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Impression Hints and Tips
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Here are a few more hints and tips mostly from the editor’s dabblings in
preparing the magazine...
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• Dashes − If you, like me, don’t like to see hyphens used where dashes
should be used − i.e. in places like this − you will probably be sick
and fed up of typing <alt-153>. (Note that the character in “alt-153” is
a hyphen, just in case you weren’t aware of the difference.) If you are
importing text into Impression, occurrences of ‘hyphen hyphen’ will be
converted automatically by Impression into a long dash — see what I
mean. Personally, I prefer the shorter one so what I have done is set up
the abbreviation dictionary with ‘expand as you type’ and used an
underline character to be turned into a dash. The only drawback is that
it’s OK for things like the dashes earlier in this paragraph, but if,
for example, you use dashes in phone numbers, as 0603−766592, the
abbreviation technique does not work and you are back to <alt-153>.
Anyone any other ideas?
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• Find styles − If you want to find a style, get up the find/replace box
with <ctrl-f4> and then click in the menu box to the right of the Find
box and select the style you are looking for. This will come up as, say,
“”. Type an “@” after this − which stands for “any text” − and then
press <return>. This will highlight the whole of the first piece of text
with that style or effect. Unfortunately, the facility to replace that
style with another style is not yet working. If you do want to do any
search and replace on the style names, export the text, with styles, and
then use another WP such as !Edit to do the searching and replacing
before returning it to Impression.
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• Rogue effects − Someone sent me a file in which they had used a
particular font which I did not have so when I loaded the file,
Impression told me it was changing it to Trinity.medium. I did an edit-
style and looked at all the style definitions to no avail. Eventually, I
realised that it must have been used as an effect, so how was I to find
it and eliminate it or change it to some font I did possess? Because the
font had been changed to Trinity.medium (i.e. the BaseStyle font) I
could not pick it out with a visual scan so the first idea was to change
the BaseStyle to, say, Zapf.Dingbats so that anything which was in a
different font was obviously an effect or a style. Unfortunately, this
didn’t reveal the offending effect. At this point, I became convinced
that I had a non-existent, un-removable effect, i.e. a bug in Impres
sion. So I sent the offending file to CC who informed me that the
particular effect WAS in the text and they also showed me how to locate
it... as follows...
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(Actually, the reason that I couldn’t find the effect was that I had
already gone through the document adding extra styles and had covered
this rogue font-change effect with a font-change style of my own. In
other words, the style, because it was applied later than the effect,
took precedence.)
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• Finding effects − In the same way that you can find styles (see above)
you can also find effects as long as you tell Impression that you want
effects to be shown on the style menu. To do this, locate the file “UK”
in the Impression “Resources” directory. Load it into !Edit and find
“Cnf1:” and change it to “Cnf1:E” − that’s a one, not a letter “l”. Save
the file and shut down and re-start Impression. You then will have
effects on your style menus and search on {“effectname” }@, as explained
above.
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• Fast search and replace − There are a couple of very useful keyboard
short-cuts not documented in the manual which speed up the search and
replace. When the “text found” box is on screen, <ctrl-R> does a
“Replace” and <ctrl-N> moves to the “Next”.
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• Keyboard short-cuts − Apart from the ones listed on pages 119ff of the
Impression manual, here are a few more: (some are mentioned on the menu,
but not in manual)
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<ctrl-shift-D> go to chapter
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<ctrl-shift-H> produces a bullet i.e. a “•”.
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<ctrl-shift-I> also produces a bullet i.e. a “•”!
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<ctrl-shift-J> produces superscript
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<ctrl-shift-K> produces subscript
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<ctrl-shift-T> save text story
4.6
• Page number justification problems − Some of you may have had
difficulty getting correct centring or right justification of page
numbers on footers. This is corrected in version 2.09 − well, almost!
The footers on right hand pages were wrong last month, when I was using
version 2.05, (in fact I didn’t even notice!) and the footers on the
left hand pages would have been wrong this month (with 2.09) if I had
not found a way round it. If you try to have left aligned page number
with a right tabbed piece of text, the text suffers a left shift. I’ve
solved it for now by splitting the footer text into two separate frames,
one left aligned and the other right aligned. It’s messy, but it works.
A
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