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ImageMixer CD/DVD Label Maker User Manual

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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    I printed and nothing happened....................4 How can I import the song titles from the CD I burned so I don't have to type them all in?..4 Getting Around in ImageMixer Label Maker ..............5 Hiding the Tools Window ......................5 Making the Tools Window Bigger or Smaller................
  • Page 3 Working with CD Tracks....................35 The Tracks Window ........................35 Tracks Formatting Dialog......................36 Choose a CD Drive........................38 "Choose a Disc ID" Dialog ......................38 Playlist Search Dialog........................ 38 Colored Shapes ......................39 Printing ......................... 40 The Print Dialog ......................... 40 The Insert-Paper Dialog:......................

  • Page 4: Welcome

    Our Goals The ImageMixer LabelMaker’s mission is to be fun, quality, easy to use software. We want to be a program that never makes you want to swear at your computer or throw your monitor out the window. We want to help you get your labels made quickly and enjoy doing it. And we want to help you bring out your creative side, even if you don’t think you have one.

  • Page 5: So It's All Done Now

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual And so, at least partly because of this, it’s taken more than a year to bring this program to you. Not that I’m complaining. The painstaking process we’ve gone through has helped us create a program that, I think, makes it easier, quicker, and more fun than it’s ever been for you to create...

  • Page 6: Frequently Asked Questions

    How can I import my own graphics and put them on labels? Imagemixer LabelMaker provides two ways to find images on your computer that you can add to your labels: 1. Click on the "Art Search" tab, enter some text that's in the file or folder names of the art you're looking for, and click the "Search"...

  • Page 7: I Imported My Own Graphic For A Label Background And The Art Looks Squished (Or Stretched)

    If you click the "Tracks" button on the Imagemixer Label Maker's toolbar to launch the CD Contents dialog and then click the "Import" button on that dialog, the Label Maker will pop up a dialog that lets you find &...

  • Page 8: Getting Around In Imagemixer Label Maker

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Getting Around in ImageMixer Label Maker We've split the program's main window into two pieces: on the left, tools or ingredients; on the right, your actual labels (or, if you like the ingredients metaphor, "stew"). It’s set up this way because it’s hard to concentrate when the tools you need aren’t handy.

  • Page 9: The Label Tabs

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Label Tabs If you’ve ever wondered, “How do I edit all the different labels that a CD has?” or “What’s that row of tabs along the upper right hand side of the window for?”, then you’ve come to the right paragraph.

  • Page 10: Backgrounds

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Backgrounds Click on the Backgrounds tab along the top-left side of the program’s main window, and you’ll see thumbnails of all the pre-built background images that we ship with the program. Click on any one of the thumbnails, and it will become your label’s background image.

  • Page 11: Layouts

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Layouts The layouts feature is a way to take advantage of other people’s creativity. We’re not always in the mood to lay out each of our labels, and decide where we want to put the tracks listing, and how to arrange it, and whether we want a title on the label, or a dedication, or any number of other things.

  • Page 12: Adding Your Own Images To Labels

    Adding your own images to labels Finding Images to Add to a Label Imagemixer Label Maker provides two ways to find images on your computer that you can add to your labels: 1. Click on the "Art Search" tab, enter some text that's in the file or folder names of the art you're looking for, and click the "Search"...

  • Page 13: Adding An Image You've Found As Clip Art

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Adding an Image You’ve Found as Clip Art Once you’ve found an image you want to add to your label, just left-click on its thumbnail, drag it onto your label, and release the mouse button. The program will place the image where you dropped it.

  • Page 14: Clip Art

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Clip Art Clip Art Search If you want to search for clip art images on your computer’s hard drive(s), click on the Art Search tab near the top of the program’s main window. Then follow these steps: Type something to search for into the “Search for:”...

  • Page 15: Stuff You Can Do With Clip Art

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Note: the program bases the thumbnail size on your current video resolution, so that thumbnails will occupy roughly the same amount of your available screen space no matter what resolution you’re running in. If you change your screen’s resolution (such as from 800 by 600 to 1,024 by 768), the absolute thumbnail sizes will change, so the program will have to create new thumbnails for any clip art that it displays.
  • Page 16 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Set as Wallpaper: Lets you set the selected clip art image as your Windows desktop wallpaper. It has nothing to do with creating labels. It pops up a submenu with these four options: 1. Tiled: Sets the clip art image as tiled wallpaper.
  • Page 17 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Rotate/Flip Image: Pops up a submenu with these five options: 1. 90 degrees clockwise: Rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise. 2. 90 degrees counterclockwise: Rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise. 3. 180 degrees: Rotate the image 180 degrees.

  • Page 18: Text

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Displaying Text To display text on a label, create a text object. You can do this by clicking the “new text” button on the toolbar or selecting the “Create a new text object” item from the Text menu.
  • Page 19 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Text Object Toolbar When you click on a text object, a toolbar should appear directly underneath it. If it doesn’t, click on the “T” button on the object’s toolbar. The buttons on the toolbar serve these functions, from left to right: ...
  • Page 20 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Tracks List Header Bar When you select a tracks text object, you should see, in addition to the traditional title bar, sizing frame, resize bars, and toolbar, a columns header bar. The header bar has these functions: Left-clicking on a header bar column will select all the text in that column, so that you can apply whatever column-wide effects strike your fancy.

  • Page 21: The Text Properties Dialog

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Text Properties Dialog You can do a surprising number of things to the text in a text object, and, aside from editing the text itself, you can do them all from the text properties dialog. You can access the text properties dialog by right-clicking on a text object and selecting Properties or by clicking the properties button (the one with the three little dots on it) on a text object’s toolbar.

  • Page 22: The "Font" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Apply button will be disabled if you’ve got the “Apply changes as soon as etc.” box checked, because your changes will already be getting “applied” as soon as you make them. The "Font" Page This page lets you change the fonts used for displaying the text in your text object.
  • Page 23 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Properties "Text Angle" Page This page lets you change the angle at which your text displays. Bring this page up by clicking on the “Text Angle” line of the listbox on the left side of the text properties dialog.
  • Page 24 In the current incarnation of Imagemixer Label Maker, you can’t create new custom colors from this page. This ability will be arriving in a not-too-far-off future version. In the meantime, you can create new custom colors by clicking on the color button on a text object’s toolbar.
  • Page 25 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Text Size & Position Page This page lets you change the size and position of your text object. This is probably easier to do outside the text properties dialog, simply by clicking on a text object’s title bar and dragging it to move the object, or by dragging one of the text object’s red resize bars to resize it.
  • Page 26 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Margins" Page This page lets you change your text object’s horizontal and vertical margins. Setting these fields lets you increase or decrease the amount of space between your text object’s borders and where the text will be allowed to print. Setting a left margin of 1 centimeter, for instance, means that text will start printing 1 centimeter to the right of the text object’s left border, not 1...
  • Page 27 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Curve Direction: Clockwise: Curved text will circle your label in a clockwise direction. Anti-Clockwise: Curved text will circle your label in an anti-clockwise direction. Auto Choose: Curved text will circle in a clockwise direction if it’s primarily on the top half of the label, and anti-clockwise if it’s primarily on the bottom half.
  • Page 28 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Background" Page This page lets you choose the shape of your text object. You can select from these categories: Shape: Rectangle or Round Choose rectangle, and your text object will have a rectangular background. Choose round, and its background will be roundish (to be precise, it will be an ellipse).
  • Page 29 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Balloon Tail Location This group of radio buttons will be enabled if you’ve chosen the “Speech Balloon” or “Thought Balloon” options on this page. These buttons let you select the side of your text object on which you want to display your chat or thought balloon tail.
  • Page 30 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Justification" Page This page lets you choose your text’s horizontal and vertical justification. It works as follows: Horizontal Left: Text will be left-justified within the text object’s boundaries. Center: Text will be centered horizontally within the text object’s boundaries.
  • Page 31 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Word Wrapping" Page This page contains some esoteric stuff that affects how your text will word-wrap. Ignore Label Edges: If you check this box, you can drag a text object partially off a label, and it won’t affect how the text object word-wraps.

  • Page 32: The Columns Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Wrap on right side: Wrap text to the right side of the hole. If your text object lies entirely to the left side of the hole, this setting may produce unhappy results. Wrap on widest side: Wrap text on whichever side of the hole has the most room within the text object’s boundaries.
  • Page 33 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The other controls on this page apply to particular columns. They’ll be disabled unless you’ve set the how-many-columns control to be 2 or more. Column Number: specifies which column the Horizontal Orientation and Hole Wrapping controls apply to.

  • Page 34: The "Paragraph" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Paragraph" Page Line Spacing: This control lets you set line spacing for a text object. 1.0 means single-spaced text; 2.0 means double-spaced text, etc. Extra Indentation: These controls let you specify extra text indentation on a per-paragraph level.
  • Page 35 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual In variable-width mode, each field of each row will be exactly as wide as required to display the amount of text. The title field for “You’ve Certainly Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” will be wider than the title field for “Louie Louie.”...
  • Page 36 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The “Individual Field” Pages When you launch the text properties dialog for a tracks text object, you’ll see one of these pages for each field in the text object. For an audio CD, they’ll be labeled Number, Song Title, Artist, and Length, respectively.
  • Page 37 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Edit Text" Window for Angled Text When you set a text object to an angle that’s sideways or upside down, you won’t be able to edit it by just clicking on the text object, the way you normally do. While I was writing the program, I tried editing text sideways and upside down, but I had a roaring headache within a minute.

  • Page 38: Working With Cd Tracks

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Working with CD Tracks The Tracks Window This dialog lets you type in and edit your tracks listing – either your song list, for an audio CD, or your chapter list, for a DVD. If you’re editing an audio CD, you can also import your tracks from a playlist and save yourself all that tedious typing.

  • Page 39: Tracks Formatting Dialog

    When you burn a CD, you usually create a playlist file that lists the songs you burned to the CD. Imagemixer Label Maker can read most types of playlist files and will automatically create a song list for you.
  • Page 40 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Changed your mind about a preset you’ve created? To delete it, select it, then click on the Delete button. This one is next to the Save button & has a picture of a pair of scissors on it.

  • Page 41: Choose A Cd Drive

    Choose a CD Drive The Imagemixer Label Maker wants to know which of your many CD drives holds the CD that you’re trying to read track information from. Your job is to tell it. Just click on the drive letter of the drive that holds your CD and then, once it’s selected, click the “OK”...

  • Page 42: Colored Shapes

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Colored Shapes In case clip art, background images, and text objects aren’t enough to satisfy your creative needs, we offer a small assortment of colored shapes that you can plaster all over your labels. Click on the “Shapes” button on the main toolbar, and a dialog will pop up that will let you add a rectangle, ellipse (a round thingy), or diamond to your label.

  • Page 43: Printing

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Printing When you’re ready to print your label, click the Print button on the main toolbar or select the Print item from the File menu. This will launch the Print dialog, unless you’ve used up all your free labels.
  • Page 44 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Properties: Launches a dialog that lets you set options – print quality, for instance --  specific to the printer you’ve chosen. Since your printer manufacturer supplies this dialog, we can’t predict precisely what will be on it or give you detailed help with it.

  • Page 45: The Insert-Paper Dialog

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Insert-Paper Dialog: This dialog will prompt you to insert one or more sheets of the paper types you’ve chosen for the labels you’ve chosen to print. The buttons on the dialog will behave as follows: ...

  • Page 46: The Printer Alignment Dialog

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Printer Alignment Dialog Printers are imprecise beasts. You can tell them to print something exactly 1.2 inches from the top of the paper, but chances are, it’ll end up being more like 1.1 or 1.28 inches from the top.

  • Page 47: The Your-Label's-Too-Darn-Big Dialog

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual  Up/Down: Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer’s vertical printing errors. If your printer always prints stuff too far down the page, check the “Up” box. If if prints too high, check the “Down” box.
  • Page 48 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual  OK: click this button when you’ve made your choice and you’re ready to move on.  Cancel: click this button if you’ve decided you don’t want to print this label after all.  Help: we suspect you’ve already got some experience with this button. But if you enjoy this help page, feel free to click it whenever you want.

  • Page 49: The Instant-Label Wizard

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Instant-Label Wizard If you’re in a label-making race, or you don’t trust your label design skills, or you just can’t be bothered to plunge in up to your elbows among the muck of backgrounds and text and clip art, then the wizard is for you.

  • Page 50: The "Choose Label Type" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Choose Label Type" Page Choose whether you want to make your labels for an audio CD or a DVD. The only difference between them is that an audio CD’s contents consist of tracks, each containing a track name, artist name, and length, while a DVD’s contents consist of chapters, each containing a chapter...

  • Page 51: The "Additional Text Fields" Page

    When you burn a CD, you usually create a playlist file that lists the songs you burned to the CD. Imagemixer Label Maker can read most types of playlist files and automatically create a song list for you.

  • Page 52: The Preferences Dialog

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The Preferences Dialog This dialog collects a bunch of program settings that generally don’t nicely fit into other categories and lets you edit them. You can launch the Preferences dialog by selecting the Preferences option from the File menu.

  • Page 53: The "Main Toolbar" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual and send us the file so we can try to figure out what’s going on. In all other circumstances, leave this box unchecked. The "Main Toolbar" Page This page lets you choose how you want the program’s main toolbar (which runs across the top of the program’s main window) to look.
  • Page 54 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual This page lets you decide whether or not to launch the the new-label wizard every time you start the program, and whether or not the program should automatically change the text justification when you switch a text object to a round background.

  • Page 55: The "Printer Alignment" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Printer Alignment" Page Printers are imprecise beasts. You can tell them to print something exactly 1.2 inches from the top of the paper, but chances are, it’ll end up being more like 1.1 or 1.28 inches from the top.

  • Page 56: The "Stretch Labels" Page

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual The "Stretch Labels" Page This dialog lets you account for printer alignment errors by stretching all your labels when they print. If your printer doesn’t print precisely where it’s supposed to, but it’s always off in exactly...
  • Page 57 Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual paper; most stock paper forms have folds already built into the paper. If you check this box for the jewel case back, the program will print lines indicating where to fold the two spines. If you check this box for the jewel case front/inside, the program will print a line indicating where to fold the front/inside booklet in half.

  • Page 58: Other Useful Dialogs

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Other Useful Dialogs Save as Theme This dialog lets you save your current project as a theme that will show up in the Instant-Label Wizard. New Theme Name: Enter a name for your new theme here. It will appear under this name in the Instant-Label Wizard after you’ve saved it.

  • Page 59: New File

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Justification: These options let you control horizontal and vertical justification for your image. You can align your image to the left or right edges of your label, or center it. You can align it vertically to the top of bottom edge of the label, or make it centered vertically on the label.

  • Page 60: Registration, Purchase, & Support

    Just click the “Buy” button on the Label Maker’s main toolbar or select the “Buy now and register” item from the Label Maker’s Help menu. If you’re not running Imagemixer Label Maker right now, you can go directly to our website and purchase a code. Just click on this link: BUY NOW! And thanks for registering! We’ll be proud to have you as a customer.

  • Page 61: Credits

    Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual Credits Imagemixer Label Maker is sold under license from Acoustica, Inc. Copyright © 2001-2005 Acoustica Inc. All Rights Reserved. Programming and design by Russ Cary, Joseph Clarke, and Brian Hughes. Featuring art by Rich Powell, Tim Ibbotson, Ramona Clarke, & Ronnie Nijmeh.

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