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QuickStart Guide
Welcome to Serif Poster Designer Pro for HP, the
software program that provides all the tools and
features you'll need to create and print your own
custom posters.
Poster Designer Pro has been developed with ease
of use in mind, and you'll be surprised by how
simple it is to produce superb results.
Whether you want to create a simple sales flyer or
a stylish full-color poster to advertise your business
or promote an event, Poster Designer Pro makes it
all possible.
To get started quickly, follow the steps outlined in
this QuickStart Guide. For more detailed
information, see the online Help, How To tab, and
tutorials (see page 16).
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Page 1: Quickstart Guide
Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide QuickStart Guide Welcome to Serif Poster Designer Pro for HP, the software program that provides all the tools and features you’ll need to create and print your own custom posters. Poster Designer Pro has been developed with ease of use in mind, and you’ll be surprised by how simple it is to produce superb results. - Page 2 Digital Images ©2008 Jupiterimages France SAS, All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Font content © 1981-2005 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved. Panose Typeface Matching System ©1991, 1992, 1995-97 Hewlett-Packard Corporation. Portions graphics import/export technology © AccuSoft Corp. & Eastman Kodak Company &...
- Page 3 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Installing Poster Designer Pro You can install Poster Designer Pro automatically using AutoPlay, or manually from Windows Explorer. To install using AutoPlay: Insert the Poster Designer Pro DVD into your DVD drive. If AutoPlay is enabled on the drive, the Setup process starts automatically.
- Page 4 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Microsoft Windows Vista®: From the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel. Double-click Programs and Features. In the list of installed programs, select Poster Designer Pro. To modify the installation: · Click Change. · In the Setup Wizard, click Next, click Modify, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
- Page 5 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Creating your first poster Poster Designer Pro provides a wide range of professionally-designed design templates and themed layouts, which you can use as starting points for your own custom posters. In the following pages, we’ll show you how to create a poster from a design template and from a themed layout.
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- Page 7 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide The template opens as a new poster in the Changing color schemes workspace. Because the themed layouts and design templates are color schemed, you can swap You can replace the the underlying scheme (and consequently the images in the template look and feel of the poster) at any time.
- Page 8 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Starting with a themed layout As an alternative to the design templates, Poster Designer Pro also provides a wide range of themed layouts. Each theme offers a selection of layout variations and color schemes. To open a themed layout: On the File menu, click New from Startup Wizard.
- Page 9 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Adding pictures to themed layouts The themed layouts provide one or more placeholder picture frames for you to add your own photos, or a template image from the Media Bar. To add a template image from the Media Bar: ·...
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Page 10: Working With Text
Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Working with text Adding text In this section, we’ll edit and resize the Frame text and artistic text text placeholders, and apply formatting share many attributes, and you and color. We’ll be working with artistic can use the same methods to perform operations such as text and frame text. - Page 11 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide On the Text context toolbar, in the Fonts drop-down list, select your preferred font. (Optional) Depending on the font selected, you may need to resize the text object to fit the page. To do this, you can drag a resize handle to stretch or squash the text (see step 3), or use the point size drop-down list on the Text context toolbar.
- Page 12 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Moving, rotating, and aligning The following steps show you how to move, rotate, and align objects on the page. To move an object: On the Tools toolbar, click the Pointer Tool, and then click to select the object you want to move.
- Page 13 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide To align objects: Hold down the Shift key and, using the Pointer Tool, click to select the objects you want to align. On the Align tab, click an alignment option In the example illustrated below, we chose Center Horizontally and selected the Include margins check box so that our text objects would be centered relative to the page edges.
- Page 14 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Previewing your poster You can preview your poster before printing, to see how it will appear on the printed page. To preview your poster: On the Standard toolbar, click Print Preview. Use the tools in the lower-left corner of the Preview window to adjust your preview.
- Page 15 Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Printing your poster Poster Designer Pro supports printing For a list of supported on paper rolls. You can set print quality printers, see online Help. and scale your poster to fit your selected paper size. To print your poster: On the Standard toolbar, click to open the Print dialog.
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Page 16: Support Details
Poster Designer Pro QuickStart Guide Depending on your printer model, the Paper Type drop-down list may be enabled or grayed out. · If enabled, select your paper type from the list. · If grayed out, you’ll see ‘Loaded in Printer.’ This indicates that the paper type set in your printer will be used.