GeoPublish Tutorial Part 15 – Adding Special Text

In this installment of the Tutorial we are going to use Special Text in Page Graphics (P.G.) Mode to add Headlines, Captions, Pull-Quotes and End of Article markings to give our Publication some flair. When creating Special Text [gP Page 4-35] we can use any GEOS font from 4 to 192 points and in any style. Since we are aiming for PostScript (PS) Printer output of this Tutorial we will stick to the 11 LW Fonts - in particular, the 5 fonts identified in installment #3. If you aren't using a PS Printer you should use MEGA Fonts for your headlines and Special Text as the larger available point size reduces the jaggies that occur when enlarging regular GEOS fonts.

While some people may use P.G. to add Special Text to each page as they go along I prefer to finish all of my text work and Graphic Placement first in case editing of files changes the layout. After all of the preceding work is completed I print off the file and use my red pen to indicate areas that need a Headline or Caption or to draw in a line or box.

Since we have done our proofreading and spell checking a good option for this phase of publishing is to print out Thumbnails of the pages. Thumbnails can be printed from PostPrint or geoPubLaser or created manually with the Paint Drivers and the Thumbnail program from the RUN GEOS Power Pak disk. The beauty of Thumbnails is that all 16 pages of a geoPublish document get printed onto one 8.5" * 11" page (reduced to 22% size) and you can readily see where you need to add Special Text.

While adding the Special Text I don't finish each page as I go but rather jump from page to page, back and forth through the document. The reason behind this is that the Attributes for the Special Text (Font, Size, Style) are retained by geoPublish. So, if I have 5 headlines to place it is quicker to set the attributes and then use the "Goto Page" Option to jump to each location and enter the headline than to change the attributes multiple times on each page. Another handy feature to speed things up if you don't have an accelerator is to turn off bitmaps in the options menu.

Main Titles

Let's start geoPublish, open our TutorialPart1 document and GoTo Page 1. In P.G. Select the Text Tool, open the Attributes, set LW_Cal, 30 point, bold, Centered and then press OK.

Turn Snap On. Place your Pointer at the top left corner guidelines and click. The Special Text dialog box will open. Enter "Sophisticated Software" for our first article title. Click OK to set the text.

Now we need to fix the alignment. Turn Snap Off. Select the Pointer and then click on our freshly placed text. Since we set Centering the text box extends to the right edge of the page. We want our headlines centered between our outermost vertical guidelines. Grab the resize button and drag it back to line up with the right guideline and at the same time drag it down about 1/4 of an inch. The reason we need to expand the box vertically is that the PS fonts print a bit different than they appear on screen. If we don't expand the text bounding box some of the letters may get cut off when printed. If you change Special Text Attributes after this placement you must expand the box again as it's size will return to the default.

Next we have to change to Zoom View in the top left corner of the page. Make sure the Pointer Tool is selected and then click anywhere on "Sophisticated" to select the Special Text. Turn the Toolbox off in the Options Menu (or C= T - a handy toggle to keep the Toolbox from getting in the way). Drag the top corner down about 1/4" to center the text in the Region.

Our first title is done so GoTo Page 3 and change to P.G. Preview.. Since our Attributes are going to stay the same we just have to turn on the Toolbox (C=T), select the Text Placement Tool and set the box at the top left corner guidelines. Enter "A Quick Tour" as the title and then fix the alignment by re-sizing the bounding box back to the right guideline, expanding it downwards 1/4 inch and then centering it vertically in the region.

On Page 5 enter "Planning & Preparation" for the title. Fix the alignment, expand the box and center the text vertically before moving to Page 7. The steps are the same for the rest of our headlines so here they are.

Page 7 - "Master Pages Mode"
Page 10 - "Page Layout Mode"
Page 13 - "Document Conversions"
Page 14 - "Importing More Articles"

That is all of the headlines for this document. Let's GoTo Page 2 and start with our headlines for subsequent pages.

Subsequent Titles

Choose the Text Placement Tool and then open the Attributes. For these subsequent headlines we want LW_Cal, 24 Point, Centered and Bold. Set those attributes and click OK. Set our Headline in the usual position and enter "Sophistication". Fix the alignment and expand the box downwards and we are ready to GoTo Page 4. Here, our headline will be "Touring".

Add the following headlines:

Page 6 - "More Planning"
Page 8 - "Master Pages"
Page 9 - "Master Pages"
Page 11 - "Page Layout"
Page 12 - "Page Layout"
Page 15 - "Importing Articles"
Page 16 - "Importing Articles"

If you were paying attention you noticed that we have two more headlines to add. Let's GoTo Page 10. On this page we carried over the remainder of the previous article into two half-columns at the bottom of the page. Place your Text Pointer at 5 3/4"A and click. Enter "Master Pages" and then center and expand the box.

Now GoTo Page 14 where we also have an article carried over in the lower half of the page. Place your Text Pointer at 6"A and enter "Converting Documents" as the headline and then align and expand the box.

Pull-Quotes

Since we were not importing graphics at this stage of the Tutorial we don't have any captions to add We do, however, have two Pull-Quotes to add. GoTo Page 2, change to Zoom view and position the Zoom box about 2/3's of the way down the left column. You will see that there is space left between the last two paragraphs. We are going to use a Pull-Quote to fill this space.

A Pull-Quote is used to attract the reader's eye to the page and provide some enticing information from the article to get the reader to read some more. Select the Text Placement Tool and then set the Attributes to be LW_Giannini, 18 points, left justified, plain. Now place your pointer at 5 3/4" and 1" and click. Enter the word "It" and click OK to place the word on the page. Select the Pointer tool and click on our text. Use the re-size button to expand the text box down and across to 6 3/4" and 3.5".

After placing the box open the attributes and change to Center justification. Press the Edit button and enter the rest of the text so it says "It is very important to allow the reader's eyes to rest." and then click OK. The text should be centered nicely in the blank area we had left for it.

Let's GoTo Page 4 where we have a blank area near the bottom of the middle column. You can stay in Zoom View and GoTo Page 4 and the Zoom box will just need to be moved over to the right and down a bit by moving your mouse pointer against the side and bottom edges of the screen.

Our text here is "...Page Graphics Mode is where you make it shine." but before entering the text change the Attributes back to left justified. Now just enter "...Page" to start with and then size the box to fit into our area. If you left the settings at Center you would Center the text between our placement point and the right edge of the page. Then, you would have to go to Preview in order to re-size the box back into our center column area. Once you have sized the box and entered the entire text string you can change the attributes back to Center to get the proper formatting.

Marking the End

Many publications use a symbol or picture to mark the end of each article. All of my articles here end with "Until then, enGEOy your Commodore!" but having a tag line like that to mark the end of an article isn't always going to be the case. One of our PS fonts is called LW_Shattuck and it contains many different symbols that are suitable for marking the end of an article. Open Zoom View in the bottom right corner of Page 2. We'll place a symbol to the right of the word "Commodore!" to indicate the end of this article.

Select the text tool and open the Attributes. Set the font to LW_Shattuck, 12 points, left, Plain (styles don't have any effect on this font). We are going to use an Uppercase letter "X" which corresponds with the LW_Shattuck Splat symbol. Place the X and then expand the bounding box. Do the same on Pages 4, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 16.

Again, you can see how changing pages in Zoom View and setting Special Text is easy to do when you don't have to change Attributes each time.

Part 2

So we have finished adding all of the Special Text we need to into our TutorialPart1 document. It is time to close it and open TutorialPart2.

We have to start with Main Titles again so change to P.G. and GoTo Page 17. Choose the Text Place- ment Tool and set the Attributes to LW_Cal, 30 points, Bold and Centered. The Titles we need to enter in Part 2 are as follows.

Page 17 - "Editor Mode"
Page 18 - "Column Analysis"
Page 20 - "Importing Graphics Part 1"
Page 22 - "Proof Reading"
Page 23 - "Importing Graphics Part 2"
Page 24 - "Free Flow Graphic Placement"
Page 28 - "Adding Special Text"

We have one more Main Title to add. On Page 21 we have an article which fills just the right column. Place your Text Pointer at 1/2"X and enter the title as "Document Renaming". Due to the narrow column the two words will be above and below each other. We still need to align the Bounding Box with the right guideline, expand it a bit and move the whole thing down about 1/4 of an inch.

With the Text Tool selected change the Attributes to LW_Cal, 24 Point, Centered and Bold. Create the following Sub Headings:

Page 19 - "Column Analysis"
Pages 25, 26, 27 - "Free Flow Graphics"
Pages 29, 30, 31 - "Special Text"

GoTo Page 18 and position the Text Pointer at 5 4/72"A and enter "Editor Mode" for the sub heading. Next GoTo Page 21, change the Attributes to Left Justified and enter "Graphics Part 1" as the sub heading with your Text Pointer at the Top Left Guidelines. After Placing this Text change to Zoom View and expand the Text box to fit between the `V' and `X' Guidelines. Next, change the Attributes back to Centered and then expand the box down a bit.

Captions

In TutorialPart2 we began importing graphics. To help make sense of the images for our readers weare going to add some captions. Our captions are going to be set in LW_Giannini, 14 Point, Plain text and centered under the graphic.

GoTo Page 20 and you will see in Preview that there is one graphic in the right column on this page. This is another reason not to use the first method for importing graphics. Change to Zoom View and place the box near the lower part of the left column. Here is a graphic that we imported in geoWrite / Editor Mode. It does not show up in Page Graphics Preview. We are going to place 2 captions beside this graphic. On the left side of the graphic we want our caption to say "Placed in geoWrite / Editor Mode". Make sure your Attributes are set to Left Justified, place your text pointer on the left side in line with the top of the garbage can and enter the word "Placed". Re-size the text box to be about as tall as the Can and enter the rest of the text. Change the Attributes to Centered and then expand the box down a bit. On the right side of the Can we want a caption that says "Not visible in Page Graphics Preview". Don't forget to change the Attributes back to Left before starting to enter the text. Once you have this caption completed move the Zoom Box (either scroll the screen or change to Preview and then place the Zoom Box from there) so that the other garbage can is visible. We want a caption on the right side of this Can that says "Centered in a Page Layout Region". GoTo Page 21 and enter a caption under this Can that says "Centered in a Region".

All of the preceding captions re-inforce the reasons not to place graphics in Page Layout Mode. If there wasn't enough space to place our captions we could not move the graphics without changing all of our text layout as well. GoTo Page 23 where we have 3 graphics. Each of these was placed in Page Graphics Mode but aligned with a Page Layout Region.

In Zoom View move to the lower part of the left column. We want to add "Centered" as a caption here. Under the graphic near the top of the right column we want a caption that says "Scaled". There isn't quite enough room to have this centered properly under the image but it is close enough for our purposes here. For the third image, that is lower on the right column, we will have to move the bottom of the image up about 1/4 of an inch (select the image with the Arrow Tool and use the resize button) to make room for our caption of "Stretched & Scaled". If you forget to change to Left Justified before setting a caption and it ends up Centered with the right edge of the page just change it back to Left Justified, adjust the width and set Centered again. For a long Caption you would have to go to Preview to change the width or do some fancy scrolling in Zoom view.

GoTo Page 24 where we have our very large Giraffe image. Change to Zoom view at the feet of the Giraffe. Our caption here will be "Stretched and Scaled without a region". Center this text in a box wide enough so that you have 3 words on each line.

Pages 25 and 26 need 3 captions each. The first two will be centered under the images and the third one will be beside the image. Use the following captions:

"Figure 1: Simulated BSW Ad – Place Graphic into its own Region on the Page."
"Figure 2: Simulated BSW Ad - Graphic in Region; Text using separate Regions & Default Gutters."
"Figure 3: Thumbnail of Page with Graphic in a Region."
"Figure 4: Place your Graphic in Page Graphics Mode without a Region."
"Figure 5: Use Free Flow Graphic Placement to wrap text around images."
"Figure 6: Thumbnail of Page using Free Flow Graphic Placement."

Almost Done

We are now ready to add our Splat marks at the end of articles. Set the text to LW_Shattuck, 12 Point, Plain and place an Uppercase `X' at the end of Pages 18, 19, 21 (once in each column), 22, 23, 27 and 31.

And finally, I can only imagine what you have been thinking so far as the first paragraph of each section has been missing the first letter and the formatting is odd. You have seen this technique used in many publications and it is not hard to do in geoPublish. We are going to place a Large Capital Letter (LW-Roma, 30 Point, Plain) straddling the first two lines of text at the start of these paragraphs.

On Page 28 we need a letter `I' in the left column and a letter `L' in the right column. On Page 29 we need a letter `C' in the left column and a letter `S' in the right. On Page 30 we need both a letter `M' and a letter `S' in the left column and a letter `I' in the right column. Place these letters so that their tops are three pixels above the other characters in the first line.

A slightly different approach will be taken with the letter `W' in the right column on Page 31. Line up the bottom of this letter with the bottom of the characters in the first line and then move three pixels up.

That is all we are going to cover for Special Text now. I think there are enough examples and ideas here to keep you going for quite some time. Check your favorite publications for more ideas and see how easy they are to mimic in geoPublish.

Next time we will look at some of the Drawing Tools available in Page Graphics Mode.

Until then, enGEOy your Commodore!

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