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4 Module 2 : Rehearsing and deepening Mod. 1
4.1 Title page separate from album pages (2 A)
4.1.1 Preparing your album
Whether you collect on loose pages, in a preprinted album, or a stockbook, your album will always have a cover, possibly followed by a blank flyleaf.
A title page, can be a nearly blank page, with a signle title, a picture, a picture with a single text line….
In this part, we will learn to make such a title page.
We start
with a blank program page. In the example below, I added some blank lines,
which have no effect on the result. It is only to make a visual devider while
programming.
Copy the commands to your program page:
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Standard settings for the album# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALBUM_PAGES_SIZE (210.0 297.0)
ALBUM_PAGES_MARGINS (12.0 12.0 15.0 15.0)
# W/E/N/S margins
ALBUM_PAGES_BORDER (0.5 0.1 0.0 1.0)
#4 pm (in pt) border : thickness of line 1/ line 2 / line 3 / distance in-between
ALBUM_TITLE ("My New Album")
#title of my album
ALBUM_AUTHOR ("Johnny Collector")
#the author of the album
ALBUM_PAGES_SPACING (6.0 6.0)
#spacing settings
ALBUM_DEFINE_FONT (DJ "DejaVu Sans")
#standard font
We remember from Module 1A, that this code will not generate anything yet, as we haven’t added any page to our album.
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Title page of the album.# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PAGE_START
Remark 1: the command : Album_Author will not appear
on your page. (as it is not a text commad like Album_Title )
It is a kind of digital signature to your document.
Remark 2: If you do not
want to have a border frame on your title page, you can ommit the command, or
put the values on 0.
Once you start to make ‘pages’ you can add the command line again, to create
the border for the rest of the album.
Now I have added it, to make it easier to navigate on the page.
Save as “Test design 5a”
4.1.2 A title page with one item
Often a title page is een nice picture, representing a country, a theme, a year, …
The command : Page_Background_Img, puts an image from your
computer in the centre of the page.
It will be centered on both the horizontal as the vertical axes.
This command only has one fixed parameter,(location and name of the image +
extension).
A second, optional parameter, can be added to scale the original image.
And a third, optional parameter existing out of two values, can both be added,
or both be omitted. This pm allows deviations on the horizontal and/or vertical
axis.
In other words, does the image deviates from the middle of the page or not.
PAGE_BACKGROUND_IMG (image [scale] [hoffset voffset])
Pm ‘image’ : refers to the folder and name of the
image you want to add:
(ex : stamps_images/flag_canada.png)
All types of images can be used, but the best result can be obtained by using .png – files (see later). For now we can stick to the most common JPG or JPEG images.
Scale – parameter : optional
o 1 : 100 % or the images as it is
o 2 : 200 % double sized images (as long as it fits within the margins)
o 0.5 : 50% half size of the original
Hoffset – Voffset
o H offset
§ A positive number puts the pic towards the South (down)
§ A negative number puts the picture to the North, (upwards)
o V offset
§ A positive number puts the pic towards the East (right)
§ A negative number puts the picture to the West (left)
Always seen from the centre of the page
Now we will
add a picture tot he title page, using the first
(mandatory) pm.
Then we add a second, and finally a third (double) pm.
Click generate and PDF after eacht change, close the PDF afterwards before
adding changes.
PAGE_BACKGROUND_IMG("stamp_images/building.png" 1.0 0.0 0.0)
 |
| normal image, scaled image and scaled + deviated image |
With some
skill, you can make the image small, and position it into one of the 4 corners.
The command can be repeated on every page, and become an indication of the main
theme or sub-theme of your album.
Since it is a ‘background’ image, we can also draw text or even boxes on top of
the image.
to be continued ...
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