Vistas 1.5 Users Guide

Badia Software info@badiaxt.com ™ www.badiaxt.com Badia Vistas 1.5 for QuarkXPress 6 TM Navigation from a different point of view User’s Guide Badia Vistas™ 1.5 is a free XTension for QuarkXPress™ that introduces a floating palette to help you quickly navigate through your document. It displays a color thumbnail of the active spread and incorporates several tools for handling views. You will be able to jump quickly to a specific point in the spread with a single click of the mouse, or zoom in to any area by dragging the mouse over the thumbnail. Vistas also provides a slider to zoom in and out interactively, a button for going back to the previous view and a pop-up menu to display a different spread in the document. The Vistas palette (Mac OS) The Vistas palette (Windows) Navigation To display a certain area of the spread in your document window, click or drag on the Vistas palette. If you drag the mouse over the palette, your document will zoom in or out to fit the area outlined in the Vistas palette within your document window. Click or drag anywhere in the Vistas palette to display that area in your document window. The Zoom Slider The Zoom Slider allows you to decrease or increase the view percentage in real time. You can zoom in and out between 10% and 800% (Maximum view Zoom Slider in Windows). 1 Back to Previous View button Back to Every time you change to a new view, you can click on Vistas’ Back to Previous Previous View button to display the previous view. You can toggle between View button the two most recent views by clicking on this button again. Note: the Back to Previous View button cannot be used when you switch from document to master pages, or vice versa. Quick, Smart Navigation The Vistas palette also allows you to jump quickly to a different spread. Jump to Click on the Jump to Spread button. All the spreads in the document will Spread be shown with their corresponding page numbers on a pop-up menu. button Select any spread from this pop-up menu. The spread you c…