyboard.)

Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcut "X" to create a Cusp Join or "S" to create a Smooth Join while using the

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL. These affect the way two

line segments come together. A Cusp Join creates 2 independent Bezier control handles that you can edit separately. With a cusp join, you can create a sharp angle. A Smooth Join creates a symmetrical join that works like a see saw. If you drag one Bezier control handle down, the opposing control handle goes up.

To draw a curved line segment:

This is similar to starting a straight line (described above).

1. Click where you want to start the line.

2. If necessary select the MAKE CURVE button (shortcut "C".)

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3. Either click or drag (as described for straight lines) to create a second point

handle, and a curve segment will be added to the line.

A curve segment has CURVE HANDLES associated with the selected point handle. You can drag these to adjust the angle and radius of the curve.

Extending the line

Make sure an end point handle is the selected handle (red outline) and then just click again to add a new line or curve section. Each successive click places a new point handle and draws a new line segment to the selected point handle.

This applies also to SHAPE EDITOR and PEN TOOLS. To use the PEN TOOL, choose

CONTROL BARS from the WINDOW menu and click the BUTTON PALETTE checkbox, or

press "Shift + F5" on your keyboard.

Adding a new point handle

The SHAPE EDITOR TOOL has three modes, depending on whether no point handles are selected (a click will start a new line), an end handle is selected (a click will add a new section), or one or more other point handles are selected (you can drag or change the handles).

The InfoBar shows the current mode.

• NEW: Click to start a new line,

•

ADD: Click to extend the line,

•

CHANGE: Drag or delete point handles to change.

This applies to the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL only.

To the end of a line:

Make sure the line is selected, then:

1. If necessary, click on the end point

to select it.

2. Position the pointer and click to

add a new section.

To the middle of a line:

Make sure the line is selected, then;

1. Click on the line to add a new point handle

into the line

2. Drag the point handle to the required

position.

To the start of a line:

If the end point is selected, clicking on the start point closes the shape (this is described in "Closing a shape (on page 133)” ). To add a new control handle to the start of a line:

1. Finish the line using "Shift + click".

2. Click on the start handle.

3. Position the pointer and click.

Selecting multiple point handles

You may want to select several point handles to delete them, move them as a group, or change a region of points to curved or straight lines. To do this:

1. Select one point handle in the normal way by clicking on it.

2. "Shift + click" the other point handles to select them ("Shift + click" also

deselects.)

- Or "Ctrl + Shift + click" on a point handle to select all point handles on the

line.

- Or drag the mouse pointer diagonally to create a selection rectangle. All point

handles in the rectangle are selected.

- Or "Shift + drag" diagonally to create a selection rectangle. This adds all

points within the rectangle to those already selected.

3. If the line has one or more selected point handles:

- End moves the selection to the end of the line.

- Home moves the selection to the start of the line.

- Tab moves the selection to the next point handle towards the end.

- "Shift + Tab" moves the selection to the next point handle towards the start.

The start and end points are significant when applying arrows (on page 93).

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Deleting points

Select the point handle(s) as described above and either click the

DELETE POINTS button (SHAPE EDITOR TOOL InfoBar), or press "Del".

Moving point handles—Shape Editor Tool

You can move one or more selected handles:

• Drag the handles using the mouse.

• Or use the arrow keys on the keyboard.

Or to move a single handle, type new values into the text boxes on the InfoBar (see below).

Using the text boxes on the InfoBar

The center pair of text boxes always shows the X/Y co-ordinates of the selected point.

The surrounding X/Y fields show the co-ordinates of the curve handles on either side of the selected point.

X/Y co-ordinates are relative to the bottom left corner of the page. You can change this in the "Grid and ruler" (on page 348) tab in the options dialog.

If the selected length and angle of the line. You can adjust either by entering a new value and pressing return.

point is on the end of a straight line section, the left fields show the

Length and angle for straight line Position of selected point Position of curve handle

Smoothing a line

Imported shapes or shapes from tracers may have unnecessary points on a line. Lines with too many points can be unwieldy and can slow down rendering. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 can smooth the line to remove unnecessary points.

Select all the points on the part of the line you want to smooth (see above). Drag selecting around the region in the select a large number of points.

Drag the smoothing slider on the end of the

SHAPE EDITOR InfoBar.

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL is probably the easiest way to

Tip: to make sure important points are not deleted, make sure they are not selected ("Shift+ click" on a selected point deselects it).

Constraining the line

When dragging a point handle, holding down the constrain key ("Ctrl") will constrain the movement to multiples of the constrain angle (controlled from the

OPTIONS dialog, GENERAL tab). When dragging a curve

handle the angle is constrained.

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Changing curves

Using the curve handle

Dragging the curve handle will adjust the curvature of the adjoining curve segments.

Move the curve handle towards or away from the point handle to pull the curve in the required direction.

Dragging the line segment

You can also change the curve by dragging the line segment between points.

Notice the difference between dragging the line to change its shape, and clicking on the line to add a new point handle. Dragging a straight line segment changes it to a curved line segment.

Making sharp corners

Normally, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 draws a smooth curve through a point handle. For this, the two curve handles either side of a point handle are linked. Moving either curve handle also moves the other.

Sometimes you will want a sharp corner, and to achieve this, you need to unlink the curve handles:

1. Double click the point handle,

2. Or select the point handle and either:

Click the CUSP JOIN button, or press "Z".

You can now move each curve handle independently.

Making smooth curves

To convert a sharp join into a smooth curve:

1. Double click the point handle,

2. Or select the point handle and either:

Click the SMOOTH JOIN button, or "S".

The two curve handles become linked and move to opposite sides of the point handle. This may change the shape of the curve.

Balancing curves

Balancing makes the two curve handles the same distance from the point handle, which gives smoother, more symmetrical curves. To balance a curve, select the point handle, then drag one of the curve handles with "Shift" held down. As you drag one curve handle the other one will move to be exactly opposite it and the same distance from the point handle.

Changing a straight line to a curve (and vice versa)

1. Select the point handles at both ends of a line segment. For several line

segments select all bordering point handles.

2. Click the Make curve or Make line button on the InfoBar, or press "L"

or "C" (these shortcuts only work in the Shape Editor Tool).

After changing the line type, you may need to move the curve handles for a smooth transition between curved and straight line segments.

You can select several line segments and convert them all. The point handles at both ends of the segment must be selected.

Joining lines

You can only join lines if both are selected (the point handles are shown on both lines):

Using the you are already in the

SELECTOR Tool, hold down "Shift" and click on the lines to select them (if

SHAPE EDITOR Tool, you can press "Alt + S" to temporarily go

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into the SELECTOR Tool, "Shift + click" to select the second line, then "Alt + S" again to return to the

SHAPE EDITOR Tool).

Selecting objects is described fully in "Selecting objects (on page 98)".

Once both objects are selected, in the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL or the PEN TOOL, drag the end handle of one line over the end of the other line. As you drag the mouse pointer will show a + symbol to indicate that the lines will be joined..

If the ends of the two lines are already very close to each other (but not joined), then you can either zoom in or drag the end point away, and then back again so it’s over the end point, and you see the + sign to indicate a join will occur.

To create a filled shape, drag the other two end handles together. Because you join the end handles, you can only join lines and not shapes. Shapes are closed objects and so have no end handles.

There’s more information on this in "Shape handling (on page 133)". Notes:

• To use the PEN TOOL, choose CONTROL BARS from the WINDOW menu and click the

BUTTON PALETTE checkbox, or press "Shift + F5" on your keyboard.

• You can also use the

• There is an

ARRANGE > JOIN SHAPES menu option which joins two or more shapes

FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL (described earlier) to join lines.

into one single shape, even if they are separated on the page. This makes overlapping areas transparent. For example, joining an object with a smaller circle on top this way, produces an object with a circular hole in it.

Splitting a shape

If you want to split (break) a line or shape: Either select an existing point handle on the line or outline of the shape, or create a new one where you want to break the line. Just click on the line in the

Click on the

BREAK AT POINTS button, or press "B".

SHAPE EDITOR TOOL (see above).

If you split a line, there is no visible change. However, if you move the point handle, then only part of the line moves. If you split a shape, it changes to being a line. Any fill disappears.

Note: "Slice shapes" (part of "ARRANGE" > "COMBINE SHAPES") also lets you split shapes into two separate shapes. This is described in "Shape handling (on page

136)".

Changing the line width (thickness)

To change the line thickness or the outline thickness of a shape, first select the object or objects:

Type a new line width into the text box on the or choose the default line thickness from the menu.

Line thickness is traditionally measured in points, abbreviated to pt. 1 point is 1/72nd of an inch (about 0.3mm), which is slightly less than the thickness of one screen pixel when viewed at 100% zoom.

You can use any of Page & Layout Designer’s standard measurement units.

You can enter the thickness value in any unit, and MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 will convert it to the correct number of Points. E.g. you can enter 0.5cm, and you will get a line half a centimeter thick, but it will show just over 14pt in the line width field.

If you have no object selected and you change the line thickness value, this changes the default for all new lines.

Note: A zero width line is a special case, and should not normally be used. This draws a line one device-pixel wide. The actual size will therefore depend on the device the drawing is displayed on. On a monitor screen one pixel is clearly visible and is never shown anti-aliased. On devices such as printers and particularly on image setters, which have a much higher resolution, the line is almost invisible (zero width lines in imported files are converted to 0.25pt).

STANDARD control bar

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Variable width lines

From the FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL InfoBar you can select a drop-down menu that shows a selection of alternative variable line thickness profiles. As you move the mouse over the selection, an enlarged preview is shown on the right.

Selecting one of the styles will change the line (or outline of a shape) from being a constant thickness line, to a variable thickness. This is great for creating pen and ink style artwork, and is often used in the creation of cartoons.

The line width dropdown still should be used to change the overall thickness of the line.

To restore a constant line width, select the top left corner item from the menu.

The special " has a custom profile as a result of being drawn with a pressure sensitive device, with the pressure sensitivity drawing option turned on.

PRESSURE" profile in the dropdown menu is used to indicate when a line

Line Gallery

The LINE GALLERY can be used to apply a range of line styles or attributes, such as brush strokes, dash patterns, arrow heads, and more.

To display the

• Choose "

• Or click the

LINE GALLERY:

UTILITIES" > "LINE GALLERY"

LINE GALLERY tab on the GALLERIES tab.

LINE GALLERY is split into sections. To open or close any section, click on the small

The folder icon in the gallery window.

Line Width Join type Line cap

To apply any line style or attribute from the gallery you can:

• Drag and drop the required style from the gallery onto the shape or line.

• Or double click on the required style in the gallery.

• Or select the style and then click the

APPLY button.

Line width

The text box at the top of the gallery duplicates that on the standard control bar.

Brush strokes

There are several sections that show a selection of various brush styles.

Dash pattern

This section provides a selection of line dash styles.

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Arrowheads

The best way to apply an arrowhead is to use the STRAIGHT LINE & ARROW TOOL (on page 82), as described earlier in this chapter. However you can also use the lin

e gallery. Drag and drop the arrowhead from the gallery onto the appropriate end of the line.

Alternatively, to apply an arrowhead:

• Double click on the arrowhead in the gallery.

• Or select the required arrowhead and click

APPLY.

Page & Layout Designer has two types of arrowhead designs: beginning and end. If the line already has a beginning arrowhead, applying an end arrowhead automatically places it at the opposite end of the line.

If the line has no arrowheads, and you use the

APPLY button or double click a style to

apply it, then the arrowhead will be placed at the end of the line.

The size of the arrow head is related to the thickness of the line. Thicker lines have proportionally larger arrowheads.

If you hold "Ctrl" down and double click an arrow head or tail style, it will apply it to the other end of the line.

For general information about galleries see document handling (on page 64).

Change join type

This control on the top of the LINE GALLERY sets the style of corners.

To change an existing line, select the line. To change the current join type, deselect all lines. Select the required type from the menu.

Change line cap

This control at the top of the LINE GALLERY sets the style of the ends of the line.

To change an existing line, select the line. To change the default line cap, deselect all lines. Select the required type from the menu.

Brushes

Brush strokes control the appearance of lines (for example, to apply an air-brush effect).

Select a brush preset Select a preset for a stroke shape/pressure profile

Using an existing brush

To use an existing brush type for a line:

1. Click to select an existing brush. Click on the arrow to display a preview

window of the default set of brush designs and previously created custom brushes (if available) from all open documents.

2. If required, select a stroke shape to change the appearance of the line (and to

also mimic using a pressure-sensitive tablet).

3. Draw the line as required, and it will use your chosen brush and stroke shape.

You can also select an existing line in the document then go through the above process to change its appearance.

You can also browse different brush types using the

LINE Gallery (on page 95).

Creating a new brush

To create a new brush type:

1. Design your desired brush in Page & Layout Designer then select it.

2. Click CREATE BRUSH.

3. Give your brush an appropriate name.

You can then draw with your new brush straight away. The new brush is listed in the brushes preview window.

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Brushes are stored in the document. If you want to re-use a brush in another document, you have to load the document containing your custom brush first. Only the default brushes are always available.

Editing a brush

To access advanced editing options for a brush:

1. Select the brush that you wish to edit.

2. Click EDIT BRUSH.

Here you can alter:

• SPACING: Gap between the objects

in the brush.

OFFSET: Distance between the

•

original line and the objects in the brush.

SCALING: Size of objects in the

•

brush.

ROTATION: Rotation of the objects

•

in the brush as they follow the line.

TRANSPARENCY: Transparency of

•

the brush.

FILL PROPERTIES: Miscellaneous

•

options, including color options.

Transparency is described in "Transparency (on page 222)" and colors are described in "Color handling (on page 159)".

If you use a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet, the transparency and scaling options allow you to configure the brush’s sensitivity levels. If you do not have a pressuresensitive graphics tablet, you can mimic the effects using brush shapes (on page 93).

Save your edit

s with the

SAVE button, with the SAVE AS NEW button a new brush is

created.

Attention: Although you can edit a default brush, you can not save the edits into this brush for use beyond this session. The default brushes are always restored on the start of the program. If you want to edit one of the default brushes, for use at a further time, then you have to save it as a new one.

Selecting Objects

The Selector Tool

The SELECTOR Tool is the main tool for selecting, moving, scaling, and rotating objects. It is typically used more than any other tool and is the central tool for manipulating documents.

The Selector tool infobar - left side

Show bounds Show edit handles Show fill handles

Show rotation handles Rotation center Position of selection Dimensions of selection % size controls Lock aspect ratio

The Selector tool infobar - right side

Rotate & Shear Flip horizontal Flip vertical Scale line widths Apply, remove or inspect names of objects Perimeter and area indicator

To use the

• Click on the

• Or press "Alt + S", "V", or "F2".

When switching to the other composite object type, the parent object (group) becomes selected instead.

SELECTOR Tool:

SELECTOR Tool on the MAIN TOOLBAR.

SELECTOR TOOL, if there are objects selected inside a group or

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The InfoBar

All the buttons on the InfoBar are described in the following sections except:

•

SHOW EDIT HANDLES which is described in "Drawing lines".

•

SHOW FILL HANDLES which is described in "Fills".

•

APPLY, REMOVE OR INSPECT NAMES OF OBJECTS which is described in "Document

handling (on page 75)".

The first two buttons let y

ou edit the outlines and fills of objects without the need to

switch tools.

Alt + S

Because the SELECTOR TOOL is the most used tool, there is an additional shortcut that lets you switch to the

SELECTOR TOOL to perform a selection or other operation, and

quickly switch back to the previous tool. If you are using another tool, you can easily switch to the

• Press and release "Alt + S" to switch to the

SELECTOR TOOL:

SELECTOR TOOL. Press again to return

to the previous tool.

Selecting objects

To select a single object, click on any visible part of the object.

Change object selection

Once an object is selected, you can use the following keys to change the selection:

• End selects the back object.

• Home selects the front object.

• "Tab" selects the next object towards the back.

• "Shift + Tab" selects the next object towards the front.

Front and back objects are described in "Object handling (on page 103)".

Marquee selection

To select multiple objects, press and hold down the mouse button. Dragging the mouse draws a selection rectangle, by default all objects wholly within the selection rectangle are selected.

If you have an object in the way which is preventing you from drawing a rectangle because you end up moving the object, hold down "Shift" while dragging out the selection rectangle.

By default, dragging a selection rectangle selects only those objects which are completely inside the rectangle. This behavior can be changed so it's compatible with

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the way selection works in other applications, whereby the objects touching the rectangle outline also become selected. Hold down "

CTRL" while dragging to include

those objects touching the selection rectangle in the selection.

The "

UTILITIES -> OPTIONS" (on page 346) dialog (General Tab) enables you to

change the default setting for marquee selection. So you can choose to have objects touching the selection rectangle selected, without having to hold down "Ctrl" during the drag. In this case, holding "Ctrl" down while dragging selects only the objects wholly inside the rectangle.

Extend Selection

To select additional objects:

• "Shift + click" on them.

• Or "Shift + drag" the mouse pointer. This draws a selection rectangle and adds

objects within the rectangle to the selection.

Select under

Hold down "Alt" to select objects hidden by other objects. By "Alt + clicking" you can step through several overlapping objects.

Select inside

Groups and blends are described later. Text stories are described in "Text handling (on page 178)". Molds are described in "Distorting objects (on page 143)".

You can select an object that’s inside a group or other container object by holding down "Ctrl" while you click on it. This is called selecting inside. The object you click on will always become selected, even if it’s deep down inside several levels of nested groups. When you have such deep nesting of groups, sometimes you may want to select one of the nested groups (a group inside another group). If you hold down the "Alt" and "Ctrl" keys while you click you can do this easily. The first such click will select the top level group (just as an unmodified click does). Click again and the next group down in the hierarchy will be selected instead. Continue clicking to ‘drill down’ into the group structure until the group you want becomes selected.

Note that some operations are not permitted with select inside. For example, you are not permitted to delete the end object of a blend (because the blend would then be meaningless).

Marquee selection does not work for select inside, because "Ctrl" is used to toggle the two marquee selection modes.

Scribble Selection

In the Selector Tool, drag with "Alt" held down and instead of dragging a box, a freehand line is draw. Every object that is touched by the line becomes selected. Hence you can drag the mouse around the page, touching all the objects that you

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Xara Page Layout Designer - 2013 User Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Copyright

Introduction to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Welcome to MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Features

Page & Layout Designer terminology

Document

Page

Lines, shapes, and objects

Bars

Attributes

Getting Help

Support

Europe

North America

Document info

About MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013

Tooltips

Getting Started

Program Layout

Objects On The Page

Object Based Design

Stacking Order

Drawing Tools

Current attributes

Fill Tool

Transparency Tool

Feather

Shadow Tool

Example Graphics

The Selector Tool

Nudging Objects

Rotating Objects

InfoBar

Copying Objects

Right-click menus

Using Templates & Clipart

The Designs Gallery

Adding New Pages To Your Document

Theme Colors

Coloring Shapes

Coloring Imported Clipart

Coloring Photos

Page Background Color

Creating your own Named Colors

Linked shades

Photos

The Photo Tool

Photo Resolution

Text

Creating New Text Objects

Bulleted and numbered lists

Soft Shadows, Color Filled Text, Transparent Text

Text Repel Around Objects

Anchored Objects

Spell Checker

Embedded Fonts

Page Size

Layers

Saving & Exporting Your Work.

Document handling

Starting a new document

Opening an existing document

Selected document and title bar

Control bars

InfoBar

Main toolbar

Rulers

The status line

The indicators

X/Y co-ordinates

Normal/full screen modes

Opening a second window

Changing the zoom value

Using the Zoom Tool

Changing the zoom value using the mouse

Changing the zoom using the zoom InfoBar/control bar