MarkStein Publisher Manual

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Value entry via dialog windows, inspectors and panels

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Control panel for quick access

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Template panel and anchored frames

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Parallel display of galley view and page view

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Parallel editing of text on the page and in the galley editor, updated in real time

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Hybrid texts: Marking of use per paragraph (e.g. print/web/mobile/e-book)

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Live view for pages, template and library elements

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Page Overview

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Zooming to 10,000%

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Printer spreads as page containers for adjoining pages

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Varying page size possible on the printer spread

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Rotating of printer spread by 90 degrees for processing

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Placing of reference lines via mouse or dialog

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“Intelligent” reference lines referring to other objects

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Optional (including asymmetrical) grids via custom grids from the presettings

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Assignment of one master page per page

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Optional number of grids in a document

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Optional number of levels

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Automatic rules

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HKS and Pantone color palettes, optional

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Integrated color management

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Inclusion of a page status

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General frame type, may contain text and images or be empty

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Object types (frame, rule): rectangle, polygon / Bézier

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Margin (every edge can be defined separately)

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Stroke (border)

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Text wrap

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Corner shapes, can be defined individually for all four corners

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Reference point-dependent coordinate display

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Linking together of all frames possible (story focus)

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Nested grouping

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Anchored frames text, image in the variations left or right of the paragraph or within the text (marginalia), can be stored in libraries

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Linked anchored frames

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Multi-column text frames

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Color gradients with two colors per frame

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Gradient shadow for frames

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Transparencies

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Changing the frame type

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Rotating of rules in 1/1,000º steps

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Transforming straight rules into Bézier shapes

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10 rule types, arrow heads and other rule end styles

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Rules with round ends

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Transparent rules

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Rules with shadows

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EPS, TIFF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP

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PDF

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Placing of PSD files from Photoshop

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Placing of AI files from Adobe Illustrator

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Placing of PDF files with page selection

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Automatic creation of image frames upon placement

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Enlarging / minimizing images proportionally to the frame

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Moving the image content per mouse or keyboard

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Scaling, cropping, rotating and shearing of images

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Evaluation of free-form selections of images using alpha channels and paths from Photoshop (EPS, TIFF, JEPG)

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Transforming of clipping paths into Bézier shapes or polygons

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Horizontal / vertical flipping of images

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Rotating of image content within the frame in 1/1,000° steps

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Display of IPTC information (corresponds to file information from Adobe Photoshop)

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Adoption of image captions from image text (IPTC)

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Inclusion of an image status

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Transparent display of invisible image sections when moving images

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Transparencies

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Comprehensive table tool

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Column and row-oriented tables

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Table wizard to easily create tables

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Move rows and columns via drag & drop

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Lock columns and rows

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Automatic magnification of table rows when entering text

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Merged cells

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Sheared cells

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Multi-column texts in a table cell

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Repeating of headers and footers

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Table style sheets and cell styles

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More detailed cell formatting

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Horizontal and vertical table rules

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Insertion of images in cells

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Import and export of Microsoft Excel lists (XSLX, CSV)

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Import of tables from Word (DOCX)

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Optional real-time sentence calculation

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Block logic for structuring (headline, abstract, body text, etc.) with overset limitation

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Style sheets with hierarchical text styles (assigned to paragraph styles)

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Dieckmann Hyphenation (DE,EN)

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Duden Proof Factory spellchecker (DE, EN, FR, IT, SP) and hyphenation (FR, IT, SP)

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Support of PostScript fonts

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Support of OpenType fonts

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Support of typographic OpenType functions

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Support of TrueType version 2 fonts

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Font selection with preview

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Inclusion of a text status

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Paragraph formatting:

•Definable alignment of the last line of a paragraph

•Individual word alignment in justified text

•Flush zone of last line in justified text

•Align to baseline grid

•Justify vertically

•Definable hyphen limit

•Definable hyphenation zone

•Leading, leading first line, leading before a paragraph, leading after a paragraph

•Indent left, indent left for n lines, indent first line, indent right,
indent right for n lines, indent to current position

•Indent here (selected text)

•Drop caps

•Rules

•Paragraph break options: Keep lines together, keep lines together at start, keep lines together at end,
keep all lines in paragraph together

•Bullets/Numbering

•Tabs, tabs at fixed positions (definable)

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Text formatting

•Exclusion method definable for text section

•Underlining

•Superscript/subscript

•Shadow

•Background

•Hyphenation

•Spellchecker and hyphenation can be defined individually for text sections

•Languages for spell checking and hyphenation can be applied separately to any text range

•Small caps

•Outline font

•Breaking

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Selection of characters/glyphs

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Text to path (circle)

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Libraries for color definitions, style sheets, master pages, grids, document templates

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Library for design templates

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Library for anchored frames

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Hyperlinks for PDF

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Embedding of video in PDF

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Embedding of audio in PDF

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Creation of image galleries for PDF

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Navigation buttons for PDF

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Print with print style

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PostScript export

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Preflight

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PDF export with references and settings

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Navigable PDF

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Export via integrated Adobe PDF Converter (Distiller)

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Reduce transparency

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WordPress interface
(create, edit, publish, delete)

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Interface to Twitter

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Interface to Facebook

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Text sections and components for HTML5-based web stories

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Microsoft Word filter (DOC/DOCX)

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Import of OpenDocument files (ODT)

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Rich Text Format filter (RTF)

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Excel filter (XSLX)

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ASCII and UNICODE text filters

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IDML filter for documents from Adobe InDesign

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Import of Quark XPress Tags

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Export PDF / Rich PDF with Acrobat functions / PDF with watermark / PDF with color management

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Page exports EPS and JPEG

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Export as EPUB with integration of CSS / fonts / cover image (V2/V3)

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Collaboration via the internet (Dropbox, Drive, etc.)

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Texts can be separately edited as stories

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3 status each for pages, texts and images

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Interface to PressMatrix (ePaper and app)

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Loadable keyboard layouts

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Loadable environments (panels and inspectors order etc.)

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Automatic table of contents

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Register function

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Book functions (grouping of multiple documents)

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