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Editing the Project
Publisher 2.0 allows you to edit various elements of your publications.
With Publisher 2.0 you can:
- Import and customize pages
- Change the design and behavior of the publication
- Edit the captioning data of the user interface and translate them into other languages
- Create a table of contents for your publications
Create a table of contents for your publications
| Publisher 2.0 allows you to create pages, importing them from external files (PDF, SWF, JPEG), as well as to delete and swap pages. In addition, you can customize the design of individual pages in the Pages Manager (see Figure). |
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Adding Pages
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In order to add pages to a publication, click the "+" button in this toolbar, or the "Import" button in the toolbar at the top of the window. You can also press the right mouse button over the list of pages and select "Add Pages" in the pop-up menu. All of these importing methods are exactly the same and open the same "Import" window. After the import, all pages are added to the general list, where you can select, delete and configure them using the Settings menu, located under the list of pages. The Page Manager allows you to resize the pages displayed in this panel using the slider at the top of the panel. |
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| In order to delete one or more pages, you need to choose those pages in the list and click the "-" button at the top of the browser, or the "Del" button on your keyboard. In addition, you can click the right mouse button over the list of pages and click "Delete selected" in the pop-up menu. |
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Note:during the import of documents, Publisher 2.0 does not replace the old pages with the new ones, but only adds them in the project. If you need to replace the existing pages, you have to manually delete the old pages before or after the addition of new
Changing the Order of Pages
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To change the order of pages, you should select one or more pages from the list and drag them to a new location (see Figure). The links imported from a PDF file will not be affected. Please note that if you have created or imported the table of contents from a PDF file, then changing of the order of pages will lead to the need to change the page numbers in the "Table of Contents" panel. |
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Customizing the Look & Feel of Pages
| You can change certain settings of the pages of your publication using the Settings panel under the list of pages (settingsee Figure). This panel allows you to change the settings of the currently selected pages. |
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| Parameter Description | |
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| Wide | This option allows you make a double-page spread on the basis of the selected page. Please note, in that case the publication can get some blank pages in order to maintain the integrity of the structure. |
| Content Scaling | This option is useful for pages that were created from JPEG and PNG files. It allows changing the type of image scaling within the page. Two methods of scaling are available: fit the page without cropping and fit the page subject to a cutoff of those parts of images that exceed the border of the page |
| Smooth Content | This option enables smoothing of the content in order to avoid loss of quality of JPEG and PNG pages during scaling. When the smoothing is enabled, pages look better, but require more processor resources |
| Background Color | This option determines the background color that is viewable during the loading of the page's picture. Also, this color is viewable through the transparent areas of the SWF pages |
| Page URL Caption | This option allows you make a double-page spread on the basis of the selected page. Please note, in that case the publication can get some blank pages in order to maintain the integrity of the structure. |
| Page Number Caption | This option determines the text name of your page to be displayed in the numeration block of the upper panel of the publication's window. By default, it is just the number of the page |
Viewing the SEO Version of a Page
You can check how the selected page will be presented to the search engines. To do this, click the right mouse button over a specific page in the Page Manager and select "View the SEO version". To create a SEO version of a page, Publisher 2.0 extracts text and images from a PDF File and creates an HTML version of each page.
Adjusting the Entire Publication Size to a Page
You can adjust the proportions of all pages of the publication or the proportions of a specific page. Click the right mouse button on this page and select "Resize the publication" in the pop-up menu.
Customizing the Look&Feel of the Publication
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The design and behavior of publications are
determined in the Settings panel. You can
change individual settings manually, or many
settings at once by selecting another publication
skins at the top of the panel. The publication skins contain all necessary parameters and represent a convenient tool for a global change of the design and behavior of your project. The publication skin can be built-in (they are available from the drop-down list) and custom (they can be stored and uploaded by you from the drop-down menu in the list of predefined skins). |
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The parameters of the design and behavior of the publication are grouped into several expanding panels:
| Parameter Groups Description | |
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| Main Settings | This group contains parameters that are used most often by the developers of publications |
| Publication Components |
This group contains parameters that enable or disable individual elements of the publication. For example, you can disable the print or save functions in your publication |
| Publication Settings | This group contains parameters that govern the behavior of the publication; they are used much less frequently than the parameters listed on the Main Settings panel |
| Style Settings | This group contains parameters that govern the appearance of the user interface of your publication. For example, this may include the color of icons or the color of labels on the buttons |
| Page Flipping Settings |
This group contains parameters that govern the flipping effect. You can increase or decrease the flipping rate, enable "hardcover" and so on |
| Preloader Settings | This group contains parameters that govern the appearance of the preloader of the publications. Here you can input the text that will be shown during the loading of your publication, as well as adjust the appearance of the text |
| Sounds | This group contains parameters that govern the sound effects in the publication. You can set any flipping and background sound, as well as enable and disable the sound effects |
For more information, refer to the Parameter Specification section.
Editing and Translating Interface Captions
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You can edit and translate the captioning data
of the user interface in your publication using
the tools on the Text Captions panel. The changed
settings are saved along with the entire project,
but can also be stored separately in the language
template (.p2lt file). The language templates allow
you to upload the edited captions quickly into other
projects. To save or load a language template, use the drop-down menu with a list of templates. Later, we will add built-in translations of the text captions into other languages in the form of built-in templates. |
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Parameters of the text captions are grouped by implication into several drop-down panels, and each of them relates to a particular element of the user interface:
| Caption Groups Description | |
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| Share Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the social functions ("send to a friend", "Embed", etc.) |
| Save Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the Save window |
| Alert Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the Alert window (full screen mode error, etc.) |
| Print Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the Print window |
| Navigation Panel | In this group you can edit the text captions of the buttons of the navigation panel in the bottom menu. These are the "Next", "Previous","Pause", "Stop", and other buttons |
| Top Bar | In this group you can edit the text captions of the top bar of the publication. This is an label on the copyright button and the caption with the number of the current page |
| Bottom Menu | In this group you can edit the tool tips for all buttons of the bottom menu, except for the navigation panel, which is to be configured in a separate group |
| Bookmarks Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the window with the user's bookmarks |
| Search Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the Search window |
| Thumbnails Window | In this group you can edit the text captions of the Thumbnails window |
| TOC Window | In this group, you can edit the text captions of the window with the table of contents. Here you can edit only the header text and text captions on the "Maximize" and "Minimize" buttons. The Table of contents itself is to be edited in the corresponding panel |
All settings and contents of your publication are stored in the project file. This file has the ".f2bp" filename extension. To save the project file, select File > Save in the main menu.
Note Publisher 2.0 does not support projects created in Publisher 1.0, because the 2.0 version uses a fundamentally new approach to setting up the publication, and there is no possibility to transfer old settings without significant losses.
The project file contains all pages, parameters, and captions from the Text Captions panel of your publication, as well as the structure of content (if available). Some of these elements (e.g. settings) can be stored separately in a configuration file; you will be able to use them in any other project.
