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The main features of the Sahafi window |
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The Document Window |
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You can open as many document windows as the available memory in your Mac allows, and move graphics or text from one document to another. You can even open copies of the same document and view different parts of it at the same time.
Arrange the windows on the screen using either standard Mac procedures or the commands in the Windows submenu of the Document menu.
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The Tool Bar |
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The tool bar contains the tools you use to create and work with the objects on the pages in your active document window.
To select a tool, click on its tool bar icon. When you move the pointer inside the page area, the pointer changes shape. In general, tools that select objects take the shape they have in the tool bar and tools for creating objects turn into crosshair pointers. Each tool has a
hot spot
where things happen. For example, the tip of the object pointer must be touching an object to select it. The center of a crosshair pointer is where an object appears when you start to drag. The selected tool is always highlighted in the tool bar.
The tool bar is a single floating palette which is shared by all document windows. It always displays the currently selected tool of the active document.
If you are using the classic Sahafi interface, each document window has its own tool bar which is at the upper left of the window immediately below the title bar.
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The Page Scroll Bar |
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A document can have as many pages as the internal memory available in your Mac allows. Normally, one page appears in a document window at a time. You can also display and work with a spread (two facing pages) by choosing Facing Pages from the Document menu. If your document has more pages than will fit into the page scroll bar, use the page scroll arrows to display the page you want.
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Multiple Master Pages |
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Each Sahafi document has twenty-six left master pages (labeled L:A through L:Z) and twenty-six right master pages (labeled R:A through R:Z). The left (verso) master pages apply to the left, or even-numbered, pages in the document. The right (recto) master pages apply to the right, or odd-numbered, pages in the document.
Any right or left page in your document may use any of the twenty-six master pages to hold design elements, such as page numbers, which repeat on many pages of the document. Objects you place on a particular master page appear on every page of your document that has the Display Master command in the Page menu selected and for which Use Master in the Page menu has been set to the particular master page.
The particular master page being used by any given page in the document is indicated by the letter in brackets in the title bar of the document window.
If you are viewing a left or right master page, the particular left or right master page is indicated in the left and right master page icons in the page scroll bar.
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Page Rulers |
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Each window has one ruler at the top and one along the left side. Tracking lines in the ruler show the position of the pointer's hot spot. The ruler starting point, shown as 0 on each ruler, can be changed as you wish. You can turn the display of rulers on and off in Preferences/General, or change the ruler unit of measurement to inches, centimeters, picas, points, or ciceros.
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The Status Bar |
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The status bar, at lower-left of the document window next to the horizontal scroll bar, gives additional information about the object(s) you are working with. When you draw or move an object, the status bar displays the position of the pointer's hot spot in the current unit of measurement in terms of its length (x), height (y), width (w), and depth (d). When you edit text it shows information on type settings. The status bar also provides feedback on scaling pictures and the pointer location when you create and edit polygons.
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The Pasteboard |
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The pasteboard is a temporary work area. You can use it to refine objects before you place them in your document. Or you can use it to create and store graphic or text elements that appear frequently in your document. The objects you leave on the pasteboard are available from every page of your document. You can drag an object from the pasteboard and move it onto any other page. The objects on the pasteboard are saved when you save your document, but never printed - only objects within the print area will print.
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The Page |
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The document page is in the middle of the pasteboard, shown by a rectangle with a drop shadow and crop marks. The size and orientation of the page depend on settings of the Page Setup command in the File menu. Depending upon the options you've selected in the Preferences/General dialog box (Document menu) and the Grid or Guide settings (Page menu), your page or spread may show dotted or colored lines representing the maximum print area and your document's margins and grids or guides.
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The Print Area |
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Most printers cannot print to the edge of the paper. If you choose Show Print Area in the Preferences/General dialog box, the print area appears on the page as a colored rectangle inside the page. Any part of an object which lies outside the print area does not print.
The size of the print area is affected by many factors, including the type of printer you have selected, the settings you specify for several of the options in the Printing Preferences dialog box.
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Margins |
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Set your document's margins with the Grids or Guides Setup command in the Page menu. The margins of your document are guidelines for you to use when you design your pages. Note that it is the print area of the page, not the margins, that determines what is printed. With a new document, default margin size is half an inch. To change default settings, use the Save Defaults command in the Page menu.
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Grids and Guides |
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Grids and guides are two approaches to organizing the design of your document. You can use either when you set up your document. A grid is composed of rows (horizontal) and columns (vertical), to form the underlying structure of your document's pages. Guides are individual horizontal or vertical lines that you can pull down from the rulers whenever you need them. If you place guides on master pages, they appear on all pages of your document. You can also work without either grids or guides by disabling both from the Page menu.
When the Snap To command in the Page menu is selected, text blocks, picture blocks, and graphic objects automatically align to your grids and guides. Set the Snap To Strength option in the Preferences dialog box to control how close an object must be to a guide to snap to it.
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Palettes |
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Sahafi has four palettes in addition to the tool and page palettes.
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The colors palette
- lets you apply a color to a frame, a fill, or a selection range of text. The colors which appear in the colors palette may vary from document to document and may be set for a given document by choosing Preferences/General from the Document menu.
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The styles palette
- lets you apply a stylesheet to an insertion point or a selection range of text. The stylesheets must have already been set up by choosing Styles from the Document menu.
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The typography palette
- lets you change type specs of an insertion point or selection range of text. The fonts which appear in the font popup menu may either be all the fonts currently installed in your system, or a specific subset of the fonts available. You customize the font popup by choosing Preferences/General from the Document menu. To change a number, first select the current number, type a new number, and press the Enter key. Press the Tab key to move to the next value.
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The specifications palette
- lets you change the coordinates and dimensions of an individual text, picture or graphic block. To change any of the values select it, type a new value, and press the Enter key. Press the Tab key to move to the next value.
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