Creating a publication from a design template

PagePlus design template list Creating a publication from design templates

PagePlus comes complete with a whole range of categorized design templates which will speed you through the creation of all kinds of publications for desktop or commercial printing—even your own website!

PagePlus design template Creating a publication from design templates

Templates also help ensure continuity between your pages by preserving such elements as page layout, contents, styles, and color palettes. They also offer quality pictures that you can use royalty free.

PagePlus theme layouts list Creating a publication from design templates

Instead of a design template, you can adopt a Theme Layout instead; layouts offer picture placeholders instead of actual pictures. Different physical document types (Brochure, Business Card, Flyer, Forms, Letterheads, Newsletter, etc.) can be created from a categorized theme (e.g., Textured category, Eco theme layout below), each type offering a choice of complementary multiple page designs.

PagePlus theme layouts Creating a publication from design templates

Once selected, the publication is normally all but complete apart from adding your own pictures to placeholders, personalizing placeholder text, or fine-tuning object positioning.

To create a publication from a design template:

  1. Open PagePlus, or choose New… from the File menu and select New from Startup Wizard….

  2. Click Use Design Template to display the Choose a Design Template dialog.

  3. In the tree menu on the left, select a publication category, e.g. Brochures.

  4. Navigate the main window’s categories and sub-categories using the PagePlus tab expand Creating a publication from design templates Expand and PagePlus tab collapse Creating a publication from design templates Collapse buttons, then click a chosen document type’s thumbnail.

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  1. Examine the page sample(s) on the right. If you’re happy with the template page(s), click OK.

  • Some template categories let you access additional purchasable templates from Serif. Try clicking More… under a template category.     

  • You may be able to apply color schemes to some design templates.

  • You can save any PagePlus document as a template (*.ppx) file to be used as a basis for other publications.

To create a publication from a themed layout:

  1. From the dialog’s Templates list, select Theme Layouts, then choose a theme layout category and then a theme name from the list.

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  2. The adjacent pane updates to show document types for that selected theme. Select a thumbnail.

    PagePlus dlg themedlayout layouts Creating a publication from design templates

  3. In the upper-right corner of the dialog, choose a document color scheme on which to base your publication from the drop-down list (the first three schemes are designed specifically for the chosen themed layout).

    PagePlus dlg themedlayout schemes Creating a publication from design templates

    As each theme layout is color schemed, you can swap the underlying scheme, and the publication’s appearance, for another scheme at any time!

  4. For multi-page publications, from the right-hand Pages pane, select one or more layouts by checking the box under each thumbnail. Some publication types only offer an either/or selection.

  5. Click OK. The layouts are added as pages to your new publication.

Creating a publication from design templates