MacroSystem Title-Studio - Manual (Page 12)

Load: Select a page archive among the ones that have already
been saved, and confirm by clicking on OK. The page will be
loaded and appended to your existing document as a new
page.
Archive: Open the text field in the next menu to enter the
name under which this page should be archived. Confirm the
save by clicking on OK.
Delete: Select an archive among the existing ones that you
want to delete, and confirm your selection by clicking on OK.
Note: It is not possible to enter a text in this menu. To write a
text on a page, you must first exit the menu. Some title effects,
such as ticker tape or scrolling titles, cannot use more than one
page. They will only use the first page for display.
Chapter 8
Box
Each document cannot only contain several pages, but also
several boxes on every page.
A box can be compared to a sheet of paper on which you
can write. It is also possible to paste several sheets over each
other, so that one page consists of several parts, the so-called
boxes.
Use the left part of the main menu of Title Studio to insert
boxes. This is also where you will find information about how
many boxes are included on the page and which one is cur-
rently being modified. This is the meaning of „Box 2/2“.
Add: Insert an additional text box on this page. A new box
always has a standard size. Besides this, the table will have
a slightly grayed background to increase visibility. The back-
ground can only be changed with „Edit“.
<: Use this button to switch to the previous box.
>: Use this button to switch to the next box. You can also use
the trackball pointer to click directly on a box in order to chan-
ge to that box.
If you are using several boxes on a page, and you would like to
re-sort them, you can do this with the button to the right of the
Edit button. Click on the left symbol to insert the currently dis-
played box before the previous one. Click on the right symbol
to exchange the current box with the next one.
Delete: Use this button to delete the currently selected box
from the page. This irrevocably deletes the box. It is not pos-
sible to delete the last box on a page. The button is inactive in
that case.
Note: If you have placed several boxes on a page, in such a
way that they overlap each other, you will only be able to di-
rectly edit the part of a box that is not covered by the one that
lies on top of it. Should you have, for example, two boxes and
you activate the lower one, you will only be able to change the
dimensions of the box using the part of the border that is not
overlapped. The table that you have activated is not automa-
tically pulled forward to the foreground. Only the part that is
really visible can be edited directly. If you click with the mouse
pointer in the other part, the box on top will be activated.
8 .1 Box - Edit
Should you want to shape a box further, or change its size,
click on Edit. This will open a new menu that will enable you to
set a background and text borders for the box. This is also the
place where you can format your text for the entire table.
The way the menu will be displayed depends on the screen
resolution. In smaller resolutions, you will need to open another
submenu to gain access to all settings.
The „Edit box“ menu offers you the following functionality:
These text-formatting functions can be applied to the box as a
whole:
Text justification: This is used to determine how your text is to
be positioned in the box. You can choose between having your
text positioned against the upper border or lower border of the
box, or to have it centered at an equal distance from the upper
border and the lower border.
Margin: This option is available when working with lower
screen resolutions. It opens a menu to set the distance from
the text to the table border. Please refer to a description of this
function further in the text under the keyword „Margin“.
Text shadow: Click on this button to open an extra menu that
will enable you to define the shadow of a text on/in this box.
The shadow can be assigned a color, a pattern or a color/
pattern/material. To do this, use the three buttons with the
displayed color content. Please refer to the „Formatting with
colors, patterns or materials“ chapter for a description of these
functions. To determine the direction in which the shadows
should fall and how they look, you can choose among the
following possibilities:
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