User Manual

Create the spine caption
Use the [Spine caption] dialogue to define text, a background color and/or a background image
on the spine of your document. The image is placed over the background color and the text is
placed over the image. You can create a spine caption only if your Document type is [Booklet] or
[Perfect Binding].
Additional action Description
Remove the spine captions 1. Click [Document] - [Remove spine caption].
The spine captions are removed from your document.
1. Click [Document] - [Spine caption] or double-click the spine caption in the [Preview] view.
2. [Transparency] / [Use bleed]
• Button [Transparency] is available when a cover is imported from a file.
Click this button to add transparency to the spine of the imported cover. The spine of the
imported cover is used as background for the spine caption.
• Button [Use bleed] is available when the cover is created by the application.
Click this button to use the available bleed for the spine of the cover. Check if the available
bleed is sufficient to fill the entire spine.
3. Define the background color for the spine caption. You can select the background color or use
the color picker tool.
4. Enable the [Text] option to add text to the spine. The spine caption can contain up to three
lines of text. Select the options that you want to apply to the default font, such as font style
and font size.
Align the text on the spine and define the orientation of the text.
5. Enable the [Image] option to add an image to the spine. Click the checkbox and then browse
to the file you want to use as background image on the spine caption.
Align the image on the spine and define the orientation of the image. You can use [Scale to
fit] to fit the image to the spine.
Images of type BMP, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and EPS are supported.
6. You can define the width of the spine automatically or use a custom width. By default, the
width of the spine depends on the number of pages in your document but it can be set to a
fixed value.
7. Click [OK].
Create the spine caption
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