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Tutorials Guide: Product Foldout 3-Fold
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
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CHAPTER 2 Content
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Layout Modes and Style Mediums
Replacing Images
Need More Space?
Variables
CHAPTER 3 Page Layouts
Page Layout Files
Front Page Layout
Back Page Layout
CHAPTER 4 Images
Insert and Resize Image
Position Image
CHAPTER 5 Styles
Body Style
Company Name
Title
First-Level Headings
Second-Level Headings
Body Text
Company Info
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Numbered and Bulleted Lists
Example
Applying Styles to Content
APPENDIX PDF Guides
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
The Product Foldout 3-Fold project template in Flare contains two topics and two page layouts designed to create a product foldout with three panes. It is ideal for brief product instructions. This template starts you out with two PDF targets, one with crop and registration
marks and the other without. You can add other kinds of targets if you like.
We're not going to attempt to explain every aspect of this template. Instead, we'll focus on some of the features and tasks that raise the most questions.
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CHAPTER 2
Content
Adding your own content to the Product Foldout 3-Fold template is relatively simple. There
are just a few things to keep in mind.
This chapter discusses the following:
Layout Modes and Style Mediums
Replacing Images
Need More Space?
Variables
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Layout Modes and Style Mediums
When you open a topic in the XML Editor, you may notice in the local toolbar that there are different modes
for viewing the layout. In addition, you can switch to different style mediums to show the content with the
correct styles applied.
So if you open the Front or Back topic and it looks nothing like the page layout or the end result, you likely
need to switch to the appropriate layout and medium. For best results with this template, you should view
topics using the Print Layout mode with either the default or print medium.
After you select these options, you should see the text on top of the page layout associated with it. Then
you can simply replace the template text with your own content.
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Replacing Images
The images in this template were added in a few different ways.
First, some images were added to the page layout. A couple were added to the background of the page layout, and some small logo images were inserted into footer frames.
Adding a background image in a page layout is a good method if you want content to appear in front of the
image (using it as a watermark), or if you have multiple body frames on the page and want the image to
span across them. Here is how you can replace a background image: (1) Open the page layout, (2) open the
Properties dialog for the page, and (3) on the Background tab you can replace the image with your own.
You can also remove the background images altogether. For more, see "Page Layouts" on page 13.
Another way that we added images was to insert them directly into the topics. In most cases, we used
absolute positioning to click and drag the images where we wanted them, sometimes with content flowing
around the image on multiple sides.
You can use absolute positioning for content that is in the same body frame, even if there are multiple
columns in it. However, you cannot use this method to span images across content in multiple body
frames.
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See "Images" on page 33.
For more about absolute positioning, see the online Help.
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Need More Space?
You might find that you require more space to include all of the content that you want. In that case, you probably want to use one of the other Product Foldout templates that contains more panels (i.e., 4-Fold, 5-Fold,
6-Fold, 12-Fold).
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Variables
We used variables for the company name and the title of the foldout on the first panel. We also used them
for company information (e.g., address) on the back of the foldout. Variables can be useful if you plan to
use the same page layout for multiple outputs. For one target you can use the default definitions for the variables, and you can override the variable definitions for any of the other targets you might generate. For
more about variables and overriding definitions in targets, see the online Help.
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CHAPTER 3
Page Layouts
Page layouts are used to configure the pages for print-based output and are especially
important in this particular template because of its unique characteristics (e.g., multiple
columns, images in the middle of columns, color and images that bleed off the page). This
template comprises only two topics—one for the front of the product foldout and the other for
the back of the foldout. We therefore created two page layouts—one to be associated with
each topic.
Following are the main tasks that we performed with the page layouts in this template. We
recommend creating the page layout for the front of the product foldout first, then making a
copy of that page layout and modifying it for the back of the foldout.
This chapter discusses the following:
Page Layout Files
Front Page Layout
Back Page Layout
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Page Layout Files
1. Follow the steps for adding a new page layout file and give it a name (we called ours "Front"). When
you create the page layout, select the Default template, because it is quite simple and requires
fewer changes than other templates.For steps on adding page layouts, see the online Help.
2. Open the new page layout and delete the header frame at the top.
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3. Click
to save your work.
The steps above are only for the "Front" page layout. Continue with the following sets of steps to complete
the Front page layout. After you are finished, make a copy of that page layout. Then complete the next sets
of steps for the "Back" page layout. By making a copy of the finished Front page layout, you will need to
make fewer changes to the Back page layout.
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Front Page Layout
Complete the following sets of steps for the first page layout you create (in our case, the "Front" page layout).
PAGE SIZE AND MARGINS
1. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, click
. The Page Properties dialog opens.
2. Select the General tab.
3. Click the Page Size drop-down and select (custom).
4. In the Custom Width field, enter 15, and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
5. In the Custom Height field, enter 5, and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
6. Keep the Orientation field set to Portrait.
7. In all of the Margins fields, enter 0.
Note: Of course, you can set some value for the margins on your page. However, in our
template we chose to set them all to 0 and specify the margins on our CSS styles instead.
8. Click OK.
9. Click
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to save your work.
BODY FRAMES
1. In the Page Layout Editor, double-click the body frame.
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The Frame Properties dialog opens.
Note: An alternative is to simply click and drag the body frame, and its edges, until you
have it placed just where you want it on the page. However, in this exercise, we'll use the
Frame Properties dialog, because it's easier to get the precise size and position that you
see in our template.
2. Select the Frame tab.
3. We want to set the size and position of the body frame so that it fits exactly on top of the page. So in
the Size and Position section, click in the Width field, enter 15, and for the unit of measurement
select Inch (in).
4. In the Height field, enter 5, and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
5. In the Padding section, click in the Left field, enter 10, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel
(px).
Note: This is optional; you can set it to 0 if you like.
6. In the rest of the fields on the tab, enter 0.
7. Select the Columns tab.
8. In the Count field, enter 3.
9. In the Gap field, enter 0.
10. Click OK.
11. Click
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to save your work.
BLEED
1. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, select View>Bleed. Now you can see the bleed area
in the editor.
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2. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, click
. The Page Properties dialog opens.
3. Select the Print Marks tab. This lets us set the size of the bleed area.
4. In all of the fields, enter 0.25 and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
Note: You can certainly keep the default setting of 0.50 in. We simply changed it in our template because 0.25 in is the industry standard. The most important thing to keep in mind is
to make sure the bleed area is large enough. Ideally, it should be no less than 0.125 in.
5. Click OK.
6. Click
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to save your work.
FOOTER FRAME
1. In the Page Layout Editor, double-click the footer frame. (You may need to scroll down in the Page
Layout Editor to find it if you started out with the Default page layout and then resized page as
described above. You will see a small rectangle with the word "footer." That's the label at the bottom-right of the footer frame; double-click that.)
The Frame Properties dialog opens.
Note: An alternative is to simply click and drag the footer frame, and its edges, until you
have it placed just where you want it on the page. However, in this exercise, we'll use the
Frame Properties dialog, because it's easier to get the precise size and position that you
see in our template.
2. Select the Frame tab.
3. In the Size and Position section, click in the Top field, enter 424, and for the unit of measurement
select Pixel (px).
4. Click in the Width field, enter 1440, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel (px).
5. Click in the Height field, enter 44, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel (px).
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6. In the Anchors section, click in the Bottom field, enter 12, and for the unit of measurement select
Pixel (px).
7. In the rest of the fields on the tab, enter 0.
8. In the lower-right corner of the tab, click the left, right, and bottom arrow so that it looks like this:
These anchors are useful in case you decide to resize the entire page at some point. When the page
is resized, the footer frame will maintain its same distance from the left, right, and bottom edges of
the page because they are anchored.
9. Select the Alignment tab.
10. Set the Vertical Alignment to Middle.
Note: This is purely optional. You do not need to specify how content is aligned in the
frame. In our template, we decided to align the content in the middle of the frame vertically.
11. Click OK.
12. The footer frame should now be repositioned and selected on the page. But we need to bring it up to
the top level so that it's easy to work with and so that no content obscures the decoration images or
page numbers that we'll place in the footer. So in the local toolbar, select Layout>Depth>Float To
Top.
13. Now let's add content to the footer frame. With the frame selected, press F2 on your keyboard.
14. In the dialog asking if you want to insert a page number, click No. The Frame Editor opens at the bottom of the workspace.
15. Select the Table ribbon.
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16. On the far left of the ribbon, click the face of the Insert Table button. The Insert Table dialog opens.
17. In the Number of columns field, enter 3.
18. In the Number of rows field, enter 1.
19. In the Number of header rows and Number of footer rows field, enter 0.
20. In the AutoFit Behavior section, select AutoFit to window, and in the field to the right select
100%.
21. In the Align field, select Center.
22. Click OK.
23. In the first column of the table, add content. In our template, we did the following:
a. Insert three circle images in a row, each separated by a space (in our template, the image is
named "FooterCircleBlack").
b. If necessary, resize the images you inserted. We resized ours to a maximum width of 30px.For
more about resizing images, see the online Help.
c. Apply a style to the paragraph in that cell. To do this, click in that cell, select the Table ribbon,
click Cell Content Style, and select the style class. In our template, the style is named
"p.FrameFooterImages."
d. Align the content to the right of the table cell. You can do this by making sure the style applied
to the paragraph has the text alignment set to the right. Alternatively, you can open the Home
ribbon and click
.
24. In the second column of the table, add content. In our template, we did the following:
a. Type the number 2 to represent page 2. In our template, we did not use a page variable—like
we would normally do in a page layout—because we're dealing with columns within a single
page, rather than one page number per page. Besides, the product foldout only has six panes
total, so typing the page numbers is not an issue.
b. Apply a style to the paragraph in that cell. To do this, click in that cell, select the Table ribbon,
click Cell Content Style, and select the style class. In our template, the style is named
"p.FrameFooterText." The content should be aligned to the left of the table cell.
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25. In the third column of the table, add content. In our template, we did the following:
a. Type the number 3 to represent page 3.
b. Apply a style to the paragraph in that cell. To do this, click in that cell, select the Table ribbon,
click Cell Content Style, and select the style class. In our template, the style is named
"p.FrameFooterText."
c. Align the content to the right of the table cell. You can do this by making sure the style applied
to the paragraph has the text alignment set to the right. Alternatively, you can open the Home
ribbon and click
26. Click
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to save your work.
BACKGROUND IMAGE
The circle decoration images are discussed in the section above on the footer frame. The following steps
describe how we added a larger background image in the page layout. Flare allows you to add one background image to the entire page layout and one background image in each body frame. We added one
image to the background of the page layout. We did this because we planned to use it as a watermark,
appearing behind all of the content.
As for the other large image on the front side of the product foldout (the one spanning the second and third
columns), we inserted it directly into the topic and used absolute positioning to place it where we wanted it
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(see "Images" on page 33). We did this because we planned to have content in the foldout wrap around the
image, and this is the easiest way to accomplish that.
Another thing to keep in mind with page layouts is the dots per inch (DPI) of images. For print-based output,
you ideally want images with high DPI settings. A DPI of 300 is recommended if possible, but sometimes
you need to use an image with a lower DPI so that you can display it at the right size. The best practice is
to start out with a very large image with a high DPI. When it is added to the Page Layout Editor, it appears
to shrink because you've told Flare to display it at 300 DPI (or another high DPI setting). The larger the DPI,
the smaller it's going to be displayed in the Page Layout Editor and in the output.
1. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, click
. The Page Properties dialog opens.
2. Select the Background tab.
3. In the Image section, click Browse and select the image you want to use for the page layout background. In our template, we selected an image named "Image1.eps" that we had already added to
the Resources/Images subfolder in the Content Explorer. Click OK when you are done.
4. In the Repeat field, select No repeat.
5. In the Position section, click in the X field and enter -200px. This positions the image 200 pixels
left horizontally.
Note: It's not uncommon to play with different values in the Position fields until you get the
image placed just where you want it.
6. Click OK. Because this image was set in the background of the entire page layout, and the image is
larger than the page, it bleeds beyond the edge of the page. If instead we had set the image in the
background of a frame, it would stop at the edge of that frame.
7. Click
to save your work.
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Back Page Layout
Make a copy of the Front page layout and give it a name (we called our second page layout "Back").
After that, complete the following sets of steps for the Back page layout.
BODY FRAMES
1. In the Page Layout Editor, double-click the body frame. The Frame Properties dialog opens.
2. Select the Frame tab.
3. In the Width field, enter 480, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel (px).
4. In the Height field, enter 480, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel (px).
5. In the Anchors section, click in the Right field, enter 960, and for the unit of measurement select
Pixel (px).
6. In the rest of the fields on the tab, enter 0.
7. Select the Columns tab.
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8. In the Count field, enter 1.
9. Click OK. You'll probably notice that the frame still has a background image. Don't worry about that
right now; we'll fix that in the steps below for images.
10. Make a copy of that body frame. Then double-click it. The Frame Properties dialog opens.
11. Select the Frame tab.
12. In the Size and Position section, click in the Left field, enter 480, and for the unit of measurement
select Pixel (px).
13. In the Width field, enter 10, and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
14. In the Height field, enter 5, and for the unit of measurement select Inch (in).
15. In the Padding section, click in the Left field, enter 10, and for the unit of measurement select Pixel
(px).
Note: This is optional; you can set it to 0 if you like.
16. In the rest of the fields on the tab, enter 0.
17. Select the Columns tab.
18. In the Count field, enter 2.
19. Select the Background tab.
20. In the Color section, select Solid.
21. Click in the Fill Start field and choose a color. In our template, that color has a hex number of
4E4D4E. (You can enter this hex number directly if you select More Colors from the drop-down.)
22. Click OK.
23. Click
to save your work.
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DECORATION FRAME
1. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, click the down arrow next to the New Frame button
and select New Decoration Frame Mode.
2. Click on the page and draw a rectangle. It doesn't matter how big it is or where you draw it.
3. Double-click that frame. The Frame Properties dialog opens.
4. Select the Frame tab.
5. Set the fields as follows:
SIZE AND POSITION
Left 480 px
Top -0.25 in
Width 10.25 in
Height 5.50 in
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ANCHORS
Right -0.25 in
Bottom -0.25 in
PADDING
Left 0
Right 0
Top 0
Bottom 0
6. Select the Background tab.
7. In the Color section, select Solid.
8. Click in the Fill Start field and choose the color that matches the background of the body second
body frame. In our template, that color has a hex number of 4E4D4E. (You can enter this hex number directly if you select More Colors from the drop-down.)
9. Click OK.
10. Now we just need to make sure that the decoration frame is behind the body frame. So click on the
decoration frame in the Page Layout Editor.
11. In the local toolbar, select Layout>Depth>Sink To Bottom.
12. Click
to save your work.
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FOOTER FRAME
1. In the Page Layout Editor, select the footer frame and press F2 on your keyboard. The Frame Editor
opens so that we can change the content in the three-column table.
2. In the first column of the table, replace the content if necessary. In our template, we kept two of the
plain circle images, but we replaced the third one with a circular logo image (called "FooterLogoBlack" in our template). We also aligned the content to the left side of the table cell. You can
do this by applying a style to the paragraph that has the text alignment set to the left. Alternatively,
you can open the Home ribbon and click
.
3. In the second column of the table, add content. In our template, we replaced the number 2 with 4 to
represent page 4. Also, we applied a style named "p.FrameFooterTextDarkBackground" to this number to give it the look we wanted (e.g., green font).
4. In the third column of the table, add content. In our template, we replaced the number 3 with 5 to represent page 5. We also applied a style to it in order to give it the same look as the other page number, and we aligned the number to the right side of the table cell.
5. Click
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to save your work.
6. We need to make sure the footer frame is on the top level so that it's easy to work with and so that
no content obscures the decoration images or page numbers. So in the local toolbar, select Layout>Depth>Float To Top.
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BACKGROUND IMAGE
If you've been following the steps up until now—copying the Front page layout and making changes to it—
you should see a background logo image, which we will replace with a different image of a Flare box.
There is another image on the back side of the product foldout, which we inserted directly into the topic and
used absolute positioning to place it where we wanted it (see "Images" on page 33).
1. In the local toolbar of the Page Layout Editor, click
. The Page Properties dialog opens.
2. Select the Background tab.
3. In the Image section, click Browse and select the image you want to use for the page layout background. In our template, we selected an image named "Image3.png" that we had already added to
the Resources/Images subfolder in the Content Explorer. Click OK when you are finished.
4. In the Position section, click in the X field and enter -30px.
5. In the Y field, enter -44px.
6. Click OK.
7. Click
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CHAPTER 4
Images
The images in this template were added in a few different ways.
Some images were added to the page layout. For more about that, see "Page Layouts" on
page 13.
Another way that we added images was to insert them directly into the topics. In most
cases, we used absolute positioning to click and drag the images where we wanted them,
sometimes with content flowing around the image on multiple sides.
You can use absolute positioning for content that is in the same body frame, even if there
are multiple columns in it. However, you cannot use this method to span images across content in multiple body frames.For more about absolute positioning, see the online Help.
Following are the steps we used to insert and position one of these images into a topic.
This chapter discusses the following:
Insert and Resize Image
Position Image
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Insert and Resize Image
1. Open the Content Explorer and expand the Resources/Images subfolder.
2. Open the topic (in this example, we opened the Front.htm file).
3. In the Content Explorer click the image you want to insert into the topic (in this example, we chose
Image2.png).
Our Front.htm topic has a body frame with three columns, so we were able to drag and drop the
image anywhere in the topic. If your topic has multiple body frames, make sure you drag the image
to the body frame where you want it to be placed.
4. Resize the image. There are multiple ways to do this in Flare. In our template, we selected the
image, then clicked the icon near the lower-right corner of the inserted image. Then we dragged up
and to the left to reduce the size of the image. For more about resizing images, see the online Help.
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5. Click
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Position Image
1. Right-click the image that you inserted, and from the context menu select Text Wrap>Square.
2. Click in the middle of the image and drag it to the desired location. Then drop it.
3. Click
to save your work.
Note: The image that we used in this example already has a good amount of empty space around
its edges, which prevented the text from being displayed too close to it. Depending on the image
(s) you want to use, you might consider adding space around the image (such as padding via a
stylesheet). For more about adding padding to images, see the online Help.
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CHAPTER 5
Styles
To make sure our content looks good with the page layouts we created, we used styles. Following are the steps we followed for the different elements.
This chapter discusses the following:
Body Style
Company Name
Title
First-Level Headings
Second-Level Headings
Body Text
Company Info
Numbered and Bulleted Lists
Example
Applying Styles to Content
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Body Style
First, we specified some settings on the body style in our stylesheet. We did this because all of the other
styles inherit those settings. For example, we wanted most of the styles in our project to use an Arial font.
Therefore, it does not make sense to specify Arial on every style. Instead, we specified Arial on the body
style, and as a result, all other styles and style classes use it as well. However, we wanted to use Century
Gothic as the font for a few styles, so we simply specified that particular font for those styles, overriding
the inherited Arial setting.
1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left of the editor, make sure the Show Styles field is set to
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the body style.
e. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
f. Choose the settings shown in the following image (most of these properties should already be
set by default):
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet (other necessary properties are already using the default values):
body
{
color: #404040;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 8pt;
line-height: 13px;
margin: 8px;
}
2. Click
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to save your work.
Company Name
We created a style class called "p.ManualTitle1" to control the look of the company name on the first panel
on the front side of the foldout.
1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
e. In the local toolbar, click Add Class.
f. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "ManualTitle1") and click OK.
g. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
.
h. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
p.ManualTitle1
{
column-break-before: always;
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: 9pt;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 50px;
padding-top: 80px;
}
2. Click
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to save your work.
Title
We created a style class called "p.ManualTitle2" to control the look of the foldout title on the first panel on
the front side of the foldout.
1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
e. In the local toolbar, click Add Class.
f. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "ManualTitle2") and click OK.
g. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
.
h. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
p.ManualTitle2
{
color: #bed230;
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: 22pt;
line-height: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-top: 0;
}
2. Click
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to save your work.
First-Level Headings
We used the standard h1 style to control the look of first-level headings when the background is light.
In addition, we created a style class called "h1.DarkBackground" to control the look of first-level headings
when the background is dark.
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1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the h1 style.
e. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
f. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
g. With h1 still selected on the left, in the local toolbar click Add Class.
h. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "DarkBackground") and click OK.
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.
i. Choose the setting shown in the following image (the class inherits the other settings from the
parent h1 style):
GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
h1
{
column-break-before: always;
font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: normal;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
padding-top: 28px;
page-break-before: avoid;
}
h1.DarkBackground
{
color: #e1e1e1;
}
2. Click
to save your work.
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Second-Level Headings
We use the h2 style to control the look of second-level headings when the background is light.
1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the h2 style.
e. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
.
f. Choose the settings shown in the following image (some of these properties should already be
set by default):
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
h2
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-weight: normal;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-top: 16px;
mc-heading-level: 0;
}
2. Click
to save your work.
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Body Text
We used several paragraph styles to control the various ways that body text appears in our template.
First, we used the standard p style to control the look of regular body text when the background is light.
Second, we created a style class called "p.BackPanel" to control the look of body text that needs special
placement on the back panel of the foldout.
And third, we created a style class called "p.DarkBackground" to control the look of body text when the
background is dark.
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1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
e. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
.
f. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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g. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
h. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
i. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "BackPanel") and click OK.
j. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
k. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
l. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
m. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "DarkBackground") and click OK.
n. Choose the setting shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
p
{
margin-bottom: 8px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-top: 8px;
}
p.BackPanel
{
column-break-before: always;
color: #000000;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-top: 30px;
}
p.DarkBackground
{
color: #e1e1e1;
}
2. Click
to save your work.
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Company Info
We created a style class called "p.CompanyInfo1" to control the look of text that displays the company
name on the back panel of the foldout.
We also created a style class called "p.CompanyInfo2" to control the look of additional company information (e.g., address, website) that follows the company name on the back panel of the foldout.
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1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
e. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
f. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "CompanyInfo1") and click OK.
g. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
.
h. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
i. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
j. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
k. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "CompanyInfo2") and click OK.
l. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
p.CompanyInfo1
{
color: #000000;
font-size: 7pt;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-top: 310px;
}
p.CompanyInfo2
{
color: #000000;
font-size: 7pt;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-top: 0;
}
2. Click
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to save your work.
Numbered and Bulleted Lists
We used the standard ol style to control the look of numbered lists.
We used the standard li style to control the look of individual list items on a light background. And we created a style class called "li.DarkBackground" to control the look of individual list items on a dark background.
We also used the standard ul style to control the look of bulleted lists on a light background. We also created a style class called "ul.DarkBackground" to control the look of bulleted lists when they appear on a
dark background.
Finally, we created a character-level class called "span.LightGreen" to control the look of the initial text at
the beginning of list items.
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1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the ol style.
e. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
f. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
g. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the li style.
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.
h. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
i. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the li style.
j. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
k. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "DarkBackground") and click OK.
l. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
m. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the ul style.
n. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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Note: The image file shown in the list-style-image row (BulletDark.eps) is a file that
we placed in the Resources/Images folder in our template. You can add a bullet
image with a different name and point to that instead.
o. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the ul style.
p. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
q. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "DarkBackground") and click OK.
r. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
s. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
t. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the span style.
u. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
v. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "LightGreen") and click OK.
w. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
li
{
margin-bottom: 6px;
margin-top: 6px;
orphans: 2;
widows: 2;
}
li.DarkBackground
{
color: #e1e1e1;
margin-bottom: 6px;
margin-top: 6px;
orphans: 2;
widows: 2;
}
ol
{
list-style-image: none;
margin-left: 60px;
}
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span.LightGreen
{
color: #bed230;
font-weight: bold;
}
ul
{
list-style-image: url('../Images/BulletDark.eps');
margin-left: 60px;
}
ul.DarkBackground
{
list-style-image: url('../Images/BulletLight.eps');
margin-left: 60px;
}
Note: The image files shown for the ul and ul.DarkBackground styles (BulletDark.eps and
BulletLight.eps) are files that we placed in the Resources/Images folder in our template.
You can add bullet images with different names and point to those instead.
2. Click
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to save your work.
Example
We created a style class called "p.ExampleHead" to control the look of the heading at the beginning of an
example.
We also created a style class called "p.ExampleMiddleSection" to control the look of the content after an
example heading but before the end of the example.
Finally, we created a style class called "p.Example" to control the look of content at the end of an example.
1. Do one of the following:
USE THE STYLESHEET EDITOR (BEGINNERS)
a. Open your stylesheet.
b. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays
. If the button displays
instead, then click it.
c. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the Show Styles field and select
.
d. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
e. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
f. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "ExampleHead") and click OK.
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g. From the Show drop-down list on the upper-right side of the editor, select
h. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
i. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
j. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
k. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "ExampleMiddleSection") and click OK.
l. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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.
m. On the left side of the Stylesheet Editor, select the p style.
n. In the local toolbar click Add Class.
o. Type a name for the new style class (we named ours "Example") and click OK.
p. Choose the settings shown in the following image:
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GET THE CSS (ADVANCED USERS)
Enter this in the stylesheet:
p.Example
{
background-color: #bed230;
border-bottom-color: #a4ac67;
border-bottom-left-radius: 6px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 6px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-color: #a4ac67;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-right-color: #a4ac67;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-width: 1px;
margin-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 14px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-top: 6px;
}
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p.ExampleHead
{
background-color: #bed230;
border-left-color: #a4ac67;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-right-color: #a4ac67;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-top-color: #a4ac67;
border-top-left-radius: 6px;
border-top-right-radius: 6px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-width: 1px;
font-size: .9em;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: 5px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-top: 6px;
padding-bottom: 6px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-top: 14px;
page-break-after: avoid;
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}
p.ExampleMiddleSection
{
background-color: #bed230;
border-left-color: #a4ac67;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-right-color: #a4ac67;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-width: 1px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 6px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-top: 6px;
}
2. Click
to save your work.
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Applying Styles to Content
Now that you've got your styles, you just need to apply them to the appropriate content. For more about
applying styles to content, see the online Help.
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APPENDIX
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Source Control Guide: Git
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Touring the Workspace Guide
Source Control Guide: Subversion
Transition From FrameMaker Guide
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Source Control Guide: Visual SourceSafe
Tutorials Guide: Top Navigation Adv Template
Styles Guide
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Variables Guide
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WebHelp Outputs Guide
Targets Guide
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