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PAGESTREAM ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ USING THIS MANUAL This manual is organized into chapters covering topics such as text, graphics, object manipulation, page layout and printing. This is all essential reading if you want to get the most out of PageStream, However, Chapter 1 - PageStream Quick-Start has been written so that you can get started right away. The format of the manual is: Steps for an operation are indented for easy reference: 1. This teaches you how to do something, 2. step by step, 3. in point form. * Important points and hints are started with a bullet to draw your attention. In this doc a asterisk is used in place of the bullet. Keys to press are shown in uppercase, (ie: SHIFT). PAGESTREAM QUICKSTART PAGESTREAM CONTENTS ___________________________________________________________ | ROOT DIRECTORY or FOLDER - X:\*.* or X:\PGSTREAM\*.* | | | | PGSTREAM.PRG - this the PageStream program file. | | PGSTREAM.RSC - this must be present to run PageStream. | | PGSTREAM.DAT - this must be present to run PageStream. | | PGSTREAM.INF - defaults file - may or may not be present.| |* PSDOCS - folder | |* PSFONTS - folder | |* PSTEXT - folder | |* PSPICS - folder | |* PSOTHER - folder | |___________________________________________________________| _________________________ _______________________________ | X:\PSDOCS\*.* | | X:\PSFONTS\*.* | | | | | |* TEMPLATE -sub-folder | | -all font files should be | | | | present in this folder when | |-tutorial docs are stored| | loading PageStream unless | | here. | | separate fonts suitcases are | |-you should store your | | being used. | | document files here. | | | |_________________________| |_______________________________| _________________________ _______________________________ | X:\PSTEXT\*.* | | X:\PSPICS\*.* | | | | | |-tutorial text files are | |-tutorial graphics are here. | | here. | |-you can store graphics for | |-you can store text for | | importing or exporting here. | | importing or exporting | | | | here. | | | |_________________________| |_______________________________| _________________________ _______________________________ | X:\PSOTHER\*.* | | X:\PSDOCS\TEMPLATE\*.* | | | | | |-all import modules, | |-tutorial templates are here. | | export modules, printer | |-this is where you should store| | drivers, dictionary | | your templates. | | driver and color palette| |-if you do not use templates, | | should be present in | | you can delete this folder | | this folder when loading| | after you have done the | | PageStream. | | tutorials. | |_________________________| |_______________________________| * Because of limited disk space on the original disks, it may not have been possible to put all the files in a folder on one disk so you may find another folder with the same name on more than one disk. don't worry about this for now but once you get started you'll want to ensure you extract all the files you need from the various disks and place them in a single set of folders on your working disks or hard drive. * The files in PageStream's root directory must be present on the disk or folder from which you are running PageStream. However, the folders may be placed on various floppy and hard disks as desired. If the PGSTREAM.INF file is not present, then the program will always search the root directory for the five folders. To change the folders' locations and/or names, select Set/ Save Paths from the Global menu. PAGESTREAM INSTALLATION First, before you do anything else, make backup copies of your PageStream disks. The disks are not copy protected. Do not continue until you have made your working disks. Refer to your computer owners' manual for how to copy disks. Hard Drive Installation 1. Put your working copy of the PageStream program Disk in drive A. Double click on the drive A icon to open it Double click on the drive icon for the drive in which you want to store PageStream. Create a folder or sub-folder called PGSTREAM on this drive. Copy all of the files and folders on the PageStream Program Disk to the PGSTREAM folder except the PSFONTS folder. Repeat for the PageStream Fonts Disk, copying the PSFONTS folder found on that disk. 2. Open the directory or folder in which PageStream is saved on your hard drive by double clicking on the drive or folder icons. Double click on the PGSTREAM.PRG icon. PageStream will now load. The toolbox and menu will appear. PageStream will automatically create a font list for the font files in the PSFONTS folder. 3. Select Set/ Save Paths from the Global menu. A dialog box will appear. Change the paths to: X:\PGSTREAM\PSDOCS\*.* X:\PGSTREAM\PSTEXT\*.* X:\PGSTREAM\PSPICS\*.* X:\PGSTREAM\PSFONTS\*.* X:\PGSTREAM\PSOTHERS\*.* - Substitute your drive identifier (C,D...P) for X. The five folders need not be on the same drive. Replace *.* with any file mask. If you are unfamiliar with file masks, use *.* to show all files. 4. Select the default option. This will create or modify the PGSTREAM.INF file. 5. Use Quit from the File menu to exit PageStream. You're now ready to go. Dual Floppy Drive Installation Put your working copy of the program disk in drive A. Double click on the drive A icon to open its directory. Ensure that the PGSTREAM .PRG, .DAT, and .RSC files are on the disk. 1. Double click on the PGSTREAM.PRG icon. PageStream will now load off floppy disk. The toolbox and menu will appear. 2. Select Set/ Save Paths from the Global menu. A dialog box will appear. Change the paths to: X:\PSDOCS\*.* X:\PSTEXT\*.* X:\PSPICS\*.* X:\PSFONTS\*.* X:\PSOTHER\*.* 3. Substitute your drive identifiers for X, (A or B). The five folders deed not be on the same drive. The best combination will depend on how many fonts you are using. 4. select the default option. this will create or modify the PGSTREAM.INF file. 5. Use the Quit command from the File menu to exit PageStream. Arrange all the files on your working disks in the appropriate folders as listed above. You are now ready to go. Single Floppy Drive Installation Single floppy drive installation is as for dual floppy drives, but label your disk A and B, and PageStream will ask you to swap disks. * If possible, try to keep your fonts and documents on the same disk since PageStream will need to load screen fonts and font metrics when you change front types and sizes. * Put only the printer drivers you need into the PSOTHER folder. Put only the import /export modules you are likely to need into the PSOTHER folder. Delete the ones you don't need to save room on your working disks. * If you do not use all the fonts, you can leave some of them off your working disks to save room. * If you do not use the spelling checker regularly, you may remove it off the disk to save space. * You do not need to name the five folders as suggested here. TROUBLESHOOTING "I move the mouse, but there is no mouseform on screen." You have probably pressed the ESC key. The mouseform disappears when ESC is selected because the next key pressed will be part of a keyboard alternate sequence. If you do not want to perform a keyboard alternate, ESC may be pressed a second time to return control to the mouse. "I selected Print Document and clicked on OK, but the printer is not printing." If the dialog box which appears after selecting OK says Creating Page #, then PageStream is calculating the page and will begin printing shortly. If the dialog box says Printing page # and nothing is being printed, then there is a problem. Possible sources include an incorrect printer driver being used, the wrong output port being used,(both from Configure Printer), the cables not being properly attached, and the printer not on-line or configured properly with dip switches (if applicable). consult your printer manual for more information if the problem does not appear to be with PageStream. "I was using PageStream when a file selector opened, asking for a font file." When you change fonts, change font size, or change the viewing magnification, PageStream may need to load additional font files. If the files are not present in the path specified in Set/ Save Paths and in the font manager, PageStream will open a file selector to allow you an opportunity to swap disks or to change the path via the file selector. First, swap the disk, if necessary. Close the current folder (even if a folder is not opened, this will force the disk directory to be re-read). Open the folder or sub-folder in which the requested font is stored, Once the appropriate folder has been opened, click on OK. Don't worry about the file name. PageStream will load the font file(s) and will return you to the PaeStream desktop. "I enlarged a text object and the letters became solid rectangles." PageStream automatically greeks text at large point sizes, to speed up the screen display. (Text greeking means converting text to a relative-sized box). The sizes below and above which text is greeked can be set with Set Greeking. "I changed the color of an object with the Color command from the Object menu, and it disappeared." The screen color associated with the actual color you have selected is the same as the background color. Change the tagged screen color with the Edit Color Palette command from the Global menu. "When I try to run PageStream, the menu bar and toolbox do not appear after program loading." The PGSTREAM.RSC and .DAT files must be present in the same directory as the PGSTREAM.PRG file. The PGSTREAM.INF must be present if the path specifications for the five types of files are not for the same directory. "I've tried everything and I still can't get PageStream to load.I've followed the instructions exactly but the PageStream desktop doesn't appear." There may be a conflict between one of your desk accessories or auto folder program (if present) and PageStream. Remove or disable all of these programs and try running PageStream. If PageStream still won't load, and there are no other programs which conflict with it, contact Soft-Logik's customer service department for help. TUTORIAL ONE- PAGESTREAM ABC's This tutorial provides you with the opportunity to quickly learn the basics of PageStream. By the time you have worked your way through this tutorial, you should be able to: -set up your PageStream disks -move around the pageStream desktop -create a new document -switch working modes -create columns and text objects -directly enter text -draw object oriented objects -select, move and resize objects -flip pages within a document -save, close and open documents GETTING STARTED Open the PageStream package and remove the disks. Make backup copies of the disks first and set up your disks as laid out on pages 1.2-1.4 of this chapter. Insert your working program disk into drive A and turn on your computer. When you see the GEM desktop, double click on the drive A icon. double click on the PGSTREAM.PRG icon. PageStream will load and the disk drive will spin. If you have previously set up PageStream for multiple disks, you will be prompted to switch disks. THE PAGESTREAM DESKTOP After PageStream has loaded, you will see the main working screen. Take few moments to familiarize yourself with it. Across the top of the screen is the menu bar. As you touch each of the command headers with the mouse pointer, a drop-down menu of commands appears. Entries shown in solid black can be used immediately; those in gray are not available in the current program mode. To select a command, move the pointer on it to highlight it and click the left mouse button. To close a drop-down menu without making a selection, click the mouse pointer whenever a command is not highlighted. On the right of the desktop is the toolbox. It contains various icons to change working modes, to select drawing tools and to switch pages. The remainder of the screen is initially blank, except for the copyright information in the center of the screen. When you start a new document or open one previously saved, a normal GEM window will be opened which will contain your document. Up to six windows may be opened at the same time. STARTING A NEW DOCUMENT To start a dew document, move the mouse pointer onto the File menu command in the menu bar. Select the New Document command from the menu by clicking on it when it is highlighted. This will open a dialog box for you to specify the page size and page orientation of your new document. Familiarize yourself with the dialog box options, but for now just accept the default conditions of an 8.5 x 11 inch single sided page with vertical orientation. Click on the OK button with the left mouse button to accept the values set. A document window covering most of the working area of the screen will be opened. This is a standard GEM window and can be moved, sized, scrolled and closed using the standard icons with the window frame. Since the page size is greater than the screen size, only a portion of it may be viewed a t actual size. Click on or drag the horizontal and vertical scrolling bars to view the entire page. For further information on GEM window controls, see the owner's manual which came with your computer. THE TOOLBOX Examine the toolbox to the right of the window. Note that the arrow icon is highlighted. This means that PageStream is in object mode, the mode in which objects may be selected for manipulation. The other icons in the toolbox are used to select other working modes and drawing tools and to change pages. Object mode is one of the two main working modes. The other main mode is text mode, in which text may be entered. To enter text mode, select the A icon from the toolbox by clicking on it with the mouse. The icon will be highlighted when the mode is active. Switch to text mode now. CREATING TEXT OBJECTS AND TEXT COLUMNS There are two methods for putting text on paper in PageStream by placing text in a text column or by placing text in a text object. A text column is a defined area on the document page in which text may be place until it is filled. A text object is an undefined area on a document page in which text may be placed until it exceeds the boundaries of the page. Text columns are used for all large bodies of text. Text objects are used for convenience since their size does not have to be defined, in situation where text formatting and text routing is not required. Let's try creating both text objects and columns to examine the fifferences between them. We'll start with text objects. Move the mouseform over the document window while in text mode. When the mouseform enters the window, it will switch from a pointer into an outline cursor. Note that the mousefrom changes into a cursor for entering and modifying text, but switches bsck to a pointer for GEM menu, tool and window selection when outside of the document window. Position the outline cursor near the upper left edge of the document window. Click the left mouse button and a text cursor will appear on the page. Start typing. You have just created a text object. * There is a momentary delay the first time you enter text in a new font type or size because font information must be loaded of disk. * Text objects in PageStream may have any number of lines, and may be as wide as the document page. They are not suitable for large amounts of text since the lack of a defined right margin precludes formatting, and the lack of a defined bottom margin precludes text routing. Let's now create a text column. Click on the COLUMN CREATION (miniature page) icon from the toolbox and move the mouse pointer to a blank area on the document page. The mouseform will change to a drawing cursor when it enters the document window. Click the left mouse button at the top left corner of there you would like to enter text. Move the mouse down and to the right withoyu dragging it and an ouline box will follow. This represents the boundaries of a column. When you have a rectangle about 2 inches across by 3 inches down, click the left mouse button again to fix the column size. Select the text icon from the toolbox. A cursor will appear in the column you just created. Type a few lines of text. As you type, note the words at the end of a line are automatically wrapped around to the next line. The text you see on screen is the Tyme font, (character desigh), and its size is 12 points, (1/6th of an inch), unless you have changed the defaults. * The create Columns command from the layout menu permits exact placement and routing of standardied columns. It will be explained in a later tutorial. You've now learned how to create text columns and text objects. Text columns permit more formatting because of their defined right and bottom margins, but text objects are more convenient for small bodies of text. However, text objects enjoy one great advantage over text columns which make them extremely useful for fitting text - when a text object is resized, its text is resized with it, unlike text columns where the text size is independent of the column size. Let's try resizing the text column and text object in object mode. OBJECT MODE - SELECTING , RESIZING AND MOVING Switch to object mode by clicking the mouse pointer on the arrow icon. A set of small squares will appear around the last object created or manipulated. These are called sizing squares and are used to resize objects. they indicate that an object has been selected for manipulation. In PageStream, everything is an object; drawings, text columns, text objects and picture are all objects. Since the text column was the last object which you used, it will be selected when you switch to object mode. There are eight sizing squares - four at the corners and four at the midpoints of each side. The corner squares allow resizing in both X (horizontal) and Y (vertical) directions simultaneously. The midpoint squares allow resizing in only one direction at a time. this is useful in cases where the size is correct in one direction and you don't want to accidentally change it while adjusting the other direction. Position the mouse pointer on top of the text object which you created earlier. Sizing squares will appear around that object and will disappear from around the text column. Click the mouse pointer on the document page but not on an object. The sizing squares will disappear from the last object selected since this deselects objects. Now reselect the text column. Position the mouse pointer over the lower right sizing square. Drag the mouse down and to the right. Release the mouse button and the column will be redrawn at its new size. This is called resizing an object. The text in the column will be reformatted in relation to the new column margins. Now select the middle bottom sizing square and drag it upwards. When you release the mouse button, the column will be redrawn. Note that the middle sizing squares allow resizing in one plane only. If you made the column smaller than the text which it contains, the column will have text overflow. This is indicated by a box with a plus sign in the lower right corner. Try resizing the column until this happens. Select the text object by clicking the mouse pointer on it. Its sizing squares will appear. Drag the lower right square down and to the right. when you release it, the text object will be drawn at its new size. Note also that the text itself is resized. This is because there is no bottom or right margin. This makes them very useful for fitting text in an area. * If you drag the text to a size greater than the value set for greeked text, (the text will be a series of black rectangles), decrease the size of the text object or refer to the section on text greeking. Select the text object. Position the mouse over it and hold down the left mouse button. The moouseform will change to an open hand. Move the mouse the selected object will move with the mouseform. Try moving the text object and column. You can select more than one object at once by holding down either SHIFT key while selecting the additional objects. Try selecting both the text column and text object. If you now try to move one or the other you will be able to move the two together. If you try to resize one, you will resize both. Experiment with creating text objects and columns, entering text from the keyboard, and selecting, resizing and moving objects until you are comfortable with these features. If you run out of room on the screen, use the scroll bars to view another portion of the page. These are the most important concepts to grasp in PageStream. CHANGING PAGES The page you are working on is probably cluttered, so let's select a fresh page. The bottom of the toolbox contains an open book, a number and two arrow icons. The book is used for selecting master pages, a topic we'll leave for later. The number below is is the number of the page currently being edited. If you have not yet touched this, it should read 1. The arrows below it are for flipping one page forward and one page backwards. Click the left mouse button on the right arrow icon to flip to page 2. * If you click on the page number indicator space a dialog box will let you to switch to any page within a document. DRAWING MODE Drawing mode permits you to create object oriented graphics from within PageStream. * There are two basic types of graphic images. Bit-mapped pictures are created with paint programs or scanners, and contain information on every dot making up the picture. Object oriented drawings are stored as a series of commands to draw lines and circles. Object oriented graphics may be created directly in PageStream. PageStream will automatically enter drawing mode when you select one of the drawing tools in the toolbox. The drawing tools available can create boxes, round cornered boxes, lines, circles, ellipses, circular and elliptical arcs, polygons, polylines and freehand drawing. Click the mouse pointer on the BOX (rectangle) icon in the toolbox to draw boxes in the drawing mode. The icon will be highlighted to indicate that it has been selected. Move the mouse pointer into the document window. The mouseform will become a drawing crosshair. Position the crosshair in the middle of the document window and click the left mouse button. This defines the top left or bottom right corner of the box. Move the mouse (do not drag it). An elastic box image will increase and decrease in size on the document page as you move the mouse from. When you have a box the size you desire, click the mouse button again and the box will be permanently drawn on-screen. This basic approach works for the basic drawing tool-boxes,lines, circles and ellipses. Practice using the basic drawing tools now. The tool to the right of the BOX icon is the ROUNDED BOX icon which is used for creating rectangles with rounded corners. The tool with the vertical and horizontal lines will only allow you to draw lines in those planes. The tool with the diagonal lines allows the drawing of lines in any direction. The CIRCLE icon is for drawing circles and the ELLIPSE icon is for drawing ellipses. * For circles and ellipses, the first click establishes the center point and the second the radius. * All objects may be resized, however only boxes and lines will be redrawn as the mouse is moved. Other types of objects will have outline boxes which will follow the mouseform, in order to speed up the screen display. If you haven't already tried this, draw an ellipse and resize it now. Switch to object mode and try selecting one of the objects. If you click in the center of an empty object, it will not be selected. You must click on its perimeter. The object oriented drawings may be resized and moved in the same fashion as text objects and columns. SAVING, CLOSING AND OPENING DOCUMENT FILES If we want to continue working on a document at a later time, it should be saved to disk. It is always a good idea to save your work regularly in case of power interruptions or other problems. To save a document to disk, select the Save command from the File menu. A GEM file selector will appear if the document has not been previously saved and named. Enter the desired path and name in the file selector and click on OK. PageStream will save your file to disk. If a file has been saved under the selected name already, PageStream will ask for confirmation to overwrite it. If you do not add a three letter extension to the file name (the three letters after the period), PageStream will automatically add DOC. In order to clear the workspace, select the Close command from the File menu or click on the CLOSER icon in the upper left corner of the document window. The window will disappear. If you had not saved the document first, an alert box would have asked for confirmation to close the window. To open a document previously saved, select Open from the File menu. Select a file from the file selector and click on OK. PagrStream will load the file and will display it in a window. SUMMARY In this tutorial, you have learned how to set up your PageStream disks,switch working modes, create columns and text objects, directly enter text, draw object oriented objects, select, move and resize object, flip pages within a document and save, close and open documents. Ensure you understand all the commands and features covered in this tutorial before proceeding. You should now be able to create a basic document in PageStream. TUTORIAL 2--PAGE LAYOUT In this tutorial, you will learn and practice the following commands and features: -appending documents -changing text attributes -show rulers,grid,tabs,routing, column outline and pictures -viewing magnifications -importing text and graphics -tagging -text routing -cutting and pasting -printer configuration -printing This tutorial's object will be to create the first page of a simple newsletter. The completed newsletter page is contained in the file TUTOR2.DOC in the PSDOCS folder. Before starting, ensure the following files are in their appropriate folder on your working disks: X:\PSTEXT\TUTOR2_1.TXT X:\PSTEXT\TUTOR2_2.TXT X:\PSDOCS\TUTOR2.DOC X:\PSDOCS\TEMPLATE\TUTOR2.TEM X:\PSPICS\BIGWOODY.PI3 FILE MASKS AND SET/SAVE PATHS The set/Save Paths command from the Global menu allows the specification of paths for files. The last part of the file path is the mask. A mask allows only the display of files which fit the mask. For example,*.DOC will shoe any file ending in .DOC since the asterisk * is a wildcard for all files. LET.? would allow any file with a one character file extender since the question mark ? is a wildcard for a single character. Any other character masks itself. *.DOC is used as a default since most people use DOC as an extension for PageStream documents. For these tutorials, *.* should be used since not all the files end with .DOC. To change the file mask for document, select Set/Save Paths, press CONTROL right arrow to move the cursor to the end of the text field, backspace over DOC and replace it with an asterisk APPENDING DOCUMENTS Instead of creating the newsletter page from scratch, a template has been created. A template is a document file in which columns, text objects, and other layout aids have been created to aid in page layout and formatting. Before we can append the template, we must first create a new document. * "Why not just open the template and work directly in its document window?" If we accidentally save the resulting file without using Save As... to change the name, we will overwrite the original file. It is always safer to append a template to an existing document. Use the New Document command from the file menu to open an 8.5" x 11" page, as in tutorial 1. Refer to tutorial 1 if you have any problem doing this. Select the Append command from the File menu. This will open a file selector exactly as if you were going to open a previously saved document. Select the file TUTOR2.TEM from the TEMPLATE folder in the PSDOCS folder. Click on OK to append the template. CHANGING FONT & SIZE ATTRIBUTES IN TEXT MODE The first thing we are going to do is create the title at the top of the page. If this was a real template created specifically for a real organization, the title would already be on the template since it would be the same every time the template was used. Select text mode and click the mouse in the box surrounding the title. Type the title in as a text object. Do not worry that the text may be the wrong size or the wrong place. * The title contains a bullet. To enter a bullet, hold down the CONTROL key while pressing C, then type bu. Position the outline cursor (mouse cursor) at the beginning of the title text and click the left mouse button. Press the mouse button and drag the mouse to the end of the text. The text will be highlighted. When you release the button it will remain highlighted. You have now seleted the text. The text used in the example in 90 points wide and 50 points high. The font, or character design, is Tyme. To change your text to this font and size, we'll use the font/Point command from the Style menu. Select Font/Point from the Style menu while the text is high- lighted. A dialog box will open. Click the left mouse button to tyme in the font selector box on the left (use its scroll bar if necessary). If we were going to use a standard size for the title text, such as 24 or 72 points, we could just click on the size as well. But we are going to use an odd size so we must enter it manually. Use the down arrow key to move the cursor to the Point text field. Press the ESC Key to clear the current point size. Enter 90,50 on the line. (There is no need for units). Click on OK to accept the new attribute settings. You have just learned how to select text for attribute modification and how to change the font and size attributes. After the dialog box has disappeared, the text object will be redrawn with its new attributes. You can now position it in the middle of the box by dragging it with the mouseform. * If you like, you can manually drag the text object to a different size by using the sizing squares. Then select Font/Point. (An alert box will ask you if you want to change all the text in the document or block. This is because you have selected a text command while in object mode and PageStream is not sure of which text you want to modify. Select Block to modify only the text in the text object. Now examine the pint size in the dialog box. PageStream will have automatically rescaled the text size to the nearest two hundredth of a point! SHOW COLUMN OUTLINE, SHOW GRID Unless you have change the defaults already it will be difficult to see exactly where the text columns and text objects are on the page. Use the document window scroll bars to move about the page. The background grid should be on and will provide a clue since the columns have opaque white backgrounds. Select the command Show Column Outline from the View menu to make the columns visible. All the columns and text objects will be outlined with a dotted line. If you pull down the View menu again, a check mark will be displayed next to the command to indicate the the toggle is on. Most of the View commands are toggles and have check marks. For now, select the column outlines on and the grid off. This combination will provide you with a clear workspace which makes the page layout obvious. VIEWING MAGNIFICATIONS Sometimes it is easier to look at the layout of a page all at once. Select the Show Full Page toggle from the View menu. All off the page will be displayed, although small text will be unreadable. Now try Show 200% for close in view. Experiment with the other viewing magnifications. The Variable Zoom requires that you press the left mouse button ant the center of the area you want to view and then drag it out. An expanding box will represent the area to be zoomed in on. When you release the mouse button, PageStream will zoom in on the selected area. Return to Show Actual Size when you are done. * Note that the viewing magnification has no effect on the printed output. the different modes exist only to aid in page layout. Now it is time to create the sub-titles. while in text mode, place the text cursor at the end of the word TITLE on top of the left column. Backspace until it is entirely deleted. Now enter the title. repeat for the right column title. You can also change the # in ...cont on p.# to the appropriate page numbers at this time. IMPORTING TEXT The text for the columns has been created in a word processor and is stored in an ASCII file, (a text file without any attribute codes). We must import the text into the appropriate columns. The first column to fill is the top left one, so enter text mode and place the text cursor in it by clicking in it with the outline cursor Select the Import Text command from the File menu. A file selector will open allowing you to select the text file to import. Select TUTOR2_1.TXT from the PSTEXT folder. After clicking on OK, a dialog box will open. Depending on the import modules in the PSOTHERS folder, one or two options will appear in the left selector box. For now, simply click on the ASCII Text selection. Two choices will appear in the right selector. The default selection, Paragraph has CR/LF, is the correct option for the type of file. Click on OK to make this selection. The text from the disk file will flow into the top left column. It will not be the right size, however, and it will not flow into the bottom left and middle columns. A little box with a plus sign in the bottom left corner of the column indicates that there is more text in the column than can be displayed, (text overflow). TEXT ROUTING first, let's straighten out the text routing, or, the linking together of columns. Select the command Set Text Routing from the Layout menu. The mouseform will change to an empty page. Position the mouseform over the top left column and click the mouse button. The empty page icon will be filled with text, to indicate the a text link has been started. Position the mouse over the bottom left column and click the mouse button. the text will flow from the first column to the second. Now position the mouseform over the middle column and click the mouse. The text will flow into the third column. To return to text mode, select the text icon or click the mouse in the final column and additional time. Text outing is more than just flowing text from on column to another. If you add or delete text from one column, all columns after it in a liked series will be effected. Try erasing a few words from the first column and watch the others. CHANGING TEXT ATTRIBUTES IN OBJECT MODE The text overflow indicator will still be present (in the middle column), because the text is too large for all of it to fit in the column. The desired text attributes are Helv 12 point. Since highlighting all the text in the columns would be tedious PageStream lets you select text command in object mode. Select the top left column in object mode. Select the Font/Point command from the Style menu. A dialog box will ask if you want to change all the text in the document, article or block. Selecting Document would change every text column and object in the document. Block would change the selected column only. Selecting Article will change all the text in the column, and in the columns linked to it. It is this selection that you should make. When the Font/Point dialog box opens, select Helv 12 and click on OK. The text columns will be redrawn. When text is spaced apart so that both the left and right margins are flush, it is referred to as justified text. The form of justification used in the columns is called Character Justification. It places fractions of space between each character to achieve the even margins. For columns this narrow, it is best to place the space between the characters and the words. This is referred to as Auto Justification.Select the top left column again and select Auto Justifying from the Format menu. Once again, select Article from the verification dialog box. The text will be reformatted. PARAGRAPH TAGGING What a lot of work! fortunately, PageStream provides an easier way to do this. While in text mode place the cursor in the top right column. Now select Tag form the Text menu. There will be one selection, Body Text, in the Tag dialog box. Click on it. A tag is a collection of text attributes. If you tag text, it will take on the attributes of the tag. When you click on Body Text, its attributes, Helv 12 and auto justified, will be displayed on the right. Click on OK to accept these attributes. Now import the text file TUTOR2_2.TXT. this time the text will come in preformatted. SHOW TEXT ROUTING When you import the text this time, it will flow automatically into the bottom right text column since the template has these columns pre-linked. But how can you know which columns are linked to which? Select Show Text Routing from the View menu. Three numbers will be displayed in a bar at the top of each column. The number on the left is the column the text is coming from, the middle one is the number of the column itself, and the right one is the number of the column to which the text is linked. If a column is not linked to another, 4 hyphens will be displayed in place of a number. IMPORT GRAPHICS Pictures can not be created in PageStream. they must be created with another program. PageStream has the ability to load pictures from most popular graphic programs. Select Import Graphics from the File menu. A file selector will appear. Select BIGWOODY.PI3 from the PSPICS folder. After you click on OK, the Import Graphics dialog box will open. The left selector will tell you the picture file contains a DEGAS image. The right selector provides two options: to import the file into a picture window for clipping, or straight into the document as an object. Since we want to cut an eye out of a face, select the picture window option and click on OK. After a few seconds, a GEM window will open with a picture of a face in it. The mouseform will change to a drawing cursor. You are now in clipping mode. Use the mouse to draw an box around an eye, (don't make too big). Select Copy from the Edit menu to store the clipped eye in a temporary buffer. When you are done, close the window with the CLOSER icon in its top left corner. Your document window will be inactive when the other window is closed. (You can tell this because the scrolling bars and move bar will not be present). To activate it, click anywhere on it. The mouseform will automatically change to the picture frame icon for pasting. Click the mouseform in the space for the picture. A rectangle with a cross on it will appear. This is a representation of the picture on the screen. The picture is not shown in order to speed up the screen display. To see the picture, select Show Pictures from the View menu. If you are not satisfied with the picture you have clipped, you can re-import the file and clip it again. (A good idea is to leave the picture window in the background until you are satisfied with what you have clipped). CUT AND PAST The copying and pasting operations you used to paste the picture can be applied to all objects. The Cut and Copy commands from the Edit menu may be used to cut out and copy objects. They will be stored in the cut / copy buffer. Use the Paste command to paste copies of a copied or cut objects. Blocks of text may also be cut and paste. simply highlight text with the mouse and select Cut or Copy. Try cutting out a sentence from one of the columns and then pasting it in another location. With the skills you have now acquired, you should be able to add the desired text to the pullout and contents text objects. The month of the newsletter should also be added to the masthead. If you are confident of your abilities to create and modify text objects, you can leave these unfinished. PRINTING It is best to save a document before printing. Use the Save command from the File menu. Select Configure Printer from the Global menu. A dialog box will open. If your printer standard (refer to your printer manual for the standard to which it adheres) is not listed as the output driver, click on Load and select from the file selector.When you have made your selection, click on OK. For you, you can ignore the rest of the options unless you have an unusual printer setup. Select Print from the File menu. A dialog box will open with the various printing options. Click on OK to accept the default values. PageStream will think for a short while before beginning to print. When it is ready, your printer will print the document. Congratulations! You have just printed your first page! TUTORIAL 3--FINISHING TOUCHES The second tutorial featured the basics of page layout. This tutorial will assume you have mastered these commands. The object of this tutorial is to teach you the final skills necessary to us PageStream effectively. Not all the commands and features of PageStream are discussed in the tutorials, since there are for too many of them, but a broad representation are demonstrated to give you a good foundation. This tutorial will conclude the teaching of basic skill and will start to teach you how to combine PageStream's features to produce a professional page. In this tutorial you will learn how to: -change text style and effects attributes -kern text -duplicate objects -change object attributes -rotate objects -align objects -group objects Open the file TUTOR3.WRK. It is an interesting sales report from Toy Corp. Unfortunately, the working copy is quite dull and unfinished and it is your job, as the most junior staff member, to spruce it up. * If the file mask for documents from Set/ Save Paths is not set to *.* instead of *.DOC, change this now. DUPLICATE First let's give the bar graph a three dimensional appearance. Select the left most bar of the bar graph and select the Duplicate command from the Object menu. The top text field is used to set the number of copies to be made, while the other text fields are used to set how far the copies should be made from the original and each other. Edit the text fields to read duplicate 20 times with an x offset of -0.005 and a y offset of 0.005. Click on Ok and the copies will be made. You could repeat this for each bar, but this is rather time consuming. Simply select all of the bars at once. You can do this by drawing a box around them while in object mode, or by holding down SHIFT while selecting the additional objects. Select Duplicate and enter the values now. Duplicates of all the selected bars will be made at once. If you like, try now to duplicate the pie chart the same way. Hints: the pie chart is made up of arcs, not complete circles. Make one duplicate of a body slice and change the beginning and ending angles to 30 and 330 ,change the fill style to solid black, and then duplicate. After you are done, send them to the back with Send to Back (one at a time). Send to Back is explained later. Repeat for the cut-out slice. If you're not comfortable yet with any of these concepts, leave the pie chart for later when you're more experienced. THE FILL ATTRIBUTE select the top left bar of the bar graph with the mouse pointer and then select the Fill command from the Object menu. Select fill style 1,(the white one below the blank fill style). The bar will become solid white. You can select each top bar individually or select then all at once to change their fill styles. While in text mode, highlight all the text after 1992 in the top text object. Delete this text by selecting the Delete command from the Edit menu or by pressing the DELETE key. Now highlight the remaining text (1992) and change its point size to 214 x 208. Or just drag it until its approximately the right size. The size is not important as long as it is large. Highlight the text while in text mode and select the Fill command. Enter 20% into the text field or select a fill style if desired. A light background look is preferred in this case. The text will take on the till style when you press OK. The 1992 should now overlap the bars. To hide it behind them, select Send to Back from the Object menu. * "Why change a perfectly good title to the background date-only title?" This page doesn't contain real numbers, but information to be transmitted visually. Simplifying the title fits in with the rest of the page. FONT SELECTION The font (character set design) used in the paragraph of text is UnvRmn. This is a beautiful font, but it is out of place on this report. Something more businesslike is needed. Helv is the perfect replacement. It is easy to read on an overhead projection or at a glance, yet it is elegant and professional . Select the paragraph while in object mode. Then select Font/ Point. A dialog box will open asking you if you want to change all the text in the document or block. 'select block to change the text in the text object only. When the Font/ point dialog opens, select Helv and click on OK. SELECTING STYLE ATTRIBUTES The success of Toy Corp has been due mainly to one product: the Golbal Destruction Kit. I is important that this fact leap out of the text. This can be done by changing its style. Use the text cursor while in text mode to highlight the three words. Select the Italicize style attribute toggle from the Style menu. The words will be slanted to the right, increasing their visibility. Many style attributes are available, including bold, shadowed and underlined. MAKING A DROP CAP--MANUAL KERNING Drop caps are used for visual excitement and because they give the eye a point to focus on, and thus draw attention to a body of text. To create a drop cap, simply highlight the first letter and change the point size to 30. The size of the drop cap will be dependent on the text it is next to. However, this initially leaves an undesirable spacing between the first and second letters, because the small o should be under-neath the arm of the T. To move them together, place the cursor between them and select Manual Kern from the Text menu. Decrease the kerning (spacing) to -12. The two letters will fit better now. BATCH KERNING The spacing of a body of text is very important. If the text is not properly kerned (spaced) it will be difficult to read. Tables of kerning values for specific letter pairs are stored with the font information, but they are not used automatically. To kern the paragraph, highlight it and select Batch Kern. The text will be fully kerned. Alternatively, select it in object mode and then choose Batch Kern. Select Block from the dialog box asking whether to change the text in the document or block. selecting Batch Kern won't show much difference on screen because of the relatively low resolution of the screen compared to the printer, however, it will make a large difference on paper. ROTATION AND ALIGNMENT It's now time to fix the Toy Corp logo in the bottom left corner. The logo is made up of three, independently rotated text objects. The T and the Y are rotated and placed correctly, however, the O is out of position and is not rotated. Select the O text object and the Rotate command from the Object menu. Click on the top left arrow icon until a rotation value of 90 is achieved. the rectangle on the left will rotate to indicate the angle of rotation. Click on Ok to rotate the text object. Rotation is easy! Now the O is properly rotated,but it is not aligned with the other two letters. Rather than place the O visually, PageStream allows objects to be aligned to each other. However, we don't want the other letters to be moved, so first we must lock them. Select the T and Y text objects simultaneously (by holding down SHIFT key) and then choose the Lock command from the Object menu. The text object is now protected from moving and resizing. Now we can select the O text object. Hold down SHIFT while you select it so that the other text objects remain selected. Select Align from the Object menu. Click on the center horizontal and center vertical icons and click on OK. the three text objects will be aligned horizontally and vertically. GROUP While they are all selected, choose Group from the Object menu. The individual sizing squares will disappear and sizing squares around the perimeter of the three objects will appear. PageStream will now treat the three objects as one group. Grouping is useful for object manipulation. In this case, it makes it easier to change the layout of the page later if related objects are group. Grouping is useful for object manipulation. In this case, it makes it easier to change the layout of the page later if related objects are grouped. you can practice grouping with the bars of the bar graph. SUMMARY Once you are satisfied that the page looks right, try printing it out after saving. In this tutorial you have learned how to kern text, duplicate, rotate and align objects, and how to assign fill styles to text and objects, as you have seen, these commands may be used together to produce visually startling effects. You should now be able to create virtually any document of your own. Read the spotlights throughout the manual for ideas to use on your own documents. There should be some sound advice here about not tackling page layouts too difficult until you have mastered the basics, but PageStream has been designed to be intuitive to use, so forget the advice and go for it! Welcome to PageStream!