This month we╒re supplying you with three of our favorite Spencer Christmas files. Included in the line-up is Candlelight, Poinsettias and Stargazer. Candlelight is a clip art page and the other two are page-layout files for AppleWorks GS. Spencer and Softdisk certainly hope you enjoy using these for a joyous Christmas season. Note: only the Candlelight graphic will be shown when you select Display.
A Spencer van Gulick Tip for AppleWorks GS
You have probably noticed by now that when you open an Apple Preferred Format graphic in the AWGS graphics module you can╒t select various elements or objects in that graphic by clicking on them; you can only select the whole graphic. This is because APF is a compressed filetype and AWGS graphic formats are stored with specific and elaborate ╥Put this pixel color here and that color there╙ information (and they occupy at least twice the disk space of APF files). To make APF paint objects selectable in AWGS, use the clipboard to prepare them, as follows:
(1) Open your APF graphic in the AWGS graphics module.
(2) Using the lasso tool, encircle as much of the object you want to isolate as you can see on the screen, and cut (X) it to the clipboard.
(3) Open a new AWGS paint document (N) and paste the clipboard contents to it (V). If your APF graphic is using an edited palette, open the APF graphic a second time, click the mouse with the cursor visible anywhere on the screen and press the delete key, then paste the clipboard contents into that screen╤-the original palette will thus be retained.
(4) Bring your original graphic forward by clicking on its name in the Windows pull-down menu, capture the remainder of the original graphic with the lasso tool and cut (X) it to the clipboard.
(5) Return to your destination window and again paste the clipboard contents (V).
(6) Using the cursor to select and drag (or a combination of the command and arrow keys for pixel-by-pixel ╥nudges╙), position the two halves of your pasted graphic together properly.
(7) Choose ╥Select All╙ from the Edit Menu and then ╥Group╙ from the Arrange Menu.
If you save your work now, you will have a single paint object that can always be selected and moved to and from the clipboard independent of its background. And you can follow the same procedure for any or all other portions of an APF file.
Enjoy the new flexibility these hints will give you!
Copying Spencer╒s Corner
Select ╥Installer...╙ from the File Menu (or press I) and the Installer will be launched. Then highlight ╥Spencer╒s Corner: 3 of ╒em╙ by clicking on it. Next, be sure the disk you want to copy the files to is inserted and click on the Disk button until that disk comes up. Click on the Install button and the copying will be done.
Remember: there is a paragraph on using the Installer in the Help article. Check it out if you are confused by the terminology.
