User manual POLAROID ID CARD MAKER VER. 5

[. . . ] Welcome to the ID Card Maker Enhanced Online User Documentation This file contains information about Polaroid ID Card Maker Enhanced Edition version 5. 3 or higher. Some information included here may not apply to your environment. Please choose a title below to view the document, or click on the titles to the left of this page. ID Card Maker Operator's Guide ID Card Maker Administrator's Guide Polaroid PCID Printer and Magnetic Stripe Plug-ins Using the Online User Documentation Legal Notices Conventions Comments? [. . . ] The results of using non-TrueType fonts with more than one card printer are unpredictable. In addition, TrueType fonts can always be rotated. Fonts are often installed by applications. Before using a font, make sure it is available on each ID Card Maker computer in your organization. If the printer you will use to print cards has printer fonts installed and you want to use them, you must select Display Printer Fonts and a printer for the project on the Printer Fonts tab of the Edit Project Properties dialog box. See the online help topic "Use printer fonts" for step-by-step instructions. Printer fonts appear in the fonts list for card fields preceded by a printer icon. They never appear in the fonts list for Production Form fields. You can use Type 1 fonts if you also have Adobe® Type ManagerTM software installed on each computer in your system. ID Card Maker Enhanced Version 5 User Documentation 36 Plan and Create the Card Design Variable fields that always contain characters let you specify that the font size should automatically shrink to accommodate a large amount of text. The font size shrinks to a minimum of 6 points. If at 6-point type the text still does not fit, characters are dropped from the end. Text Field Colors You can select both a background and foreground color for your text fields. You can either specify that the background be transparent (the default) or that it be a solid color. The foreground color refers to the color of the text in the field. If you specify black for the foreground color of a text, static text, or date field, you can choose to have the text printed using the black panel (K-panel) of the printer ribbon if the card printer is using a ribbon with a black panel. The black panel produces a truer black and sharper characters than printing using a combination of the cyan, magenta, and yellow panels. If you define the field to print in white text, the printer will "knock out" the characters, allowing the surface of the card (usually white) to show through. The Use topcoat panel check box also becomes available when white is the selected color. See "Topcoat" on page 21 for more information. Arranging Fields on the Card Each time you insert a field on the card, ID Card Maker Project places it, with default values for properties, in the upper left corner of the card. You need to change its properties to suit your needs and move it to the correct location on the card. Use the alignment commands on the Format menu to make sure fields are perfectly lined up either horizontally or vertically. ID Card Maker Version 5 Administrator's Guide Plan and Create the Card Design 37 Before fine-tuning the card layout, print a sample card. This allows the software to determine printer characteristics and size fields more accurately. Save time by copying and pasting formatted fields rather than always inserting a new, default field. For example, in the sample card above the "Member ID" field was created and formatted. Then it was copied and pasted for the "Expire Date" field (see the online help topic "Cut, copy and paste fields" for step-by-step instructions) and the Field Name and Display Text were changed on the General tab of the Edit Field Properties [Static Text] dialog box. [. . . ] To find a topic, you can browse a list of "bookmarks, " scan the table of contents, or perform a keyword search. When you find the information you need, you can either read it on your computer monitor or print it. Getting Around In an online manual, you can move from page to page as you would in a book. You can also jump back to whichever page you viewed most recently. Moving from Page to Page Click these buttons to "turn the pages" of the document. The inside buttons send you to the previous page and the next page. [. . . ]