PagePlus

Page Setup
Displays a dialog for modifying the publication dimensions and format.

Page Size
Set the publication’s page size from the drop-down list.

Publication Orientation
Set the whole publication’s page orientation to be landscape or portrait. Affects all pages.

Page Manager
Click to display the Page Manager or Master Page Manager, which provides multiple options for inserting and deleting pages or master pages, assigning master pages to pages, and navigating to a page.

Layout Guides
Displays a dialog that lets you change the page margin, row/column, and bleed guide settings.

Set User Details
Displays a dialog that lets you review and change User Details (such as name, address, etc.) you’ve entered when you first use a design template previously.

PagePlus Options
Displays a dialog that lets you customize a wide range of PagePlus settings, including layout choices, ease-of-use features, etc.

Decrease/Increase Contrast
Click to narrow or expand the tonal range by one increment at a time. See also Auto Contrast, Brightness and Contrast or Shadows and highlights as adjustment filters to fine-tune picture contrast.

Decrease/Increase Brightness
Click to make the image darker or lighter by one increment at a time.

Auto Level
Auto Level assigns a new “top” and “bottom” to the tonal range, making the darkest image pixel black and the lightest one white, and spreading out the in-between pixels over a wide tonal range.

Auto Contrast
The Auto Contrast feature adjusts image contrast, i.e. the spread between lightest and darkest values across the full tonal range. This can be used to fix poorly scanned/developed photos.

 Fit Text
Click to scale the story’s text size so it fits exactly into the available frame(s); further text added to the frame will cause text overflow. (See the topic Fitting text to frames.)
Tip: You can also press Ctrl+Alt+X.

 Enlarge Text
Click to increase the story’s text size one increment.

 Shrink Text
Click to reduce the story’s text size one increment.

Styles
Displays the named style of text at the cursor position: either a character style (if one is applied locally) or the paragraph style. To apply a named style, click in the text, then select the style name in the drop-down list. To define a style based on the selected text’s properties, type a style name into the box and press Enter. (See the topic Using text styles.)

Font
Displays the font of text at the cursor position. To change the font of selected text, click a new font name in the drop-down list. (See the topic Setting text properties.)

Point Size
Displays the point size of text at the cursor position. To change the size of selected text, click a new point size in the drop-down list, or type in a value and press Enter.

Bold and Italic
Click buttons to apply bold and/or italic font styles to the applied text at the cursor position.

Other Attributes flyout
Click the down arrow to display a selection of additional attributes (underline, various caps, subscript/superscript, ligatures and fractions) that can be applied. Multiple attributes can be enabled at the same time by clicking.

OpenType flyout
Click the down arrow to display a selection of OpenType font features that can be applied to the currently selected OpenType font. Multiple attributes can be enabled at the same time.

Alignment buttons
The “down” button indicates the paragraph alignment of text at the cursor position (Left, Centerd, Right, or Justified). To change the alignment of selected text, click a different button.

Bulleted List
Applies a simple bulleted list style to your text. (See the topic Creating a bulleted or numbered list.)

Numbered List
Applies a simple numbered list style to your text. (See the topic Creating a bulleted or numbered list.)

Decrease Level
Moves current paragraph down one level.

Increase Level
Moves current paragraph up one level.

WritePlus
Click to launch the current story or artistic text in WritePlus.

Enlarge Story Text
Click to increase artistic text size one increment. Double-click for a bigger increase.

Shrink Story Text
Click to reduce the artistic text size one increment. Double-click for a greater reduction.

Edit Fill
Click to display a dialog combining various fill properties, including shading and colors for solid and gradient fills. Bitmap fills can also be applied from various categories.

Line/Border
Click to display a dialog to control various line properties around the text.

Edit Tansparency
Click to display a dialog which lets you apply/edit solid, gradient (Linear, Ellipse, or Conical) or bitmap transparencies (natural textures).

Path Text flyout
Click to display a flyout of preset path shapes dialog which lets you create text on a path from your selected artistic text.

Add Node
Adds a new node halfway along a line segment. Select the leading node of the segment (the node nearer the start of the line), then click this button. You can also double-click a line segment with the Pointer Tool to add a node at that point.

Delete Node
Click to delete the selected node(s). The node will be deleted, along with any associated attractor nodes, and the line or shape will jump to its new shape. You can also press the Delete key.

Close Curve
Turns a curved line into a closed shape. Select the line, then click this button to connect the line’s two end nodes.

Break Curve
Breaks open a curve (creating two lines) or a closed shape (creating a curved line). Select the node where you want the break to occur, then click this button.

Straighten Line
Turns a curved line segment into a straight line segment. Select the leading node of the segment (the node nearer the start of the line), then click this button. To make a straight segment curved, use the Sharp, Smooth, Symmetric, or Smart Corner buttons.

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Sharp Corner
Click to change a selected node so the segments on either side are completely independent, and the corner can be pointed.

Smooth Corner
Click to change a selected node so the slope of the segments on either side is the same, but the depth of the two joined segments can be different.

Symmetric Corner
Click to change a selected node so the segments on either side have equal slopes and equal depth.
Note: Normally, Bézier segments you draw with the Pen Tool end in a symmetric corner. You can press C while drawing such a segment to define a “cusp” or sharp corner instead.

Smart Corner
Click to change a selected node to automatically determine slope and depth for a rounded, best-fitting curve.
Note: If you attempt to adjust a smart corner’s handles, it reverts to a symmetric corner. You can always reset the node to smart-but to maintain smart nodes, be careful what you click on!

Straighten All Lines
Changes all segments in the selected object to straight lines.

Fit Curves
Optimizes the editability of the selected shape by changing most segments to curved lines and eliminating extra nodes.

Reverse Curves
Click to switch the ordering of nodes, so that the start of the curve becomes its end (without changing the shape of the curve). This is particularly useful with text on a path. For example, if you had text running around the inside of a circular line (or donut converted to curves), clicking Reverse Curves would flip the text to the outside of the curve.

Line Styles
Accesses the Line and Border dialog to change line styles and other line properties.

Line Width
Enter a point value (then press Enter) to change the weight (thickness) of the selected line.

Line start
Displays the style of the start point of the selected line. To change, click a different example in the drop-down list.

Line Style
Displays the style of the selected line (solid, calligraphic, dotted, dashed, double). To change the style, click a different example in the drop-down list.

Line end
Displays the style of the end point of the selected line. To change, click a different example in the drop-down list.

End Scale
Enter a percentage scaling allowing line ends to be scaled differently to the current line width.

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Disable Warp
Click to disable the warp effect on a selected object. This can be used to temporarily switch off the mesh warp—you can click the Warp Tool again to enable the effect again.

Preset Warps
Click the down arrow to replace your currently applied mesh warp with a preset hosted on the flyout menu.

See Curve context toolbar.

Hide/Show Mesh
Click to hide the mesh for a better preview of the object. Click again to reveal the mesh for editing.

Hide/Show Grid
Click to hide/show the mesh grid, used to aid the alignment of nodes and segments. Click again to reveal the mesh for editing.

Reset Mesh
Click to reset the mesh to full-frame and rectangular. Alternatively, use Undo to remove all warping and reset the mesh to its original state.

Warp Fills
Click to extend the warp effect to the object’s fill.

Convert to Curves
Click to convert the envelope to curves.

Create Object Style
Click to save a custom envelope as an object style. From the dialog, check the style attributes you want to retain, and name the style to be saved in the chosen Styles tab’s category (use Browse… button to choose category).