If you’re used to word processing with plain text, your first glimpse of one of Pages’ carefully designed page layout templates can be a shocker. The cookie is an alpha-channel graphic, which allows the text to wrap around its shape (see Section 4.3.8). Four graphic images appear on the page-one is a background image behind the masthead’s text. The two shaded sidebars are text boxes, as are two parts of the masthead. This page is divided into two layouts ( Section 3.4), with one column above and three below the layout break. As for the “stylishly laid out” part, Pages provides a graphic arts department in the form of its collection of templates-tastefully designed starting points for your next brochure, newsletter, or ‘zine.įigure 4-2. Turn on Show Layout and Show Invisibles to deconstruct Pages’ template documents. Pages can access the pictures, songs, and movies that you already have on your computer-probably in iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie-and give you the freedom to include these elements within a Pages document. Digital media convergence is a reality and the kinds of documents people want to create now are stylishly laid out, colorful, and filled with photos ( Figure 4-1).
Photographs, artwork, movies, and music are just a click away on your computer. Its page-layout abilities set Pages apart from other word processors what’s causing the program’s well-deserved buzz is the incredible ease with which you can produce professional-looking layouts.Īpple’s software designers realized that the plain text document age is waning. But now it’s time for Pages to step into the spotlight and reveal its other, flashier persona. The preceding chapters treated Pages like it was just a hot new word processing program, which, of course, it is. Chapter 4. Moving Beyond Text: Laying Out Pages
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