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The Stationery pane allows you to design and print items of stationery and easily merge in details of your guests and their seating arrangements from your PerfectTablePlan data. Each page can contain a single stationery item (e.g. an A4 invitation letter) or multiple items (e.g. 3x6 address labels). Design a master for your stationery items in the Design tab and preview it in the Preview tab. Note You can order place cards online. Top controlsClick on the Open stationery button to load a stationery design. A few samples are included with PerfectTablePlan. You can also save your own designs to use later or send to other PerfectTablePlan users. Click on the Stationery layout button to change the layout of the existing design. For example to change the page size or the number and dimensions of items on the page. Click on the Save stationery button to save the current stationery design to a file. You will be able to load this design back into this plan, or another plan, at a later date. Select from the Item per drop-down list to create a stationery item for each guest, each group or each table. Select from the For drop-down list to choose which guests/groups you wish to create stationery items for. For example, if you are printing place cards, you probably want to select Item per to Guest and For to Assigned. If you are printing invitations you probably want to select Item per to Group and For to All. If you want to reprint an individual place card you probably want to select Item per to Guest and For to Selected.... Select from the Sort by drop-down list to determine the order in which stationery items are ordered. This feature should make it easier to set up place cards if you have hundreds of guests. It is only available for Item per=Guest . Click on the button to show additional options. Select from the Fold drop-down list to a horizontal or vertical fold. This can be useful for designing and printing tent fold cards. Folds are displayed in printouts. Set the Border thickness to greater than 0 to add a border to each stationery item. Click on the Border colour button to change the colour of the border around each item. This has no effect if the Border thickness is 0. Click on the Background colour button to change the background colour of each item. Design tabClick on the Insert text button to add text and merge guest data. Click on the Insert image button to add a graphic/image/clipart. You can also drag an image from your operating system or web browser onto the Design tab of the Stationery pane. Click on the Colour spot button to add a colour coded spot.
Click on the Horizontal centre or Vertical centre buttons to horizontally/vertically centre the currently selected text. Click on the Rotate button to rotate the selected text 90 degrees. Click on the Move to Back button to move the selected text behind any other text. To delete text click select the text and click the Delete button. Change the value of Guides to the number of guidelines you wish to add to the design. These can be useful for aligning text neatly. They are not shown in printouts. Click on the Font button to change the font of the selected text. Alternatively you can use the Font size field or the Italic, Bold and Underline buttons. Note PerfectTablePlan will automatically reduce the font size to try to keep it within a stationery item. The font size has been automatically reduced to fit for the left hand stationery item Click on the Colour button to change the colour of the selected text. Click on the Left align, Centre align or Right align buttons to change the alignment of the selected text. Click on the Word wrap button to allow line breaks to be added where text is too long to fit within the stationery. If this isn't sufficient to fit the text within the stationery, the font size may be automatically reduced as well. Drag the splitter at the top of the text edit box to increase or decrease the size of the text edit area. Preview tabSelect Display to show either a full page of items or a single item (e.g. 3x6 address labels or a single address label) and the number of the page/item to display. Set Start position to position on the page where you wish the first item to be printed. Check cut marks if you would like cut marks to be printed on the page. This can be useful if you are using a guillotine to cut the page. Substitution textIf you use the following text in your design it will be substituted by the appropriate data from your plan. In alphabetical order:
Note Text will only be substituted if Item per is set to the correct value, e.g. {guest_title} will not be substituted if you set Item per to Table. ExportingYou can export your stationery to a PDF file by selecting File>Export and selecting stationery to PDF file. See also: |