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If you are an experienced Mac user this short section contains all you need to begin producing documents with Sahafi. After you have installed Sahafi, double click the program 'al-Nashir al-Sahafi' and you'll see the Sahafi window, with rulers around the edge, and containing a new blank page in the center (the page is indicated by a large rectangle.) Don't worry if the page looks 'small', you are in 'size to fit' view, so the whole page is scaled down to fit the window. If you wish to see the page actual size choose Views from the Documents menu. You will also see two palettes in the window. At the top is the Pages palette which lets you move from page to page within a document. On the left is the Tools palette where you choose tools to work on a page. |
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The basic idea behind Sahafi is that all pages are built from simple 'blocks'. There are just three types of blocks: text blocks, picture blocks and graphics blocks such as lines. Blocks are created by choosing the appropriate tool from the Tool palette and drawing a new block. All blocks can be moved and resized by using the Pointer tool. And the contents of a block can be edited by choosing the appropriate edit tool from the Tool palette and clicking in the block. For example, to create a text column on the blank page, first choose the Text Block tool, then draw the text block on the page, then choose the Text Edit tool and click in the text block to type text. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The list of operations below is an 'instant overview' of Sahafi designed to get you started fast. When you are ready to produce real projects with Sahafi try opening one of the design templates and modifying it to your needs. The templates are in the 'Templates Folder' and they can save you a lot of time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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