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Earlier DrawPlus files are not supported, and multi-page DrawPlus X8 drawings should be saved with previews to allow all pages to be imported. QR Codes. Text Spacing Improvements. New options on the Paragraph formatting dialog allow space above and below paragraphs to be ignored for adjacent text styles, added instead of using the highest value, and to honour the space before a paragraph at the start of a text frame.

As in DrawPlus, objects can now show live feedback when being resized. Feedback for lines is shown only after placing them. In previous versions the step was 0. Although it is not supported by Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, or Safari browsers its potential for reducing bandwidth makes it an attractive proposition for Web masters. On my web sites I provide a magnifying glass icon that users can click to view a high resolution WebP version.

They can be viewed and edited in IrfanView if your browser does not support them. Opera and Vivaldi are ideal for viewing very large WebP images using fast scroll with the middle mouse button. This feature automatically aligns the baselines of text on facing pages or in multiple columns, for a neater page layout. Individual text frames can have their own independent baseline grid for aligning of baselines in columns within text frames. The Colour Tab has been enhanced with a new mode to select colours from a picture.

The Swatches Tab can be cleaned up or updated from the publication. The Colour Replacer can replace one colour with another. Instead of Edit in PhotoPlus, the Image context toolbar now shows a drop list of programs that may be used to edit an image. PhotoPlus will be added by default if it is installed. PhotoPlus will open in the background. The latest specification for electronic publications is better suited to fixed layout publications. Users can now choose between fixed and free-flowing formats.

PagePlus is now designed for use on High resolution displays. Icons sets in different sizes can be chosen in Tools, Options. As displays have more pixels, icons and menus become tiny when using older software. Changing the Windows DPI settings will now automatically use larger icons with more pixels.

The most frequently used paragraph formatting options are now available from a Tab on the right of the workspace. This adds nothing that cannot be done from the Format, paragraph dialog. In general, it is better to use styles to apply formatting changes globally. However, when you do want to change a setting for the current paragraph or a few paragraphs only, this makes it a bit quicker.

This is one of those long awaited features requested by professional users. It is especially useful for those who are publishing newspapers and magazines for placing advertisements. PDF files can be placed exactly as they are provided without the problems of missing fonts, etc. The text frame properties dialog has an option to add column rules to the gutter to the right of the current column. Different line styles can be applied using the line tab after selecting the gutter — I have used a fancy line ending too with Internal Line Endings.

The table format editor in previous versions has been updated with a more accessible method for editing, saving, and applying table formats. A bit of code to form a bridge between the bit version of PagePlus and bit scanner drivers will enable more scanners to work with bit PagePlus.

The bit version supports more RAM, which may help when working with large or image-heavy publications. Some users may have problems with finding suitable drivers for scanners. Scan images in another application and insert them using the Insert Picture route. That way, images can be compressed properly, and then linked. Creative professionals may find a use for it to save opening another application. Blend Modes are on the Colour Studio Tab. It is now possible to insert the usual chart types into PagePlus, and link them to a table or to tabular data.

The Charts category of the Styles tab contains a range of standard chart styles, to which user-defined chart styles can be added. The chart title, series titles, and labels all use the Chart Body paragraph text style, but user-defined styles can be applied to each text group. Elements within the chart can be resized, moved, and rotated. The illustrated chart has its title moved to the left, and the series text moved to the right.

The entire chart object has a drop shadow applied from the Effects Tab. The swatches tab now contains plasma fills, radial fills, square, and three or four colour fills. Again, not something that is important to a page layout program, but creative professionals will appreciate not having to open another application to creative graphics to import into PagePlus.

PagePlus X7 added an Export as Picture dialog like DrawPlus, which generates a preview before exporting, and provides options for selecting Super Sampling, Compression, Colour-depth, etc.

On older PCs this extra step slows down the export of pictures if you already know the settings that you want to use. Because this image is just text and a gradient fill, the PNG image is of a similar size, but sharper than the JPG image, where artefacts can be clearly seen at increased zoom levels.

PagePlus offers the option to export to SVG — a vector format designed for the web. PPX9 adds support for EPS Encapsulated Postscript , and WebP , and if the image has a portrait aspect ratio two previews will be tiled vertically, but if it has a landscape aspect ratio they will be tiled horizontally.

Tables are no longer limited to a single page, but can be flowed down or to the right onto other pages, or on the same page. Rows or Columns can be selected to repeat in each section. Data from spreadsheets or word-processor tables that are longer than a single page can be cut and pasted into a PagePlus table that flows to more than one page.

Studio tabs have been a valuable feature of PagePlus for several versions. Three new studio tabs have been added to this version — Charts, Chart Data, and Effects. The HowTo studio tab was removed, and the fx dialog was replaced with the Effects Tab. The docking and management of Studio tabs has been revamped to increase the options for possible layouts, and to make them easier to use.

Auto-hide now allows floating tabs to hide away after use with having to collapse them. As soon as the mouse cursor is over the tab group on auto-hide, it flies open. It can be pinned open using the middle icon of the three on the right, or left unpinned to collapse soon after moving the cursor away. Tab groups can be maximised, minimised, or restored. Tool-tips have been made to match the Toolbar tips. Restore last session will open PagePlus with the same publications that were previously opened, and each will be displayed at the same page and the same zoom level as last time.

If the windows were tiled, or a new document window was opened, the window layout will also be restored. This is a huge time-saver for long books or projects involving more than one publication. Quickly resume work without having to reopen publications and find your place. If multi-page view was in use, although this will be restored, the layout and position will not.

Improved performance and quality of rendering on the screen. The page tab especially will benefit from this to generate thumbnails of the current publication. Like DrawPlus, popup notifications will advise the user when performing certain actions. When no longer needed, they can be disabled in Tools, Options, Smart Hints.

This is the Startup Wizard by a new name, but with some new and improved features. It replaces the Browse dialog that was removed from earlier versions with previews of publications opened in the previous days and weeks. The learning zone provides quick access to videos, help, the manual, the support forums, and Facebook support. A news feed keeps the user informed of recent developments. Templates can also be opened from here. Workspaces have been around as long as the Studio Tabs. In previous versions one could save and load customised workspaces to suit different projects.

A drop-list on the context toolbar makes it easy to switch workspaces. Remember to save any changes made to the toolbars, menus, or studio tab layout to a workspace file before selecting another one.

Images, Tables, Text Frames, Artistic Text, or groups can be anchored relative to the page, page margins, frame, column, or character. This requires makes it easier to associate content with publications, and adds the possibility of saving asset packs for sharing content.

Assets can be pinned so that they are always available. In the screen shot of the Assets tab on the right the logos are pinned in the Graphics category, so that they can be dragged to any new document.

Warning: Assets are loaded with the document, so pinning too many assets will slow down document loading This may be very significant with large images on old hardware. Groups of objects can be saved in My Designs from where they can be dragged onto the page for reuse. Customised borders can be added to the Picture Frames category, but can no longer be saved for quick access from the Line and Border dialog. The backgrounds category is new and offers a quick and easy way to add a background layer to a publication or web site.

Background layers are locked. To edit them, open the layers tab to unlock them. I find it easier to insert pictures from disk by browsing to find what I want using the Windows Explorer previews. In my opinion, adding large picture collections to the assets tab is a waste of time and resources.

Since PagePlus X3 it has been possible to customise the toolbars and menus. Right-click on any toolbar or the menu to open the customise dialog. Right-click again on the menu to customise it, or on any toolbar button to change the button, paste a new image from the clipboard or import an icon from disk. Create new menus, new toolbars, or new flyouts to have all the commands that you use most frequently wherever you want them.

WebPlus uses the same interface for customising the GUI. The scanner icon was extracted from the VueScan executable using IconSushi , scaled to 20x20 pixels using IrfanView, then imported to the button editor using the folder icon. The keyboard can be customised, greatly increasing workflow. Read my Customising Tutorials for more details. Easier alignment and positioning of objects using dynamic guides.

Align objects to each other, to the page margin or page edges. This is a huge time-saver when laying out pages. Objects just snap into place where they are most likely to be needed. Nudge is also customisable to position objects more accurately. I anticipate that this exciting new feature will encourage many to upgrade or migrate to PagePlus.

I also expect that it will generate a storm of questions on the support forums as new users struggle with new concepts.

Some may be frustrated if they expect to just open any existing publication, choose the publish to E-book option, and expect it to just work.

Publishing for hand-held E-readers like the Kindle requires an entirely different design approach to print or PDF publishing. If, like me, you have no previous experience in designing E-books, be prepared to read the manual, and to redesign your publications to suit the free-flowing layout used by this format.

Any photograph can be edited within PagePlus to remove its background. The intelligent masking brushes in the Cutout Studio are faster and easier to use than other magic wand tools I have used. Even the most intricate backgrounds can be removed quite easily by adjusting the tolerance and size of the brushes. Hold the Alt key to toggle the brush function between remove and add. Many image backgrounds take just a few strokes of the brush to remove.

After removing the background you can preview how it looks with a transparent background, or a uniform tint. The mask can be saved as a Vector-cropped Bitmap, or as an Alpha-edged Bitmap. Imported PDF documents have fewer text blocks and greater accuracy. Optimise for accuracy or for text flow. Crop to page area leaving registration marks on the pasteboard. Embed fonts to allow document editing if permitted. With improvements to the manual flowing of text between frames, PagePlus is now a viable choice for editing PDF files if the source document is no longer available.

The popular, but outdated LogoPlus was replaced by Logo Studio. Users can edit any group of objects as a Logo within PagePlus, using an alternate interface focused on logo creation. The Logo Studio has its own customisable toolbars, studio tabs, guidelines, and a HowTo tab to help new users learn how to create logos.

A wide range of predesigned logos provide the artistically challenged with some design ideas to get them started. The implementation of OpenType features is particularly slick. For example, enabling Small Capitals, ligatures, or fractions in the Character formatting dialog will use OpenType features automatically if those features exist in a font.

Times New Roman contains ligatures for fi and fl. The formatting fly-out can be detached as a floating palette. Some fonts like Palatino Linotype have OpenType features that use glyphs with no code-points. Unless you know about these special glyphs you may never see them. Palatino also includes a full set of Petite Capitals. The Insert Symbol dialog has a radio button to show Glyphs instead of Unicode. Palatino Linotype is particularly unusual as the glyphs are not sorted in strict Unicode order.

However, be aware that since it uses the glyph index, if the font is changed, another font may well have a different glyph in that position or no glyph at all, resulting in the. An image adjustment studio with Quick Artistic effects, adjustment filters, and special effects. This powerful new feature can almost replace PhotoPlus, though you will still need PhotoPlus if you want to import RAW images or for extensive retouching and painting of images.

Filters are non-destructive — by default the original image is stored along with any changes made. This greatly increases the file size though, so you may prefer to disable the option in raster effects to save adjusted bitmaps. This will also speed up document loading. Photo Lab is so powerful I never need to open PhotoPlus to apply effects to images. Create custom borders from bitmaps. A wide selection of artistic picture frames is provided, but you can define your own, and they will be shown at the top of the list.

The 1" border on the right was applied to a text frame on an A4 page. Mouse-over the image to see how it looks at 0. Drag them onto the page and then insert a picture, or drag and drop them onto a picture to add the border to the picture.

In PPX4 or earlier, to add them to a text frame, table or Quick Shape, open the Line and Border dialog from the Format menu, and select a border from the drop list. To define a custom border, create a graphic with patterns that will repeat on the sides and top, and corners that are used only once.

Import the image into the line and border dialog, and open the widths dialog to define where the image will be split. Drag the lines to define the areas that will repeat and those that will not. I used an image of about x pixels dpi, but x pixels would probably have been good enough — 96 dpi was not. More versatile shapes can be created by combining or intersecting existing shapes, e. More flexible management of resources.

The picture properties dialog has been replaced. Instead the Resource Manager opens showing a thumbnail preview of the picture and details about it. Images can be exported or replaced from the resource manager.

Linked files can be embedded, and embedded files can be made linked. To locate the file in the document, double-click the asset name or click on the locate button. Sort document assets by filename, size, etc. Alignment of objects to the inside, outside, or centre of strokes. The screen shot shows a 0. Table and Calendar Autoformat Editor — Create calendar and table formats to apply to any calendar or table.

Apply fonts, fills, transparency, and borders as part of the cell definition. This custom format for a Year Planner has a Header row for the year and title, another Header row Caption for the days of the week, a Header Column for the months, and footers for other details.

The month row repeats until the footer row. Import most text formatting, footnotes, graphics, tables with formatting, index marks, and paragraph styles.

I have added this tutorial section with tips and tricks to get the most out of PagePlus using some of its more advanced features. Autocorrect option for numbered list breaks data entry for tables. Difficult to place text cursor next to column gutter. Gutters and Rules not saved with Text Frame defaults. Edit in PhotoPlus Opens in Background. Images set to use a line border are not placed at their native resolution and will be distorted unless they have a square aspect ratio.

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