![]() ![]() Most Pages templates contain several page layouts, designed to match and work together in the particular document you’re creating. With Invisibles turned on, you can see how the layout break provides for the change from one to three columns the section break ends the flow of text in the third column and the column breaks divide up the columns in the cookie recipe box. This practice goes back to the 1500s when it first appeared in a type specimen book-and it continues, using that same chunk of text, to this day. Typesetters call this kind of placeholder “Greek text”-even though the standard filler’s derived not from Greek but from a 2000-year-old Latin treatise on ethics by Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The Extremes of Good and Evil).ĭesigners use this dummy text when creating layouts so that (non-Latin) readers aren’t distracted by the text’s content-but instead pay attention to the page design. Actually, the text in this template-and in all Pages templates-is placeholder text, intended to be replaced by whatever text you wish to place there. The pictures of the people jumping in the lake, the house, and the cookie are JPEG graphics files, as is the blue flowered background behind the headline.īesides the design, the first thing you’ll notice about this template is that the Johnson family must live in ancient Rome. Less obvious text boxes are the “the” of “the Johnson family” and the text banner immediately beneath that headline. The red box on the left and the “cookie recipe” box across the bottom are shapes with text (see Section 4.2.4.4). The layout outlines reveal that the upper portion of the document is one column wide and the bottom part is three columns. To see how they did it, choose View → Show Layout, and View → Show Invisibles. Although this eye-catching layout looks to be the product of a skilled designer using a professional page layout program like InDesign or Quark, it’s actually created in Pages using many of the page layout techniques already described.Īpple’s designers created this document using columns, a layout break, text boxes, shapes containing text, and four graphics ( Figure 4-2). ![]() If you’re used to word processing with plain text, your first glimpse of one of Pages’ carefully designed page layout templates can be a shocker. The cookie is an alpha-channel graphic, which allows the text to wrap around its shape (see Section 4.3.8). ![]() Four graphic images appear on the page-one is a background image behind the masthead’s text. The two shaded sidebars are text boxes, as are two parts of the masthead. This page is divided into two layouts ( Section 3.4), with one column above and three below the layout break. As for the “stylishly laid out” part, Pages provides a graphic arts department in the form of its collection of templates-tastefully designed starting points for your next brochure, newsletter, or ‘zine.įigure 4-2. Turn on Show Layout and Show Invisibles to deconstruct Pages’ template documents. Pages can access the pictures, songs, and movies that you already have on your computer-probably in iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie-and give you the freedom to include these elements within a Pages document. Digital media convergence is a reality and the kinds of documents people want to create now are stylishly laid out, colorful, and filled with photos ( Figure 4-1). Photographs, artwork, movies, and music are just a click away on your computer. Its page-layout abilities set Pages apart from other word processors what’s causing the program’s well-deserved buzz is the incredible ease with which you can produce professional-looking layouts.Īpple’s software designers realized that the plain text document age is waning. But now it’s time for Pages to step into the spotlight and reveal its other, flashier persona. The preceding chapters treated Pages like it was just a hot new word processing program, which, of course, it is. ![]() Chapter 4. Moving Beyond Text: Laying Out Pages ![]()
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