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DesignWizard

The Record menu will offer you to use the DesignWizard for computerized stamp design. In case you first decided to design a stamp yourself (with the Blank stamp-option), but later changed your mind, you can push the DesignWizard-button, on the Toolbar to start (re)designing with the DesignWizard.

When you want to create a new stamp, you choose the New command in the Record menu, shortcut: , Ctrl +F8. In the dialog that appears on the screen, you have the choice between designing a stamp yourself (choose Blank stamp) in that case, or designing a stamp the easy way: let the DesignWizard guide you!

In the dialog box that appears on your screen after choosing DesignWizard, you can specify the following options:

• Font
• Alignment
• Border and Rounded corners. When you select the border-field you can also specify the linewidth and the distance between the text and the border.
• Format-section. You can choose between:
  • Small, Normal, Large or King size straight line.
  • Draw line specifies a horizontal line in the stamp. DesignWizard will ask you the width of the line in an appearing dialog and put it exactly in the middle between textlines.
  • Fixed linespacing is used when you want to overrule the automatically calculated linespace between two lines. SOSET Typeset will prompt you to enter the height of the space in the Fixed Leading dialog box.
  • Small, Normal, Large or King size oval line.

In case you want several fonts or different alignments in your stamp design, you choose here any font or alignment. It does not matter, since this does not directly affect the design. Later, once you have the stamp design on your screen, you will be able to modify all these settings, per textline or selection.

With the arrow buttons in the DesignWizard dialogbox you can confirm (>) or undo (<) your selection. The double arrow button (<<) will undo all selections. For oval typesetting you can choose the oval linetypes (small, normal, large and king size oval lines). Every time you add or undo a line, the Row field will show the amount of rows (lines) in your stamp design.

• In the Column field you can set the columns in case you want the design divided in more than one vertical section. After setting the columns, tabulations in your stamp design can only be made by column.
• For perfect use of all vertical space SOSET needs to know if the last textline contains descenders. Click the appropriate box if this is the case (e.g. the letters: g,j,p etc. are not fully printed inside the stamp area if you don't selected the descenders option).

Adding and Editing a Stamp.
When you select OK in the DesignWizard you can begin to typeset, with all options preset in accordance to your entry. The cursor is blinking on the first pre-defined textline, enter some text here and with the down-arrow key on the keyboard you go to the second line, under the specified line. Here you enter text again and you repeat this action on the third line. The Enter-key is disabled during design with the DesignWizard! The reason for this is that the DesignWizard designs your stamp. Using the Enter-key would add a new line to your design and destroy the predefined design. For the same reason you cannot delete a text-line during DesignWizard operations.

In case you want to add a line to your design, you must update the stamp first. Now you are out the DesignWizard-mode and you can edit the stamp yourself and of course use the Enter-key. To let SOSET Typeset re-design your stamp, just click the DesignWizard-button, on the Toolbar. The current design will be destroyed and you can define your stamp once again.

You will see that the DesignWizard has found perfect sizes and space between the lines. Take also notice of the fantastic feature of Auto-compression.

 

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