GeoPublish Tutorial Part 21 – Creating Appendices

In this installment we are going to start working on the end of the Tutorial. Appendix A and Appendix B will hold our article formatting instructions and thumbnail pages respectively. We will add to these as the remaining articles get written. Appendix C will hold our Style Sheet.

More designing

Each Appendix will have a section title page featuring reversed text and its own index listing the contents it holds. We will also create custom Master Page layouts for Appendix A to spice up our layout articles while reducing the work we have to do on each page. Since the thumbnail pages get created with geoPubLaser or PostPrint we will simply insert the printed pages directly into the product before binding.

It is not customary to put page numbers on appendix title pages but the appendix pages themselves get numbered. In order to do this the title pages will get added to our Poster file rather than creating another geoPublish document.

Start geoPublish and Open the Poster file. Change to Master Pages Mode and Open the RightMaster Library file. Change to Zoom View and place the Zoom box at the bottom right corner of the page. With the Pointer Tool click on the word PAGE and then click on the scissors. Cut the Bottom line and the Footer Text as well. Change to Page Graphics Mode and turn Ratchet on. Create 2 new pages. Select the Rectangle Tool (Square, Narrowest Frame, Opaque, Black) and draw a rectangle from 2 1/2" and 2" to 4" and 7". Turn Ratchet off and select the Text Tool (LW_Roma, 60, Blank, Center, Across, Bold). Place the crosshairs at 2 7/8" and 2" and enter "Appendix A" for the text. Select the text with the Pointer and re-size the text box to the width of the black box and expand it down a bit. Redraw the page. Turn Ratchet on and draw a box (Square, No Frame, Transparent, 7 clicks up from blank) from 5" and 7" to 10" and 8".

Change to Page Layout mode. Create a text region from 5"X to 10"Z and import AppIndexA. Create 2 new pages and we'll create the Appendix B title page on page 5. Create a text region from 5"X to 10"Z and import AppIndexB.

Change to Page Graphics Mode, select the Rectangle Tool and draw a box (Square, No Frame, Transparent, 7 clicks up from blank) from 5" and 7" to 10" and 8". Draw another rectangle (Square, Narrow Frame, Opaque, Black) from 2 1/2" and 2" to 4" and 7". Turn Ratchet off, select the Text Tool (LW_Roma, 60, White, Center, Across, Bold), place the crosshairs at 2 7/8" and 2" and enter "Appendix B" for the text. Select the text with the Pointer and re-size the text box to the width of the black box and expand it down a bit.

Create 2 more new pages so you are on Page 7. Repeat the preceding steps except import the AppIndexC file and enter "Appendix C" as the text. Create 2 new pages and change to Page Layout Mode.

On page 9 create a text region from Guideline 1 and 1 1/4" to 4Z. Import the PubStyle article that accom- panied article 7 as a download. Change to Page Graphics Mode and place the number 91 (LW_Zapf, 14 point) at the 10 1/4" and 7 3/4" mark. Create another new page and close the Poster file.

New Master Page

Create a new file and call it AppendixA. Change to Master Pages Mode and open the doc setup. We want Starting Page # 57, 2 Master Pages with the first one being a Right Page. Click OK and then open the Library. Open the RightMaster layout. Add a horizontal guideline at 2".

Use the Line Tool (Square, Narrow, Black) to draw two lines forming a crosshair at 3/4" and 2". Select the Text Tool (LW_Cal, 60, 5 clicks up from blank, Left, Across, Bold) and place the word "appendix" with your mouse crosshair on the two lines we drew. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. Create another text box offset 3 pixels down and 3 pixels to the right of our crosshairs. This time enter "appendix" but change the pattern by clicking twice on the down arrow. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. Create a third text box this time offset by 6 pixels down and 6 pixels to the right of our crosshairs, enter "appendix" as the text and change the pattern to solid black. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. These three overlaid words give an interesting 3-D look to the title. Delete our two crosshair lines.

Create a new Text Box (LW_Roma, 140, 1 click up from Black, Left, Across, Bold) at 1/2" and 3" and enter "A". Stretch the box down and to the right a bit, press the Background Tool and then Redraw the page.

Open the Library and save this Master Page layout as AppendixRt. Use the Photo Manager to copy our regular upright geoPublish Icon to a Photo Scrap. Use the Bitmap Placement Tool to Stretch and Scale the Icon from 1/2" and 6" to 2" and 8". We have to do this after saving since Master Page Layouts can't be saved if they contain a bitmap.

Press the Left button and Open the LeftMaster layout from the Library file. Add the new horizontal guideline at the 2" mark.

Use the Line Tool (Square, Narrow, Black) to draw two lines forming a crosshair at 3/4" and 3". Select the Text Tool (LW_Cal, 60, 5 clicks up from blank, Left, Across, Bold) and place the word "appendix" with your mouse crosshair on the two lines we drew. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. Create another text box offset 3 pixels down and 3 pixels to the right of our crosshairs. This time enter "appendix" but change the pattern by clicking twice on the down arrow. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. Create a third text box this time offset by 6 pixels down and 6 pixels to the right of our crosshairs, enter "appendix" as the text and change the pattern to solid black. Stretch the box down and to the right a bit. Delete our two crosshair lines.

Select the Text Tool (LW_Roma, 140, Black, Left, Across, Bold) at 1/2" and 4" and enter "A". Stretch the box down and to the right a bit, press the Background Tool and then Redraw the page.

Open the Library and Save this Master Page layout as AppendixLf. Use the Photo Manager to copy our regular upright geoPublish Document Icon to a Photo Scrap. Use the Bitmap Placement Tool to Stretch and Scale the Icon from 1/2" and 1/2" to 2" and 2 1/2".

Change to Page Layout Mode. Choose Set Gutters under the Options menu and set the Left and Right values to 10 while leaving the Top and Bottom values at 5. Turn Snap on and create 2 text regions (2"V to 4X; 2"X to 4Z). Save this layout in the Library as AppendixRt. Select the Text Placement Tool, choose format8 and then click in the left and then right text regions. Ripple (SHOW) the text.

Create a new page and then create two text regions (2"A to 4C; 2"C to 4E). Save this layout to the library as AppendixLf. Import format9 to the left column.

Create a new page and then open the AppendixRt Library layout. Import format10 into the left and then right text regions. On the next new page open the AppendixLf Library layout and then import format11 into the left region and format12 into the right region.

And that is the method we will use to import the rest of our format articles into the AppendixA gP document. Create a new page, open the appropriate layout library and then import the formatting files. After importing the articles change to Page Graphics Mode, select the Text Tool (LW_Shattuck, 12 points, left, plain) and place an uppercase `X' to the lower right of the end of each article. We couldn't include the Splat in our Master Pages layout as there are already 8 graphics objects and that is the most it can hold.

Format13 and format14 get their own pages. Format15 uses the left column on Page 63 and format16 uses the right column along with both columns on the next page. The rest of the articles (format17, format18, format19, format20 and format21) all use both columns on their respective pages.

From now on the instructions to add the format file to AppendixA will be included in the format file itself for each installment. We will use all 16 pages of the gP document for Appendix A.

Next time we are going to start a 2-part article on printing. There is a lot involved when printing gP files and we will see in a later installment that new gP developments require special handling of printing.

Until next time, enGEOy your Commodore!

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