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Template Objects
The template window includes a few tools to create and edit objects that you can place on the template:
creates a text box;
creates a picture box (in which you must paste a picture
);
creates a free line,
or a line with a horizontal or vertical constraint.
The edit commands use the standard Macintosh interface and shortcuts. The objects can be cut and pasted, moved, aligned, resized, duplicated, etc. All the commands are undoable and redoable.
When the cursor is
on a picture box, press the <command> 
key to move the image within the box, or to resize the image along with
the box. Double-click the image to return it to its original size and
to resize the box to the image size.
If you move one or
more objects while holding the <shift> 
key down, the movement is constrainted horizontally or vertically.
If you move one or
more objects while holding the <option> 
key down, the objects are duplicated and the copies are moved. This option
can be combined with the previous one.
When one or more objects
are selected, you can nudge them using the keyboard arrows. If the object
is a text box is in edit mode, the arrows move the insertion point in
the text. If the object is a picture box and the <command>
key is held down, the image is nudged within the box by pressing the arrow
keys.
The Object menu containts three items for lines: No Line, Hairline, 1 point Line. For text and image boxes, these items are related to the box frame. A line in 'No Line' mode will not be printed nor displayed (except if the Show Contours option is active).
Double-click a text
box to edit the text. Alternatively, pick the
tool and click an existing box.
There is no need to set a text box to edit mode to change its style. Most of the commands in the Object and Text menus also work on all the selected objects.
Obviously, changing the font or the style will only affect the text objects. In that case, undoing the command will retrieve the previous style of each object separately.
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Carnet can not change the style of the text that is included in a picture. To edit a picture, use a drawing program, then paste the updated picture in Carnet. |
Important -- The text style (font, size, style, line spacing and justification) is unique within an object. You can't set a single word in bold while leaving the rest of the box in plain text. On the other hand, each object can have a different style. There is no limit to the number of objects in a template.
When selected objects share the same style settings, these settings are checked in the related menus (font, size, etc.). If the selection mixes different settings, they are marked with a dash in the menus.
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The text boxes are transparent, you may overlay several objects. Pictures can be transparent or opaque, depending on the picture itself. If you need to print a text over a picture, set the text box in front of the picture box. |
