Contents 1. Welcome ............................................................................... 1 Welcome! ...................................................................................................... 3 New features ............................................................................................... 4 Installation ................................................................................................... 9 2. Getting Started ................................................................ 11 Startup Assistant .................................................................................... 13 Creating a publication from a design template ......................... 15 Starting a new publication from scratch....................................... 19 Opening existing publications.......................................................... 20 Saving your publication ...................................................................... 22 3. Pages ................................................................................... 23 Setting up a publication ...................................................................... 25 Adding, removing, and rearranging pages.................................. 28 Understanding master pages ............................................................ 30 Using page numbering ........................................................................ 35 Navigating pages ................................................................................... 36 Viewing pages ......................................................................................... 37 Working with layers............................................................................... 38 4. Assets for Creativity ........................................................ 41 Using assets .............................................................................................. 43 Browsing .................................................................................................... 45 Contents 5. Manipulating Objects ..................................................... 49 Selecting an object ................................................................................ 51 Selecting multiple objects .................................................................. 52 Creating groups ...................................................................................... 53 Copying, pasting, and duplicating objects .................................. 54 Moving objects ....................................................................................... 55 Resizing objects ...................................................................................... 55 Ordering objects .................................................................................... 57 Aligning and distributing objects .................................................... 57 Rotating an object ................................................................................. 60 Anchoring objects to text ................................................................... 61 Updating and saving defaults ........................................................... 63 6. Text ....................................................................................... 65 Understanding text frames ................................................................ 67 Fitting text to frames ............................................................................ 74 Linking text frames ................................................................................ 76 Using artistic text ................................................................................... 78 Putting text on a path .......................................................................... 80 Editing text on the page ...................................................................... 82 Setting text properties ......................................................................... 84 Using fonts ................................................................................................ 85 Using text styles ...................................................................................... 87 Wrapping text.......................................................................................... 91 Creating a bulleted or numbered list ............................................. 92 Inserting user details ............................................................................ 95 Contents 7. Tables, Charts, and Calendars ..................................... 97 Creating tables ........................................................................................ 99 Flowing tables ....................................................................................... 100 Using charts ............................................................................................ 103 Inserting a calendar ............................................................................. 111 8. Pictures ............................................................................. 113 Adding picture frames ....................................................................... 115 Adding pictures .................................................................................... 119 Cropping pictures ................................................................................ 121 Using Cutout Studio............................................................................ 124 Adjustments and effects ................................................................... 127 9. Lines and Shapes ........................................................... 129 Drawing and editing lines ................................................................ 131 Drawing and editing shapes ............................................................ 132 10. Effects and Styles ........................................................... 137 Applying effects .................................................................................... 139 Using the Shadow Tool ...................................................................... 144 Using object styles ............................................................................... 145 11. Colour, Fills, and Transparency ................................. 147 Applying solid fills ................................................................................ 149 Using colour schemes ........................................................................ 151 Gradient and bitmap fills .................................................................. 154 Working with transparency .............................................................. 160 Understanding blend modes .......................................................... 164 Contents 12. Publishing and Sharing ............................................... 167 Preflight check ...................................................................................... 169 Interactive Print/PDF Preview ......................................................... 172 Printing basics ....................................................................................... 175 Publishing PDF files ............................................................................. 177 Creating a PDF bookmark list .......................................................... 180 Creating a PDF slideshow ................................................................. 181 Publishing as eBooks .......................................................................... 183 Exporting as a picture......................................................................... 188 13. Additional Information ............................................... 191 Contacting Serif .................................................................................... 193 Credits ...................................................................................................... 194 14. Index .................................................................................. 197 Welcome 2 Welcome Welcome 3 Welcome! Welcome to PagePlus X7, the award-winning Desktop Publishing (DTP) solution from Serif. PagePlus is the easiest way to get superior publishing results, whether on your desktop or via professional printing. It's simple for anyone to create, publish and share their designs as outstanding printed documents, stunning PDFs, PDF slideshows, tables/charts, modern eBooks or via web page. To make life so much easier, PagePlus comes with an impressive selection of design templates, creative content, and styles for you to use. As a result, publishing to a professional standard is easily achievable for experienced and inexperienced users alike! You'll also be able to reuse existing content by importing PDF documents and word processing documents. On the flipside, you'll be able to export drawn objects to all the latest graphic file formats. PagePlus X7 doesn't stop at superior publishing. Its range of design studios makes PagePlus stand out from the crowd—Cutout Studio for cutting pictures out from their backgrounds, LogoStudio for custom logo design, and PhotoLab for powerful image adjustment and effect combinations. You simply cannot afford to miss them! Upgrading? If you've upgraded from a previous version, this new edition of PagePlus includes a host of exciting new features which keeps PagePlus ahead of its competitors and at a fraction of the price! We hope you also enjoy