Working with Vivadesigner a Short Introduction

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Working with VivaDesigner A short introduction

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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.)

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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 palettes adapt automatically to the current working mode.

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5 Toolbar Additional tools in the Toolbar are for the linking and The Toolbar is used for creating and modifying de-linking of text objects (3) and for the rotation (4) objects. The Toolbar can be placed horizontally at the and mirroring (5) of all objects. top of the screen (standard) or vertically on the left or The zoom tool (6) enables you to zoom in and out on riight hand side of the document window. selected areas of the document page.

1 As Standard the three tools for closed objects (Text, To select a tool, click on one of the symbols or an Picture and Graphic Object) are displayed as rectan- appropriate object symbol. gles, and the Line Tool is displayed as an angled line.

2 Next to each object tool is an arrow. When you click on the arrow, a popup menu opens with additional object tool options.

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6 Drawing objects To draw an object in VivaDesigner, you select the DRAWING A CIRCLE OR SQUARE: appropriate object symbol in the toolbar. Please note To draw a circle or a sqare, you hold down the (Shift) that objects may be drawn not only on the page itself s key when drawing. Rectangles or ellipses can be but also on the working area next to the page. changed to a square or a circle by holding down the (Shift) s key when resizing. DRAWING A RECTANGLE, ELLIPSE OR LINE 1 To draw a rectangle, an ellipse or a line please CREATE A RECTANGLE AUTOMATICALLY: proceed as follows: As well as the interactive creation of rectangles with • Select an appropriate object type and the required the mouse, a rectangle or square can also be created object form from the Toolbar. automatically. To create a graphic, text or picture • Click on the page in the document window and hold rectangle automatically, you select the appropriate down the mouse button. command in the menu Object > Content or use the • Keeping the mouse button held down, move the appropriate shortcut displayed in the menu. mouse in any direction. No object may be selected at this time, otherwise the • Let go the mouse button when the object has the program will convert the selected object. The program required size. will then create a rectangle/square of the appropriate object type with a preset size and position. While drawing you see for control purposes an imaginary line that shows you how the object will appear when you let go the mouse button.

You can see the exact object co-ordinates which are displayed in the Module Palette while you are drawing. We will look at this more closely in the next section.

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7 Creating and placing objects precisely 1 The program defines the position and size of 3 You can make the same settings in the Coordi- objects with co-ordinates. Thus the so-called surround- nates section of the Object Settings dialog. Select ing rectangle of the object plays an important role, as the command General in the Object menu, double the co-ordinates work on the basis that all objects have click the object frame or use the shortcut keys shown a top left corner that serves as a reference point to in the menu. define their horizontal and vertical position. This is however not the case with ellipses, polygons or angled To define the exact position of an object, select it and lines. Therefore these objects are encircled by an imag- enter the desired values in the first two entry fields of inary rectangle for positioning and sizing purposes. the Module Palette or the Object Settings dialog and complete your entry by pressing the e key. Nega- In VivaDesigner you can create and position objects tive values are allowed and have the effect that the precisely using the fields in the Module Palette or the object will be placed outside the page area on the Object Settings dialog. working surface.

2 The Module Palette in Object Mode enables a fast To define the exact size of an object, select it and enter definition of object co-ordinates. If the Module Pal- the desired values in the last two entry fields of the ette is not displayed, select the command Module Module Palette or the Object Settings dialog and Palette in the View menu to display the palette. The complete your entry by pressing the e key. Module Palette accepts all absolute measurements to an exactitude of 1/1000 pt. The measurement unit for the entry fields will be displayed according to the settings in the Measure- If you make changes to the values shown in the Mod- ments tab of the Preferences dialog. ule Palette, these take immediate effect on the selected object, as soon as the entries are confirmed by pressing the r key, the e key or the TAB key.

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8 Moving objects interactively 9 Changing object size interactively To move objects with the mouse: Selected objects can not only be moved, but also their • Select an object or several objects. size may be changed. If an object is selected, its sizing • Hold down the mouse button and move the mouse points are displayed. These indicate that an object may in any direction. be edited graphically.

1 When objects are moved, their virtual frame is dis- 2 To change the size of an object, position the mouse played and you can now place the object on the cur- pointer (ø) exactly over a selection or sizing point. You rent page or on other pages. will see that the mouse pointer (ø) changes to a sizing If the Module Palette is visible, the exact position will pointer ( ) and that the tool tips for resizing objects be displayed in it. are displayed. The mouse pointer, now called the sizing pointer, shows you that you can now change the If selected objects are only to be moved horizontally or dimensions of the object. If you hold the mouse button vertically, hold down the s key when moving. down and move the mouse in any direction, the size of the object will change. As well as the possibility of positioning objects with the mouse, the object position may be changed using For checking purposes you see the same imaginary the arrow keys. Select an object and press one of the frame or line that you already know from drawing arrow keys (f, h, f, i). Each time you press the key new objects. the object will be moved one monitor pixel in the appropriate direction.

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10 Assigning attributes The object attributes described below may be assigned ASSIGN FILL COLOR: both with the Module Palette in Object mode and • Select an object and click on the upper popup menu also with the command General in the Object menu. Color in the Module Palette in Object mode. Hold down the mouse button, select an entry and let go the mouse button. 10.1 Assigning colors 1 With the Module Palette in Object mode, the ASSIGN A FRAME OR LINE COLOR: program provides a selection of predefined colors. • Select an object and click on the lower popup menu Color in the Module Palette in Object mode. 2 If you select the command Colors & Blends in the Hold down the mouse button, select an entry and let Edit menu, you can define your own colors, which you go the mouse button. can then edit or extend. The Process colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) as well as the program-specific colors White 10.2 Assign color density and Guide Objects are protected and may not be As well as the actual color, you can also define the modified. color density of a selected object. The color density Blends are also defined in this dialog. They are applied may be set in the Module Palette in Object Mode to closed objects as fill colors in the same way as nor- and in the Object Settings dialog, ranging from mal colors. transparent to 100 % in 1%-steps. You can change the You can also enter a blend angle in the Object Settings color density of an object in different ways. dialog. (Please try defining colors and blends!) 3 Firstly you can select the density in the Module Pal- ette in predefined 10% steps from the popup menu The Color in the Module Palette (Object/Graphic Density, or alternatively you can enter the desired Mode) shows which fill color has been assigned to the value manually. Individual densities for the object fill object with a tick or checkmark in front of the color color (upper entry field) and for lines and object name. frames (lower entry field) are applied. There is a difference between colors for filling closed If you enter your values directly, confirm your entry objects (upper popup menu) and colors for lines and with the e key. object frames (lower popup menu).

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APPLYING TRANSPARENCY: 10.5 Assign line ends To create an object whose fill color or frame color is Individual line ends may be defined for every line transparent, you must select the option Transparent object. The program provides predefined forms in the from the popup menu, or enter the letter t in the Module Palette. entry field. • Select a line object and click the left line end symbol (3) or the right line end symbol (4) in the 10.3 Assign line width Module Palette. The line width for an object frame or a line may be • Select an entry and confirm with a mouseclick. defined in the Module Palette in Object Mode.

1 Firstly you can define the line width in predefined 10.6 Assign corner radius steps from the popup menu Line width, or alterna- The Corner radius is only applied to rectangles (or tively you can make your own individual definitions. squares). It has no effect on other objects. Individual values are only assigned when you confirm Normally the corners of rectangles, as the name sug- your entry with the e key. gests, form a right angle. With the Module Palette or the Object Settings dialog, you can round off these corners (5). 10.4 Assign line type A line or frame type may be defined for every object. You can select the Corner radius in predefined steps The program provides predefined line types in the from the Corner radius (6) popup menu, or alterna- Module Palette in Object Mode. tively make your own personal definitions (7). Individ- • Select an object and click on the Line type symbol ual values are only assigned when you confirm your in the Object Palette (2). entry with the e key. • Select an entry and confirm with a mouseclick. Please note: With closed objects, frame widths work inwards, i.e. the object dimensions do not change. The corner radius does however – depending on the frame width – have an effect on the remaining inside surface. (Please try it out!!)

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1 Drawing a multiple line 2 Drawing polygons 1 To draw a multiple line, select the Multiple Line tool 2 To draw a polygon, select the polygon tool for the from the toolbar. required object type from the toolbar.

After you have set the first point of the line with a sin- Draw the object in the same way that you would draw gle click, place the object pointer (…) on the position a multiple line. After you have set the first point of the of the next line point and click once again. Repeat this object with a single click, place the object pointer (…) until you have reached the final point of your line and on the position of the next point and click once again. complete the drawing with a double click. Repeat until you reach the last point of your object. At this last point (don’t click back to the first point!!!) If you want all or some lines of the multiple line to be complete the drawing of your polygon with a double at right angles to one another, hold down the s key click. when drawing the appropriate lines. The program will then automatically connect the start and finish point of the polygon together and the polygon may be filled with a fill color.

If you want all or some lines of the polygon to be at right angles to one another, hold down the s key when drawing the appropriate lines.

3 Convert to Polygon 3 Using the command Convert to Polygon in the Object/Form menu, you can convert every rectangle or ellipse into a polygon. Here it is unimportant which Corner radius has been applied to the rectangle.

4 As you can see from the pictures, the quantity and order of the sizing points is changed when the object is converted to a polygon.

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4 Open and closed curves 5 Deleting points To draw an open or closed curve, first a multiple line or With multiple lines, open curves, polygons and closed a polygon must be created. Then all the lines of the curves, the program offers you the possibility of delet- object are converted to curves. The bend of the curves ing single points of the object. can be defined through the length of the tangent that is created interactively with the mouse. Move the mouse pointer (ø) over the sizing or control point that is to be deleted. The pointer converts to a 1 DRAW AN OPEN CURVE: sizing pointer. • Select or create a multiple line. • Move the mouse pointer over a sizing point. Now press the shortcut keys os (Alt+Shift). You • Hold down the mouse button and the œ key delete the point selected with a single mouse click. If together and move the mouse in any direction. Now the sizing point of a curve is deleted, then its control you will see how a curve is created. Near the curve, points will be deleted too. the program also draws a tangent with arms of equal length, at whose ends you will find what are known as control points. 6 Adding points • Let go the mouse button, when the object has As well as deleting points, the program offers the pos- received its required size. sibility of adding single sizing points. The new sizing point appears over the original sizing point and must DRAWING A CLOSED CURVE: then be repositioned. • Select or create a polygon. • Move the mouse pointer over a sizing point. Position the mouse pointer on a sizing point, hold • Hold down the mouse button and the œ key down the o (Alt) key and click with the mouse. together and move the mouse in any direction. Now you will see how a curve is created. Near the curve, Let go the o (Alt) key without moving the mouse. the program also draws a tangent with arms of Now click with the mouse exactly over the newly cre- equal length, at whose ends you will find what are ated sizing point and move the mouse in any direction known as control points. to position it. • Let go the mouse button, when the object has received its required form and size. On the next page you will find some examples – see if you can create these objects for yourself!

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1 Alias objects 2 Creating Alias objects By contrast to other layout and illustration programs, At the beginning of the chapter, we described the rela- VivaDesigner has both original objects and Alias tionship between the original and and the Alias objects. This feature is one of the basic strengths of object. Since an Alias object is always a copy of the VivaDesigner. It is very important that you understand original, there can be no Alias without an original the difference between original objects and Alias object. objects, so that you can work with VivaDesigner more effectively. 1 To create an Alias object, select an object and then the command Create Alias in the Object/Alias menu. Alias objects are complete copies of the original object. The selected object does not have to be an original With few exceptions, which will be described later, object. An Alias object can also be created when Alias objects always show the same content and the another Alias object is selected. This saves you search- same attributes as original objects. ing for the original object, which could be on another page. If the frame width, frame color, fill color or density of the original object are changed, then all Alias objects After the command is selected, the program deselects will be changed accordingly, wherever they appear in the original object, creates an Alias object with the off- the documents. set that has been predefined in the Preferences, and selects the newly created Alias object. The enormous possibilities that the Alias technology in VivaDesigner provides will be easier to understand You can recognise Alias objects by their selection with the following descriptions. points. If an Alias object is selected, its selection points are shown as being lighter than the selection or sizing With the Alias technology you can save a lot of time points of the original. and solve problems, which are impossible or at least very difficult to deal with in other layout programs. These Alias selection points show that the object may not be resized, nor may any of its other graphic attributes be changed.

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3 Selecting and modifying Alias objects

1 As you already know, the mouse pointer changes its form when it is placed over a picture or text object. With an Alias object the Object pointer (…) is always activated, as you can normally only change the position of Alias objects. The size and the attributes of the Alias object are always defined in the original object.This is also the case with the content, unless it is a variable Alias object, which we will deal with later.

This has the effect that you select the Alias object in the same way as you do a normal graphic object, but that you can only change the position.

2 For this reason, in the Module Palette and in the Object Settings dialog, only the positioning options are available. All other options are grayed out and thus not selectable.

A further possibility for creating Alias objects is presented with the options Duplicate and Split.

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4 Duplicating objects The command Duplicate is similar to the Copy com- Ensure that the option Duplicate on Following mand. The biggest difference between the two com- Pages is deactivated, otherwise the duplicates will be mands is that in copying, just a copy will be created created on the following pages of the document. that will be placed with a predefined offset in the document using the command Paste. The command Du- Confirm your settings with the e key. plicate enables the creation of several copies of objects, and allows the creation of copies or Alias The program will deselect the object and create the objects both on the current page and also on eventual appropriate duplicates, in this case Alias objects, with following pages. the offset you have defined.

1 to duplicate an object as an Alias on the current page, select the command Duplicate in the Object menu.

In the dialog that now opens, enter the number of duplicates required.

Then enter the horizontal and vertical offset that will be calculated for each duplicate.

If no other entries are made, alll the duplicates will be placed on top of one another, since no offset is available.

Ensure that the Alias option is selected, so that the duplicates will be Alias objects.

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5 Splitting objects A further elegant possibility of creating new objects or Alias objects is offered by the command Split. All object types may be split, whether they are graphic, picture or text objects. Objects that are linked, locked or protected, Alias objects and original objects possessing Aliases may not be split.

1 After you have selected an object, select the command Split in the Object menu.

A dialog will open in which you can enter the quantity of horizontal and vertical objects to be created by the splitting function. The options Copy and Alias define whether the objects created should be copies or Alias objects.

2 In the second case, the original object will be shown in the top left hand corner. All other objects will be Alias objects and copies of this original.

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1 Working with Guide Objects 2 Creating Guide Objects Guide objects are objects with magnetic character. Every object, whatever form or type, may be a Guide These objects snap other objects to them like a magnet object that attracts other objects automatically. It is ir- when these are created, resized or moved. Guide ob- relevant whether the object is an original or an Alias jects simplify your work, as through their magnetism object. To create such an object, the option Guide Ob- the make an exact positioning of objects much simpler. ject must be activated in the Object Settings dialog. The following factors determine the work with guide objects: 1 To assign an object the attribute Guide Object, se- • The option Guide Object lect the command General in the Object menu or in the Object Settings dialog. double-click the object frame. • The command Guide Objects Magnetic Activate the option Guide Object and confirm your in the View > Document menu. settings with the e key. • The option Snap to Distance An Alias object can function as a Guide object inde- in the Preferences > Pages & Objects Dialog. pendently of its original. Alias objects do however re- • The command Guide Objects selectable ceive the attribute Guide Object automatically if the in the View > Document menu. original object already has this attribute before the Al- • The command Show Guide Objects ias object is created. If the option is switched on later in the View > Document menu. in the original, the Alias object will not be affected. Guide objects are frequently needed to align several The functionality of guide objects reminds us strongly objects on a common horizontal or vertical axis. To of that of the Guidelines in other programs, but the achieve this aim, you can draw a line and then assign it technology of Guide Objects goes way beyond this the attribute Guide Object in the Object Settings di- technology. alog. Since this line is only to be used for positioning the objects, it should not be printed. Therefore you should also switch off the option Print.

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You can carry out these steps even more simply using Objects created with the Ruler automatically have the the Ruler (1). height or width of the page format. These objects are magnetic, but will not be printed, as the option Print Ensure that the Ruler is visible. (2) is switched off automatically. If this is not the case, select the command Show Ruler in the View > Document menu, or use the shortcut To check, select the command General in the Objekt keys as shown in the menu. menu. You will see that the Guide Object option has been selected automatically. At the same time, the pro- Position the mouse pointer in the vertical or horizontal gram assumes that you only need the Guide objects ruler to create a vertical or horizontal Guide Object. that you have created with the Ruler for positioning other objects. Therefore the Print option is not se- Hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse to- lected, but this may be changed by the user at any wards the document page. at the same time an imagi- time. nary line will be displayed. 3 You also create non-printable Guide objects auto- Let go the mouse button when the desired position matically when you select the Grid option in the Doc- has been reached. ument Settings dialog.

The object remains selected and can now be posi- tioned exactly using the Module Palette.

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3 Magnetism When objects are moved or resized towards a Guide 2 To change the Snap to Distance, you select the object, the Guide object will attract these objects like a Pages & Objects tab in the Preferences dialog. Here magnet. It is not sufficient to give an object the attri- you can enter a value from 0 to 100. Small values mean bute Guide Object. You have to define its magnetic that the magnetic power of the object only works over character separately. Further, you should define the a short distance, while larger values allow an object Snap to Distance from which objects are to be at- snapping over a long distance. These settings are saved tracted. in the document and affect all Guide objects.

1 Useful though Guide objects may be, sometimes in practice it is necessary to switch off the magnetic character of these objects. To enable you to do this, The program provides the command Guide Objects Mag- netic in the View > Document menu.

If a tick or checkmark is displayed before this command, all Guide objects are magnetic. Otherwise, the magnetism is switched off.

The Snap to Distance, i.e. the distance from which Guide objects attract other objects, is dependant on the zoom factor.

With smaller zoom factors, the object snaps another object being moved or resized very quickly, but with larger zoom factors only after a certain distance. This lies in the fact that the Snap to Distance is measured in screen pixels. This is an absolute measurement that bears no relation on the zoom factor.

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4 Selecting Guide Objects 5 Displaying Guide Objects 1 Guide objects are treated as normal objects, wheth- The grid of Guide objects defined in the Document er they have been created through dialogs or with the Settings is used for exact positioning. The lines them- Ruler. In practice it is often the case that guide objects selves are not part of the document layout. In practice are set as magnetic, but should not be selectable. most Guide objects that are created as lines only serve as positioning guides. To achive this, select the command Guide Objects selectable in the View > Document menu. To get a complete overview of the document, it is useful to hide all objects that are not part of the page lay- If a tick or checkmark is displayed before the com- out. mand, then the Guide objects may be selected. Other- wise they cannot be selected. 2 For this purpose, select the command Show Guide Objects in the View > Document menu, to hide (or show) the Guide Objects. Please note that Guide objects where the function “Print” is also activated will also be hidden.

Remember that Guide objects also do not lose their magnetic character even when they are invisible. Ob- jects that are switched off are still magnetic but cannot be selected.

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Text To create, select and edit text safely and quickly, the VivaDesigner offers several possibilities for creating a program offers a collection of commands that maybe text object: you already know from using word-processing programs. 2 If no object exists, create a new text object (rectangle, ellipse, polygon or Bézier object) from the toolbar.

1 Creating Text objects If an object has already been created, irrelevant of VivaDesigner is an object-oriented typesetting and lay- which type (graphic or picture object), select the out program. This means that the display of text in the object, and then the command Text in the Objekt > program is done using text objects. For this reason you Content menu, or use the shortcut keys shown in the must create a text object before you enter any text. menu. Within this object the text will be hyphenated, and the object’s dimensions form the edges of the text block. If you want to create a rectangular text object, VivaDe- signer gives you the possibility of creating it with the 1 Any closed object can be used as a text object. The menu or a shortcut key command. pictures below show examples of text objects in which Ensure that no object is selected and that the program texts may be displayed. is not in text or image mode. Select the command Text in the Objekt > Content menu, or use the shortcut keys shown in the menu. The program will now create a rectangular(square) text object automatically and place it in the top left hand corner of the page.

3 If you should convert a text object containing text to a picture or graphic object, VivaDesigner issues a warning that if you go ahead the text will be lost.

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2 Selecting Text Objects 1 With text objects, the display of the mouse pointer You can define individual indents for every side of the changes to an I-Beam (Text) pointer (∑). Only when object and divide the object into text columns, but also the mouse pointer is moved over the frame of the define special options for text Alias objects. object does it change into an object pointer. To select the text object when the pointer is on the text and the Confirm your settings by clicking the Ö button or I-Beam (Text) pointer is displayed, the Ctrl key (Com- pressing the r key. mand key on Mac) must be pressed. All settings may be applied to rectangles as well as to 2 For text objects there are further possibilities avail- ellipses, polygons and Bézier objects. able for object settings. As with graphic objects, you can use the Module Palette or the Object Settings Indents that have been set in the Text > Indents dialog to define the size and position of the object, or menu are additional to the object indent settings you can assign attributes such as color, density, corner made here. radius or frame width. These commands are only available for text objects. 3 Also, under the menu Object > Special, you will The command can therefore only be selected when find the dialog Special Settings. text objects are selected.

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3 Activating Text Content 4 The Module Palette (Text) To enter or import a text, the text content must be 3 The Module Palette (Text), whose functions can activated. As you know, the mouse pointer changes also be found in the menu, is used for fast text editing. according to the object type. It can be selected when the Cursor is displayed in a text object and when the command Module Palette is 1 If you place the mouse pointer over a text object, it activated in the View menu. In some fields you can changes into an I-Beam (Text) pointer (∑). enter individual values as well as selecting predefined ones. 2 If the text content is activated by a mouse-click, a blinking vertical bar or cursor will be displayed. This shows where your text will be entered. At the same time the text object will be displayed with a frame. In the Fonts popup menu, all the fonts loaded in the System are displayed, even when they are not used in In the menu bar, the Text menu will appear. Insofar as the current document. The menu appears when you the Module Palette has not been switched off or hid- click the font name. den, instead of the Object Palette the Text Palette In the popup menu below the fonts, all the font faces will be shown. are displayed.

The popup menu Font size opens with a click on the arrow on the right and shows a set of predefined font sizes. The font size can also be edited or entered manually in the entry field. Confirm your individual entries with the e or with the TAB key.

4 As well as the entry of the usual units of measurement, based on the Ascent height, you can also enter Cap Height as the Font size. To calculate a Cap Height for the font, enter the font size and unit of measurement followed by the letters CH (Cap Height). If the default measurement unit is to be kept, then you just need to enter the letters CH after the font size.

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The Style buttons enable you to assign the font styles: The entry field Line Spacing defines the spacing Underlined, Superscript, Subscript, SmallCaps, All between text lines. the field accepts both absolute val- Caps and Superior. The styles are activated by clicking ues in all units as well as the relative value AUTO, them with the mouse. They are deactivated with a sec- which creates an automatic line spacing dependant on ond mouse-click. the font size. Confirm your entries with the e-Taste.

The popup menu Alignment shows a predefined list The automatic Line Spacing is calculated from the of alignments. It appears when you click on the align- font size plus the percentage value entered in the ment name. Roman Text tab of the Preferences dialog.

The popup menu Colors shows all the colors that were If the automatic Line Spacing is set at “0”, it corre- created in the Colors dialog or that are integrated in sponds directly to the font size only. imported EPS images. The popup menu appears when you click on the color name and hold down the mouse Automatic Line Spacing is selected when the line spacing button. is to be defined using the baseline grid. Other than this, you should always enter your line spacing with absolute The popup menu Density shows a selection of values. It makes good sense if you are using millimetres predefined values. It appears when you click on the as your measurement to work in 1/4-mm stages arrow next to the percentage value. (e.g. … 4,0; 4,25; 4,75 …).

Other settings than the predefined ones in the popup The entry field Paragraph Spacing defines the spacing menu may be made by overwriting the percentage between text paragraphs. The entry field accepts only value. confirm your individual settings with the e. absolute values in all units. confirm your settings with the e key.

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6 The cursor The entry field Character Spacing defines the spacing To edit a certain part of an example text or to enter between characters. Character Spacing can be set from text, you move the cursor with the mouse or the arrow -500 % to 500 % in 1% stages, whereby 0 % represents keys to the required text position. the original spacing. Thus values under 0 % pull the characters closer together, values over 0% stretch out If you want to position the cursor using the mouse, the character spacing, pushing the characters apart. you move the I-beam pointer (∑) to the required text position and click the mouse button once. The cursor The entry field Paragraph Indent defines the distance then blinks in the appropriate position. between the beginning of the first line of the paragraph and the left hand edge of the text object. The entry field Left Indent (hanging indent) define the distance between the beginning of the second line and all further lines of the paragraph and the left hand edge of the text object. Both fields accept only absolute values in all units.

1 The measurement units for Font Size, Line Spac- ing and Paragraph Spacing as well as the Indents are taken from the settings in the Measurements tab in the Preferences dialog.

5 Text entry and corrections To define the appearance of a text, there are two possibilities available. On the one hand, specifications may be made in dialogs and palettes that take effect from the current position of the cursor. On the other hand, settings and modifications may be made to existing text passages, providing these have been marked beforehand.

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7 Text Entry and Text Selection 8 Selecting Text elements Position the cursor in the text object and enter some A text consists of different text elements. By elements text. we mean a word, a line or a paragraph.

To select single text passages with the mouse, position To mark a word very quickly, move the I-beam the cursor at the beginning or at the end or the pointer(∑) over the required word and double-click the required text passage. Hold down the mouse button word with the mouse. and move the mouse in the required direction. To mark a line very quickly, move the I-beam pointer(∑) To select single text passages with the keyboard, posi- over the required line and click the line three times tion the cursor at the beginning or at the end or the with the mouse. required text passage. Hold down the s key und and press the arrow keys (h, f, i, g) continually until the To mark a paragraph very quickly, move the I-beam required text passage is marked. pointer(∑) over the required paragraph and click the paragraph four times with the mouse. If you want to select longer text passages, set the cursor at the point in the text where the marking should start To mark the entire text within a text chain, place the or finish. Hold down the s key and click where the cursor anywhere in the text and click five times with marking should finish or start. the mouse. This process is carried out when the beginning and end of a marked text passage are not visible simultaneously To mark the entire text within a text chain, there is or lie on separate pages. another possibility. Select the command Select All in the Edit menu or use the shortcut keys shown in the menu. Working with VivaDesigner Chapter 5 26

9 Simple Text Linking 1 In the previous sections you have learnt to create 4 When you click in a text object that is part of a text objects, to enter texts and to perform various chain, the cursor blinks in the top left hand corner of operations. For these tasks we have always assumed the first text object. Now text can be entered or that only text will be entered in a text object that actu- imported. As soon as the first text object is full, the ally fits in it. As soon as you enter more text than the text flows automatically into the next text object and text object can display an overflow symbol appears in so on. the bottom right hand corner of the text objekt, con- sisting of a rectangle with a diagonal cross. The overflow symbol is visible when the guides are switched on. 10 Break text chain 5 To break a text chain, select the “Break text chain” To make the rest of the text in a text object visible, the tool from the toolbar. text object must either be enlarged, or additional text objects must be linked in a text chain. With a text 6 Click the tool on the text object after which the chain, the text runs from the bottom right hand corner chain should be broken. of a text object into the top left hand corner of the next text object in the chain. VivaDesigner then breaks the link between the selected object and the object following it. 2 To create a text chain, select the link tool in the toolbar. 7 If several text objects were linked together, the original following object now forms the beginning of 3 Click in the text object that is at the beginning of a new text chain with all following text objects. The the text chain. an open arrow with a round end relationship between all the following text objects is appears. As soon as the tool is moved to the next text retained. object, this is colored blue and the arrow is lengthened. Click in this object and move the tool on to the next. In the final text object, the procedure is completed with a double-click. The tool is deselected by the program.

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1 Importing Text 2 Text Preferences As well as the possibility of entering text or pasting The Roman Text tab in the Preferences dialog deter- copied text, the program allows the import of text files mines how the program should react in the text area of different formats. These are generally files from while working. word-processing programs of other manufacturers, which may also have been created on other platforms. 2 The commands for Superscript define the offset Texts that have been created with these programs and character modification for Superscript characters usually possess some styles in the form of fonts, font when the style attribute is selected in the Style menu sizes and other attributes. or the Module Palette. 3 The commands for Subscript define the offset and Naturally enough, you want to take over these attri- character modification for Subscript characters when butes in VivaDesigner. For this the program provides the style attribute is selected in the Style menu or the special filters. Module Palette. 4 The commands for Superior define the offset and You import text files into the current text chain, in character modification for Superior characters when which you set the cursor at the appropriate place and the style attribute is selected in the Style menu or the select the command Import in the File menu. Module Palette. 5 The commands for SmallCaps define the character 1 In the dialog all files will be displayed that are avail- modification for characters that are converted to Small able for the appropriate filter. Select a file format from Caps when the style attribute is selected in the Style the popup menu that corresponds to the format of the menu or the Module Palette. text file you want to import. If you don’t know exactly 6 The commands for Underlining define the offset of which format the file has, select the entry All read- the line from the text line when the style attribute is able. selected in the Style menu or the Module Palette. 7 The commands for Baseline Grid define the posi- Confirm your selection by clicking Open. tion and display of the baselines. 8 The commands for Styles define an initial Style Sheet and from which font size the text should be displayed in blocks. 9 The commands under Options define the automatic line spacing, a forced line break and the default language for text objects (this is usually set when you start the program for the first time).

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3 Automatic Line Break 4 Text Spacing When you enter text in a text object, the line break is 4.1 Line Spacing made at the right hand edge of the line. You can influ- You can define Line Spacing with the Module Palette ence the type of line break manually, and also auto- or in the Line Spacing dialog. mate it and apply specific rules to it. The automatic line break is mainly influenced by the Select the command Line Spacing in the Text menu. hyphenation of the appropriate language. To switch the hyphenation on or off, Select the com- The command defines the spacing between lines and mand Settings in the Text > Hyphenation menu. The paragraphs. The command can be selected when a text commands determine whether and how a text will be object is activated and the cursor is placed in the text. broken at the end of a line. The command can be selected when the cursor is placed in the text or when 6 The field Line Spacing defines the absolute or rela- a text passage has been marked. tive spacing between individual lines.

1 To set the hyphenation, activate the Hyphenation Absolute Line Spacing is defined with the entry of a Settings checkbox. If the checkbox is active, you can numeric size, which can be entered in all known mea- make entries in the fields Smallest Word, Hyphens surement units (it is useful to make entries in mm in a Row, Minimum Before and Minimum After. with 0.25-mm stages). With Absolute Line Spacing 2 The field Smallest Word defines the minimum the text line is always displayed with the spacing number of characters in a hyphenated word. entered. 3 The field Hyphens in a Row defines the number of hyphenations allowed in a row. 7 The measurement unit for Line Spacing is defined 4 The field Minimum Before defines the minimum in the Measurements tab in the Preferences dialog. size of a syllable at the beginning of a hyphenated word. 8 If a relative Line Spacing is entered, the spacing 5 The field Minimum After defines the minimum between the text lines will be determined by the font size of a syllable at the end of a hyphenated word. size of the largest character on the line. Relative Line Spacing is defined by entering the word AUTO. All fields accept whole values between 0 and 256.

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1 Relative Line Spacing can be increased by the entry 5 The command Baseline Offset defines the offset or of a specific factor for the whole document in the spacing between the baseline of the line and the text Roman Text tab in the Preferences dialog. baseline. With this command any quantity of characters or words can be offset upwards or downwards, without 2 The command Space Before adds extra space the Line Spacing bein changed. between the first line of a paragraph and the last line of the previous paragraph. The setting has no effect 6 Positive values have the effect that the baseline is when the first line of the paragraph is the first line of a offset upwards. text object or a new column. 7 Negative values have the effect that the baseline is 3 The command Space After adds extra space offset downwards. between the last line of a paragraph and the first line of the next paragraph. The setting has no effect when 8 With the command Vert. Alignment the text in an the last line of the paragraph is the last line of a text object can be aligned vertically according to certain object or a new column. rules.

4 The command Paragraph Spacing adds extra 9 If the checkbox is activated, you can select the verti- space between two paragraphs. cal alignment from the popup menu on the right. A paragraph has been created when after a text line a Return (New Line) has been entered. The setting has no effect when the first line of the following paragraph is the first line of a text object or a new column.

If no special spacing is required, enter 0 (zero).

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1 The option Center centers the text exactly between 7 The settings for the spacing and display of the base- the top and bottom edges of the frame. line grid are made in the Roman Text tab of the Pref- erences dialog. 2 The option Bottom causes the text to be aligned on the bottom edge of the frame. To display or hide the baseline grid while working, Select the command Show Baseline Grid in the View 3 The option Line causes the left-over space between > Text menu. the top and bottom edges of the frame to be spread evenly between the lines. 8 The command Widows & Orphans defines the way in which lines at the end of a text object or a column 4 The option Paragraph causes the left-over space will be broken. between the top and bottom edges of the frame to be spread evenly between the paragraphs. If there is only If the checkbox Widows & Orphans is activated, the one paragraph in the text object, there will be no commands All Lines in Paragraph or Start/End can change. be selected.

5 The command Maximum allows the entry of a size All Lines in Paragraph means that the whole paragraph beyond which the Vertical Alignment between Lines will automatically be pushed into the next column or and Paragraphs may not go. If no entry is made here, text object if it cannot be displayed completely in the no maximum will be registered. The command may be current text object or column. selected when the Vertical Alignment between Lines and Paragraphs is selected. The commands Start and End define that the paragraph may be partly broken into the next column or text 6 The command Set Lines to Grid causes the lines of object if the line values are not exceeded. The para- text to be aligned on the baseline grid. If the Line graph will be pushed completely into the next column Spacing has been set larger than the grid line spacing, or text object if the sum of the Start and End values is the program will position the text lines on the next greater than the number of lines in the paragraph. possible grid line. Here the program recognises all the settings in the fields Line Spacing, Space Before and Space After.

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4.2 Indents You can define indents with the Module Palette, or The command Right defines the space on the right you can define them in the Indents dialog. hand side between the text object and the text within the frame. Select the command Indents from the Text menu. 5 The command Paragraph Indent defines the space 1 The commands in the Indents dialog determine the on the left between the text within the frame for the spacing between the edges of the text object and the first line of a paragraph. text. The command is available when a text object has been selected and activated by placing the cursor in 6 The checkbox Drop Caps defines that the begin- the text. ning of a paragraph will include Drop Caps. These are the first few characters of a paragraph, and are larger 2 All values entered are additional to those you have than the main body text. If the checkbox is activated, entered in the Object > Special Settings dialog. the fields Characters, Lines and Drop Cap Indent may be selected. The program does not check whether the values entered are greater than the width of the text object 7 Characters defines the number of characters that or the corresponding column. If this is the case the text are to appear as Drop Caps at the beginning of a para- will automatically be broken to the next text object in graph. The field accepts round figures between 1 and 8. which it can be displayed with the indents set. If there is no appropriately wide object in the text chain, the 8 Lines defines the height of the Drop Cap charac- overflow symbol will be displayed. ters, expressed in the number of lines. The field accepts round figures between 2 and 16 lines. 3 The measurement unit for these fields is determined by the Measurements tab in the Preferences 9 Drop Cap Indent defines the spacing between the dialog. main body text and the Drop Cap. The indent is defined as the space between the last Drop Cap char- 4 The command Left defines the space on the left acter and the first character of the main body text. between the text within the frame effective from the second line of a paragraph. The command has no The Drop Cap height can only be calculated correctly effect on the first line of the paragraph. when the font size and line spacing of the main body text are the same for all lines.

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5 Aesthetic Rag 5.2 Word Spacing 5.1Character Spacing The option Word Spacing determines the horizontal You can define Character Spacing with the Module spacing between words on a line. As words the program Palette, or in the Character Spacing dialog. recognises sets of characters that have been separated from one another by a space. The command may be 1 Select the command Character Spacing in the selected when a text object is activated and the cursor Text menu. has been placed in the text.

The field Character Spacing defines the distance 2 To set the word spacing, select the command Word between two characters. Spacing in the Text menu.

0 % stands for the standard character spacing, which is Minimum determines the minimum word spacing predetermined by the font size. If the character spac- when the styles Justified or Forced Justified are ing is increased, a value greater than 0 % must be applied. entered, if it is decreased then a value less than 0 % (e. g. – 5%) must be entered. Optimum determines the word spacing for all alignments. The field Character Height defines the height of a character. 100% is the default value. Increasing the Maximum determines the maximum word spacing Character Height automatically influences the auto- when the styles Justified or Forced Justified are matic line spacing. applied.

The field Character Width defines the width of a All fields accept values between 0% and 10000 % in character. 100% is the default value. 1% stages.

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1 Tabs Tabserve to place a text at a certain horizontal posi- With a right tab it is exactly the other way around. The tion. Therefore tabs are frequently used for the crea- following text is pushed to the left until it meets the tion of tables. The tab stop has the effect that follow- text before the tab. ing characters are placed exactly at a numerically determined position in the text. The tab options are A special form of the right tab is presented by the deci- left, right, centered and decimal. These options define mal tab. Here too, the text after the tab stop is pushed the alignment of the tab and the following text. to the left, but only until a decimal point is entered. For this reason, such tabs are used mostly in the crea- 1 To define the position and behavior of a tab, place tion of price lists. the cursor in the text. Then select the command Tab in the Text menu. The Center tab has the effect that the text entered is spread equally to the left and right of the tab stop on In the dialog that opens you can define your tabs after a central axis. you have activated the checkbox “Use Tabs”. 5 In the entry field for the tab fill character, you enter 2 To set a tab, click New. the character that should fill up the empty space to the left of the tab stop. In principle any character may be 3 A line is formed with the tab position “0” and the used, but only one single character may be entered. alignment “left”. You can overwrite the value in the Generally this is a full stop or point, and is used for position field. example is tables of content.

4 You have four alignment possibilities: “Left”, In this way, you can define all the tabs you require. To “Right”, “Center” and “Decimal”. confirm your settings, you click the Ö button. If you click Cancel, any settings you made will be lost. With left tabs, the text will continue to be written from left to right according to the tab stop.

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2 Working with Style Sheets To apply frequently repeated attributes automatically, VivaDesigner provides very comfortable Style Sheets. You may already know these from other layout programs or word processing applications. There Style Sheets are often known as paragraph templates or Macros. Style Sheets enable the user to apply a series of commands simultaneously and automatically.

The advantage in this way of working lies not only in the speedy application of different commands, but also in flexible editing.

To clarify this, let us assume that several text passages in the document are to be assigned the font Times, size 14 pt and the color Magenta. Create a Style Sheet for these atributes. Instead of applying the commands to the marked passage individually, you just make a simple click on the Style Sheet in the Style Sheets Pal- ette.

For this reason it is an advantage to work with a number of Style Sheets, so as to complete your tasks quickly in a structured way.

1 To show or hide the Style Sheets Palette, Select the command Style Sheets Palette in the View menu.

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3 Simple Style Sheet definition 1 To edit or define new Style Sheets, select the com- 4 The additional tabs are menus with whose help all mand Style Sheets in the Edit menu. In the Style attributes that the program allows for different areas Sheets dialog, all Style Sheets previously defined in may be made. the document are listed for selection. In front of the If you click the individual tabs, dialogs open to allow Style Sheet name is a symbol indicating the type of you to make your definitions. Style Sheet. VivaDesigner provides Style Sheets for text, images and objects. Most of the dialogs correspond to those that you can also open with the menu. Therefore we will not To create a new Style Sheet, click the New. describe them more closely here. By contrast to the well-known dialogs, the entry fields 2 A dialog opens in which you must enter a name for can remain empty. This has the effect that attributes the new Style Sheet. that have been directly assigned in the user area are With the popup menu Type you define whether the not overwritten. Style Sheet relates to text objects, picture objects or or graphic objects. For this exercise, please select If you want for example to define a Style Sheet that Text. just sets the text color while the font and font size Confirm with Ö. remain unchanged, you must leave the popup menu The new Style Sheet will appear in the left hand field, Font empty and if necessary delete any entries in Size. and you can now make your entries. When you have made all your settings, close all the 3 Under Info and for Template, select None. dialogs with a click on Ö. For Key you can select shortcut key(s) for the new Now your new Style Sheet is available for selection in Style Sheet. The Function keys ∞ - », the numeric the Style Sheets Palette. key on the numeric block and corresponding combi- nations with the o-, s- and œ keys are possible, depending on your system. Do not define a Following Style Sheet.

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4 Editing Style Sheets To edit a Style Sheet, select the command Style To apply a text Style Sheet as from a certain Text posi- Sheets in the Edit menu. tion, position the cursor at the appropriate place in the Select a Style sheet from the list and change the values text and click the mouse on the appropriate text Style in the appropriate fields. Sheet in the Style Sheets Palette, or alternatively press the relevant shortcut key(s). If you now enter more To edit a Style Sheet directly from the document, click text, it will be assigned the Style Sheet you have on the Style Sheet in the Style Sheets Palette while selected. holding down the s (Shift) key. In the dialog that opens, the Style Sheet is already selected and you can The program always remembers with which Style Sheet make your changes. the text was edited. If the cursor is placed in a text passage that has been assigned a Style Sheet, then this will be displayed as selected in the Style Sheets Palette.

5 Using Style Sheets If several text Style Sheets are assigned to the same To use a Style Sheet, select the command Style Sheets text, the program remebers the last Style Sheet that Palette in the View menu to see the available Style was assigned. Only this one will be shown in the pal- Sheets. ette. Thus a new assignment of a text Style Sheet therefore overwrites all previous Style Sheets. The To assign a text Style Sheet to a certain passage, mark appearance of the text changes only in the attributes, the passage in the text object and then click the mouse which differ from the previous text Style Sheet. on the appropriate text Style Sheet in the Style Sheets Palette, or alternatively press the relevant shortcut key(s).

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1. Creating picture objects VivaDesigner is an object-oriented layout program. If you want to create a rectangular picture object, This means that, the display of images in the program VivaDesigner offers you the possibility of doing this via is achieved using picture objects. For this reason a pic- the menu or shortcut keys. ture object must be created before importing images. The imported image is displayed in the object, the Ensure that no object is selected and that the program edges of the object form the frame of the image. is not in text or image mode.

1 Every closed form can be used as a picture object. Select the comand Picture in the Object > Content The images below show examples of closed object menu. The program will create a rectangular(square) forms containing images. image in the top left hand corner of the page.

VivaDesigner offers several possibilities for creating 3 After a picture object has been created it will be picture objects: displayed with a diagonal cross to show that it is a picture object. If no object is already available, create a new closed picture object (rectangle, ellipse, polygon or Bézier object) using the toolbar.

If an object has already been created, whichever type (graphic or text), select the object and then the command Picture in the Object > Content auf.

2 If you convert a text object to a picture object VivaDesigner issues a warning that the content will be lost.

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2 Activate picture content 3 Picture Palette To import an image or position imported images, the 2 The Picture Palette also serves for quick position- picture content must be activated. As you know, the ing and manipulation of imported images and can be mouse pointer changes its appearance depending on selected when an image has been activated with the the object type. grabber hand, and the command Module Palette is displayed with a checkmark in the View menu. If this 1 If you move the mouse pointer over a picture is not the case, click the command Module Palette in object, it changes to a grabber hand (©). the View menu to display the palette.

If the picture content is activated with a mouse-click, a Both the popup menus for horizontal scaling and ver- virtual frame is displayed. tical scaling display a series of predefined scaling factors. Also, the scaling factor may be entered manually in Picture appears in the menu und, if the Module Pal- the two fields provided. The fields accept scaling ette has not been hidden, the Picture Palette will be entries between 1% and 2000% in 0.001% stages. displayed. However, it is essential to keep picture scaling within the framework of the image resolution so that your output will not appear "pixelly".

Both the entry fields for horizontal position and vertical position determine the position (and possibly the crop) of the image in the object. Entries may be made in the known measurement units; the fields accept positive values for offset to the right and downwards, and negative values for offset to the left and upwards.

The entry field Screen Angle defines the angle of the dots in the output.

The entry field Screen Frequency specifies the number of lines per inch.

Both fields can be selected when the image is black and white or gray scale in TIFF format.

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The Information field shows you the file type of the When images are imported, they are not embedded in image (JPEG, TIFF, etc.), the Color Model (e.g. CMYK), the document, but the program saves an image pre- the image size in Pixels, and the resolution in dpi. view, the image name its Path. Thus the document size is reduced considerably. In the angle field, you define the rotation of the image within the object. Values between 0 and 360° Select an image file and confirm your selection with a may be entered. double click on the file name, or simply click Open.

In the skew field, you define the skew of the image If an image is imported into a picture object, the exist- within the object. Values between 0 and 75° may be ing image will be deleted, but all settings such as scal- entered. ing, offset, etc. will be applied to the newly imported image.

4 Importing images If you want to import an image into a picture object To import the image, first activate the object with a with special settings, you can make these settings in click on the object surface. Then select the command the Picture Palette before importing the image. Import in the File menu, or use the appropriate shortcut keys shown. As an alternative you can import your images with »Drag & Drop«, by simply dragging the image over the 1 After the command has been selected, you will see picture object with the mouse and then releasing the the VIVA dialog, in which all folders and image files mouse button. are displayed that are recognised by the program. If you want to import a page of a PDF file containing 2 The types of image available are shown in the more than one page, you do this in exactly the same popup menu File Type. way as described above. The program will analyse the PDF file and open a dialog for you to choose the page If you do not know in which format the image you you want. want to import has been saved, select the entry All readable.

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5 Move image You move the image within the object using the The command Fit Frame to Picture causes the object Mouse or nudge it with the arrow keys. If the image frame to be enlarged or reduced so that it fits the size is moved outside the object frame, it will still be dis- of the image exactly. The image is centered in the played as long as you hold down the mouse button object at the same time. or the arrow key. Activate the image and select the command Fit Frame If when moving the image interactively with the to Picture to see the effect. grabber hand you hold down the s (Shift) key, the image can only be moved horizontally or vertically in a To center the image manually, activate the image and straight line. select the command Center in the Picture > Align- ment menu. This command helps you to find pictures quickly that have been placed outside their objects in 6 Fitting the image error. The command Fit Picture to Frame causes the program to calculate the horizontal and vertical scaling factors in such a way that the image is fitted exactly to the object frame.

Activate the image and select the command Fit Pic- ture to Frame to see the effect.

The command Fit Picture Proportionally to Frame causes the image to be reduced or enlarged in such a way that it is fitted to the object frame horizontally and/or vertically and is centered at the same time.

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7 Run Around The command Run Around in the Object menu 4 The option Block means that objects lying in levels defines the way in which text behaves in relation to above the text object and cutting into it will be run images and lines that are in the level(s) above the text around. Here the text flows around the virtual rectan- object. gle of the object irrelevant of the form. With rectangular objects, there is therefore no difference as against To use this command, an appropriate object must be the setting Object contours, providing that in all four selected. fields Top, Left, Right and Bottom the same value is entered as in the Total field for the setting Object Then you select the command Run Around in the contours. Object menu. 5 The option Picture boundaries means that the 1 The program opens the dialog Run Around. IMAGE will be run around. In this case it is not necessary to fit the frame to the picture. The frame must of 2 In the popup menu Method you define whether course be transparent, so that the effect is visible. and in which form the text should run around the object. 6 The option Embedded path means that images possessing an embedded path will be run around at The option No means that objects lying in levels above the path. For this function you do of course need a the text object and cutting into it will not be run suitable image. around.

The option Object contours means that objects lying in levels above the text object and cutting into it will be run around. With this setting, the text runs exactly around the contours of the object.

3 When the option Object contours is selected, the entry field Total appears in the Distance section. All other fields are not selectable.

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