Page Layout mode: canvas colour

Is it possible to change the canvas colour in Page Layout mode?
Andy

Andy,
As with Word Processing Mode, you can place a colored Shape in the background to give the appearance of a colored canvas. There is no canvas color option per se.
Jerry

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Page layout mode - margins

Hi,
i would like to set fixed margins in page layout mode.
e.g site layout with inside 1 cm and outside 2 cm.. simple.. - document margins doesn't work in layout mode.
Rulers are no solution - i don't want to set or change rulers for every site and i can't fix the ruler correct anyway (e.g. only on .83cm and .79cm not on .80.. zooming in doesn't change it)
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greetings
Chris
ah.. and.. of course.. help, manual, search function previously in use..

thanks for your help - maybe i described the problem not exact.. my problem is:
If you add a box in layout mode (doesn't matter whats inside - text, shapes or images) - you can drag the boxes out of the image, close the page border or with some margin to the border - you can align boxes to each other (horizontal, vertical...)
But i didn't find a method for aligning all boxes with a certain margin like the document margins in text mode.
Lets say i have a dozen boxes on a page and a couple of pages and i want to align all of these boxes with 2cm margin to left, top, right and bottom.. like the boxes in given templates.
Do i have to drag all these boxes manually? - and what happen if i want to change my margin (lets say the printer calls you - it needs some 5mm more margin) - what i am looking for is something to set a certain margin i can align all boxes on and change quickly (.. like in text mode)
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"This file was created by Oracle Reports. View this document in Page Layout mode" , how to avoid this text

we print some RTF Files , we dont want to print to paper this text "This file was created by Oracle Reports. View this document in Page Layout mode"
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we print some RTF Files , we dont want to print to paper this text "This file was created by Oracle Reports. View this document in Page Layout mode"
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Inline objects in page layout mode

Before I drive myself any more insane than I already am can someone please confirm, or otherwise, that it isn't possible to use inline objects in page layout mode or, indeed, inside text boxes in word processing mode? Assuming this is the case can anyone suggest a work around?

Please don't become insane, there already too many such human beeings
Here is the way I work (mainly because I don't store my photos in iPhoto).
drag and drop the picture file onto the doc's page.
select the picture frame with its square handles
Cut it so it will no longer appear but is stored in the clipboard.
Put the cursor where you want to insert the picture then paste.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 29 juin 2008 15:44:25)

Can i set margins in page layout mode?

I have margins set in page layout mode, but they don't seem to really work. I can move text around freely but I'd like to set definite margins so when I align my text boxes left I can align them all at 1 inch.

The "blue lines" are guides and yes you can. Objects will snap to the lines when you get close to them.
You can also use the Metrics tab in Inspector palette, and +Menu > >Arrange > Align Objects+ to position text and images.
Read up more on how to work with Pages in the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf downloadable from under the Help menu.
Peter

How do I create sections in page layout mode?

The "section break" option is always greyed out in page layout mode.
But I want to create a newsletter with a cover page and then the other three pages will have different headers and footers and I want repeating images on them. This would seem to be quite normal for newsletters. Even the template newsletters do this, but they do do it manually, repeating the images for each page, and manually creating a header and footer for each page.
I can do it word processing mode, but this is a page layout task - as indicated by Apple including the newsletter templates in the page layout templates.
Is there anyway to create sections in page layout mode??

If you compare Page Layout mode with Word Processing mode, you'll see that every page is a separate section.
In Page Layout, you've got headers & footers, although it's possible some of Apple's Page Layout templates have it turned off, and you can turn off "Use previous headers & footers" on the first page after your cover page, so it seems to me like it's possible to do what you're trying to accomplish.
A "section break" is a special character you place in the body text of a word processing document to force a new section (see also: page, column, layout, paragraph, and line breaks). In Page Layout, there is no body, and sections/pages are controlled by the Page Thumbnail View.

How to set Single-Page layout mode in C#

I have searched through all of the API documents, without success in how to correctly set the PDLayoutMode to SinglePage.
I am using Acrobat Standard 7.0.9 with the 7.0.5 SDK and Visual Studio C# Express 2005 edition. I have quite successfully interfaced with Acrobat using C#, and have been happily using it for the past 8 months. But, now I need to extend my app to programmatically set the page layout mode. I don't find complete enough documentation to help me get the job done.
One hint I stumbled upon, was to use the AVAppSetPreferences(), but the docs are wimpy on the correct values for the method's two parameters.
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I would like to propose this as a new IDEA in this forum but again: NOT POSSIBLE. I am not privileged.

Re Setting up document from scratch using Page Layout Mode

I want to design a page from scratch. However, the column mode is grayed out and the program won't let me create columns. What am I doing wrong?

Welcome to Apple Discussions
You need to add a text box first. Then, with the cursor in the text box, you can change the number of columns. Without a text box, there is nothing to apply columns to in a page layout document.

Create a pamphlet in page layout mode.

This will be a 32-page pamphlet to be printed on standard American letter size paper and bound on the short side. How do I set up for this project?

Sounds more like a skinny book than a pamphlet.
Guess what you are really asking for is how do you do Facing Pages? In Pages 5.2 you can't.
Use Pages '09 if you have it, in your Applications/iWork folder. check Facing Pages in the Document Inspector.
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Easy page numbering in page layout mode??

The only thing I can figure out is completely tedious: add linked text box, reposition by dragging to bottom of the page, insert page number. Add linked text box, reposition by dragging to bottom of the page, insert page number. Add linked text box, reposition by dragging to bottom of the page, insert page number.
Bah!
Is this it?

Hester,
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Mixed Page Layout and Word Processing Modes

Hi Everyone, I find myself increasingly using Pages 09 in word processing mode then creating a new document in Page layout mode to create a front cover for that document.
Is it possible to combine the two modes and therefore having only one file to deal with.
Thanks in advance

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
There is no background in Page Layout mode, just stacked objects, repeated over and over to make the document grow fat beyond belief.
Wrong! The picture which is stored in the captured page is not repeated over and over in the document.
It is stored only once exactly as a background image.
In *Page layout mode* facing pages is broken, all that switches from left to right is the footer and header.
Perfectly normal behavior.
It's the same in Word processing format.
The setting of margins for facing pages apply to three items:
main text layer
header
footer
It doesn't apply to floating items.
In Layout document there is no main text layer so the margins apply logically only to header and feater.
So the truth is that nothing is broken.
It just don't behave the way you wrongly assumed.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 26 juin 2009 12:37:56)

How to remove blank pages from WebI Report in view page layout option

Hi,
I am working in Business Objects XIR2 environment. I have a WebI report with several sections. I need to show the report as a book with 69 sections (each section on new page). there are 69 sections on cost center and each cost center section has almost 10 sections embedded in it. When i see in regular view - I only see 69 pages but when I try to see in "View Page Lay out" option, there is one blank page added after each results page.
Please let me know how to remove this blank page. I need to give users the option to download the book as PDF on to their machine. Now, when I download to my machine, I see one blank page after each results page.
Thanks in advance.

Jus convert your report in Page Layout mode and see if your first pafe is getting expand in the second page.
Now check if there are any cell going into second page.
- if there are any blank cell which is there after table.
you have to check formating very carefull.

Hyperlinks in Page Layout -- Workaround of Sorts

As things currently stand with Pages in Page Layout view I cannot create bookmarks within a document and thus hyperlinks elsewhere in that document to other pages in the same document. I've requested that this capability be added to Pages. Why it is missing just boggles me. Am I the only one that has a need for such a feature?
As a workaround, after exporting the document to a PDF, I can use Preview to create the wanted bookmarks and the links within the same document to those bookmarks. The huge drawback to this approach is that if for any reason I need to make a change in the Pages document all of the bookmarks and hyperlinks created with Preview are lost and have to be rebuilt from scratch.
I'm curious as to whether there is perhaps another way to create the hyperlinks in a manner where they won't be lost if the Pages document needs revision.

I've been producing a monthly newsletter in InDesign for a number of years. This month I decided to create the newsletter in Pages instead of InDesign. The three features of importance in InDesign that were not present in Pages page layout mode (which is, of the two modes in Pages, that which is closest to InDesign) were automatic creation of table of contents, and both textual and graphical hyperlinks.
The lack of the automatic table of contents creation is easily worked around, albeit that the automatic creation would be a benefit.
The lack of the hyperlinks is, to me, a major shortcoming. The workaround I've used, using Preview to create the links, has the problem that if one needs to revise the content of the document one loses all of the hyperlinks created in Preview and has to create them all over again.
So hopefully in a forthcoming upgrade we might see this deficiency addressed.

Footnotes in Page Layout

I have a newsletter that I'm creating in the Page Layout mode. I would like to use a colored background for the entire document. The newsletter is for viewing on the internet so the colored background looks nice - the colored background covers the entire page. The problem is that when I add the object for the background it covers the header and footer. I would like to use the same footer on every page and page numbers in the header. Is there anyway to have the header and footer move forward, or the colored object move back? I've tried simply trying to send to back and send to front but that doesn't work. Any ideas?

Hello
If I understand well, there is nothing mysterious.
Create a huge rectangular shape whose dimensions are a bit larger than those of the entire page.
Set it to white background + white border.
Create a rectangular shape whose length is a bit shorter than the page width and whose height matches the header one.
Set it to black background + black border.
Move it so that it is exactly where the header is.
Group the two objects and lock the resulting one.
You will get a background above which you will be able to put anything.
I was able to copy every item from the template to my doc.
At this time, the only difference I see with the template is that when I click my background, I may see the rectangle enclosing it as a thin blue rectangle (if I maximise the window to the entire screen) while there is not such rectangle on the template but maybe It would be sufficient to make it wide enough to get rid of this difference.
If I have free time tomorrow, I will look in the template Index.xml if there is a "special instruction" as there is one for the embedded date value.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 13 mai 2008 20:56:29)

Master Objects in Page layout

It seems from a number of archived posts that Master Objects dont work when in page layout mode. The help menu says its possible but doesnt say how.
I think this should be considered a bug as Page layout needs master as much as word processing.
Any thoughts?

I was hoping to use Pages for a relatively simple newsletter. Today, I started trying to learn Pages. What a disappointment! I wish to prepare a simple multi-page newsletter. master pages, and the ability to place small master objects such as logo's are important. The job really needs to be done in layout mode. And the Pages' limitation that there be one and only one page in each section of a layout document is a show-stopper. This seriously cripples the utility of master objects, and thus the whole Pages program.
To make matters worse, the Apple documentation is, I believe, very misleading. It clearly implies one can do things such as have different master object positioning in facing pages of a layout document. But, it appears one simply cannot do this with any degree of ease. (I've copied relevant text from the Pages Help documentation below, so you can judge for yourselves....)
Apple: you need to update this program, and until you do, you need to be sure the documentation accurately reflects what the program can and cannot do.
Someone please let me know if I'm wrong!
From the pages help menu: "You may want to add watermarks, logos, or other background images that appear in the same spot on every page of your word processing and page layout documents. These repeated graphics are called master objects.
If your document is divided into sections, you can put different master objects in each section. Within a section, you can put a different master object on the first page of the section and on right and left pages in the section. See Setting Up a Unique Format for a Section’s First Page and Formatting Facing Pages in a Section for more information."

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