Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker Manual do Utilizador

Help Contents Welcome FAQ Printing Troubleshooting FAQ Getting Around in Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker Backgrounds Layouts Adding Your Own Im

won't be covered by the background image. 3. Stretched: make the selected clip art image your background image, and stretch it to cover the enti

You can click on it. This will "select" it, so that you can move or resize it. Once you've selected a clip art image, you can: Move i

Top-left pixel is transparent color: If you've checked this option, Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker will treat the color in the image's top lef

window. They look like this: If you're running at a low video resolution or you've resized your tools window to be very narrow, the cl

Backgrounds Click on the Backgrounds tab along the top-left side of Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker's main window, and you'll see thumbnai

We've got lots more background art than we could fit into our download file. Open the Help menu and click on the Check for new art option, and we

Art Search If you want Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker to search for clip art images on your computer's hard drive(s), click on the Art Search tab

* move the shape behind everything else on the label (except the background image, if any) One of our favorite ways to waste time with shape objec

Selecting this option will bring up a dialog that lets you save the current label as a layout. You can save whichever elements you like: text field

The "Printer" Section: Name: Gives you a list of all the printers attached to your computer. Choose the one you want to use. Paper Bin:

Welcome to our help file. If you're looking for help with a particular problem, we suggest you start at the Help Contents page. This section is m

Paper Type: Lets you choose the type of paper you want to print on. Whenever you choose a different paper type from this list, the thumbnail underneat

you want to print. If you check the box for a label, it will print. If not, it won't. Once you've selected what you want to print and what

holding the two sheets in front of a light so that the printed label on the plain paper underneath is visible. This should help prevent you from wasti

it's supposed to, you can use this section to tell the program to always print labels one millimeter to the left of where they'd normally go

The "Stretch Labels" section: If your printer doesn't align correctly, but isn't consistent about it, you can correct it by using

advance to the next label. Help: launch this help page. If you're printing more than one of your labels, the dialog will appear multiple times.

printable diameter or hole diameter (118 millimeters and 41 millimeters, respectively, for CDs and DVDs), you can use this dialog to set the diameters

Move by (up/down): This allows you to move a label up or down on the page. Units, again, are in millimeters. Diameter (mm): This allows you to edit

Help Contents Printing Troubleshooting Printable Disc Issues When I try to print a printable disc on my Canon printer, I get an error message

Why do some of the paper names say "US" and some say "A4"? And why do some say "Legal"? Can I get arrested for printing

program that, I think, makes it easier, quicker, and more fun than it's ever been for you to create labels you like. Without the feedback and ide

make a large variety of papers for different kinds of labels and in both letter and A4 sizes, and if you've inadvertently selected the wrong mode

When I print my labels, they're way too small or way too large, or parts of them are chopped off. Huge discrepancies in label size are usually

edge of the paper thumbnail next to the arrow will usually be the top of the sheet. How do I print all 3 labels on a 3-up CD label sheet? You'

printer off and on again. Printable CD/DVD Issues When I try to print a printable disc on my Canon printer, I get an error message that the tray d

2) the media type -- if it's set to be any of the paper choices instead of being one of the CD/DVD settings, your printed CD may have banding pr

shrunk both horizontally and vertically, even though the paper was too small in only one of those directions, and because the label is getting rescale

If you're in a CD-label-making race, or you don't trust your label design skills, or you just can't be bothered to plunge in up to y

Finish You can launch the wizard by choosing the Instant-Label Wizard option from the File menu. If you want the wizard to launch every time you run

Instant-Label Wizard "Tracks" Page If you've gotten this far, you're rapidly getting the hang of this "wizard" busines

iTunes playlist to Acoustica without having to export it from iTunes first. Data Type: This control lets you choose what kind of data you're dis

party. Consequently, there's a row of tabs along the top-left side of the program, labeled, respectively, "layouts", "backgro

If you're having second thoughts, click the Cancel button. This will close the wizard and discard all the wizard decisions you're apparentl

press F2: selects the text in the field and puts the caret at the end of the text click the Edit button: selects the text in the field and puts the ca

whichever label you've got currently visible. If you uncheck it, they'll be hidden. Data Type: This control lets you choose what kind of da

software will prompt you so it can make sure you didn't click the Delete button by accident. Arrangement: This combo box contains a list of quic

Help Contents The iTunes Dialog The iTunes dialog searches your iTunes library and produces a list of all your iTunes playlists. Click on a

display a list of all the files it finds that appear to be playlists. You can just scroll through, click on the one you want, and click "OK"

"Choose a Disc ID" Dialog If FreeDB finds multiple potential matches for your CD, they'll all be displayed in this dialog. Choose the

Disc Summary: If you check this option, Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker will create a new text field that lists information about the contents of the dis

Stretch Labels Printing Fold Lines Miscellaneous Help Contents Preferences Dialog "Auto-Run Options" Page This page lets you de

the software and create a blank project of that type when you start the program. So if you were working on a DVD project the last time you ran the sof

We presume that your CD or DVD has something on it. Not many people make CD labels for blank CDs - although if that's what you're doing, we

This page lets you choose how you want Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker's main toolbar (which runs across the top of the program's main windo

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 u

option. The printer alignment error that occurs when printing on paper from a paper tray is highly unlikely to be identical to any printer alignment e

checked, which is our recommendation. The stretch labels settings are designed to overcome problems with your printer's alignment so that you can

label, but you'll have to eyeball things a bit to get your fold lines right. Color: This option lets you choose what color you want your fold li

You can override the setting you've made here for any project. When you bring up the "Save As" dialog, there will be an "Embed ima

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 p

Text Properties Dialog "Size & Position" Page Text Properties Dialog "Margins" Page Text Properties Dialog "Paragraph&

selected when you launched the Text Properties dialog, changes you make here will only affect the color of the text you've got selected. If you d

Speech Balloon This feature lets you make your text object into a speech or thought balloon, such as you have probably seen thousands of times in the

next to the text you clicked on. Once a text object is selected (it's got the title bar and resize bars), clicking on the text will no longer le

This page lets you choose your text object's background color. It's quite simple: click on a color, and your text object's background

Text Properties Dialog "Justification" Page This page lets you choose your text's horizontal and vertical justification. It work

This page lets you change your text object's horizontal and vertical margins. Setting these fields lets you increase or decrease the amount o

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 cl

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 o

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 tex

Text Properties Dialog Help Contents Text Properties Dialog "Fields" Page This page, which only appears on the properties dialogs

tracks listings. Line Break After Each Row: If this box is checked, each track listing will start on a new line. If it's unchecked, multiple tra

The Space after field lets you decide how much blank space you want between this field and the next one, provided you've got the text object in

Text Properties Dialog "Paragraph" Page Line Spacing: This control lets you set line spacing for a text object. 1.0 means single-spaced te

object. You don't need to create new text objects to display them. Instead, either select a layout that has a tracks list, or open the tracks dia

Anti-Clockwise: Curved text will circle your label in an anti-clockwise direction. Auto Choose: Curved text will circle in a clockwise direction if i

the front of your jewel case, and a CD jewel case back insert to attach inside the back of the jewel case. DVD with DVD case: this creates a project

This dialog lets you set an image from your computer as a tiled label background and control a variety of settings for how the image gets tiled. Here&

If your printer just can't seem to line up your labels correctly on your label sheets, this wizard can help. It prints a test sheet that helps yo

has room to slide around inside the paper tray, there's a good chance that this will cause alignment errors on a large variety of printer models.

* If the alignment-test sheet indicates that your alignment is much worse than you expected, make sure you checked the correct paper-size option befor

If you printed a second test sheet to see how well the printer calibrates with your revised alignment settings, try the familiar fold-and-measure-the-

Size/Position" option from the menu that pops up or by clicking on an image to select it and then selecting the "Adjust Size/Position"

added to your label. All units in this dialog are in millimeters. You can access this dialog by right-clicking on a shape and selecting the "Adj

place to do it. Instead, launch* the Text Properties Dialog, then go to the Justification page of the dialog. If your text object isn't a Tracks

Fixed width columns work well for left-justified text or cases where you've got more than two columns visible. The variable width columns settin

Help Contents Why's the Shape Menu Disabled? Because you haven't selected a shape object to play with. Click on any shape you've

Printer Troubleshooting FAQ Can I print a label directly onto a CD? Where can i get label paper? How can I import my own graphics and put them on l

or 2) Ctrl + double-click the thumbnail to make it a tiled background or 3) Right-click on the image's thumbnail and select one of the "S

the Label Maker will scan the playlist file, load your song information from it, and display it in the CD Contents dialog. If you burned your CD with

BUY NOW! And thanks for registering! We'll be proud to have you as a customer. Help Contents About Acoustica Address: Acoustica P.O. Bo

Lorenz Bell, Ltd. For more information about the products, visit www.lorenzbell.com. Help Contents Page 85 of 856/13/2006file://C:\acoustica\cdla

Help Contents Clip Art Art Search Art Browse Stuff You Can Do With Clip Art Help Contents Stuff You Can Do WIth Clip Art When you see