Quick Start Guide
Design and printing flyers, letterheads, brochures,
pamphlets and booklets.
 Starting a New Design with Assistant
Assistant will help you in selecting the design and
paper size. It comes up when you launch Swift Publisher.
Assistant shows the list of categories and a template
preview of the selected template category. Along with ready-made designs
there are blank templates in the template collection. Choose a category.
Select a template in the preview and click OK. The selected template will
be opened in Swift Publisher.
Editing a Document
The document has two layers: Background and
Foreground, which allow editing and creation complicated designs.
You can switch between them using tabs at the bottom of the program window.
In the document window you can modify and move objects.
Selecting and Moving Objects
Click on an object to select it and drag the mouse to
move it around. Hold down the Shift key to select more than one object.
A selected object has a border with handles on its corners and sides.
Drag them to resize it. To duplicate the selected objects, press
Cmd+D. To delete it, press Del. You
can change the properties of the selected objects in the Inspector
window.
Editing Text
 To add a text block click "T"
button on the toolbar, click with the mouse on the page and move the
mouse to stretch a rectangle. Type in text or paste it from the Clipboard.
Click outside the text block to cancel text edit mode.
To enter edit mode, double click on the text block. In
the edit mode a text block behaves similar to ordinary text editor, but
has several special features. Objects (images and vector shapes) can cause
text wrap. You can turn the wrapping mode on if you select the image and
turn on the Object causes wrap in the Inspector
(Wrap tab).
Swift Publisher allows creating linked text blocks. This
means you will have several blocks that can be moved separately and even
placed on different pages. If space in the first block isn't enough for
text, the rest of text will flow to the next block and so on. To add a
linked text block click on the small square with a plus on the right side
of selection border and choose place for it.
 Pictures
You can add images to your document. A collection of images
already comes with the program. An image can be added from embedded
Clipart, iPhoto collection or from file on your disk.
Or you can search and download a picture from the Internet — use
Insert -> Image -> Search on the Internet from the
program menu. In the Inspector you can change properties
of the selected picture — apply a mask, change opacity, rotate or tint it.
You can also crop the image to remove the parts you don't like — choose the
Crop Image command from the Format -> Image ->
Crop menu and select the crop area in the resulting dialog.
Smart Shapes
The Clipart has Smart Shapes tab.
This is embedded source of vector images. Their properties can be changed in
Inspector panel.
Printing
Your document can be printed on a desktop printer. To start
printing, select the File -> Print menu. In the program
Preferences, you can adjust the quality of printing. This is the easiest way
to find compromise between speed and quality when you have a lot of raster
graphics in your document.
Sharing your Documents
Swift Publisher can export a document to PDF, TIFF and JPEG
file formats. To export, select File -> Export menu. Then
in the Format drop-down list select file format, select where
to save your file and click OK.
Registering Program
Once you've received your License Code after the purchase, you need to register the
program to remove the limitations of the trial version. Call the License dialog from the application
menu or by clicking the License button in the message box that comes up after launching the program.
In the dialog, enter your name and the License Code you received.
Additional Information
More information can be found in the Online Help and on the program's Web site:
www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/SPHelp
www.belightsoft.com/swiftpublisher
www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/publisherfaq.php
If you don't find the answer to your question there, or something is still unclear, please write us to
 or fill out the form at
www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/supportform.php.
We are always glad to help you,
BeLight Software Team.
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