I imported the relevant picture and used the rather basic masking (Round Corners or Oval) to add rounded corners and I added a drop shadow, and put a rotation on it. Rotated box, and then indents not working I decided that for the purposes of this review I would just leave the rotation off. I fiddled about with this for a while trying to get it to work properly but every time I tried to make an alteration the box reverted to being wrong. Although the box looked correct while selected, as soon as I deselected it the indent stopped working properly on the right side. I put in the text and used the indent command in the Inspector to move the text away from the edge. I decided to add a small rotation to help break up the visual feel of the page. Next I decided to put in a text box and add a gradient fill, a stroke, and a drop shadow ready for the second article. Basic line controls The advanced line controls Interestingly, the Paragraph Space command is somewhat concealed, being in the More section of the Line Space pop out menu. Finally, to finish off that section I drew another text box, pasted in the text, and styled it using the Toolbar text and line controls. I then created another picture box and inserted the TechFan podcast graphic. Below that I drew in a text box and put in the headline, using the standard Apple fonts palette to set the type, size, colour, and drop shadow. I drew a very thin box and used that as a dividing rule and used the standard Apple colour tools to colour it. I then looked for a line or pen tool, without success. I started with a simple image box across the head and placed the banner. Page size, measurement units, margins, columns, rows, and guides are all set from the Inspector palettes. I settled for putting the items that related to the document and are only likely to be used a few times per document into the right (hideable) column and kept the Text, Box, and Image controls in the left hand (always visible) column. They are only partially hideable because you can reduce the Inspector Palettes to one column, but not hide them completely. ![]() Included are a typical Toolbar along the top of the window, a Book Pages and HTML structure Sidebar on the left, and a set of collapsible, re-arrangeable, and partially hideable Inspector palettes on the right. PageMeUp opens with a fairly standard interface. I have added a postscript below the MyMac rating with some updated comments. Reviewer’s Note: After I wrote this review I had a email conversation with the developer and rather than rewrite the review (which wouldn’t really be fair). In order to write this review I put together this document so I could give it a proper trial, rather than just reading the press release and looking at their own feature lists. ![]() At the price it is pitched against applications like Pages, SwiftPublisher, and iStudio Publisher rather than the big guns like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress. PageMeUp describes itself as designed for print documents and websites. PageMe Up Desktop Publishing and HTML design and layout application
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