Working with Vivadesigner a Short Introduction
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WE PUBLISH THE WORLD Working with VivaDesigner A short introduction Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 5 1 Program start .....................................................1 1 Creating Text objects .......................................20 2 Create new document .......................................1 2 Selecting Text Objects ......................................21 3 Save document ..................................................1 3 Activating Text Content ...................................22 4 Objects ................................................................2 4 The Module Palette (Text) ...............................22 5 Toolbar ...............................................................3 5 Text entry and corrections ...............................24 6 Drawing objects .................................................4 6 The cursor .........................................................24 7 Creating and placing objects precisely .............5 7 Text Entry and Text Selection ..........................25 8 Moving objects interactively .............................6 8 Selecting Text elements ...................................25 9 Changing object size interactively ....................6 9 Simple Text Linking ..........................................26 10 Assigning attributes ..........................................7 10 Break text chain ...............................................26 10.1 Assigning colors .................................................7 Chapter 6 10.2 Assign color density ...........................................7 1 Importing Text ..................................................27 10.3 Assign line width ............................................... 8 2 Text Preferences ...............................................27 10.4 Assign line type ..................................................8 3 Automatic Line Break ......................................28 10.5 Assign line ends ................................................. 8 4 Text Spacing .....................................................28 10.6 Assign corner radius .......................................... 8 4.1 Line Spacing .....................................................28 Chapter 2 4.2 Indents ..............................................................31 1 Drawing a multiple line .................................... 9 5 Aesthetic Rag ...................................................32 2 Drawing polygons .............................................9 5.1 Character Spacing ............................................32 3 Convert to Polygon ............................................9 5.2 Wortabstand ....................................................32 4 Open and closed curves ...................................10 Chapter 7 5 Deleting points ................................................10 1 Tabs ...................................................................33 6 Adding points ..................................................10 2 Working with Style Sheets ..............................34 Chapter 3 3 Simple Style Sheet definition ..........................35 1 Alias objects .....................................................12 4 Editing Style Sheets ..........................................36 2 Creating Alias objects ......................................12 5 Using Style Sheets ............................................36 3 Selecting and modifying Alias objects ........... 13 Chapter 8 4 Duplicating objects ..........................................14 1. Creating picture objects ..................................37 5 Splitting objects ...............................................15 2 Activate picture content ..................................38 Chapter 4 3 Picture Palette ..................................................38 1 Working with Guide Objects ........................... 16 4 Importing images .............................................39 2 Creating Guide Objects ................................... 16 5 Move image ......................................................40 3 Magnetism .......................................................18 6 Fitting the image .............................................40 4 Selecting Guide Objects .................................. 19 7 Run Around ......................................................41 5 Displaying Guide Objects ................................ 19 Trademarks Manufacturer and Publisher Viva©, VivaPress Professional©, VivaImpose©, VivaPosterize©, Viva Network Publishing©, VivaDesigner©, VivaGate©, VIVA Technology GmbH Intelligent Publishing©, Creative Publishing©, VivaIP©, Züchner Strasse 6 - 8 and VivaMedia© are registered trademarks of VIVA 56070 Koblenz Technology GmbH, Koblenz, Germany. Companies and Germany product names mentioned here and in Viva product Tel: +49-261-88426-60 literature or manuals are trademarks or registered Telefax: +49-261-88426-66 trademarks of the respective owners. ISDN (Leonardo): +49-261-88426-67 Web: http://www.vivasoftware.com, http://www.viva.us All rights reserved © 2007 VIVA Technology GmbH. Rights to the documentation and to the object-oriented Layout and typographic design: Andreas Krings Alias concept are owned by Andreas Krings. Original Text: Andreas Krings, Klaus Ferner Translation and additional text: Peter Hannon Limited Warranty/Liability Realisation: VIVA Technology GmbH No warranties are extended regarding the fitness or 2nd Edition July 2007. suitability of the software for a particular purpose. VIVA reserves the express right to make changes to the This document was produced with VivaDesigner 5.1 software without prior warning at any time. No warranty is granted for the accuracy of the content of this document. Since errors can never be avoided completely despite our best efforts, we welcome advice or information at any time. Working with VivaDesigner Chapter 1 1 1 Program start 1 To start the program, place the mouse pointer (ø) • Select in the popup menus Orientation and Page on the program icon and start the program with a Type the respective entries Portrait and Single double-click (single click on MacOS X if the program Pages, to create the page in portrait format. icon is in the Dock). • Ensure that both the options Autom. Text Object and Grid are not selected. (We will work first with a blank page) 2 Create new document • Confirm your settings by clicking the Ö button. 2 After the program has been started, the “Welcome” dialog will appear. Click the mouse on “New Document”. If this dialog is switched off, or if you have already 3 Save document worked on one document and want to create a new To save a new document, select the command Save as one, select the command New from the File menu. in the File menu. 3 When this command is selected, the dialog 4 In this case the program opens a dialog, in which Document Settings appears. In this dialog, you enter you can now enter the document name and its desti- the settings for the page format: nation. Save the file in your personal folder. • From the popup menu Standard select one of the Please give your file a meaningful name. predefined page formats (for simplicity’s sake A4 or (This can be very helpful when searching for a file that US Letter) or enter your own values in the fields has got “lost”, by being unintentionally saved or Height and Width. moved into another folder.) 1 3 2 4 Working with VivaDesigner Chapter 1 2 4 Objects VivaDesigner is an object or frame-oriented layout pro- This technology always shows you which mode you are gram. in and which commands you may currently select. Here are a couple of examples: This means: to enter text, load images or create graph- ics, you must draw or create objects. The objects cre- 1 If you put the mouse pointer on a text object, it will ated may be altered after drawing. You can change all change from an arrow pointer (ø) to an I-beam objects in their form, level, type, color and many other pointer (∑). This means that you can switch to text attributes. mode with a mouse-click and edit the text. A further basic principle of VivaDesigner is the separa- 2 If you put the mouse pointer on a picture object, it tion of form and function. All forms of closed objects, will change from an arrow pointer (ø) to a grabber whether rectangular, ellipse, polygon or bézier objects, hand (©). This means that you can switch to image can be assigned text, graphic or image attributes. Thus mode with a mouse-click and edit the picture. a graphic object may be converted to a text object and later for example to an image object. Thus it is irrele- 34 If you put the mouse pointer on a graphic object vant which object tool is used. If for example you want or exactly on the object frame of a text or picture to work with the image object tool but are using the object, it will change to a star-shaped object pointer ( ). text object tool by mistake, you don’t need to delete With a mouse-click you not only activate the object, the object and create a new one. but also switch to graphic/object mode and immedi- In the menu Object > Content > Graphic (or > Text ately have all object-editing tools available. or > Picture) or with the appropriate shortcuts, you can change the function. 5 You also always change to graphic/object mode when you click in text or image mode and hold down Further, VivaDesigner has a context-sensitive interface. the Command key (Mac) or the control key (PC). This means that with VivaDesigner you never need to change tools, as all mouse pointers, menus and pal- ettes adapt automatically to the current