MacroSystem Caladan - Manual (Page 10)

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preview window. From now on you can open the
image pool using the “Select Pattern” button.
- Bleed
This is where you can configure a color bleed,
as is similarly possible in the image pool. In
addition, you can click on the “Direction” button
to set a direction for the bleed. The direction
selection is carried out by an auxiliary line
being automatically set in the video image; this
allows the direction to be adjusted to suit certain
default values. The initial and final color as well
as the alpha transparency can be configured
freely.
Once you have selected a color or pattern, close
the window by clicking on “Ok”.
If you choose the “Scene Image” function for
“Content”, you can open the scene bin of the
currently active project by pressing the “Select”
button. You can scroll through the scene bin as
usual and select the image that you want. After
you have confirmed your selection with “Ok”,
the image that you want appears inside the
active box after a moment.
If you have selected the “Photo Image” option
for “Content” and you then press the “Select”
button, the “Load Hires Image” window opens
containing a list of images that you saved using
“Photo Transfer”. (In order for the images to be
available, you must have clicked and activated
the “Import for other programs” function in the
“Photo Transfer” program and then selected the
required images.) After you have selected an
image and confirmed your selection with “Ok”,
please wait a moment for it to appear inside the
activated box. You must have “Photo Transfer
1.5a” or higher in order to use this function.
If you have the “Akaba - New Concept”
program, the “Akaba Image” function will be
available under “Content”. After you have
selected this option and clicked on “Select”,
the “Load Akaba Image” window appears
containing a list of selectable images that
you saved using the “Akaba - New Concept”
program. After you have selected an image and
confirmed your selection with “Ok”, please wait
a moment for it to appear inside the activated
box. “Akaba - New Concept” provides you with
the useful option of not just being able to create
rectangular shapes for the box background.
You can, for instance, also easily create callouts
(rectangles with rounded corners).
The contents that you selected remain stored
internally in memory. If, for instance, you
initially selected a photo image, then decided
instead to use a scene image but then activated
the “Photo Image” function again after all,
you will notice that the photo image that you
selected initially will be placed inside the box
automatically. If you want to select a different
image, you must click on the “Select” button.
(3) Furthermore, the selection that you made
in “Color/Texture” will be displayed within
the little color box displayed to the right of the
“Content” and “Select” buttons. Alternatively,
you can also use this little box to open the
“Palette” window. If you selected a function
for “Content” other than the “Color/Texture”
function, the little color box will appear inactive.
(4) You will also see the “Text” button in the
toolbar of the “Content” menu. It will only
become active if you first activate a box. Clicking
on this button will cause an on-screen keyboard
to open, which you can of course operate
instead using an external keyboard.
By pressing the “Font Type”, “Font Style”
and “Format” buttons you can open the
corresponding windows in order to define the
appearance of your text more precisely:
Clicking on the “Font Type” button opens the
familiar window in which you can define the
type and size of the font.
The “Font Style” button opens the “Text Style”
window in which you can make changes to
the text properties, border and shadow. The
“Format” function opens the following window
in which you can define alignment and spacing: