ProScale v6.0

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Scaling XTensions for Professionals

New Features since v5.2 up to v7

Greatly enhanced speed.
Improved document scaling.
Tabbed interface.
Quark Link tech support.
Greatly enhanced preset management.
Undo.
Quark 6 native.
OS X native.
Ability to not scale gutters.

USING GLUON ProScale™

THE GLUON MENU

All of ProScale’s functions are accessed through the GLUON Menu which appears on the right side of the menu bar. If a ProScale does not apply to the current situation then it is grayed out in the menu.

THE SCALING TOOL

ProScale installs a new icon on the tool bar. Click on this whenever you have boxes selected if you want to resize the selection manually or using the measurements palette.

THE SCALER

With the Scale Selection... menu item you can scale page elements or groups of elements or documents to a specific percentage or size. All currently selected items will be scaled to the amount or size specified and the elements will be repositioned accordingly. If no items are selected the Scaler will assume you wish to scale the entire document, thus certain features will not be available within the dialog.

The Dialog

The dialog is broken into 3 tabbed sections: Scale, Options and Presets. At the bottom of the dialog are 4 main buttons and 3 GLUON Link buttons:

Cancel Ignores all changes and performs nothing.

? Brings up a basic help dialog.

Use Settings allows you to capture settings for use with the scaling tool without actually scaling anything.

Scale Performs the scaling action.

GLUON Link

Clicking this will transport you to the GLUON home page.

Clicking this will transport you to the GLUON free updaters page.

Clicking this will transport you to the GLUON tech support page.

Scale Tab

If you wish to scale only the item(s) you have selected, then make sure the Selection radio button is hilited. Otherwise scaling will apply to the Entire Document or Page Range. When scaling entire documents, the actual page size will be changed. If extra pages result, you can delete them if needed. ProScale will use the Scale from: Upper left of selection option when scaling documents. Use Page Range to set a page range to scale all items on each page in the range. Use a plus(+) before page numbers to scale absolute pages.

Scale by: When scale by Percent is selected, all scaling is done as a relative percentage of the current selection or document. When Size is selected, the scaler automatically calculates the horizontal and vertical percentages which will scale the selection to the desired target size. NOTE: The target size is always displayed below in the Information Display Bar in current measurement units.

Constrained: When Constrained is selected, scaling is done uniformly along the x and y axes. Use this if you wish to maintain the original proportions of the item(s) selected.

Non-constrained: When Constrained is not selected, scaling is done separately along the x and y axes.

Use this if you wish to distort the original proportions of the item(s) selected. NOTE: when Scale-by- size is being used, the Horizontal and Vertical text fields are used for both Constrained and Non-con- strained types of scaling. They will be updated automatically when Constrained scaling is being used.

Keep proportional: When the Non-constrained method is used, additional options are enabled which allow you to resize everything but keep individual items selected at their original x and y proportions.

This is extremely handy for resizing full-page documents into brochures and slim jims. The default setting has the Text, Anchored Boxes and Graphics items checked as this often produces the most useful layouts with minimal tweaking needed.

Fit to: When this option is selected, the pop-up menu next to it will allow you the resize all selected items or document to fit the item you select either proportionally or non-proportionally depending on whether you hit the constrain checkmark. To completely fill a page, first select turn Constrain off and then Fit to Page. Fitting to bleed will cause items to scale to 1/8” outside trim.

When one of the column options is selected, all selected items will be scaled to fit the nearest column either proportionally or non-proportionally depending on whether constrained is on. Column width is determined in Master Guides or when document is first created. The default number of columns is one which would cause this function to scale objects out to the margins of the page. (see page 4 for more on Fit to). Additional items can be added to the fit-to menus through the Presets Tab (below).

Text and Picture Fitting (New to 6.0)

If you were using the Contents Tool before going to the ProScale dialog, additional items will appear at the bottom of the Fit to pop-up menu. If text is selected, options for fitting the text to it’s containing box or the box to the text appear. If it was a picture, an option for fitting the box to the picture appears. If any of the text options are selected, you will then have an opportunity to set additional options in the Options Tab. It will totally change your options, in fact. These options are as follows:

By fiddling with these options you can achieve almost any text fitting goal desired. You can even get some strange effects that might be useful in design. Increment is the amount by which it attemps to adjust text parameters up or down, rounding by that amount. Use this to prevent odd sizes. For example: 12.348 pt would become 12.5 pt. However, if you don’t use the Fine Tune function you will rarely get an exact fit. Fine tune using parameters where you don’t mind an odd value. When ProScale fine tunes, it uses a much smaller increment and doesn’t do any rounding, adjusting until the text fits tightly.

When a multi-column box contains the text, you have the option of fitting the text to the column instead of the box. You can also watch the fitting go if you want. However, it goes much faster when you don’t...but it’s cool to watch.

Scale from: These four options are used to change the center of scaling. Default setting is upper left of selection. Use this setting when resizing documents as other settings may cause abnormal offsets of your resulting layout on the new document’s page. Use the bottom two choices to add or fill space in a layout without changing the layout itself.

Step and Repeat: Use this feature to create multiple scalings of a given selection. This can be used to create logo sheets or for design purposes.

Repeat Count: With Repeat Count set to 1 (default) your current selection will be scaled. When Repeat Count is Positive, current Step and Repeat settings will be used to offset your scaled items. Make sure you have room on your page to accommodate your offsets and resizing. When Repeat Count is negative, new pages will be added to the end of your document and scaled copies of the current selection will be placed on these pages. The first copy will be scaled to the amount set in Scale Percent. The remaining copies will have the scale percent increased or decreased by the value in Step Percent. The Repeat items will be hidden when they do not apply logically such as with Scale Document or Non-Constrained scaling.

Step Amount: This is the amount added to the Scale Percent when Repeat Count is greater than 1. A positive number will increase the scale percent while negative numbers will decrease it. This number can also be in absolute sizes when Scale by size is selected.

Options Tab

Items to scale: The scaling of Text Boxes, Text, Leading, TABs, Anchored Boxes, Runaround, Line Weights, Lines, Graphic Boxes, Graphics, Bézier Shapes, Style Sheets, Guides and Document Size can be toggled on or off. When an item is off (grayed out), scaling is precluded for that item. Style Sheets, Guides and Document Size are not available for selection-based scaling.

Show Alerts: With this selected you will be alerted if an element has gone beyond the possible size limitations. With Show Alerts deselected you won’t be notified if the scaling of an element cannot be performed.

Round fonts to nearest .5: Use this option when you want to avoid irregular font sizes in scaled text boxes.

Show scaling: When selected, ProScale will display the scaling action. Besides being fun to watch, you can sometimes locate a problem box this way. When turned off, scaling is much faster (not that it’s slow), especially document scaling. You can see which spread is being scaled by watching the document layout palette.

Presets Tab

This Tab is where you go to save and recall entire setting groups. Saved settings include checkboxes radio buttons, sizes and percentages. NOTE: If Document scaling is active and you scale by size, the setting can appear in the document fit-to menu. If Selection scaling is active and you scale by size, the setting can appear in the selection fit-to menu.

Name: The currently selected list item’s name appears here. You can change it here to whatever you want.

Replace: Hitting this causes the current settings to replace the currently selected list item

Delete: Deletes the currently selected preset item from the list

Save: This will create a new preset item using current settings and the name that appears in the name field above.

Rename: Will change only the name of the currently selected item on the list to the name in the Name text field.

Use Settings: After you have selected an item on the list, hit this button to change current settings to the ones previously stored using that name.

Make Default: Hitting this button will cause the current settings to be saved with the name Default. This Default setting is loaded when you launch QuarkXPress.

Add to “Fit to” list: Hitting this button will cause the current settings to be saved to the appropriate “Fit to” pop-up menu. This can then be conveniently accessed from the scale tab. To remove an item from the menu, you must remove it from the list.

Revert All: Hitting this will revert all stored settings back to the way they were before you opened the ProScale Dialog.

REPEAT SCALING

Often times, you will select something, scale it, select something else and want to scale it the exact same way without going to the dialog. ProScale remembers your last scaling percentages so all you do is select the new item(s) and click on the ProScale Tool while holding down the Option key (Control Key on Windows).

SCALING LINKED TEXT

There are many considerations associated with scaling linked text boxes which ProScale deals with in most cases. Depending on how you scale and the various insets and outsets of the boxes involved, text may reflow slightly.

SCALING MULTI-PAGE SPREADS

When scaling the Document Size of a multi-page spread such as is found in a typical book or magazine you may notice items on a single right-hand page of the first spread don't end up where you want them. Unfortunately, we can't control this as this happens when QuarkXPress tries to maintain master page information while items are not where it thought they were...a paradox of sorts. In such cases, you will need to move the items back into the correct location. you’ll still save hours of work over doing it manually!

UNDOING A SCALING ACTION

Whenever you scale a selection, you can undo as you normally would by using the Undo Menu Command or the Command-Z equivalent. You can the Redo the Scaling with the same command. Once you move or alter items, scaling can not be undone. NOTE: Document scaling can not be undone. Use Revert to Saved in this case.

USING THE SCALING TOOL

Whenever boxes are selected, you have the option to scale them manually using the scaling tool. When the tool is activated, a cyan bounding box will appear around the selection. You may then resize the selection just as you would any other QuarkXPress box. To scale proportionally, hold Option-Command-Shift while resizing. You can also enter in exact sizes or increases sizes exactly using the XPress measurement palette while the scaling box is active. To perform the scaling action press RETURN on the keyboard. All items are scaled using your current settings in the Scaler Dialog.

The “Use Settings” Button Use this button whenever you simply want to set parameters for use with the tool without actually scaling anything.

When the cyan scaling box is selected, you can adjust it manually using the handles on the sides and corners or you can use the built in calculator of the Measurements Palette. Hit RETURN again to perform the scaling.

SCALING TIP: If you encounter problems scaling, try breaking your scaling into smaller chunks or manually scaling large pictures (file size).

Most of the Fit To functions treat page size as that area inside the margins. If you want to scale items to the edge of the page you can always set your margins to zero, temporarily.

Preparation

IMPORTANT: FIRST REMOVE ANY OLD VERSIONS OF THE PROSCALE, AGENCYPACK OR KTOOLS1! AS THIS WILL CAUSE CONFLICTS IN QUARKXPRESS!

Installation—READ THIS BEFORE USING!!!

MAC:

Unless it’s a DEMO version, activate any GLUON by launching the GLUON Activator, provided. This is not necessary for DEMOs. Place all GLUON XTensions in the XTension folder inside the QuarkXPress folder. This process must be repeated for each machine upon which you want to use GLUONS. Once you have activated a machine for one GLUON, this machine will run all GLUONS so you do not need to repeat the process when you get new GLUONS. IMPORTANT: GLUONS will not operate if the above activation procedure is not followed! Please keep the GLUON Activator in a safe place. You will need it again if the System rein- stalled.

WINDOWS:

First read the Readme file. Then, double-click the Setup.exe and follow the instructions.

ProScale™ and accompanying instructions are copyrighted. You have purchased the right to use this program on no more than the number of computers as is printed in the license box on the diskette or has been indicated in on-line communication. It is a felony to modify, sell or in any way distribute copies of ProScale™ in any form without prior written or verbal consent from GLUON, Inc. You may make archival backups of this program for use in accordance with the above copyright notice.

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