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- Page 2 Carlsbad, CA 92009 The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine © 1993 Wintertree Software, Inc. MicroVision™ and the SureThing logo are trademarks, and SureThing® is a registered trademark of MicroVision Development, Inc. Other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
- Page 3 Credits Engineering Robert Bushner Jim Mayall John H. Gaby Patrick Wright User’s Guide Sean Cavanaugh Jim Mayall Online Help Jim Law SmartDesigns Garvey Jim Mayall Sean Cavanaugh Testing & Support Ben Douglas Pete Calkins Tony Tran Nyeland Newel David Rast Sean Kelley Editing &...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Contents Introducing SureThing CD Labeler 6 About this manual 6 System requirements 6 Installing SureThing CD Labeler 7 Registration 7 Getting Help 7 Technical Support 7 The SureThing Environment 9 Label Blocks 12 Turning blocks on and off 12 Selecting Tools 14... - Page 5 Working with the Software (continued) Working with Logos and Clipart 27 Editing a Logo 27 Adding Clipart to Your Label 28 Working with Backgrounds 29 Using Your Own Backgrounds 30 Using a Background Color 30 Acquiring Images 31 Changing the Label Stock 31 Duplicating a Label Design 31 Saving Your Label 33 Saving a design with a new filename 33...
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Page 6: Introducing Surething Cd Labeler
The goal of this manual is to give You can use SureThing CD Labeler to you a good overview of the program’s create any type of CD label. Our Smart- features and functionality. -
Page 7: Installing Surething Cd Labeler
To access help: 1 Insert the SureThing installation CD into • Press the F1 key any time you are using your CD-ROM drive. SureThing CD Labeler, or choose the Contents command from the Help menu. - Page 8 HAPTER Introduction label supplies, and check for software updates. Choose SureThing on the Web from the Help menu at any time to automatically launch your web browser and go to our site. Online support Online support, including e-mail, FAQs and user-to-user forums are just a click away.
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Page 9: The Surething Environment
The SureThing Environment he SureThing environment is not a collection of tools for creating and too different from what you’re editing elements such as label text, text already familiar with in other effects, backgrounds, images, borders, etc. Windows applications. It includes a menu... - Page 10 HAPTER The SureThing Environment Design bar Speed Tools (default set) Calibrate Printer Print Printer Setup The icons along the left of the screen are shortcut menus to commonly performed tasks. Undo/Redo Cut, Copy & Paste Text Frame tool Picture tool...
- Page 11 CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide Label Design Area Tabs for each component of the label sheet (referred to as “Blocks”) Sample Text Effect Sample Text Frame Label edge Bleed area Non-printing area (Clip to Label) In Text Mode, the horizontal ruler Rulers (click and drag to create changes to a paragraph indent alignment guide lines).
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Page 12: Label Blocks
The blue areas indicate active blocks, letting you know which ones will be printed. A typical label sheet (SureThing CD Labels) The circles in the center are, of course, the After activating the other blocks, notice CD labels. The first tab in the design win- that they now also appear in blue: dow corresponds to this block. - Page 13 CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide Command Bar The buttons along the top of the design the current label. The << (previous) and area (New, Open, Save, etc.) perform the >> (next) buttons let you navigate be- same function as some commonly used tween labels.
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Page 14: Selecting Tools
Selecting Tools Setting Program Options You select a tool by clicking it with the A number of SureThing’s settings can be mouse. Some tools bring up dialog boxes customized. These include startup options, (such as the Picture tool, for example),... -
Page 15: Entering User Information
User Info Tab dard audio CDs for playback on suitably equipped CD audio players. SureThing labels can be designed to use merge fields from databases or from the If the Enable Reading CD Text option is User Info tab of the Program Options dialog turned on, SureThing will first attempt to box. -
Page 16: Appearance Tab
The “Appearance” tab of the Program Control Strip. Each time you click it Options dialog box lets you personalize the decreases the zoom level. look and feel of the SureThing interface. • Press Ctrl+Minus key (on the numeric Zooming In and Out keypad) •... -
Page 17: Working With The Software
Working with the Software Starting SureThing n this chapter, you’ll learn how to create a new SureThing label design, as Double-click the SureThing icon on the well as the basics of editing, saving and desktop, or launch it from the Start menu printing labels. - Page 18 Audio CD or Data CD if you choose for SureThing, click the Browse button and to apply a playlist to your design. select an image. A preview of it will appear in the wizard.
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Page 19: Smartdesign Basics
SmartDesign Basics SmartDesigns are interactive design templates built into SureThing. Unlike traditional templates that simply place a few objects on a page and leave the rest up to you, SmartDesigns allow you to modify many aspects of the design with a few mouse clicks. -
Page 20: Working With Text
The Variation Bar consists of menus for Text can take a couple of different forms Background, Layout and Font variations. in SureThing: text frames and text effects. Text in text frames behaves much like it To use SmartDesigns: would in a word processing program, for •... - Page 21 CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide • Press Shift-Tab to move to the previous The fields in each SmartDesign reflect the text frame. typical use for the label, but you can use them any way you like. You can even turn Maybe you’re wondering how to enter a off selected fields if you find them tab in a text frame? Press Ctrl-Tab to insert...
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Page 22: Adding A New Text Frame
3 Click and drag to create the frame. SmartDesign template, but you can also When you release the mouse, the frame is add your own text frames. SureThing drawn and the text cursor blinks inside it provides a couple of ways to do this. -
Page 23: Inserting Merge Fields In Text Frames
Set Merge Record command under View Options) Inserting Merge Fields in Text Frames SureThing lets you insert many different types of merge fields in text frames. Examples of merge fields are date and The same field viewed with Field Codes off (left), and Field Codes on (right). -
Page 24: Formatting Text In A Text Frame
View Options from the View menu, and then selecting the Show Rulers command. Editing Text Effects Text Effects in SureThing let you apply special effects to text, such as circular text, slanted text, perspective text, drop Format Character dialog box shadows and more. -
Page 25: Selecting Different Types Of Text Effects
CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide 2 Edit the sample text (under the Effect tab). Click OK when you are done. Adding line breaks in the Text Effect dialog box causes text in the effect to align in different ways. For example, notice how the first line wraps around the top of the CD, and the second line wraps around the bottom. -
Page 26: Adding A New Text Effect
If you select another layout from the Variation Bar after you’ve formatted text in any of the sample Text Effects or Text Frames, SureThing warns 3 Select the type of effect you want to you that your edits will not be included in create, then click the Next button. -
Page 27: Working With Logos And Clipart
Working with Logos, Pictures and Clipart There are a couple of ways of working with graphics in SureThing. Some of the SmartDesigns include placeholders for 6 Enter the text you want to appear in the graphics (such as a company logo,). You text effect (first delete the sample text). -
Page 28: Adding Clipart To Your Label
Adding graphic images such as logos, to fit your design (and your fancy). clipart and symbols to your labels is a snap with SureThing. A number of useful im- ages are included with SureThing, and were copied to your hard drive during... -
Page 29: Working With Backgrounds
CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide SureThing does not support the GIF image format. If you have GIF images you would like to include in your label designs, we suggest converting them to another popular image format such as BMP or TIF. -
Page 30: Using Your Own Backgrounds
1 If you are currently using a background The background images supplied with image, you must first clear it. Click the SureThing have been sized correctly to fit “Backgrounds” icon on the design bar, the CD label area. Before using your own... -
Page 31: Acquiring Images
Changing the Label Stock The Deluxe version of SureThing lets you Duplicating a Label Design change the label stock at any time. Say, for instance, you’ve created some label designs... - Page 32 Add button. The Add Designs dialog box appears: The No. of designs to delete field tells SureThing how many duplicates to get rid of; the Beginning with design field specifies the first duplicate to be deleted. The tab at...
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Page 33: Saving Your Label
Saving Your Label 3 Type a name for your label in the File name box. Saving a design in SureThing is a very You don’t have to type an extension simple process, and one you should do because SureThing automatically gives all with regularity. -
Page 34: Calibrating Your Printer
Sometimes this may cause you are printing final output. SureThing to slightly miss the mark when printing. If this happens, you need to 2 Choose Print from the File menu, or calibrate your printer. -
Page 35: Working With Label Templates
Also, only the Templates active blocks appear in blue (use the Blocks > Show/Hide command under the View Templates in SureThing are designed for menu to turn blocks on or off prior to two primary uses: printing). - Page 36 You can optionally specify bleed settings (the amount of space outside the bounds • starting position of the first label of the label into which SureThing will (measured from the top and left edges print), and choose from a list of template of the page) SmartDesigns.
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Page 37: Saving Existing Designs As Templates
SureThing. If you don’t label will appear when you create new want the label to appear under the listed designs in SureThing. If you don’t want the categories, select “Other” from the list. You label to appear under the listed categories, will be prompted to enter a name for the select “Other”... -
Page 38: Deleting Templates
Deleting Templates Templates you create are stored in a folder named “User Templates” located within the folder where SureThing is installed. If you accepted the default settings when you installed SureThing, you would open the following folders to locate the templates:... -
Page 39: Introduction To Playlists
Introduction to “Playlists” base of playlist selections stored on your computer. You can then use these saved SureThing makes it easy to use playlists to playlists in the future, even when you’re create labels for your audio CD collection. not connected to the Internet. -
Page 40: A Quick Walk-Through
1 Select New from the File Menu or click SmartDesigns the New button in the Command Bar. SmartDesigns are our interactive design 2 Choose SureThing CD Labels 2-Up, tools to help make creating great looking click Next. labels easier. When used with playlists, you make a couple of choices, insert your CD 3 Choose a background if you’d like, or... -
Page 41: Compilation Music Cds
Internet. You insert fields into the document which SureThing still makes it easy in one of two are placeholders. At some point, the ways to use playlists with compilation CDs. -
Page 42: Working With Playlists
Playlist Data mode will be lost. You can easily switch between the two modes from the Playlist menu. There are also a few instances where SureThing will automatically switch between the two modes. For example, when you want to insert a playlist field, you must be in Playlist Field mode so SureThing switches to it. -
Page 43: Importing A Playlist To An Existing Design
General Purpose designs do not use playlist fields. Importing a Playlist to an Existing In cases where you want SureThing to Design always check online (especially if you’re If you didn’t import the playlist informa- always connected to the Internet), you can tion when you created your design, you check the “Don’t prompt me ”... -
Page 44: Applying A Playlist From Your Playlist Database
You can quickly apply any existing playlist Need a label for your CD of favorite from your playlist database, which makes songs? SureThing lets you choose the it easy to use your design for different songs from your existing playlist database CDs. -
Page 45: Creating Your Own Playlist Data
CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide To change the track order in your playlist: 1 Click the Tracks tab. 4 Double-click an album title in the CDs column to see its songs. Click on the song you wish to add to the Current Tracks column and click the button, or simply 2 Do one of the following:... -
Page 46: More Info On The Playlist Manager
Change button, which adds them to the Playlist button. Database Selections list, available to all SureThing documents. They’ll always be If you wish to clear the track info fields, part of the current document whether you click the New button. -
Page 47: Displaying Playlists Fields Or Data
CD L HING ABELER User’s Guide Close Closes the Playlist Manager dialog box without applying a playlist to the current design. Adds selected playlist from Active Playlists in Document to the playlist database. Displaying Playlist Fields or Data You can toggle between displaying playlist fields and the actual data contained in the fields. - Page 48 HAPTER Working with the Software...
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