[Pro] Clipboard??

Where can I archive graphics to be used later?? I pasted a graphic on the Clipboard but I can’t seem to get it off the clipboard to use???


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Do you mean on the pasteboard of the page? What happens if you single-click on the graphic box and then drag it?

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On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Chris de Gail wrote:

Where can I archive graphics to be used later?? I pasted a graphic on the Clipboard but I can’t seem to get it off the clipboard to use???


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I just want to get rid of a graphic and replace with another graphic…I don’t want to delete the graphic I just want to put it somewhere to find it later…I thought it was the Clipboard?? Yes I can drag it to the pasteboard…is this where I should keep the graphics I may want to use later down the road??


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You can. For extra points, un-check the Publish checkbox in the Inspector when you do. The graphic won’t go anywhere in Freeway, but it won’t publish to the Web.

Walter

On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Chris de Gail wrote:

I just want to get rid of a graphic and replace with another graphic…I don’t want to delete the graphic I just want to put it somewhere to find it later…I thought it was the Clipboard?? Yes I can drag it to the pasteboard…is this where I should keep the graphics I may want to use later down the road??


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Ok…thanks…BTW do you know what the Clipboard’s function is??


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Well, Clipboard with a capital C usually means the Macintosh Clipboard, which is the metaphorical space where things go after you Copy or Cut them and before you Paste them somewhere else. It’s a rich and multi-layered data structure.

Pasteboard in Freeway (as in all other DTP applications) is a place where you can put things you are working with but haven’t made a home for in your design just yet. This goes all the way back to Pagemaker 1 and QuarkXPress 1, although Freeway’s interpretation cleaves to the QuarkXPress model. Pagemaker followed the mental model of the layout artist’s physical “paste-up board”, where the mechanical board would be taped down, ruled with blue pencil to show cut and trim, and the various bits of typesetting would be glued or waxed into position before the finished composition was sent to be photographed and turned into a printing plate. Pagemaker had a single pasteboard behind all the pages, just as if you were pulling up one board and taping down the next, but all the surrounding clutter remained the same. QuarkXPress decided that each page or spread of two or more pages would have its own pasteboard.

In Freeway 1 and 2, almost all elements that were positioned on the page were placed with table-based layout, and even today, a table-positioned element that is not entirely on the page will not publish at all. The pasteboard in Freeway 3 and up is a little more complex than previous versions, because any layered element to the right or left of the page is technically a part of the page, just positioned left or right of the PageDiv that anchors all positioned elements on the page. If you have centered your page, and your browser window is sufficiently wide, those elements are perfectly visible, hanging off the sides of your page. Ditto any element that is below the page on the pasteboard, unless the PageDiv is taller than the browser window. The only safe place to stash an element that you really do want to publish, but don’t want anyone to see, is above the page. I use this all the time for my Carousel panes and similar fragments. But any element, on or off the pasteboard or PageDiv will not publish if you un-check its publish checkbox. That’s the really safe way to hide something in plain sight.

Walter

On Oct 30, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Chris de Gail wrote:

Ok…thanks…BTW do you know what the Clipboard’s function is??


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Wow…thanks for the in-depth explanation…been using FW Pro for about a year now…happy with it!!


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