Rainbow_stamps_and_coins: Making your own album 24

Monday, May 3, 2021

Making your own album 24

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5.3 Personalizing border frames

So far we have been using simple – default – frames for our pages.
Often this is the best, but AlbumEasy 4.2.1 leaves the possibility to add your own type of borders. This can be interesting for theme collections.

5.3.1 General settings

Let us take a closer look tot he album settings we have used so far:

ALBUM_PAGES_SIZE (210.0 297.0)

#2 pm (in mm) : size of the page –
#210.0/297.0 voor A4 - or 215.9-279.4 US Letter
ALBUM_PAGES_MARGINS (22.0 15.0 10.0 10.0 )
#4 pm (in mm) work area margins : W/E/N/S
ALBUM_PAGES_BORDER (0.7 0.15 0.0 0.55)
#4 pm (in pt) frame : line 1/ line 2 / line 3 / distance in-between
ALBUM_PAGES_SPACING (6.0 4.0)
#2 pm (in pt) spacing letters / spacing lines
ALBUM_PAGES_TITLE (TB 20 "My Collection ")
#2 pm (font and size) + “title text”

In order to change the frame, the line ‘ALBUM_PAGES_BORDERS’ is important

Open a new design page, adding the codes above.

Don’t forget to add a ‘page’ otehrwise you won’t be able to see any result.

PAGE_START
# 0 pm – needed to add a page
PAGE_RULE_H (0.1 -1 8)PAGE_TEXT_CENTRE (TB 12 "\nBorder frames”)

Save as Test Design 11 and generate the result. Then close the PDF again.

Change some parameters to get different results;

5.3.2 Variations available in AlbumEasy 4.2.1

AlbumEasy 4.2.1 offers a set of decorative frame borders to use

Open the text file ‘DecorativeBorders.txt’, by clicking the Open -icon.
The file will open in the programming field. The page starts with an US Letter sized page. And there’s no line ‘Album_Pages_Border’.
We don’t need to change the Album_Pages -settings, as this is not important for the exercise. We can focus on the fact that there is no border frame chosen.

Underneath the comment – line, we see a new type of code: ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER (“text.txt”)

There are some optional decorative borders built in the program.
In this exercise they are listed up, but disabled by means of the ‘#’ (hashtag).
The program considers those lines as comment lines at the moment.

We can make one line active by removing the #.
Obviously you can only choose one border frame at the time.

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("ArtDeco.txt")

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("ArtDecoSmall.txt")

ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("CornerStyleA.txt");

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("CornerStyleB.txt");

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("CornerAndVerticalStyleC.txt");

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("Classic.txt");

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("Coronet.txt");

# ALBUM_PAGES_DECORATIVE_BORDER("Bottom.txt");

Try some frames, by generating the different possibilities. Don’t forget to close the PDF each time, before changing some settings.