GeoPublish Tutorial Part 17 – Corrections & Continuations

We have to be flexible while working with geoPublish (gP). When unexpected results pop up it is best to fix them before moving on.

The first adjustment we have to make is in TutorialPart1 on Page 2. When we laid out this page we set custom gutter values to allow room for the title. The value we used was 36 which equals 1/2 an inch.

When we drew the box around our title we used the ½ inch ratchet tool to ensure we got uniform box sizes on all pages. As soon as you place the box on Page 2 it is obvious that we have a problem. Our usual top gutter is 5 points so we need to change the top gutter value for both text regions on Page 2 to 41 and then the box won't sit on top of the text. Read Page 12 again if you need a refresher on Gutters.

After you move the text down by 5 points you should also adjust the Pull-Quote and the lines we placed above and below it. Use Zoom View on Page 2 to adjust these 3 items.

In Living Color

We haven't done anything with color yet. I was going to save that for the Front Cover. The graphics we have used so far need corrected so they will look better when printed.

If you select the 'color' box when printing with PostPrint you will find that Maurice has programmed PostPrint to print colors for all but the first 9 patterns. Many of the graphics we have used so far look fine when printed on a Black & White Printer but appear as medium grey on light grey when printed in color.

To correct this we have to load each photo scrap into geoPaint, turn on color, select Black foreground on White background, color the image, copy the scrap, add it to our Photo Album and use this picture in gP. Quite a few of our images have to be changed on Pages 20, 21, 23 and 24.

I have uploaded a new Photo Album containing color corrected images. I have also uploaded new geoWrite files for installments #7 (Importing More Articles) and #10 (Importing Graphics Part 1) as they contained embedded graphics that were affected by the color problem. Download these files and make the substitutions.

Now you see me

Another issue with our graphics is making sure they don't overlay other elements on our page. Select each of our imported Graphics in Page Graphics Mode, open their attributes and make sure that the Transparent option is selected. This will allow items that are on the page before the graphic to appear through the graphic.

All Thumbs

I incorrectly stated in the last installment that you could place images of 16 geoPaint files onto one page using the Thumbnail program from RUN's Power Pak disk. Only PostPrint and geoPubLaser will place all 16 pages of a gP document onto a single page as thumbnails. "Thumbnail" will only place 12 files onto one page so you will need two pages to print all 16 gP pages as thumbnails. This is possible by printing the geoPublish pages to geoPaint files with the Paint Pages printer driver and then using "Thumbnail" to shrink them onto a page.

Continuations

A real quick topic that I am going to squeeze onto this page is adding continuation notices to help the reader find the rest of an article. Since I am using a slogan and a symbol at the end of articles in this tutorial we don't need to add notices but we will do it now just to see how it is done.

Continuation notices are created using Special Text just like we did for titles, captions and pull-quotes in "Adding Special Text" on Page 28.

Goto Page 13, change to Page Graphics Mode, change to Zoom view and place the box in the lower right corner of the page. We have enough space below the text and above our Master Pages line to add a continuation notice. Select the Text Placement Tool, open attributes and set font to LW_Zapf, 10 point. Click between the text and the line under "WrongIsWrite" and enter "(continued on Page 14)" for our text. Click OK and then stretch the text box down and out a bit to allow our text room to print.

Stay in Zoom View and goto Page 14. Move the zoom window up to the middle of the page and place "(from Page 13)" in the shaded box to the right of the "Converting Documents" title. Stretch the text box down and out a bit and we are done.

We will now return to our regularly scheduled material.

Until next time, enGEOy your Commodore!

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