Pageplus X5 User Guide
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How to Contact Us Our main office The Software Centre (UK, Europe): PO Box 2000, Nottingham, NG11 7GW, UK Main: (0115) 914 2000 Registration (UK only): (0800) 376 1989 Sales (UK only): (0800) 376 7070 Customer Service/ Technical Support: http://www.support.serif.com/ General Fax: (0115) 914 2020 North American office Serif Inc, The Software Center, (USA, Canada): 17 Hampshire Drive, Suites 1 & 2, Hudson, NH 03051, USA Main: (603) 889-8650 Registration: (800) 794-6876 Sales: (800) 55-SERIF or 557-3743 Customer Service/ Technical Support: http://www.support.serif.com/ General Fax: (603) 889-1127 Online Visit us on the web at: http://www.serif.com/ International Please contact your local distributor/dealer. For further details, please contact us at one of our phone numbers above. Credits This User Guide, and the software described in it, is furnished under an end user License Agreement, which is included with the product. The agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses. Trademarks Serif is a registered trademark of Serif (Europe) Ltd. PagePlus is a registered trademark of Serif (Europe) Ltd. All Serif product names are trademarks of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks acknowledged. Windows Vista and the Windows Vista Start button are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Copyrights Digital Images ©2008 Hemera Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. Digital Images ©2008 Jupiterimages Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Digital Images ©2008 Jupiterimages France SAS, All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Font content © 1981-2005 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved. Portions images © 1997-2002 Nova Development Corporation; © 1995 Expressions Computer Software; © 1996-98 CreatiCom, In.; 1996 Cliptoart; © 1997 Multimedia Agency Corporation; © 1997-98 Seattle Support Group. Rights of all parties reserved. Portions graphics import/export technology © AccuSoft Corp. & Eastman Kodak Company & LEAD Technologies, Inc. Panose Typeface Matching System ©1991, 1992, 1995-97 Hewlett-Packard Corporation. THE PROXIMITY HYPHENATION SYSTEM © 1989 Proximity Technology Inc. All rights reserved. THE PROXIMITY/COLLINS DATABASE © 1990 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.; © 1990 Proximity Technology Inc. All rights reserved. THE PROXIMITY/MERRIAM-WEBSTER DATABASE © 1990 Merriam-Webster Inc.; © 1990 Proximity Technology Inc. All rights reserved. The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine © 2000 Wintertree Software Inc. The ThesDB Thesaurus Engine © 1993-97 Wintertree Software Inc. WGrammar Grammar-Checker Engine © 1998 Wintertree Software Inc. Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) Copyright © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. ICC Colour Profiles © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. PANTONE® Colours displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Colour Publications for accurate colour. PANTONE® and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. ©Pantone, Inc., 2001 Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of colour data and/or software which are licensed to Serif (Europe) Ltd. to distribute for use only in combination with PagePlus. PANTONE Colour Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of PagePlus. FontForge © 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008 by George Williams. Portions of this software are copyright © 2008 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. ODF Translator © 2006-2008, Clever Age, DIaLOGIKa, Sonata Software Ltd. All rights reserved. Office Binary Translator to OpenXML Copyright © 2008-2009, DIaLOGIKa. All rights reserved. Anti-Grain Geometry - Version 2.4 Copyright © 2002-2005 Maxim Shemanarev (McSeem) Clipart samples from Serif ArtPacks © Serif (Europe) Ltd. & Paul Harris TrueType font samples from Serif FontPacks © Serif (Europe) Ltd. © 2010 Serif (Europe) Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this User Guide may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Serif PagePlus X5 © 2010 Serif (Europe) Ltd. All rights reserved. Companies and names used in samples are fictitious. Contents Contents 1. Welcome ............................................................ 1 Welcome! .................................................................................. 3 Key features .............................................................................. 4 New features ........................................................................... 11 Installation ............................................................................... 14 2. Getting Started ................................................. 17 Startup Wizard ........................................................................ 19 Creating a publication from a design template ........................ 20 Starting a new publication from scratch .................................. 24 Opening existing publications.................................................. 25 Working with more than one publication ................................. 27 Saving your publication ........................................................... 27 Closing publications ................................................................ 28 Updating and saving defaults .................................................. 29 3. Working with Pages ......................................... 31 Setting up a publication ........................................................... 33 Adding, removing, and rearranging pages .............................. 37 Understanding master pages .................................................. 38 Viewing pages ......................................................................... 44 Navigating pages .................................................................... 47 Working with layers ................................................................. 47 Setting guides ......................................................................... 52 Using the rulers and dot grid ................................................... 55 Using headers and footers ...................................................... 58 Using page numbering ............................................................ 59 4. Working with Objects ....................................... 61 Selecting an object .................................................................. 63 Selecting multiple objects ........................................................ 66 Contents Copying, pasting, and replicating objects .................................67 Snapping ..................................................................................69 Creating groups .......................................................................71 Moving objects .........................................................................72 Resizing objects .......................................................................72 Ordering objects .......................................................................74 Aligning and distributing objects...............................................74 Exporting as a picture ..............................................................76 Rotating an object ....................................................................77 Flipping an object .....................................................................78 Cropping and combining objects ..............................................79 Adding anchors to objects ........................................................83 Joining object outlines ..............................................................88 Applying a mesh warp envelope ..............................................89 Adding borders.........................................................................91 Adding logos ............................................................................93 Adding flashes .........................................................................95 5. Working with Text ............................................ 99 Importing text from a file.........................................................101 Understanding text frames .....................................................102 Fitting text to frames...............................................................108 Linking text frames .................................................................110 Using artistic text ....................................................................112 Putting text on a path .............................................................114 Editing text on the page .........................................................117 Using Find and Replace .........................................................121 Setting text properties ............................................................122 Using fonts .............................................................................123 Substituting fonts ...................................................................130 Using text styles .....................................................................132 Wrapping text .........................................................................139 Creating a bulleted or numbered list ......................................141 Inserting cross-references......................................................145