Magix Cover & Label PLUS Owners Manual
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Manual The present documentation is protected by law. All rights, especially the right of duplication, circulation and translation is reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in form of copies, microfilms or other processes, or transmitted into a language used for machines, especially data processing machines, without the express written consent of the publisher. All copyrights reserved. © 2002- 2003 Copyright by MAGIX Computer Products International Corp. in the USA. MAGIX® is a registered trademark of MAGIX Computer Products International Corp. in the USA, Cover & Label™ is a trademark of MAGIX Computer Products International Corp. in the USA. All other product names are trademarks of the corresponding manufacturers. © 2002-2003 Copyright by MAGIX AG. MAGIX® is a registered trademark of MAGIX AG, Cover & Label™ is a trademark of MAGIX AG. All other product names are trademarks of the corresponding manufacturers. Errors and changes to the contents as well as program modifications reserved. Table of Contents What is MAGIX cover & label PLUS? Tutorial 6 1. Open new project 6 2. Select project type 6 3. Edit front cover 7 4. Editing the back cover, inlay and label 5. Printing 11 Wizards 5 10 12 CD/DVD Wizard LP Wizard 12 12 Work techniques 14 Work space 14 Projects 14 Undoing actions 14 Context menu 14 Zooming 15 Reduce or enlarge 15 Grouping 15 Organising layers 16 Images and graphics 17 Insert graphic 17 Insert: Geometr. Form Text and Extras 17 18 Text 18 Extras 19 Buttons 20 Scan Image 20 Insert Graphic 20 Insert: Text 20 Insert: Cliparts 20 Insert: Geometr. Form Insert: Extras 20 Print 20 Export image 21 New 21 Open 21 Save 21 Zoom 21 20 3 Table of Contents File Menu 22 New 22 Load 22 Save 23 Save as 23 Export 23 Print 23 Page settings 23 Change page format 23 End 23 Edit Menu 24 Undo 24 Cut 24 Copy 24 Paste 24 Duplicate 24 Select all 24 Delete 24 Properties 25 View Menu 26 Restore view 26 Zoom out 26 Zoom in 26 Zoom tool 26 Shift view 26 Group 26 Ungroup 26 Send to front 26 Send to back 27 Next layer 27 Previous layer 27 Help Menu 28 Help 28 Registration 28 www.magix.com 28 Index 4 29 What is MAGIX cover & label PLUS? MAGIX cover & label PLUS is a virtual studio for printing labels and covers for CDs, DVDs and VHS cassettes. Stickers, covers, inlays and booklets can be designed and printed in precisely to your needs. Both normal paper sheets and prefabricated sheets with perforated stickers can be used for printing, as found in trade stores. The clipart gallery provided offers a large quantity of images and backgrounds which can be combined into new cover motifs. Your own pictures can also be used. Via drag & drop, all pictures can be loaded, placed together on the working area, equipped with texts, and printed out in a suitable format. The LP Wizard looks after the scanning of 12” vinyl records. LPs are too large for most scanners — they are therefore scanned in two steps and thereafter automatically merged to form a uniform CD/DVD cover. The CD/DVD Wizard reduces CD/DVD cover, label and inlay scanning to just a couple of clicks. 5 Tutorial Let’s begin with a concrete CD project! Even if you don’t intend to create a CD printing project, the following procedure is nevertheless recommended: It will allow you to quickly become acquainted with MAGIX cover & label PLUS so as to realize other projects, because the fundamental working procedures are alike for all project types. 1. Open new project After starting the program, the ”New Project” start-up window opens offering three options: – create a new project without templates (Option: ”Empty Project”) – call up the templates included (Option: ”Template Assistant”) – scan an existing CD or DVD (Option: ”Scanner Assistant”). Let’s assume that you’d to create a CD project from scratch, with label sticker, inlay and cover. Select the ”Empty Project” option in the start-up window. 2. Select project type You are now confronted with the Project Type selection window.. Here you can select from a total of 5 project types: three different CD and/or DVD projects, a purely DVD project and a VHS project. The project types differ from each other in two regards: 6 Items: ”Label”, ”Cover”, ”Inlay” and ”Booklet” are combined differently in the project types. Labels are round stickers for blank discs. ”Cover” designates the front and inside of Tutorial the CD box. The Inlay is the back of the CD box with the narrow strips down the sides. The Booklet is an information booklet that can accompany the CD or DVD into the box. Dimensions: Depending upon the type of project, templates are used for almost square CD boxes (jewel cases.), oblong DVD boxes, or VHS cassettes. Depending upon the type of project, you are offered a combination of empty templates with suitable dimensions. For a CD project with cover, inlay and label, select the preset project type ”Standard CD/DVD label project” and click on ”continue” 3. Edit front cover The front side of an empty CD is called up on screen when ”Standard CD/DVD Label Project” is selected. 7 Tutorial This side can now be equipped with diagrams and texts. Usually you will want to include an artist name and a CD/ DVD name. The Playlist (and/or the table of contents) normally appears on the back of the cover or at the back of the CD box (inlay). Insert Text: In order to enter text, click on the Text button and draw out a text field with the mouse. You can also click on the template, keep the mouse button pressed, and move the mouse. If you release the mouse button, a dialog for the text entry opens. As with a text processing program, you can write and format text in the dialog. Enter the title of your CD and the artist’s name! To format text, ”highlight” the text in the dialog by pulling the mouse pointer over the text while pressing down the mouse button (so that the letters are white and are framed darkly). The marked text can now be formatted. If you click on O.K., the text entry dialog closes. Now the text in the text field appears on the template. You can click and then shift the text field, or delete it again. In order change the text later, open the text dialog by double clicking on the text field. 8 Insert Graphics: There are three possibilities for loading graphics or photos: – via the ”Browse” button, you access the graphic library provided. The list of pictures can be shifted with the scroll bar so that all the items can be viewed. You can of course Tutorial also use your own images. Simply click on “Insert Cliparts” and access your graphics files directory (e.g. in JPG or BMP format). – via the ”Search” button you can search directories or drives for usable graphics files. You can enter a name, a file type and a folder (e.g. ”Local drive C:”). Subsequently, all sub-directories of the selected search item are searched. Data found appears on the right side of the dialog. – via the ”Scanner” button you can directly scan in photos (for example) to be used for the CD/DVD cover. Of course, you also need a ready-to-run scanner. Note: In order to scan a complete CD, DVD or LP cover, it’s best to use the Scanner Assistant You can pull each picture from the preview list with the mouse. Click on the picture and drag it with the mouse button held on the template. Arranging graphics and text fields: In principle you can combine as many pictures and text fields as like you. Each item can be pulled wherever you want it. Because a concise overview can be lost quickly, you can zoom in, i.e. increase the size of one part of the screen. The Zooming button is in the upper right corner. With many picture items on screen, it can sometimes be confusing when so many overlap. You can control this problem via the View menu with the ”One level in front”, ”To the front” or ”To the back” commands. Imagine the frames 9 Tutorial as pieces of paper on top of each other upon your desk and which only a part of each piece can be seen. The size of each graphic can be changed easily by clicking the graphic, then shifting the handle of the frame. If you pull on the edges between the handles with the mouse, you can then increase or reduce the edge in just one direction, thus distorting the graphic. 4. Editing the back cover, inlay and label Once you have completed the front cover, you’ll probably want to work on the 3 other items of your CD project: The back cover, the inlay and the label. Note: If you only need the front cover, you can at this point simply print. Select the ”Only current side” option in the print dialog. Begin with the back of the front cover, that is, the side which appears when you unfold the CD. If you click the ”Back Cover” button, you will arrive at the applicable template. Insert: Extra (Adding a playlist): It is often the case that the playlist appears on the back cover and inlay of the CD. If you’ve already provided a Playlist, MAGIX cover & label PLUS takes over the entries automatically from the main program (e.g. MAGIX video deLuxe 2.0 PLUS, MAGIX music cleaning lab or MAGIX mp3 maker). The entries are updated automatically as soon as the project in the main program is changed! Playlist tables are normal text fields which can shift, delete or (via double click) edit text in the text dialog. Navigation bar: Inlay and label are accessed by means of the button bar. There are several buttons for all project type items: Cover, Booklet, (both for either CD or DVD), CD Inlay, CD/DVD label and VHS labels (cassette side and top side). Because you are working in the ”Standard CD/DVD Label Project”, you can switch between ”CD-Cover”, ”CD/DVD Label” und ”CD-Inlay”. 10 Tutorial Adding text to the ”spine”: The narrow sides at the edges of the CD box can be likewise furnished with text. The text must be rotated 90 degrees. The template for the inlay offers two narrow strips on both the left and right for the sides. Write the two text lines in the text dialog as they should appear on the sides, , and the select the rotation option in the context menu (right mouseclick on the text field). Now you can rotate the text 90 degrees and drag it onto the sides. 5. Printing Before printing you should activate the print preview in the file menu. If everything looks the way it should, open the print dialog via the print button (or the menu option ”Print”). Setting the paper format: An A4 format page is always printed. The paper format is particularly important for prefabricated CD/DVD label stickers, which are organized differently on A4 paper depending upon the manufacturer. You can select the paper format with the ”change paper format” button. If you want to use prefabricated CD/DVD label stickers, select a manufacturer in this dialog (e.g. Avery Zweckform Art. Nr. 6043). Calibrate: Use the calibrate function to co-ordinate the print format with your printer. Beforehand, you should print out some samples on normal paper. You can then use the test prints to calibrate the print format so that the print lies precisely within the perforations of the special paper. Print: Once everything fits, place your valuable special paper in the printer and print out the CD project. Note: The working methods described are the same for all project types; only the style sheets change. When printing a booklet, the sides must be placed in the printer in a special way. Please use the advice in the printer dialog! 11 Wizards You can easily scan a CD, DVD or a LP cover with the help of the Wizards. Select the Wizard you want to use via the menu “File”! CD/DVD Wizard Use the CD/DVD Wizard to scan a CD or DVD cover with your scanner. The Wizard shows how to scan and he helps to cut the scanned picture in the right way. 1. In the first dialog you can select the project that you would like to scan: ”Label”, ”Cover”, ”Back”, or ”Inlay”. 2. The second dialog shows how to position the CD or DVD cover on the scanner. Click on “Acualize” to start the process. 3. Now the scanned picure has to be cutted. The third dialog shows a page frame to adjust the page boundaries. 4. That’s it. In the forth dialog you load the picture as a new MAGIX cover & label PLUS-project. LP Wizard Use the LP Wizard to scan a LP cover with your scanner. LP covers are too large to get a complete picture of the cover in one single scan. The Wizard shows how to scan the cover in two steps and to fit both scanned pictures together, 12 Wizards 1. First of all you scan the left part of the cover. In the first dialog you can see how to position the left part of the cover on your scanner. Click on “Acualize” to start the process. 2. In the next step you scan the rest of the cover. The second dialog shows how to scan the second half of the cover. You have to rotate the cover and adjust it with the scanner. 3. Then both segments are being added together to one single picture of the whole cover. You can adjust each of the pictures with the arrow buttons. 4. That’s it. In the forth dialog you load the picture as a new MAGIX cover & label PLUS-project. 13 Work techniques Work space The work space in the middle displays a sheet of paper (label, cover or inlay) as it would appear when printed – as well as the ”desk surroundings”. You can also drag image objects or text fields to positions next to the paper as you would on a real desk while working with such objects. Projects New projects are loaded via the ”New” button as well as via the ”Load” button. When loading, older projects stored on the harddisk are opened for you to re-edit. Undoing actions Sometimes, you may perform an action that, for example, diminishes rather than improves the quality of the layout. You can always cancel an action by selecting ”Edit” in the menu, followed by the ”Undo” option. Context menu The menu commands ”Edit” and ”View” and the “Rotation” command for text also allow you to access the so-called context menu. Right click on an object that’s on the work space, and then select a command from the list – an ideal tool for quick editing work. Special functions such as colouring text can be realised quickly by selecting the ”properties” option in the context menu for a text field. 14 Work techniques Zooming The view can be altered with either the ”+” button (to enlarge the view) and the ”-” button (to reduce the view). You can also zoom via the menu, which offers the magnifying glass, as well as both zoom button commands. You can also reset the view of a project to the original view when the project began. With the magnifying glass, you can draw out a quadrangle that defines an area to be enlarged. Reduce or enlarge To reduce or enlarge an image object, select an object by clicking on it. Selected images are displayed with a ”frame” around them. When you manoeuvre the corner points, the image object is enlarged or reduced while maintaining its original proportions. By manoeuvring the frame from any other point other than the corners, the image stretches or compresses – in a word, distorts. Grouping Several objects can be moved or altered as one by being grouped together via the ”Group” command in the view menu. This is particularly practical when, for example, the 15 Work techniques combination of a figure and a background image are perfectly organised, yet together need to be shifted. A grouping is effectively consolidated as a single object and retains a common frame. To separate the group into its original elements, select the ”Ungroup” command. Organising layers You can in principle combine as many image elements as you wish. Every element can be moved anywhere on the work space. It often happens when working with many images that some elements and their frames become hidden. The view menu helps out in this case, via the ”next layer”, ”previous layer”, ”straight to the front” and ”straight to the back” commands. Imagine if you will pictures on your desk piled one on top of the other so that only a part of the total picture can be seen. 16 Images and graphics Insert graphic The ”Insert Graphic” button activates the integrated graphics library. To view the elements within it, use the scroll bar at the bottom of the selection window to flick through the list of images. The most effective method is to activate all categories in the series and then see which images may suit your requirements. You can pull any image from the preview list via drag & drop onto the working interface. Search: The ”Search” button allows you to search through different selectable indexes for usable graphics and photos and then displays the result in a preview list. You can pull any image from the preview list via drag & drop onto the work space. Insert: Geometr. Form You can also sketch abstract shapes such as circles or squares, or frame images within them. Activate the ”Shapes” button to draw a quadrangle or a circle. By double clicking on a shape, a dialogue opens allowing you to choose the width and colour of the shape’s borders, as well as being able to choose whether the shape should be filled in with a particular colour. 17 Text and Extras Each text in a text field can be moved and edited just like selected image objects. The main difference however is that when a text field’s size is altered, the size of the text itself does not change. The size of the text can only be altered in the text dialogue, which can be opened with a double click. By altering the size of a text field or by adding more text, not all of the text may be visible. In this case, either the text field must be enlarged or the size of the font must be reduced. Text Each text is written or formatted in a separate text dialogue that is opened by double clicking on an existing text field. It is also opened automatically when a new text field is called up via the ”Text” button. Font: You can select the type of lettering from a choice of TrueType fonts that are installed on the computer (excluding Postscript fonts). Size: Here, the size of the letters can be selected. Style: Here you can choose bold and/or italic. 18 Fill: Here you can select a colour for the text. When it is not selected, the letters are not visible but can be bordered or framed with the following options. Text and Extras Frame: A frame can be placed around the letters. The frame’s colour and width can be selected. Positioning: The text as a whole can be positioned on the paper with margin left, margin right, or centred. Text Rotation MAGIX cover center offers a special function to rotate the text in order to write on the tiny backsite of a CD jewel case. To rotate the text click on the text field with the right mouse button and select the entry ”Rotation”. Extras Playlists are a special form of text field that can be called up from the playlist button. They are small tables for the song titles – usually found on the inside flap or on the back of CDs. The text editing of playlists, as with other text fields, is performed in the text dialogue. With the functions ”Add Playlist” and ”Edit TOC”, track information from the MAGIX CD burnR deLuxe is evaluated in order to create a CD text. ”TOC” is an abbreviation of ”Table of Contents” (referring to the projects in MAGIX CD burnR deLuxe). 19 Buttons Scan Image Scan image: This function can be utilised when a conventional scanner with a TWAIN 32 drive is available. Select source: Allows you to select one of several scanners, or a scanner without TWAIN compatibility. Insert Graphic Opens the search function for your own image files that can then be used as CD cover elements. Listed in a selection window. Insert: Text Opens the text dialogue (see above ”Text”). Insert: Cliparts This button activate the integrated image files (see above – ”Images and Graphics”). Insert: Geometr. Form Here you can choose the forms you would like to ”draw”, such as ”circle” or ”square”. Insert: Extras Edit playlist: This function opens the table containing track details. In the ”Edit TOC” editor, all entries can be moved, edited or deleted. Add playlist: Adds a table with the main program’s current CD/DVD titles to the printing project. Print Before printing, a print dialogue opens where you can format the page layout (panel format/landscape format). Use the “calibrate” function to adjust the page and click “O.K.” The Print Preview displays everything that will eventually be printed, cutting out anything in the surrounding area from view. It is recommended to use this function prior to printing. 20 Buttons Export image Exports the project as a MBP oder JPG file. New This is a button with the same function as the ”New” command in the file menu. Open This is a button with the same function as the ”Load” command in the file menu. Save This is a button with the same function as the ”Save” command in the file menu. Zoom These buttons have the same functions as their equivalent commands in the file menu. 21 File Menu New Option that creates a new CD/DVD or VHS project. The ”New Project” window offers three options: – create a new project without templates (Option: ”Empty Project”) – call up the templates included (Option: ”Template Assistant”) – Scan an existing CD or DVD (Option: ”Scanner Assistant”). When you select ”Empty Project”, you are confronted with the Project Type selection window. Here you can select from a total of 5 project types: three different CD and/or DVD projects, a purely DVD project and a VHS project. The project types differ from each other in two regards: – Items: ”Label”, ”Cover”, ”Inlay” and ”Booklet” are combined differently in the project types. Labels are round stickers for blank discs. ”Cover” designates the front and inside of the CD box. The Inlay is the back of the CD box with the narrow strips down the sides. The Booklet is an information booklet that can accompany the CD or DVD into the box. – Dimensions: Depending upon the type of project, templates are used for almost square CD boxes (jewel cases.), oblong DVD boxes, or VHS cassettes. Depending upon the type of project, you are offered a combination of empty templates with suitable dimensions. By selecting the Template Assistant, you are confronted with a selection menu for different CD, DVD and VHS templates. After selecting a suitable template, you can then work on it in the project window as you would an empty, white template. Please read the ”Assistance” chapter if you would like to engage the ”Scanner Assistant”. Key: Ctrl + n Load 22 This option allows you to load up previously saved projects. File Menu Key: Ctrl + o Save This option saves the current project. When saving for the first time, you will be prompted to enter a name and to select the file in which the project is to be saved. To save a project under a different name, select ”Save as”. Key: Ctrl + s Save as This option opens a dialogue in which you are asked to enter a name and to select the file in which the project is to be saved on the harddisk. Key: F12 Export Use this option to export your project as a graphic file in JPG or BMP format Print Before printing, a print dialogue opens where you can format the page layout (panel format/landscape format). Use the “calibrate” function to adjust the page and click “O.K.” The print preview allows you to check the page on the monitor before it is printed. Page settings This option opens the ”Printer configuration” windows dialog. Here for example you can select different paper formats other than A4 — if the printer drive supports other formats. However, an appropriate printer drive must be installed on your Windows system. Change page format Normally, printing is done on A4 size pages. The page format is particularly important for preset CD label stickers that are organised differently for A4 pages according to the manufacturer. When you want to use preset CD label stickers, you can select the manufacturer in this dialogue. End Closes the MAGIX cover & label PLUS. 23 Edit Menu Undo Cancels the last action, and returns you to the status before the action was implemented. Key: Ctrl + z Cut This option copies selected text into the Windows clipboard while erasing it from the current project. Via the clipboard, the object can be added to any MAGIX cover & label PLUS project by using the ”paste” command. Key: Ctrl + x Copy This option copies selected text into the Windows clipboard without erasing it from the current project. Via the clipboard, the object can be added to any MAGIX cover & label PLUS project by using the ”paste” command. Key: Ctrl + c Paste This command pastes objects previously saved to the clipboard into the current project. Key: Ctrl + v Duplicate This command makes a copy of the selected object. It appears to the side of the object. Repeated loading of image elements using this command can prove to be wasteful. Key: Ctrl + d Select all Selects all objects in a project that have been ”highlighted”. Key: Ctrl + a Delete Erases objects that are ”highlighted” from a project. 24 Key: Del Edit Menu Properties This option refers only to ”highlighted” text fields and ”speech bubbles”. It opens the text entry dialogue. See the ”Text” chapter. Key: F2 25 View Menu Restore view This command restores the original view of the project when it was opened, in cases whereby the zoom function has been utilised. Key: F4 Zoom out Enlarges the displayed detail. Key: F6 Zoom in Reduces the displayed detail. Key: F7 Zoom tool This command activates the zoom tool. Please read the ”Zooming” section in the ”The work space” chapter. Shift view This command shifts the current view of the work space. Practical for when an object is enlarged so much that it extends beyond the screens borders. Group Several objects can be moved or altered as one by being grouped together via the ”Group” command. Particularly practical when, for example, several objects need to be moved or modified in size together. A grouping is effectively consolidated as a single object and retains a common frame. Ungroup This command separates the group into its original elements, making them individually editable again. Send to front This option places the selected image to the front of the ”pile” of images in the work space. 26 View Menu Send to back This option places the selected image to the back of the ”pile” of images in the work space. Next layer This option places the selected image one layer higher. Previous layer This option places the selected image one layer lower. 27 Help Menu Help This opens the overview side of the help function. From here you can flip through the different themes for explanations. Key: F1 Registration Your advantages as a MAGIX networker: – attractive prices for network card collectors – download new sounds – special offers for networkers – official release demo software – swap ideas and chat – service offers such as automatic system checks and user hotline www.magix.com Creates an internet connection to the MAGIX homepage. 28 Index A Add playlist 20 Adding a playlist 10 Adding text to the ”spine” 11 Arranging graphics and text fields 9 B Buttons 20 C Calibrate 11 CD/DVD Wizard 12 Change page format 23 Cliparts 17, 20 Context menu 14 Copy 24 Cut 24 D Delete 24 Dimensions 7 Duplicate 24 E Edit Menu 24 Edit playlist 20 End 23 Export 23 Extras 19, 20 F File Menu 22 Fill 18 Font 18 Frame 19 G Graphics 8 Group 26 Grouping 15 H Help 28 Help Menu 28 I Images and graphics 17 Items 6 L Load 22 LP Wizard 12 29 Index N Navigation bar 10 New 21, 22 Next layer 27 O Organising layers 16 P Page settings 23 Paste 24 Playlist 10 Positioning 19 Previous layer 27 Print 11, 20, 23 Projects 14 Properties 25 R Reduce or enlarge 15 Registration 28 Restore view 26 S Save 21, 23 Save as 23 Scan image 20 Scanner 20 Search 17, 20 Select all 24 Select source 20 Send to back 27 Send to front 26 Setting the paper format 11 Shapes 20 Shift view 26 Size 18 Style 18 T Text 8, 18, 20 Text and Extras 18 Text Rotation 19 Tutorial 6 U Undo 24 Undoing actions 14 Ungroup 26 V View Menu 26 W 30 What is MAGIX cover & label PLUS? 5 Wizards 12 Work space 14 Work techniques 14 Www.magix.com 28 Index Z Zoom 21 Zoom in 26 Zoom out 26 Zoom tool 26 Zooming 15 31
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