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Ovation DTP

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Introduction to DTP
- The Typewriter
- The Wordprocessor
- Desk Top Publishing
- DTP and the WIMP
- How DTP Works
- Ovation
Before You Start
- How to use this guide
- Latest information
- Conventions
- Using the mouse
- Equipment needed
General Principles>
- Ovation documents
- Objects
- Text frames
- Picture frames
- Lines
- Nested objects
- Paragraphs and paragraph styles
- Local text styles
- Master pages
- Stylesheets
Getting Started
- Opening a new document
- The document window
- Page guidelines
- Principal Text Frame
- The caret
- The main menu
- Ovation tools
- The pointer
- Entering and editing text
- Inserting pages
- Caret movement
- Delete facilities
- Delete facilities
- Other useful keypresses
- Importing text
- Changing the view
- Marking text
- Deleting marked text
- Copying marked text
- Moving marked text
- Saving your work
- Printing your document
- Closing documents and quitting Ovation
Working with Text Frames
- The Principal Text Frame
- Nested frames
- Repelling text
- Drawing frames
- Re-sizing frames
- Moving frames
- Precise re-sizing and moving
- Rulers and ruler guidelines
- Ruler guidelines
- Snap to Guides
- Deleting frames
- Frame colours and borders
- Linking frames
- Show linked flow
- Unlinking frames
- Special Notes
Working with picture frames
- Precise re-sizing
- Moving a picture
- Cropping
- When Picture Frames Overlap
>Working with Lines
- Drawing lines
- Active lines
- Re-sizing lines
- Moving lines
Ovation Styles
- Local styles
- Choosing multiple styles
- Current style
- Changing font
- Changing size
- Changing style effects
- Joining paragraphs
- Paragraph styles
- BodyText style
- Defining a new paragraph style
- Assigning paragraph styles
- Joining paragraphs
- Copying text to another document
- Stylesheets
- Merging stylesheets
- Customised startup
>Using Master Pages
- The default master page
- Creating a new document
- Editing master pages
- Page Guidelines
- Inserting pages
- Double sided documents
- Master pages and stylesheets
- Headers and footers
- Updating pages with master pages
Ovation Menus
- Menu Options
- Keyboard equivalents
- Using dialogue boxes
- Icon Bar Menu
- Info
- New Document
- Paper Size
- Margins
- Double Sided
- Orientation
- Guidelines
- Quit
- Ovation Main Menu
- The File Menu
- Save
- Save as
- Auto Save
- Save as Text
- Save Marked Text/Save Picture
- Save Stylesheet
- Revert to Saved
- Print
- Print Dialogue Box Options
- Print Setup
- Portrait
- X Scale/Y Scale
- Corner X
- File Info
- The Edit Menu
- Select All
- Delete Text/Delete Picture
- Cut Text/Cut Picture
- Copy Text/Copy Picture
- Paste Text/Paste Picture
- Show Clipboard
- Find/Replace
- Find
- Replace/Find
- Replace
- Undo
- Global Replace
- Count
- Cancel
- Find/Replace Options
- Whole Word
- Ignore Case
- Find From Start
- Wildcards
The View Menu
- Fit in Window
- 50%
- Full Size
- 200%
- Variable
- Double Pages
- Show Rulers
- Hide Pictures
- Hide Guidelines
- Show Print Margin
- Units
The Para. Style Menu
- Edit Style
- New
- Delete
- Key Press
- Show on Menu
- Cancel
- OK
- Editing Styles
- Reset
The Font Menu
- What is a font?
- Font Families
- Choosing a Font
The Size Menu
- Units of Measurement
- Standard Font Sizes
- Changing Font Size
- Other Size
- Keyboard Functions
The Style Menu
- Normal Text
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Superscript
- Subscript
- Reverse
- Word Underline
- Title
- All Caps
- Small Caps
- Condensed
- Enlarged
- Horizontal Scale
- Kerning/Tracking
- EN and EM Spaces
- Tracking
- Colour
The Format Menu
- Copying Paragraph Format
- Left
- Centre
- Right
- Justify
- Single Space
- Double Space
- Leading
- Absolute Leading
- Relative Leading
- Incremental Leading
- Negative Leading
- Space Before
- Space After
- Tabs/Indents
- Setting Tabs
- Left Tab
- Centre Tab
- Right Tab
- Decimal Tab
- Left Indent
- Right Indent
- 1st Line Indent
- Word Wrap
- Hyphenation
- Discretionary hyphens
The Object Menu
- Modify Text Frame
- Origin X/Origin Y
- Width/Height
- Inset
- Outset
- Background Colour
- Transparent
- Modify Picture Frame
- X Scale/Y Scale
- Inset
- Transparent frame colour
- Modify Line
- Origin X/Origin Y
- Endpoint X/Endpoint Y
- Style
- Endcaps
- Line Colour
- Thickness
- Frame Border
- Border Styles
- Size
- Border Colour
- Use Sprite Colours
- Designing new borders
- Delete Text Frame
- Cut Text Frame
- Copy Text Frame
- Paste Text Frame
- Duplicate Frame
- Number of Times
- Vertical Offset
- Horizontal Offset
- Scale to Fit
- Fill Pict Frame
- Send Behind
- Bring Forward
- Snap to Guides
The Page Menu
- New Chapter
- Modify Chapter
- Delete Chapter
- Show Master Pages
- Page Guidelines
- Insert Page
- Delete Page
- Goto Page
The Spell Menu
- Check Story
- Continue
- Add
- Replace
- Browse
- Cancel
- Check Word
- Continuous Check
- Dictionary
- Load
- Edit
- Add
- Delete
- Saving the new dictionary
- Cancel
- Import/Export
- Create
- Delete
Complex Document Design
- Columns
- New document
- Master pages
- Paragraph styles
- Entering text
- Subheadings
- Main title
- Figures and tables
- Enhancing your pages
- Drop shadows
- Drop capitals
- Font effects
Printing from Ovation
- Printer drivers
- Use of remote printers
- Speed of printing
- Paper sizes
- Print margins
- Deskjet Plus printer driver margins
Problem Solving
- Paragraph styles have no effect
- Picture frame/text frame/line won�t move
- Cannot re-size frame
- Cannot paste object
A. More about Fonts
- Adding more Fonts
- Setting the font cache
- Configuration settings
- FontMax1
- FontMax2
- FontMax3
- FontMax4 and FontMax5
- FontMax
B. Keyboard Equivalents
- Cursor Movement
- Page Movement
- Selecting Text
- Deleting Text
- Formatting Text
- Miscellaneous Key Presses
- Key Presses in Dialogue Boxes
- Working with Frames
- Working with Lines
D. Date and Time Format
E. Glossary