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USING FRAMES
Text and pictures in a document are
always placed in frames. You can
have up to 100 frames per page, and
up to 8,192 in a single document.
DISPLAYING THE RULERS
Use the rulers to help you draw and
position frames accurately on the
page. To display the rulers, choose
Show rulers in the Options menu.
This command is marked when the
rulers are displayed.
CHANGING THE RULER SPACING
Select Ruler spacing in the Options
menu to change the unit of
measurement used in your document.
The units available are:
* Picas and points
* Centimetres
* Inches and tenths
* Inches and eighths.
SETTING THE COLUMN GUIDES
Column guides are dotted boxes in
the work area intended to help you
draw and position frames accurately.
To set the column guides, choose Set
column guides in the Options menu.
When the form appears, select up to
9 column guides, and specify the
amount of space to be left around
and between them.
DISPLAYING FRAMES AND COLUMN GUIDES
Choose Show frames & columns in
the Options menu to display the
frames and column guides. This
command is marked when frames and
column guides are displayed.
SNAPPING TO THE COLUMN GUIDES
Frames automatically ⌐jump¬ into
position (snap) when drawn, moved or
sized. The left and right edges of a
frame will snap to the column
guides, and the top and bottom edges
will snap to the nearest ruler unit.
Choose Snap to guides in the Options
menu to turn snapping off. This
command is marked when snapping is
turned on.
DRAWING FRAMES
Draw frames by switching to Frame
mode (by clicking on the frame icon
in the toolkit) and dragging the
mouse to the right and down.
SELECTING FRAMES
Select a frame by clicking once
inside it with the mouse. Eight
"handles" will appear aroung the
edge of the frame, indicating that
it is selected.
To deselect a frame, click outside
it.
GROUPING FRAMES (1)
Select more than one frame at a time
by holding down [Shift] and either:
* Clicking inside each frame in
turn with the mouse, or
* Dragging a box around the frames
to be selected.
GROUPING FRAMES (2)
Click on Select all in the Edit menu
to select all the frames on the
current page.
A box will be drawn around the group
so that the whole group can be cut,
copied, pasted, moved or resized.
The individual frames in a group are
marked by small black handles at
their corners.
GROUPING FRAMES (3)
To deselect a frame within a group,
hold down [Shift] and click on the
required frame. To deselect a whole
group, click outside of the box
surrounding the group.
MOVING FRAMES
To move a frame or group of frames,
select the frame or group by
clicking inside it then hold the
mouse button down inside the frame
or group and drag it to the position
you want.
SIZING FRAMES
To size a frame or group of frames,
first select it. Drag a corner
handle to size the frame in any
direction, and a centre handle to
size it vertically or horizontally.
STACKING FRAMES
Use Bring to front and Send to back
in the Page menu to stack frames in
the desired order.
CUTTING FRAMES
To cut a frame or group of frames
out of the document and onto the
clipboard, first select the frame
then click on Cut in the Edit menu.
COPYING FRAMES
To copy a selected frame or group of
frames to the clipboard, click on
Copy in the Edit menu.
PASTING FRAMES
To paste a frame or group of frames
into a document (which need not be
the document or page it was cut
from), click on Paste in the Edit
menu.
FRAME BORDERS
Choose Frame border in the Options
menu to specify a border for the
selected frame. You can choose from
four different styles and have
borders on any or none of the frame
sides.
FRAME TINTS
Select a frame and choose Frame tint
in the Options menu to choose from 8
opaque or clear tints.
NOTE: Frame borders and tints cannot
be applied to groups of frames.
REPELLING TEXT (1)
When you put a frame over another
one which has text in it, the text
is pushed aside by the top frame.
To specify an area of horizontal and
vertical "padding" around the frame,
select the frame and click on Repel
text in the Options menu. Enter the
amount of vertical and horizontal
space you require.
REPELLING TEXT (2)
To allow text to flow behind a
frame, select the frame and click on
Repel text in the Options menu to
display the Repel Text form. Click
on Repel text this frame Off to turn
repel text off for the selected
frame.
DEFINING FRAME BORDERS (1)
You can also run text around an
irregularly-shaped frame. Select
Repel text in the Options menu and
click on one of the Define border
buttons to define the left or right
border.
Define the shape of the border by
drawing a polyline from the middle
of the top edge of the frame to the
middle of the bottom edge.
DEFINING FRAME BORDERS (2)
Press [Backspace] to delete the last
point you have drawn.
Press [Esc] to delete the whole
polyline and start again.
Double-click with the mouse or press
[Return] to finish the polyline.
You can repeat the process for the
opposite border of the frame.
FLOWING TEXT INTO IRREGULAR FRAMES
You can flow text into an
irregularly-shaped frame. Select a
frame and define the left and right-
hand borders using the Define border
options on the Repel text form.
Once you have defined your borders,
click on the name of the text file
in the browser and the text will
flow into the irregular frame.