Table of Contents
About this manual .................................................................................................................................... 5
Typographical conventions .................................................................................................................. 5
About your product ............................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Welcome! ............................................................................................................................................. 6
Product description .............................................................................................................................. 6
System requirements ........................................................................................................................... 6
Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 8
Installing the software ....................................................................................................................... 8
License activation ................................................................................................................................ 9
Hardware key protection .................................................................................................................. 9
Software key protection .................................................................................................................. 10
Launching the program ...................................................................................................................... 13
Discovering the interface ....................................................................................................................... 14
Description of the main window ......................................................................................................... 14
The Menu Bar ................................................................................................................................. 14
The Workspace .............................................................................................................................. 14
The Document ................................................................................................................................ 15
The Status Bar ............................................................................................................................... 15
The Toolbars .................................................................................................................................. 15
The Title Bar ................................................................................................................................... 15
Text formatting toolbar ................................................................................................................... 16
Object toolbar ................................................................................................................................. 16
View toolbar .................................................................................................................................... 16
Design toolbar ................................................................................................................................ 17
Data Sources and Objects Views ................................................................................................... 17
Graduated rulers ............................................................................................................................ 18
Rotation button ............................................................................................................................... 18
Setting up the work environment ........................................................................................................... 19
Choosing a printer .............................................................................................................................. 19
Selecting a printer .............................................................................................................................. 19
Adding a printer .................................................................................................................................. 20
Customizing the work environment .................................................................................................... 21
Changing the interface language ....................................................................................................... 21
Modifying display options and the work environment ........................................................................ 22
Choosing a unit of measurement ....................................................................................................... 22
To modify the grid scale ..................................................................................................................... 22
To define a conversion rate ............................................................................................................... 23
Defining the working folder ................................................................................................................ 23
Document page setup ........................................................................................................................ 23
Formatting a document .................................................................................................................. 23
Deleting custom stock ........................................................................................................................ 26
Creating a document using fixed objects .............................................................................................. 27
Creating and manipulating fixed objects ............................................................................................ 27
Creating objects ............................................................................................................................. 27
Modifying an object ........................................................................................................................ 28
To create a text object ....................................................................................................................... 28
Creating a barcode object .................................................................................................................. 30
Drawing a line .................................................................................................................................... 31
Drawing a circle or an ellipse ............................................................................................................. 31
To import an image ............................................................................................................................ 32
Creating a document using variable objects and data sources ............................................................. 34