When you want to typeset and print something with iCalamus, we call the required file a document. Everything can be a document, even real documents like certificates, identity cards or bank notes. Start typesetting business letters, business cards, posters, brochures, whole books, stamps, certificates, photo books, CD covers and whatever you can imagine – with iCalamus.
You will surely have seen the dialog New document
when you
launched iCalamus for the first time. There you define how the
document you are going to typeset should look. You can define directly
how many pages the document should have and which format the pages
should use. You can even set guides or guide columns for layout
reasons which might help placing elements in your document later.
In iCalamus you can edit documents in a simple page view, or in a
double page view at this time. For example, if you want to layout a
magazine with 64 pages, it is helpful to be able to see the facing
pages of the finished printed magazine correctly displayed on the
screen. This is what the check boxes Double page mode
and
First page is right page
are used for.
iCalamus offers a variety of predefined page formats in a menu.
Click with the mouse on the wide horizontal bar in the Format
field. Then you will see the page format menu with a really long list
of pages.
Beside iCalamus documents you can also edit Photographerbook documents at this time. We will refer to them later in detail.
If this menu touches the screen border at the top or the bottom,
you will see an arrow there which indicates that the list continues in
the relevant direction. When you move the mouse to this arrow, the
page format menu scrolls automatically downwards or upwards. At the
bottom end you will find the entry User defined
. When you
select it with a mouse click, the page format menu closes, and you can
enter your desired page format in the fields Width
and
Height
.
But of course you do not need to scroll down the page format menu
each time you want to enter your own format. It doesn't matter which
page format is currently shown in the dialog. Simply click into the
numeric edit fields and enter new values. The page format menu title
will then automatically switch to User defined
.
Have you decided which page format you would like to choose? Did you set up your desired page parameters? Then click on [OK]. The dialog closes, and you have created a new document in iCalamus which now lays in front of you in its whole (white) magnificence.
