Jewel Case Illustrator Manual

USER MANUAL JewelCaseIllustrator by Blue Line Studios Copyright ©2002 Blue Line Studios. All rights reserved. Software programming, interface design, manual written by Daniel C. Kueng. Edition June 7th, 2002 Thanks to John S. Baltutis for proof-reading. This manual and the software described are copyrighted with all rights reserved. The manual may not be distributed, sold, or rented to any other person than the owner of the license, wether in whole or part, without prior written con- sent of Blue Line Studios. Mentioned product and company names may be registered trademarks. Use of the software described is at the user’s sole risk. Blue Line Studios CH 4000 Basel/Switzerland (Europe) Web: http://www.blueline-studios.com E-mail: studio@blueline-studios.com INTRODUCTION What this application JewelCaseIllustrator is a tool specialized for the creation of professional-looking jewel case inserts, is for including labels, tray liners, and booklets for CDs and DVDs, containing the necessary crop marks and spines. The application's main functions are: •The typesetting of a Finder-like volume directory list. •The typesetting of text; setting font size, leading, tracking, alignment, style, and color. •The drawing of rectangles/squares and ovals/circles. •The placing of pictures in various file formats. •The importing of Toast, Jam, and iTunes track lists, or text from any ASCII file. •Functions: scaling, rotating in 90 degrees increments; picture cropping. •Printing. 3 CONTENTS The interface; palettes The toolbox 6 The Typography palette 7 The Colors palette 8 The Transform palette 8 The interface; menus File menu 10 Edit menu 11 Item menu 11 Windows menu 12 View menu 12 Getting started Creating new documents 14 Drawing rectangles and ovals …