Select the New file
menu item to create a new, empty
document. You can edit any number of documents you like. The
newly-created document at first consists of a single blank page in the
format you chose under Set page format
. This page format, the
number of pages, layout of guidelines and even (piped) text frames can
be altered both when creating new documents and at a later stage, so
you don't have to set the page measurements before starting a new
document. You may even change the format when there are frames on the
page.
To speed up creation of complex pages, using this menu entry calls the so-called Document manager (provided the Page module has been loaded) which displays the following settings dialog for the new document:
Here you can create several pages at the same time. If you select
the Double pages
format, the new document will always start
with the right-hand side. You can change it subsequently in the Page
module. The page format can be selected here at the start or later not
just from a predefined list, but by clicking on the small +
icon you can call up the Page formats list for making alterations or
extensions.
Guidelines too can be created directly here. In Double page mode
there are guideline entries for Inner
and Outer
, in the
Single page mode there are Left
and Right
.
If Calamus has loaded fonts on launching, or you have loaded fonts before opening the first document, you can also determine in the Document manager whether text frames are to be created. You can make settings for multi-column text frames and even make them piped frames directly.
After clicking on the [OK] button of the Create new
document
dialog you will see the new document with one or more
(blank) pages; you can now work quite normally with it, even altering
the page size if desired. However, text frames can only be be created
if at least one font has been loaded, which will normally be the case.
But if you have altered the preliminary settings, or if the first font
to be loaded can not be found, the Load fonts
dialog (from the
Text style module) will be opened, provided the Text style module has
been loaded. The function Load fonts
(see Text style module,
Font selection function group) then enables you to load the required
font data from floppy or hard disk.
