CCI 6 Tips

Image keyboard shortcut

Click on an image on the page, hit CTRL-ALT-C, the image will appear in the image cropping tool (this is similar to making the cropping tool pop up in Rel5).

Click on an image name in the component list and hit CTRL-ALT-C and the list will switch to Image so you can preview images before mounting (ALT-Shift-C returns to Component list).

Using the the wild art (image.wild shape)

1. Mount the image.wild shape onto your page, select the fhed, go to Alt+Enter to name it (making sure both boxes are checked).
2. Pull the photo in and resize everything you need (making sure the cutline and credit come with the photo). Move the photo into imaging.
3. Go to Write Basket and find the wild art ... send it to CopyEditor (a right click action, or if you have it up in Edit, -->Copy Editor).
4. Go back to your page and perform a DesignDone on the wild art article (by doing the Design Done when the take is actually in the workflow ... CopyEditor ... it will get the correct Hed&FitState).
   

• image.wild should be in all the Basics shape libraries (for Community it's in NEWBASICS).
  
• You may have to kill LayoutGS.exe from TaskManager, or log out of CCI and back in, to see the shape.

CCI 6 Tips
Shortcut revision: Dragging article over other articles


Just hold Alt key while dragging.

Beware!

don't hit alt+f4 to get your photos toned, as it will conveniently close your page for you.

Docking those palettes


Having those floating palettes hanging around is hard to manage. But you can dock them!
By holding down control and dragging the palette whereever you wish you can dock it on the sides of the program.
Holding down shift and control will change the palette direction when attempting to dock.

Tighten that tracking!

Version 5 let you track letters from +25 to -25... but that's it. CCI 6 works a bit more like a typical app, letting you open or tighten your tracking as much as you need. Here's how:

• Click on the current typography button on your tool bar - it's the one with the capital A in brackets.
• Highlight the text you want to track.
• Shift+Alt+R brings up the character palette
• Click on the Point Size button to expand that area of the palette.
• Tracking is the one with the "AV" next to it.
• Either click on the up or down buttons ... or type in a number
  

Shortcut: Distribute items evenly (horizontally)

Say you want three boxes to have the same amount of white space between them. Select all three, and hit Alt+H.

Too much space after story bylines

This is causing the bottom of the text legs to be uneven - the first leg doesn't line up. To fix this, go into CodeFixer (Ctrl+Alt+X) and adjust the byline. The magic code is EL-3. An example of where you place it is shown below.

Shortcut: Dragging article over other articles

Hold down your Ctrl and Alt keys while you're moving your article around the page

How to add color to type, rules and boxes

For type:

• Highlight the text, and click on the color tool at the top of the page.
  
• The palette pops up. If you click on the "Select Color" button, the area expands.
• Type in your CMYK values

For rules:

• Once the color palette ops up, choose the line tool in the "Select Area."
• Hit Select Color, and input your CMYK values

For boxes:

• Same as above, but choose the box tool rather than the line tool
  

Shortcut: Quick access to your tools and palettes

Keyboard combinations to access the following tools:

• Pointer tool: Ctrl+Alt+P
• Text Tool: Ctrl+Alt+T
• Article Tool: Ctrl+Alt+A
• Mount Tool: Ctrl+Alt+M
• Figure (shape) Tool: Ctrl+Alt+F

Keyboard combinations for your palettes:

• Component List: Shift+Alt+C
  
• Shape Library: Shift+Alt+S
  
• Character Palette: Shift+Alt+R
  
• Paragraph Palette: Shift+Alt+P
  
• Modify Palette: Shift+Alt+M (has your X and Y coordinates and size)
  
• Layout Palette: Shift+Alt+L (has autofit and text wrap)
  
• Article Palette: Shift+Alt+A (has article column numbers)
  
• Image Palette (soft crop): Ctrl+Alt+C
  
• Element Order: Shift+Alt+E
  

Shortcut: The Alt+drag zoom feature in version 5

In CCI 6, just hold down your Ctrl key, and then drag out an area with your right mouse button. Works the same way.

Shortcut: Activate the hand tool at any time

Say you're zoomed in to a part of the story, and using your text tool or pointer tool .... but you'd like to get to the area that's OFF the screen. Rather than hitting your scroller bar, do a Ctrl+Shift+(Right-click) ... you can now drag the page around to where you want to go.

Shortcut: Want to "nudge" an item, like in InDesign?

You'll love this. Select a box, an article, whatever ... and hold down your "Alt" key while hitting your arrow keys. That moves it in very small increments. To move things a bit quicker, use Ctrl+Alt while hitting those arrow keys.

Quick Tips

A lot of the tools we need are found in the palettes area under Window at the top of layout champ.

In Modify palette: You will find x and y coordinates and the width and depth of an article.
In Character palette: Point sizes and fonts (i.e. sizing headlines, deks, etc).
In Layout palette: number of text lines. above/below for mounting on top of. text runaround.
In Article palette: columns and margins.
Element order: what used to be layer manager

To remove article outlines, go to display (the box with the magnifying glass over it at the top of Layout champ. Click on that and then select the icon to the far right.

Spacing and horizontal rules

As each section moves to R6, we are changing our body type to Mercury, 10.4/10.6. The page grid is set up for 10.6, so designers shouldn't be lining things up on the 10-point base. You can still start an article at y-20, but subsequent articles will go off the 10-point grid we are so used to and switch to a 10.6 grid.

Horizontal rules should still go to the middle of two articles, but if you are just drawing rules they snap to the 10.6 grid.

The horizontal space between articles is now 31.8 instead of 30 to accommodate the 10.6 grid.

Multiple photos

If you have more than one photo in a package, the first image shape can be dragged and dropped into the article, but all subsequent image shapes must be mounted in order for the cut tags to follow and not replace each other (which is what dragging/dropping does).

You'll find mount on the toolbar, it's the one with the arrow pointing straight up.

Enlarge/shrink photos proportionally

Using the green handles, Ctrl-click and drag your photo from the bottom right handle. The photo grows and shrinks as you drag it. Click on the camera icon to crop it

Use the Alt key for keyboard shortcuts

For those of you that prefer keyboard shortcuts, rather than moving and clicking the mouse, you might like this. It's a basic feature in Windows that works with almost any program.
Here's how it works:

• Tap your Alt key once. Notice how one letter is now underlined in each of your top menus?
• Now tap one of those menu letters, like "F"
• The menu drops down and stays there. As you can see, the drop-down menus also have a letter underlined.

This may seem kind of cumbersome, but it can come in handy for those things that don't have a normal keyboard shortcut, like Ctrl+C for copy. For example, Editorial release doesn't appear to have a keyboard shortcut. But you could quickly access it by Alt, f, l, r.

Do that key combo a few times, and you might find it's quicker than moving your mouse to the top of the screen, and clicking on a couple of drop-downs. Give it a try.

Text wraps

Say you want to wrap text around an image. here's how:

• Click on the image, then open your Layout palette (under the Window menu)
  
• You should see Runaround at the bottom of this palette
• Click on the text runaround button that's to the right
  

Rules between stories

Find "insert lines" in the Figure Palette. There's 6 choices that look like little rectangles with lines drawn to the left, right, above, below, between (horiz.) and between (vert.).

Expanding articles

In CCI 5, if you drew out a 1 column article, and then wanted to stretch it out to the edge of the page, you did so holding down the Alt key. This kept it at one column. In CCI 6, you'll need to use the Ctrl key to do the same thing.

the Alt key does something different now. If you grab your article from the top right or bottom right handle, and drag with the Alt key... it adds extra columns ... at least as many as the page width will allow.