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-- card: 11693 from stack: in.'90AMUG News‚Ñ¢
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Informed Designer
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...................................Lea Bromley
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printer or an ImageWriter is supported. Spot color is available if your form needs it. The section describing color handling was
thorough, including crop marks, registration marks and color names.
A fair amount of time is needed to
learn about “the Drawing”, setup, size,
offset and so forth. This is a basic
building block of starting to design your
form and I would not recommend
skipping this part. You might feel brave
about putting in your lines and check
boxes and titles, but this “Drawing”
controls the window where you will be
working.
The numbered pages of a form are the
ones you actually fill out and print. Each
form can have between 1 and 99
numbered pages, with each page having
as many as 99 parts (i.e., Customer Copy,
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Accounting Copy, Packing Slip). Creating
multipart pages is as simple as choosing
the Multipart command from the File
menu.
One new concept was that of the “work
page”. There is one work page for each
numbered page; but the work page does
not print, and whatever you place on the
work page does not show on any other
page of the form. The manual indicates
that there are two common uses of the
work page: as a place to put instructions
or information useful to someone filling
out the form, and as a place to put cells
that should not be printed with the rest of
the form (such as one required for
calculations).
Every page has
a master page. It
functions much like