Adding The Remaining Objects - Videonics PowerScript PS4000S Instruction Manual

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Adding the Remaining Objects

Note that what we are
doing here is selecting the
text characters within the
text object.
To complete this first page, you must add a box object and three text objects.
1 Enter Ctrl+B to add a box object to the page. The object appears at the center of the
page and PowerScript displays its bounding rectangle and object handles.
2 Click and drag the box object's resize handle to make the box about one-half the height
of the bull's-eye target, and about three-quarters the width of the page (or, screen).
3 Drag the box object upward toward the top of the screen so that its bottom is slightly
above the bottom of the largest oval object in the bull's-eye target.
This step ensures that when you use the Align option in a later step the two objects align at
the lowest point of the large oval object. Compare your page to the one shown at the left.
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Hold down the Shift key and select the largest of the bull's-eye target oval objects.
Holding down the Shift key lets you select more than one object at a time (this is called
Shift-Clicking). Both the box object and the largest oval object should be selected. Make
sure you selected the largest oval object and not one of the smaller ones.
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Enter Ctrl+Shift+B to align the large oval object and the new box object at their bot-
toms.
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Shift-click the large oval object to deselect it. This leaves only the box object selected.
Shift-clicking can be used to deselect objects as well as select them.
7 Set the fill color for the box object to the same attributes as the large oval object—
Hue=100, Saturation=100, Brightness=70, and Opacity=100.
8 Enter Ctrl+Shift+F. This executes the Send to Back option (found in the SELECT menu)
and moves the box object "behind" all of the objects that comprise the bull's-eye tar-
get.
Every object you place on a page occupies a separate layer. The first object occupies the first
(or, back-most) layer. All subsequent objects occupy layers on top of or in front of the previous
layer or layers. Therefore, an object on one layer might cover all or part of an object on a pre-
vious layer. You've used this feature to cause the box object to appear as though it is part of
the bull's-eye target because all of the objects comprising the bull's-eye are in front of the box
object.
Once again, compare your page to the one shown at the left.
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Enter Ctrl+T to add a new text object to the page. The new object appears at the center
of the page and because it does not yet contain any characters, it is extremely narrow.
The object handles, however, let you know the object is there.
10 Type "SIGHTnSOUND".
As you type, the text object expands and the individual characters appear. If you make a mis-
take while typing, press the Backspace key to erase as many characters as necessary, then con-
tinue typing.
11 Place the mouse pointer to the left of the first capital letter "S" in the text object, then
drag to the right all the way to the end of the text string.
SIGHTnSOUND
Click here
You have selected all characters in the text object. Selecting individual text characters works a
little differently from selecting a complete object. It gives you the ability to apply attributes
to one or more characters that comprise a complete text string. You could have, for example,
Adding the Remaining Objects
(If you don't understand the
term "drag," read Appendix B,
Using the PowerScript Mouse and
Keyboard.)
Drag to here and release
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