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II. REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
These sample Additions are for you to use, enjoy and share with other Aldus PageMaker® users. We hope that you find them helpful. They might even inspire you to create a new Addition!
What does Aldus want? We want you to learn about Additions and what they can do to make your work with PageMaker more effective and more fun. But if you’d like to send us your comments on these Additions, we’d love to hear from you.
You may mail your comments:
PageMaker Additions Product Manager
Aldus Corporation
411 First Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98104-2871
Or you could write your thoughts in a fax to us:
PageMaker Additions Product Manager
Fax: (206) 343-4240
Thank you in advance. We are sorry that we will not be able to reply to your comments.
III. INSTALLATION
Copy the Additions (“.add”) files from this disk into the folder “System Folder: Aldus: Additions.” Next time you start PageMaker, you will see these Additions in your Additions menu.
IV. DESCRIPTIONS
These Additions perform a number of useful and instructive functions ranging from providing information about your publication and its stories to automatically numbering paragraphs. We suggest that you experiment with these Additions before using them in real production work. Have fun!
Each description includes a summary of the Addition’s function and instructions on its use.
BASELINE SHIFT (Baseline.add)
This Addition shifts a selected range of text characters a specified distance above or below current baseline. It does this by converting the characters to superscripts or subscripts and computing the percentage of the character’s point size needed to shift the characters the specified distance.
• To use, select a character or string of characters with the text tool and then run the Addition. Enter the desired amount of baseline shift for the text. The nudge arrows add or subtract in fixed increments: nudge=1 point, command+nudge= 5pts, option+nudge= .1 point. Once a character has been shifted, any change in the point size will affect the amount of baseline shift because the amount of shift is being computed as a percentage of the character’s point size. If a character’s point size has been changed and the original amount of baseline shift needs to be restored, select the character, and run the Addition. In the dialog box you will see the new amount of shift based on the new point size. Simply re-enter the desired amount of shift, choose “OK”, and the character will be moved to the desired location.
BOX IT (boxit.add)
This Addition creates frames around or boxes behind a selected image, graphic, or text block.
• To use, select an image or EPS graphic with the pointer tool and run the Addition. Specify the standoff of the frame/box from the edge of the graphic. If “Use current settings” is selected, the Addition will draw a box using the current line weight, color, and fill defaults settings in your publication. “Use built-in settings” creates a box with a black .5 point line and a 10% fill.
• NOTE: It is useful to remember that lines for PageMaker boxes build toward the inside—as you increase the line weight, the dimensions of the box or frame stay the same. Lines build inward from the outside edge of the box. This is in contrast to FreeHand lines which build from center of the line outward in both directions.
CONTINUATION (Continue.add)
This Addition creates “continued on page #” and “continued from page #” text blocks for PageMaker stories.
• To use, select a text block with the pointer tool and run the Addition. The Addition dialog box will give you a choice of top (continued from page #) or bottom (continued on page #). Choose the appropriate option and the Addition looks for the page location of the previous or next text block as the case may be. The Addition then shrinks the text block by one line and places a new text block with the “continued” information in the newly created space. The Addition also creates new styles in your style palette called “Cont. from” and ”Cont. on.” To change the formatting of the “continued” text, just open up the styles and make your changes there, and all of the “continued” text blocks will be updated.
• NOTE: The displaced line of text will be moved and your story will reflow, possibly changing its length and line breaks. If you change your layout, these “continued” text boxes are not updated automatically—you will need to delete them and run the Addition again. The quickest way to delete them may be to use Find/Change, selecting by style (“Cont. from” and “Cont. on”), and replacing the text with no string.
DO MANY (Iterate.add)
This Addition runs a selected script a specified number of times.
• To use, select a script with the pointer tool and run the Addition.
DO ONCE (Iterate.add)
This Addition runs a selected script once without having to go through the Run script Addition selection dialog.
• To use, select a script with the pointer tool and run the Addition.
EDIT ALL STORIES (Edit stories.add)
This Addition opens all the stories in your publication in the Story Editor at once.
• To use, just run the Addition.
FIND OVERSET TEXT (Overset.add)
This Addition locates text that needs to be placed on your page.
• To use, just run the Addition. If there is overset text in your publication, it will take you to a text block with the “text yet to be flowed” indicator triangle in the bottom windowshade handle.
FLOW STORY (flowstory.add)
This is a short-cut to autoflow a story. Run this Addition to flow a text block with text yet to be placed.
• To use, run the Addition with a text block with a triangle indicator in the bottom windowshade handle selected. It will function like PageMaker’s autoflow command, looking for the next available text column on your page, and creating new pages if necessary.
NUMBER PARAGRAPHS (numberparas.add)
This Addition will insert consecutive numbers or a defined character and a tab at the beginning of paragraphs over a defined range in a given story.
• To use, choose an insertion point with your text tool at the very beginning of the first paragraph you wish numbered, then run the Addition. When the dialog box appears, you will see options for specifying which paragraphs get numbered. You can number every paragraph in the entire story, just paragraphs assigned a specific style, or a specific number of paragraphs based on the location of your cursor. Instead of numbers, the Addition can also insert bullets or a character string at the beginning of your paragraphs. Just enter the string in the “Instead of numbers use...” box.
NOTE: We recommend that you save your work before running this Addition. The Addition has no cancel or revert function of its own, and, in the event you accidently select Whole story instead of the range you really want altered, you can use PageMaker’s “Revert” command to undo the re-numbering.
STORY INFO (storyinfo.add)
This Addition displays information about a story: the file to which it is linked, number of text blocks in the story, a character count, the first and last pages on which the story appears, the number of overset or unplaced characters at the end of the story (if any), and the total area currently used by the story in inches.
• To use, select a text block with the pointer tool and run the Addition.
TEXTBLOCK INFO (textblockinfo.add)
This Addition displays information about an individual text block: the file to which it is linked, its position in a series of linked text blocks, character count, area and depth, and the location of previous and next text blocks in the story.
• To use, select a text block with the pointer tool and run the Addition.
TRAVERSE TEXTBLOCKS (traversetextblocks.add)
This Addition moves you to the first, last, previous, or next text block in a story.
• To use, select a text block with the pointer tool and run the Addition.
