Intaglio

Where is the Text Attribute Inspector? (4 Replies)

Nick — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:19:09 -500

Generally variations like light, narrow, etc. are selected as a specific typeface of a font family. This is done in the font panel (see the menu Text > Show Fonts). If the font family you choose (e.g., Gill Sans) has multiple variations (e.g., Light Italic) you’ll see them in the font panel after you select the family.

Please note that Apple’s font panel window is a little odd in that it shows more things as you enlarge it. If you’re not seeing as much information as you expect try sizing the window to make it larger and reveal more information.

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Stroke Inspector? (2 Replies)

Mark Alan Thomas — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:50:28 -500

Yeah, pretty nutty. First time I’ve seen anything like that. I ended up just deleting the .plist, so I had to re-enter my registration, but no big deal. Everything seems fine now.

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Extra bold text on screen vs printed

Richard Deaton — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:02:47 -500

Extra bold type fonts seem to be much bolder on the sceen and appear almost to bold for slide shows but look great when printed. Stone Sans OS ITC TT was the font that I was using; I haven’t tried with other fonts. The difference is noticeable when viewing a slide created in Intaglio compared to slide created in Canvas X in an iPhoto Slide Show.

Richard Deaton

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Re: Powerpoint (Office 2008)

Richard Deaton — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:54:03 -500

.BMP is a Windows format. I save as these formats: .png, .tiff & .psd are huge files much larger than the original Intaglio file. TIFF 30.5 MB the largest.

Problem: Onscreen text seems extra bold, almost plugging the letters but prints out very nice as it should look; but hard to read as slides. When I use semi bold the characters seem somewhat onscreen bold but printout much lighter.

Richard

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Re: Powerpoint (Office 2008) (3 Replies)

KeynoteKen — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:04:26 -500

By bitmap, I didn’t mean .BMP, I meant non-vector pixel based images. Sorry :)

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Powerpoint (Office 2008) (3 Replies)

KeynoteKen — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:56:10 -500

A looong time ago, before the excellent svg2key app, I had figured out how to get Illustrator graphics into PowerPoint in order to convert them to shapes I could use in Keynote. However, it’s been awhile and I can’t remember the exact steps (If illustrator exports vectors to WMF, then that’s how I did it).

Other than that way, I don’t know of any other way to copy something into PowerPoint so that you can still edit the points and change the fill and stroke.

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Intaglio 3 improvements (1 Reply)

Nick — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:53:18 -500

I don’t see any improvement in the drag and drop the library.

It’s not clear to me what most of your observations have to do with the library. The following library improvements are present in version 3.0…

Pages can be imported and exported for sharing.
The iPhoto library is automatically included in the library.
Page items can be labeled and the labels can be localized.
Multiple items can be selected at one time for drag, cut, copy and paste.
Effects and textures can be added to the library.
Library items can be set to scale themselves to a new document when they’re added to it.
Library items can be set to adopt a document’s current style (fill colors, etc.) when they’re added to it.

For the record…

Snapping to intersection, middle, extremity works only when it is the destination point, but not when it is the initial drawing point.

Untrue, the initial point is now highlighted when snapping to points or using smart guides.

No Snapping enabling with a modifier key.

Untrue, snapping to the grid has always been toggled by the command key.

No numeric input for objects.

Untrue, it has always been possible to enter various object dimensions numerically via the geometry inspector.

no dimensioning style settings

Untrue, dimension text style can be set on a document wide basis.

When applying effect to image or vectors they are downscaled in bitmap objects

To create bitmap effects you need bitmaps. There’s not much choice here. The document’s resolution is always used so any “downscaling” is up to you.

If a scale has been set for the current document, the objects dragged from the library to the document are not adjusted to the current scale of the document

This depends on the library object. For example, try the architectural furniture objects. They scale themselves to the document they’re placed in.

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Deselect? (7 Replies)

Zarrek — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:07:54 -500

Excellent! Thank you so much Nick

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Text on a Path – Control Options (4 Replies)

Andrew Peterson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:43:04 -500

Nick, Thanks very much. Exactly what I need. Maybe if it hadn’t been the middle of the night I’d’ve found this – it really isn’t hidden. Appreciate the help. Andy

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Arrow scaling (2 Replies)

Nick — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:29:56 -500

Or a stroke to outline conversion that includes the arrowhead? If I could get an arrow head up with control points I could do what I wanted with it if I needed to.

Object > Convert > Stroke To Fill converts both the stroke and any arrow. Some arrow styles are stroked and some are filled but this should work with either.

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