The Fix document
menu entry provides a function designed
for advanced DTP users. However, even if you are only a beginner, it
may be useful to become acquainted with this function against future
need. Calamus saves text line-breaks in cache memory (see
Fundamentals, Vector and raster graphics
and Generating
glyphs (character images)
). The contents of cache memory are
emptied when Calamus needs the memory for something else. If a text
frame has to be redrawn after this, it will be formatted anew. Calamus
does not save the actual line-breaks to disk. Instead, every time you
load the document, the program recalculates them as it draws the
frames.
Most of the time, this is what you want to happen. However, there are exceptions: if you are sending a document to be imageset, the printer will usually use his own fonts. If he has a newer version of one of the fonts required, there could be problems. For example, some of the characters in the new version of the font might be narrower or wider than yours, so that the whole text would normally need reformatting with possibly different line-breaks.
You can avoid this problem and save the document with fixed
line-breaks by using the Fix document
menu entry to call the
relevant function. To secure the line-breaks, click the Fix
button in the Fix document
dialog box. The position of the
line-breaks is now encoded in the saved file, and Calamus will not
recalculate them when it reloads the document. This way you can be
sure your document will be imageset exactly as it appears on your
screen.
On the other hand, if you want to reformat all text frames in the
document before printing, select the Clear
button. Calamus will
discard all line-break information before it saves the file. As a
result, printing (imagesetting) the document will take a little
longer.
The Keep
button, which is normally selected, offers a
compromise between print time and reformatting. All line-break
information already calculated will be saved, but information for the
other pages will be calculated when printing.
One can also specify how Calamus should deal with any fonts, text
styles, text rulers, master pages and document pages as well as layers
which are not required by the current document. For each element, you
can decide whether it should be kept or automatically deleted when the
document is saved. (The Raster image data
buttons are described
below in the Keep / Decompress raster images
section.)
The When saving ... show this dialog Yes/No
buttons allow
you to select whether this dialog box will appear every time you save
a document. This allows you to double-check the settings and change
them if desired. For safety's sake, you should always select
Yes
here.
Finally, you can set a minimum line width. All lines and raster area edges which Calamus prints will be at least as wide as the value shown here. This option allows you to make hairlines heavier; otherwise for example they would be only around 4 ten-thousandth of an inch at 2540 dpi, which would vanish during later printing.
In addition to the usual [OK] and [Cancel] buttons, there is also
an Apply
button, which allows you to perform all deletions
immediately. This forces the computer to recalculate all text breaks
and remove unused colour layers, and to eliminate all unnecessary
elements in your document.
Calamus uses image compression (especially with b&w images) to keep documents as small as possible.
This switch defines if the (simple) black&white image compression should be used.
This switch is very important. You can embed all the fonts that are used in your documents (including any loadable font formats!) into your documents when saving them.
Previously it was important to keep an eye on every single precious byte of storage space. Today, Calamus documents are often very much larger, so the fonts form a smaller percentage of the total document size. It therefore makes sense to save documents with embedded fonts, even if you do not have to pass them on to your imagesetting service. You can reload all SL documents much easier, without time-wasting lengthy searches for rarely used fonts, because they are already in the document! Your imagesetting service will thank you too, if you ship your documents with embedded fonts for exposure, plot or print service matters.
Legally speaking you are covered. The loaded, serialized CFN fonts are encrypted in the document, and still bound to your Calamus serial number. An imagesetter service partner will still only be able to open your documents if he/she owns a Job manager module, so nothing has changed as far as license liability for using CFN fonts is concerned. PS Type 1 fonts and TrueType fonts are not serialized during loading or saving.
